Dan Rohde

The fact that the Americans may be out of the global baseball tournament because they don't understand pool play is true poetic justice.

Canada has advanced beyond the first round of the World Baseball Classic for the first time.

They beat Cuba 7-2 to win Pool A.

Biggest WBC moment in national history. So far.

Eric Cerantola needed one pitch to close it out.

New Zealand has figured a few things out

IDK, lots of places have ditched the penny. Math skills don't seem any worse than the US.

I think the big obstacle in the US, honestly, is the extreme elitism in the legal academy. Relying on student editors from elite schools feeds into that.

Agree with both of you about length.
I also think moving to peer-review wouldn't involve half those things. In other countries, legal academics are expected to get PR articles not student-editted law reviews. All it takes is shifting norms around hiring/promotion. 1/2

just posted a new paper, How Tech Took Over, to SSRN.

It's about how decades of legal and policy interventions made the tech industry an essential partner in public governance. I map the kinds of functions tech cos are performing today, and I argue that their activities are salient to con law.

Oh just whatever ones come with the Rainy75 Pro. I think Cocoa? But I'm using it out of the box - no customization here other than choosing my colour.

Canadian Actress Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Returns Toronto Film Critics Award in Response to Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech TFCA president Johanna Schneller said that Tailfeathers’ speech had been edited “to maintain the timing of the awards show” and not for political reasons, but that she would resign from her role nonet...

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I couldn't even get through Conquests of Camelot last year. Ran out of money in Jerusalem and never got back to it

Nice!

So clacky! Buying this librarian a thocky-creamy keyboard would be a true public service.

Nice! Is that the Keychron?

It feels like the best piano you've ever played, it sounds like rain on a tin roof, and it looks incredible too. Just a magical thing - especially for us millennials who grew up on chunky Model M keyboards.

Pro tip no one asked for: to get back into writing, I got this new, fancy mechanical keyboard, and I'm telling you this thing is magic. I cannot walk by my desk without wanting to write a little, if only to hear those keys! I've written something every day since I got it.

Elite institutions seem to impart to their scholars a license to just shoot from the hip. Occasionally leads to interesting talks. Often leads to just ridiculous nonsense.

Oh I know! None of this matters and it's a stupid point. Even more stupid of him to mention it. It had NOTHING to do with his argument. Cicero's rhetoric is actually a great model. Not something to be parodied as a kind of fake reductio.

Terrifying

This was Cataline, not Caesar! He gained his fame and fortune with Sulla, terror of the plebs.

Obviously not the point, but the Cicero reference is pretty funny too. That speech worked, did call out an actual conspiracy, and did actually marshal support to save the Republic. LPE could be in worse company!

Next Alberta and BC please

Good advice! And it goes for institutions as well as people.

I'll be engaging with the work of filmmaker Joyce Joumaa in an online session on "IQ Regimes" for @veralistcenter.bsky.social on Wed at 8pm ET.

More info and register here!

www.veralistcenter.org/events/iq-re...

Technical Collaborators: Canada's Tech-Facilitated Complicity with ICE and Beyond Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Location: Zoom (Virtual) - Link to be shared prior to event Registration is required....

For anyone unsettled by the threads of violence unspooling around the world, looking for steps forward, esp in the Canadian context, please join this:

Panel Discussion untangling Canada’s tech-involvement w/ ICE and Beyond. Free, via Zoom, register here:

uwindsor-law.libcal.com/event/4000495

Amazing!

Best museum in NYC

Come hear about Timothy Mitchell’s new book next week at the @harvardsts.bsky.social circle!

AnnouncementConference “Climate Crisis and the Misconception of Growth” by Timothy Mitchell Deadline to apply : March 5, 2026 – 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Looks like a fantastic event with Christine Desan and @quinnslobodian.com:
Conference “Climate Crisis and the Misconception of Growth” by Timothy Mitchell – Just Money share.google/3VwPgAWwLceL...

Absolutely agree

It's worth following this account if only for the alt-text.