@jdbauthor
Writer of fantasy (mostly), practicer of appellate criminal law (AFPD), maker of odd electronic noises, servant to a pair of Chihuahuas, follower of the beautiful game (DC United, Leeds United). More at https://jdbyrne.net/. No DMs (I mute them anyway)
Not the worst result, but misleading (Miami coasted in the second half), but this whole enterprise - playing a "home" game in another city, in another stadium, solely to cash in on that Messi money - is a joke and symptom of why the club is so far adrift in the league (and has been for years).
Nice.
Listening to the Hunter oral argument from earlier this week - may you find someone who loves you as fervently as the Government loves appeal waivers. Jeez.
A mocha colored Chihuahua sticks her head partly out of her mountain of fluff. Only one eye, one ear, and part of her snout are visible.
I won a case at the Fourth Circuit yesterday.
Also, cute animal pic.
Trial Attorney | Personal Injury Lawyer | Tri... View my services 4d • O 2 weeks ago, I found myself yelling at ChatGPT after it screwed up the same task 5 times in a row. Then it hit me: I'd never speak to a human colleague this way. Looking back at my responses, I watched myself transform from: • Polite clarification • Slightly firmer direction • Obvious frustration • Outright hostility This progression made me pause. How would I handle a similar situation with a human colleague who repeatedly misunderstood an assignment? I'd probably: - Take a breath - Consider if I was explaining clearly - Ask questions to understand their confusion - Offer guidance differently Instead, with Al, I skipped straight to impatience and rudeness. What's interesting isn't that Al might take our jobs someday. It's that these systems reveal how humans behave when we think nobody's watching. Maybe the concern shouldn't be what Al will do to us, but what our interactions with Al reveal about ourselves. Even scarier, what we may be training it to believe humans are really like.
The chatbot failed to do your legal work for you five times and your takeaway from that was that you should be nicer to it? My friend you could have done that task yourself correctly the first time and not gotten mad at all.
/2 Also, maybe this is pedantic, but should you have an operation name that contradicts your narrative? If the claim is this is a deliberative, calculated set of strikes, and limited in scope, doesn’t that sound neither epic nor furious?
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
The cover of "Tales from Topographic Oceans" by Yes (released a hundred years later).
Oh, wait, y'all meant 1970s!
Post something from the 70s.
Screenshot of the first sentence of the first draft of my new book, third in the "Paranormal Appalachia" series.
And away we go . . .
#amwriting
PSA: I tested more legal AI! It still doesn’t work.
I do not understand all of these articles about firms hiring fewer associates because they are leveraging AI for simpler work. The tech is not there. I would like it to be there. But it is not there. It has other uses, but none are “legal work.”
A win? Against Philly? I'm a bit light headed!
Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Beaker
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
Tyggers
There's so much malice out there, I sometimes get to be surprised when a deeply suspicious activity turns out to be incompetence again.
This article is incredible. It says everything us actual authors have been saying for years, but with a smile on its face.
“If you hide that there’s A.I., it sells just fine,” she said.
Uh huh? Tell me more. Like how you published 19 novels to sell 20,000 copies. An average of 1000 copies a title.
An instructional guide. This is a lectern. It’s is not a podium
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.
Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
😍 THESE FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS!!
The horse (?) is keeping his eyes on the fox, though.
The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.
Oh my, the categorical approach is about to break contain. Is this one of the seals in Revelation?
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
And, finally, even though I remembered to post this one so long ago, TV . . .
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I've been really derelict in posting new blog posts, so here's today's, the last of my "2025 in media" posts.
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