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I googled the title of an academic research paper published online last December by one of the top five journals in the field to see if it was in print yet. The title is a question, so the AI offered an answer. The answer it gave was more or less the exact answer the paper shows cannot be true.

26.10.2025 17:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There are currently 10! ranked SEC teams and neither Auburn nor Florida is one of them. This is not what the Founders intended.

25.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we, please, fire Hugh Freeze anyway?

25.10.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Has Hugh Freeze been fired, yet?

25.10.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you and Van will do the trial of Hugh Freeze. It’s year three. There are no excuses for us not being a good team.

18.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today of all days, I miss Philly.

18.10.2025 20:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When I was that age, I read like that. It was glorious. After reading my favorite book several times, I would read chapters of it in my sleep.

14.10.2025 03:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And yet Freeze still has a job. Go figure.

12.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We are not a serious football team.

12.10.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember better days. But it’s been far too long.

08.10.2025 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think about this a lot, actually. Like, why do MAGA folks fly Trump flags the way Bama fans fly Bama flags? I’ve never seen a flag for another political candidate.

06.10.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For someone who claims to be an originalist, Wurman seems awfully quick to speak and write when he hasn’t done or consulted the relevant historical research. (I have in mind his paper on birthright citizenship.)

05.10.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point, mediocrity would been an improvement.

28.09.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We fired Gus for 5 years of this shit.

27.09.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We made a lot of mistakes. But while I’m not one of those guys who always or even usually complains about the refs: that was the worst officiated game I think I’ve ever seen, in any sport, at any level. And bad officiating cost Auburn (at least) one TD and one extremely likely TD.

22.09.2025 02:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know whether these people are pandering to the people on Twitter who think that everything is RICO and/or a β€œHIPPA” violation, that hate speech isn’t free speech, etc., or whether they are those people on Twitter.

17.09.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Half-mast - Wikipedia

One can only hope. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast

12.09.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fair enough. But us old salts can be forgiven for saying β€œmast.”

12.09.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks great. May I recommend smoked sweet potatoes. They are easy and very tasty.

07.09.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! I’ve heard of your grandmother but not read any of her work. I’ll definitely read this.

03.09.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If I may ask, have you written, or do you know of, a published, scholarly piece that makes these points β€” something that could be assigned in an undergraduate course?

03.09.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Lived in 9. Visited another 21. Not counting layovers, conferences, etc.

31.07.2025 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I almost got run over by a golf cart at the Indianapolis 500. Paul Newman was driving the golf cart.

14.06.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It seems to me that conservative judges are more than willing to make arbitrary distinctions to distinguish precedents and cases that aren’t relevantly different. In short, they lack a commitment to what Dworkin called integrity.

22.05.2025 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a federal criminal lawyer for 30+ years, the first rule for encounters with Law Enforcement Officers is: SHUT UP!

Rule #2 is: SHUT UP!

13.05.2025 00:28 β€” πŸ‘ 661    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4

This is the bad place.

04.05.2025 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is one of those things you just can't understand unless you've been through it and come out the other side. Congratulations!

30.04.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of a Google search for β€œis tripe kosher.” The AI result says, β€œWhether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow.”

Screenshot of a Google search for β€œis tripe kosher.” The AI result says, β€œWhether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow.”

I think this one is my all-time favorite.

27.04.2025 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1236    πŸ” 174    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 19

Man, he nailed it.

22.04.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And I don’t at all mean to suggest that y’all haven’t made the case for that view.

21.04.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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