David Tan

For all the reasons why this conduct from the US (or any other government) is unlawful and reprehensible have a listen to this episode of #CalledToTheBar

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Bullet casings collected from the scene were engraved with the words "has enough time passed now that we can collectively admit that the Barbie movie wasn't that amazing"

A paper of mine and Steph's has been reviewed in Jotwell!

I had a blast talking about to my old friend and mentor Rob McLaughlin and the phenomenal @alonso-gd.bsky.social about why sinking random "drug" vessels is lawless AF

Carefully Tailored: Doctrinal Methods and Empirical Contributions Abstract. Doctrinal research is the distinct methodological approach of lawyers and a core contribution of legal studies to human knowledge. Yet, lawyers d

My paper 'Carefully tailored' is now out in the OJLS: doi.org/10.1093/ojls.... It defines the core assumptions of doctrinal research, explains where empirical observations help and how to avoid some common pitfalls. A thread on doctrinal methods 👇 I'll do the same for the other two later 1/n

Lucky visitors might get a free trip to American detention centres

Republicans - the party of States' rights and small government

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Chairman Mao touts his state-run economy

Join us for our mostly quirky and fun but sometimes serious 50th episode with the best colleagues an accidental podcaster could ask for

Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.

ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇

The Australian Feminist Law Journal is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer. If you are a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law, consider joining our team!

good take on twitter

Random finds at second hand bookstores

Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.

Bacteria glowing with green fluorescence move inside a fungal cell. In this video, the bacteria seem like an infection, but in successive generations, the two organisms will adapt to each other until they find endosymbiotic balance.

Overheard in Melbourne-

4 year old: i found some treasure!

Mum: that's not treasure, that's just grass

Blowing up your small-town writers festival because your local university needs to crack down on free speech because there’s a genocide we can’t talk about is so utterly on-brand for Australian culture. Cowards and fools 3-deep at the canapés tray

If the mind is a computer, where's the monitor? Where's the keyboard? It doesn't have a single USB port

Or I guess they did not bother checking their juniors, RAs work. But made up legislation?

And also this time the one using AI is a KC?

Marx with a fashionable haircut, shaved at the sides, but still with a huge beard.

Preparing slides for a talk on Marxism in the 21st century I asked an AI programme to give Marx a contemporary hairstyle.

I’m sure he served me once at a craft beer place in Shoreditch.

In promising to rescind Australia’s recognition of Palestine, the Coalition are now being more Trump than Trump.

Having seen several ppl on here refer to SCOTUS as "wizards in robes" or similar, it's interesting to see how much trump has turned ppls intuitions away from judicial review of constitutional rights.

Relaxation tips:
- put down your phone
- breathe deeply
- craft effigies of your enemies out of bones & hair
- bury these effigies deep in the misty woods
- summon forgotten gods and listen to stories of the old days, when moss & magic ruled the earth
- have some tea

It’s amazing how many 1980s sci-fi movies foresaw human-like androids, flying cars, and interstellar travel, but failed to comprehend the truly apocalyptic evolution of human technology: the unrelenting dystopian nightmare of Microsoft Teams.

What's up?

It's a Machamp petting a bunch of kittens

Ok this actually does sound like every person with a PhD that I know so maybe the machine learning people are on to something actually