Sam Glover

Many Minnesotans are receiving fraudulent text messages claiming to be the MN Department of Public Safety.

Let me be clear: the MN DPS and DVS will never send you a text message for money.

Please go to ag.state.mn.us/robocalls to file a report and help us stop these scammers.

Every few months someone reads a terms of service and spots the *basically necessary* copyright license that any site that handles 3rd party content HAS TO HAVE to avoid getting sued out of existence by awful copyright lawyers and freaks out. Mike here explains why.

My kids are obsessed with my old digital point and shoot camera. It has become trendy, like Polaroids were a few years ago.

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I’m still pining away for the good old blogosphere days. That was my favorite iteration of the printing press.

I want social media to drive relationships, not traffic.

I think “driving traffic” might actually be a negative for me. Social interaction is intrinsically valuable. It doesn’t need to derive its value from redirecting attention elsewhere.

How and why I (still) use social media: Bluesky isn't dead; used correctly, it's pretty great actually! — Suffolk LIT Lab TL;DR: Be intentional. Find your community, and control your algorithm(s). I left Twitter in the winter of 2022 after about 15 years as a power user. During the intervening years I’ve learned a lot ab...

I took 10K words to work through my thoughts on how best to use social media. TL;DR: Be intentional. Find your community. Control your algorithm(s).

It's a story of how I came to find social media I enjoy, a showcase of content you might ❤️, & tool tips for how you can take control of your feeds. 🧵👇

This is a BDF! Major congrats to @qsteenhuis.bsky.social, @samglover.bsky.social, & the whole @suffolklitlab.org team for their work on this tool.

And thank you to @senatorledwards.bsky.social for helping bring this law into existence and for using our tool this morning to file a petition.

If this is on TikTok, there's hope for the world.

The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards In a capitalist world, the often-overlooked systems of technical standards offer a rare example of economic collaboration that prioritizes the public good over profit.

I (and my co-author @pomerantz@mastodon.social) have an essay up at MIT Reader that's an extension of some of the ideas in the book. Would love any feedback, as we're still working the ideas out ourselves, but we both think there's something interesting there.

Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

I had already made up my mind to stop supporting Amazon by buying or borrowing Kindle books, but now I'm spending the morning downloading all my purchased books while I still can.

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How to run LanguageTool on macOS How to set up a free and open-source grammar, style, and spell checker that can be run locally on your machine without sending data to a third-party services like Grammarly, preserving the privacy of ...

If you do a lot of writing and are looking for a grammar, style, and spell checker that doesn't send what you write to a third party service, I wrote up instructions for how to setup and use the open source LanguageTool locally on your machine.

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Same. So disappointing.

I’m trying to come up with a catchy way to phrase a theme for #LITCon that encompasses poverty law/A2J + innovation/AI + showcasing actual solutions (as opposed to promising ideas). Whatdya got?

Why does the difference between 40ºF and 80ºF feel so much greater than the difference between -20ºF and 20ºF?

What’s the best pencil sharpener that fits nicely in a pencil pouch?

It's still –13ºF this morning. The air hurts. My husky is laying against the patio door so he can be as cold as possible without going outside because that would mean being separated from his people.

At the LSC’s Innovations In Tech Conference, the Justice Gap Persists in Legal Tech, But Scrappy Innovators Drive Change Nonetheless One of my most-read stories last year was The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J. It was about the jarring juxtaposition I experienced of traveling from....

Check out this ITC wrap-up from @bobambrogi.bsky.social: www.lawnext.com/2025/01/at-t... (Apparently I am always looking at a screen when someone takes a picture of me at a conference.)

Has the Access-to-Justice Gap Shrunk to 17%? Or Grown to 92%? In its 2022 report LSC found that the access-to-justice gap had expanded to a jaw-dropping 92%. But before we burn down the legal system let’s take a closer look at that number.

ALSO <climbs up on my soapbox>, if the "A2J gap" really were 92%, our legal system would be so fundamentally, unfixably broken we should be burning it down. But maybe it's more like 17%? samglover.net/has-the-acce...

FWIW, ITC did feel to me a bit like ABA TECHSHOW for legal aid nonprofits. A bunch of scrappy lawyers and staff trying to leverage limited resources to deliver legal services. But yeah, the funding gap relative to for-profit legal tech is a Grand Canyon.

The Justice Gap in Legal Tech: A Tale of Two Conferences and the Implications for A2J In the blur of activity that was last week, I attended two legal tech conferences, plus an adjacent legal technology summit. After starting the week in New York at the glitzy celebration of big law te...

I attended my first LSC ITC conference this week, and it reminds me of this post @bobambrogi.bsky.social wrote after ITC 2024: www.lawnext.com/2024/02/the-...

Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech on Bite-Size Book Reviews Remember, a soul is of more value than work or gold. George Mellor The true story of the boogeyman of Big Tech: Luddites. It turns out the Luddites

First book review of 2025: bitesizebookreviews.com/blood-in-the...