Jerry Levine

I really hate these guys.

Oh no! Please don't! Stop. Come back.

Me: I wonder why I'm out of hard disk space...

Also Me: I'm going to click "store on my device" for this setting just in case I am ever completely disconnected from everything.

@kagi.com I don't know if anything happened behind the scenes today, but Ki (Quick) is faster than ever; the answers I received were instantaneous. Impressive.

FWIW, Netflix stock shot up as soon as this was announced.

Mt. Doom Law School has its perks, tho.

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This is wild. Court expansion, SCOTUS term limits, and all these things are popular. Who would have guessed?

(A lot of us who have been pushing structural reforms to the American Experiment, thats who.)

i have the best approval ratings

Good.

@chup.blakereid.org - I'm in the same boat. I've been trying to think about concrete harms over the past couple of hours (e.g., self‑harm recommendation loops or targeted extremist pipelines), and then trying to narrowly frame a duty or prohibition I'd want to impose (whether common law or reg)

The TSA "Face ID" PreCheck is actually the fastest, because basically it means there is no need for CLEAR or a TSA agent, and you don’t need to show ID, because it already has your biometrics (yes, privacy issue, but one already provided all that when signing up, so...)

+ @faineg.bsky.social

I have all three (because of work and credit cards):

CLEAR jumps the line, taking me to the front of PRECHECK, which then lets me keep my shoes on. Then, GE lets me back in without having to stand in a line (although I fly from EWR, so there's always a line anyway).

Feste in Twelfth Night. Dogberry, any "fool" character is part of this, historically. Morality plays often had a character like this as well.

Jewish stories about the village of Chelm... Aristophanes often used the difference between literal and figurative speech.

*remapped

The latest release in Windows beta has this as a default function, FYI. I recapped mine to a private LLM I use locally, which is basically there as a fancy search engine.

It was a bit of a very topical joke! That being said, the parallels are quite visible.

I think Barrett is a fascinating (in the sense of "fascinating" that you never want to hear your doctor say) jurist.

lol

Hey, chat, was end-running Parliament a major cause of the English Civil War?

Did it happen to do anything with King Charles I imposing unlawful or unconstitutional taxes?

Just checking!

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HELLO I AM NOT THREE TARIFFS IN A TRENCHCOAT

Good News Everyone!

The Third Circuit has ruled on an important question: When does computer code get First Amendment protection?

The answer: "it depends."

(I mean, yes, they have a test, and it's sensible, but I like that the answer is "it depends").

I was noticing that Ossoff's speech is becoming more "religious" (in the American Constitutional sense), which is a smart strategy and actually mirrors liberal / enlightenment religious structures (as well as the Civil Rights Movement, Anti-Slavery Movements, etc.).

I mean, my company (@leahai.com) makes these tools for legal departments and law firms.

Free public AI services are very much the proverbial "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product."

8. Also, if you're a lawyer, the ethics/commentary right now is a very strong trend saying AI use inside a privileged, contractual “walled garden” is fine; public/free, data‑sharing tools are not.

6. If something says that it isn't a lawyer, you should believe it.

7. If you're a lawyer, you should absolutely be paying for your consumer AI tools or you should be paying a vendor that has very strict policies. AND NOT anything that logs inputs/outputs, uses them for training, and can share!

a subscription in place and specifically ensure that the AI system does not allow further disclosure.

5. This doesn't affect an attorney using it, or a client using it with their attorney, or a client using it at the direction of their attorney, or a client using a private/secured AI, etc.

the Defendant did it of his own accord.

2. It isn't work-product either, since it wasn't done for/by counsel or counsel's mental impressions.

3. You can't pretend after the fact that is was done in a privileged manner because you handed it over afterwards.

4. Don't use public AI systems without

I have to agree with @andrewkinsey.bsky.social on this (and I've written on this previously, just have to find it). The fear should be taken with a grain of salt:

1. If a non-attorney uses an AI like Claude in a public mode, that shouldn't be privileged, particularly since the record shows