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Jason Morris
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Law, Tech, Rules as Code, Formal Logic, Computational Law, LLMs, Symbolic AI. Fastcase 50 | ALTA Startup Runner-Up | ABA Innovation Fellow | Computational Law LLM | Recovering Lawyer | Legal AI Innovation Dev @ TR | Blawx dev. Opinions mine, etc.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 17h
Let's go Blue Jays.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 1d
The US was investigating a gang, offered to protect witnesses who helped, took their help, and then the Sec of State ratted on them to a foreign government in exchange for access to a foreign concentration camp.

It's like the guy is a comic book evil henchman.
profsaunders.bsky.social Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 2d
This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal
To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 1d
Dutch Intel given to the US was "routinely" given to Putin.

Russian asset in the oval office, much?

Like by definition?
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 3d
Huh. So the President has control over Congress, which gives him control over courts.

This separation of powers thing seems a little broken.

Or imaginary.
cristianfarias.com Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d
Federal courts ran out of money:

“Federal judges will continue to serve, in accordance with the Constitution, but court staff may only perform certain excepted activities permitted under the Anti-Deficiency Act.”

www.uscourts.gov/data-news/ju...
Judiciary Funding Runs Out; Only Limited Operations to Continue
The judicial branch announced that beginning on Monday, Oct. 20, it will no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations.
www.uscourts.gov
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Ivan Reese @spiralganglion.com · 6d
Would love to see this get some traction in gamedev circles. Pass it on!
automerge.org Automerge @automerge.org · 6d
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 7d
I think that is only true for me with poetry. And then, I'm still remembering what I heard myself think.

Is verbalizing a word for the first part, maybe?
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 7d
It makes no sense from Faromir's perspective to come to the conclusion that Frodo, who JUST tried to give the ring to the Nazgul, is the right person to carry it and see it destroyed, even if he agreed it was too dangerous to wield.

But why would he? At best, he is afraid of attracting Nazgul.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 7d
K, LoTR: TTT was the must-see for youngest, today. It may be that we saw it in parts, but Sam's speech at Osgiliath and Faromir's change of heart after fell sort of flat for me. One arrow, and the Nazgul retreats right after seeing the ring? Why?

None of it made any sense this time.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 7d
"Transcribe my brainz?"

"The writing you do in your head?"

I have ideas, I hear words, I see things, but nothing I do in my brain would I call "writing."

I don't transcribe, but I do take dictation.

Am I odd in that regard? Do people visualize written language?
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 8d
Spending some of the weekend learning how to deploy my codebase to Google Cloud. There's some sort of service-to-service connectivity issue I don't quite understand, but almost "there". Not long now before I can publish §Blawx v2.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 10d
I think the vibe thing might just be that Sonnet talks more about what it is doing, Codex just does it and talks when it is finished.

Sonnet also still tends to go beyond the request.

I don't need documentation for troubleshooting, Claude, thanks though. 🙄
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 10d
Codex has a different vibe from Sonnet. Not sure how, exactly, but it feels different. Like Codex spends more time planning where Sonnet just starts reading first.

One downside of using CoPilot is worse visibility into Codex's "thinking" output, which is not displayed at all.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 10d
It also doesn't seem to remember the permissions you grant it for the session, so there is a lot of clicking "go ahead". To be clear I'm using the VS Code extension.

I switched to using Codex inside the CoPilot extension, and the experience is much better.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 10d
Had an idea for a DAG navigation interface that I haven't seen before, so decided to see if GPT-5-Codex could handle it. Output seems OK so far. Integration with IDE is worse than CoPilot, though...
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 10d
New #ChooseCanada ads on the streaming services tonight.

Don't hate that.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 13d
Too relatable.
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David Colarusso @davidcolarusso.com · 13d
DevOps & looking for a job? Come work with me @suffolklitlab.org. It's a great team and we do important work helping to address the access to justice crisis. See e.g., papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 13d
"enduring sunsets" is *chefs kiss*
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 14d
McDavid took less than he is worth to give the Oilers at least 3 seasons and their best chance to finish the job and bring home the cup.

Because he's the captain, and that's what the team needed.

I think that's going to make Edmonton very attractive to a lot of high quality players.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 14d
I have met and like Ian, but arguing that an as-yet unrevealed change to the robes will necessarily bring the court into disrepute?

Utter nonsense.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 14d
How does a law professor misunderstand "rule of law" so badly? He proceeds to get it right at the end of a paragraph, but not before saying that we have it because we voluntarily follow the laws. No. We have it because courts ensure no one is above the law. Rule of Law is not Order.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 16d
See? Which judge heard it didn't matter. She's a Trump appointee, so now instead of complaining about bias they have to complain about "judicial overstep."

Which, let's be clear, is not an argument that they are in the right. It is an assertion that law doesn't apply to them.
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 17d
Switched over to the new Anthropic Sonnet 4.5 today for some personal coding project work. I don't think I have given it anything hard enough to know much, yet. But it does feel a little less likely to go off solving problems you didn't ask it to, which is nice.

Anyone have any impressions?
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 17d
Dope!
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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 18d
The judge explicitly said the recusal was not necessary. Reading between the lines, I expect the judge is of the opinion that it really doesn't matter who hears it, the result will be the same anyway. So what is the harm in giving them what they want while denying that they are entitled to it?