Colin B

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29.09.2025 18:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think no? Even if it were possible (I am guessing it hasn't been manufactured for a long time), I believe humans are the only reservoir, and no humans have had it for 40+ years. So unlike polio or measles, it's well and truly gone, barring a lab leak.

11.09.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lexis-Nexis is also all-in on it. I just onboarded with them (as a solo practitioner), and even after I had paused the AI-package sales pitch with "I will never, under any circumstances, use AI in my legal writing. Period.", I got one final "Are you sure you don't want...?"

02.06.2025 15:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I know Northeastern University School of Law didn't teach its students to stand by in the face of oppression when @massgovernor.bsky.social and I both went there. Masked thugs are kidnapping Massachusetts residents, Governor Healey. Do something.

09.05.2025 17:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Last week, I was at a town hall with my Rep, @whipkclark.bsky.social. I listened as an auditorium full of angry Dems begged for Congressional leadership to show backbone in defense of the Republic. I am not watching tonight, but from reports, our pleas clearly went unheard. What a disgrace.

05.03.2025 03:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A picture of a hand holding (with front cover facing the camera) the book “Oathbreakers” by Matthew Gabriele and David Perry.

Getting ready to board and dig into my vacation reading! @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social . Excited for the book event 1/23 at @portersqbooks.bsky.social !

30.12.2024 18:35 — 👍 15    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Not a criminal lawyer, but I believe you are correct. Though Trump can still kill it entirely when he enters office through the pardon power (Nixon had not been charged when Ford pardoned him). However, filing to dismiss with prejudice is easier to accomplish under the radar than a self-pardon.

25.11.2024 19:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And when the (bad) med mal lawyers lose their cases because of all the stupid AI "tools" attorneys are being sold to "improve" our "writing", the attorneys specializing in legal malpractice can have their day in the sun! A tide of bullshit lifts all boats.

26.10.2024 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In New Orleans, stopped in a used bookstore. Found a copy of the rather niche book my advisor (who had died recently) had been writing when I was in college (in MA) 25 years before. Bought, flipped through, & found a bookmark from the local college bookstore, closed for years. Big nostalgia.

28.07.2024 13:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cambridge, oddly, is on a different water system from most of the rest of the metro Boston area.

20.10.2023 16:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Ineffective assistance of counsel" doesn't apply in civil cases.

02.10.2023 18:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0