Euclid's 6th postulate.
12.03.2026 04:01
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Euclid's 6th postulate.
[I'm not making any sense. I think I'm losing them. Even I can no longer understand what I'm saying. Quick. How can I save this?]
[I've got it!]
"This is the most intellectually ambitious answer."
Fair enough. If we force a last turtle, the most honest answers, ranked by my preference: Nothing. The last turtle floats in a void, unsupported, existing without cause or foundation. This is actually the position most modern physics flirts with — the universe simply is, a brute fact, requiring no substrate beneath it. It's unsatisfying, but probably true. Itself. The last turtle's existence is self-explanatory — it is its own cause (causa sui, as Spinoza would say). This is the move most conceptions of God make. It doesn't fully satisfy logically, but it at least closes the loop rather than leaving things dangling in a void. Something categorically different — not a turtle at all, not even a "thing" in the normal sense. Maybe the ground beneath the last turtle is pure mathematical necessity, or consciousness, or a principle so fundamental it doesn't need support because it is the precondition for support meaning anything. This is the most intellectually ambitious answer.
Not a problem for Claude!
Though I would be skeptical of the model's explanation of its own actions. I don't think it's any more factually accurate or reliable when purportedly reflecting on itself. It doesn't actually have particular insight I don't think. (Or at least I've heard others cautioning re this.)
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...
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Your scientists were so preoccupied &c., &c., &c.
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On another document: Renfer claims that language he placed in quotation marks was intended as a general statement of the case and not an actual quotation. "This was a writing technique to liven up the prose."
Congress's power is like Michael Scott's power in The Office. They are constitutionally empowered to walk into the chamber and yell "War!" but it will have no legal or practical effect.
There is so much going on here. Besides these, you've got cute plagues? Is the baby the first born?
He are the exception.
Thinking about how they established that Johnny 5 was alive in Short Circuit because he laughed at an antisemitic joke. So maybe Grok is alive?
Not what you are looking for, I know, but the inventory at the end of this page looks interesting. They recently started using AI for TOC and TOA. Dates of adoption are interesting.
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Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
Odd that the picture includes neither face nor elbow.
I was thinking about this a bit yesterday. So much of my day-to-day writing is tedious and chore-like. But all of it requires me to exercise some judgment and depends on context. And it's hard to get AI efficiency when also taking the time to add in the necessary judgment and context.
With more and more of Twins Twitter — including beat writers — coming over to Bluesky for this season, I updated my "starter pack" of recommended Twins-related accounts to follow that post regularly here.
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Every time someone posts a link to a new Chotiner interview.
Which has a special section on appeals:
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That's part of the new-ish "Self-Help Washington" program:
www.courts.wa.gov/self-help/
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I know everyone talks about AI as the great "access to justice" solution, but I like what our living breathing judges and administrators are doing out here in Washington!
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Justin Timberlake song about the Salhyr, which flows through Simferopol.
This is true. Too much practical stuff to learn in law school. Only so much of it can be done during 1L legal writing.
An ask for employers who supervise summer interns: Instead of thinking "How did they not learn this in law school!??!" please take an opportunity to do some practical teaching!
