Michelle LaLonde
@petitecarcajou.bsky.social
Academic law librarian, adjunct professor, & attorney. J! champion for a day, Wolverine for life. #GoBlue #Michigan #Detroit
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From my 2022 book THEY KNEW:
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
December 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
From my 2022 book THEY KNEW:
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
"It is very bad in America to be right too early."
www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/09...
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
December 15, 2025 at 3:27 AM
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
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"...History is not a distraction. It is a critical source of information. The patterns revealed in our historical experiences can help us face the truth of what we are confronting. History urges us to move quickly, and to resist with greater intensity."
December 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"...History is not a distraction. It is a critical source of information. The patterns revealed in our historical experiences can help us face the truth of what we are confronting. History urges us to move quickly, and to resist with greater intensity."
Seriously. You can save so much time & avoid bad results with even just a 5 minute conversation with a librarian about what you’re researching.
This whole thread but especially the point about asking your librarian instead. As I keep telling people, genAI hallucination rate: 30-80%; librarian hallucination rate: 0%
🧵 There's an add running on many podcasts right now for student Google Gemini. I don't want to condescend to students, because I think many are savvy about GenAI, but please understand that "free" year they're offering means training their AI by uploading *your* work, your intellectual property.
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Seriously. You can save so much time & avoid bad results with even just a 5 minute conversation with a librarian about what you’re researching.
You know, it would be pretty cool of the Academy if they gave Dick VanDyke an Oscar in 2026 for … anything, so that he could finally get that EGOT designation.
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December 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
You know, it would be pretty cool of the Academy if they gave Dick VanDyke an Oscar in 2026 for … anything, so that he could finally get that EGOT designation.
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The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The people who support $12B in corporate welfare to farms and forgave $80B in auto bailouts and forgave $700B in bank bailouts and forgave $755B in PPP loans want you to know that forgiving medical debt and student debt is socialism😐
Very problematic for academic / business study and forecasting purposes.
So far the Trump admin has canceled:
- The PPI Inflation Report
- The Jobs Report
- The Inflation Report
- The third-quarter GDP report
Trump thinks Americans are dumb enough to miss that he failed to deliver on any of his economic promises if he just hides all the data.
- The PPI Inflation Report
- The Jobs Report
- The Inflation Report
- The third-quarter GDP report
Trump thinks Americans are dumb enough to miss that he failed to deliver on any of his economic promises if he just hides all the data.
December 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Very problematic for academic / business study and forecasting purposes.
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the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession
Sobering to think of all the dismantling and sabotage of everything that is part of the common good being done by this regime just to save billionaires from having to pay taxes.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Sobering to think of all the dismantling and sabotage of everything that is part of the common good being done by this regime just to save billionaires from having to pay taxes.
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Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
Thou Shalt Not Murder Fishermen While Pardoning Drug Lords
This is evil.
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December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reposting this everyday until Pete Hagueseth faces justice for his crimes against humanity.
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For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
This is one advantage of having the historical memory of authoritarianism, as I have from Brazil: you know that, when the regime is gone, the people who collaborated and acquiesced look terrible in retrospect. It may look reasonable and justifiable now, but believe me, it will age like milk.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
Let’s Go Blue!!! 💛💙🏈
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Let’s Go Blue!!! 💛💙🏈
A sobering thread for those of us in academia. Again, it’s astonishing how much this regime (w/help from Heritage & Project 2025) is committed to literally destroying everything good about this country.
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A sobering thread for those of us in academia. Again, it’s astonishing how much this regime (w/help from Heritage & Project 2025) is committed to literally destroying everything good about this country.
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
Post something random or you'll have an awful December
November 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This quarter of Lions-Packers appears to have the roughly the same number of sacks as a Hermès boutique does of in-stock Birkins!
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This quarter of Lions-Packers appears to have the roughly the same number of sacks as a Hermès boutique does of in-stock Birkins!
"Wishbone" was just the absolute best show!
One popular Thanksgiving tradition is making a wish while breaking the fulcrum of the turkey, more commonly known as the wishbone. 🧵⬇️
(NOT HIM)
(NOT HIM)
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Wishbone" was just the absolute best show!
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Happy St Catherine’s Day! She’s the patron of women students, anyone who works with wheels (e.g., potters), tanners, philosophers, and librarians. She’s also my confirmation saint. I love this painting of her by Caravaggio.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.