It is hard to overstate, for non-lawyers, just how milquetoast the ABA is in normal times. It’s supposed to be boring insurance lawyers leading workshops with boring tax lawyers, trying to drum up business.
A pissed off ABA is like dentists manning the barricades and singing Le Marseillaise.
Jews are targeted in shuls & online.
Brown & Black people are abducted and sent to concentration camps.
Muslims are openly targeted by politicians.
Activists & journalists are targeted by the FBI.
Trans & queer people are being outlawed.
We are in this together. This is why solidarity matters.
Ummmmm. What is he holding??
Christ, you’re as thick as it gets
#rwrb #rwrbart
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
A single course of antibiotics can have lasting effects on your gut microbiome, with changes that last well beyond 4 years. Three types of antibiotics stood out for their long term disruptive impact (3 at left, Figure)
nature.com/articles/s41...
For those keeping score at home:
I informed Grammarly via email precisely what I thought of their appropriation of my name and reputation and received an email from their head of litigation promising a full response by the end of the week.
To be continued...
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
happy international women’s day
The alt text. ❤️❤️❤️
If we survive this, I really hope parents take a long look at how they are teaching empathy to their children. It's so obvious that that is the missing ingredient in huge chunks of the population, amplified by social media algorithms and cultural rewards for reactions rather than thoughtfulness.
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
royal power couple #firstprince #RWRB
I’m so excited to announce Rhiannon Giddens Presents American Tunes: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mavis Staples and Hurray for the Riff Raff on tour this summer!
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
three siblings 🤴👸🫅
three weddings 💍💍💍
three movies ❤️🤍💙
SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.
This is welcome news for musicians!
Great thread here:
I'm going to need to go find this album. I haven't thought about it in soooo many years. It will fit with the fairy vibe I have going with the book I'm reading right now!
Connor and Hudson introducing Mumford & Sons!
I had forgotten about this one. So good!
So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office:
"Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"
There’s a lot I’m worried about with the paramount/WB merger esp given paramount’s new role as a trump lap dog but I really want to emphasize concern for how WB’s catalog will be affected and how important film and tv archives are in preserving these pieces they will likely discard
Andy Murray >
Yesssssssssss!
Grok insists my dissertation adviser was a man I've never met and says my first book won several prizes that don't even exist but I'm sure it'll work out fine to give it access to classified defense systems.
Ooo. I did not know about this.
These thieves keep stealing blueprints from my theft empire!
