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Rhett Derrick

@lawzag.bsky.social

3.2K followers 280 following 6.5K posts

You’ll be hearing from my lawyer. Not to threaten litigation or anything. Just, you know, to commiserate with you about my behavior.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · Nov 7

Lots of new followers coming in so I am going to re-up this.

I am not a reliable source of information. I will link to the pleading if it is real.

I am barely a reliable source of entertainment.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · Jan 24

My personal BlueSky etiquette:
1. If I make up a fake social media post, it will be in dark mode.
2. If I make up a fake pleading, it won't be in dark mode because that would look silly. Look for context clues.
3. I will quote skeet Mitch, he's a big boy. He can handle it.

Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · Jan 24

Some BlueSky etiquette that I do my best to follow:

1. When possible, I link to articles and primary sources;
2. When possible, I link to materials that do not have a paywall;
3. When possible, I react to insulting inflammatory responses by blocking; and
4. I reply rather than quote posting.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 1m

It just feels weird to be on the other side of this.

The United States builds military facilities in YOUR country. Your county doesn't build military facilities in United States territory.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 16h

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 16h

I think this is probably correct. Of course, I think the collateral order doctrine is atextual nonsense. So I will be happy if someone every gets Mitchell v. Forsyth overturned by SCOTUS>.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 20h

I don’t allow associates to use AI. But I think AI can be a useful research tool, not a useful writing tool.

When I use Boolean or natural language search in Westlaw, well less than 65% of the responsive cases are useful. AI should be used as a tool to help you get to the right cases.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 21h

These aren't products I use, but have researched for an ethics presentation. Both footnote each sentence and give the source. They tell you to read the cases to make sure the generated response is correct.

If you struggle with legal research, they are good products. So long as you aren't stupid.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 21h

Baby is stored in the placenta. That's just science.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 21h

The problem is that both Lexis and Westlaw AI have relatively high instances of hallucinations as well. (note, Westlaw AI answers are about twice as long as Lexis answers, so more words = more chances for the AI to mess up in an answer)

dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/u...

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 21h

Yo dog, I heard you like hallucinated citations, so we put hallucinated citations in your response regarding hallucinated citations so you can show cause while you show cause.
iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewD...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 22h

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 1d

Is Nazi porn pro-Nazi?

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 1d

Question 1: what are you contractually not allowed to talk about?

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 1d

Partner: Who do we refer criminal cases to?

Me: What kind of crime?

Partner: Assault. Probably a 1.

Me: A 1?

Partner: Yeah, whatever the lowest one is.

Me: Okay. Just remember that crime is like DefCon, the lower number usually means more serious crime.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 1d

Just 8 generations ago, our ancestors could have housing, heating coal, have 6 children, a Christmas goose, three supernatural encounters and then retire…. All on one middle class salary. What happened?

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

And fill your dummy operating system full of erotic Sonic the Hedgehog fiction. Make CBP as uncomfortable as possible.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

You don’t TELL them that you’re running undercover operations you moron.

Like yeah, it’s all unhinged nonsense. But I can excuse unhinged nonsense, but I draw the line at bad OpSec.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

Saban to the Dolphins one year removed from the Natty too.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

He got Matt Cassel a chunky contract from the Chiefs.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

Forrest Gregg at SMU. Hall of Fame NFL player quits job as Packers head coach to take the job at SMU after the Pony Express scandal to revitalize the program.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

People on bluesky will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, signing Daniel Jones to play QB” and then not sign Daniel Jones.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/jane...

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is not a fair photo of these three people, two of them are responsible for my bisexuality

pete @ptmoria.com · Mar 21

Yes, they did

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

WTF did I just read?

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

Inside everyone, there are two dick wolves.

Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 2d

If this is the first sentence and footnote in a decision about your appeal, you are going to lose.

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Rhett Derrick @lawzag.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago: Field Museum is cool. Soldier Field looks like a crappy spaceship from the outside. And there's a bar in Wrigleyville which has a batting cage attached (which is as bad of an idea as it sounds, but really fun).

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