Affidavit Bowie
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For lawyers, AI use is like hiring an exceptionally incompetent associate. It’s all of the review, none of the billables.
I guess an inadvertent plus is that you get to replace your subject matter research with malpractice research.
I guess an inadvertent plus is that you get to replace your subject matter research with malpractice research.
yeah, I think this is also an important thing to keep in mind: what do most people in a given profession LIKE about their jobs? What do they NOT like?
you will not get a good sales response if you focus on replacing the stuff most people actually LIKE doing, instead of the stuff they hate doing
you will not get a good sales response if you focus on replacing the stuff most people actually LIKE doing, instead of the stuff they hate doing
There’s a certain amount of “pick your suffering” going on.
I like the hard work of writing. I do not like the hard work of checking and improving AI output. (It’s not editing. Editing is a conversation with an author — maybe Past Me, but not a machine.)
They might be equal amounts of work, idk.
I like the hard work of writing. I do not like the hard work of checking and improving AI output. (It’s not editing. Editing is a conversation with an author — maybe Past Me, but not a machine.)
They might be equal amounts of work, idk.
December 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For lawyers, AI use is like hiring an exceptionally incompetent associate. It’s all of the review, none of the billables.
I guess an inadvertent plus is that you get to replace your subject matter research with malpractice research.
I guess an inadvertent plus is that you get to replace your subject matter research with malpractice research.
Hades 2 (2025)
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Hades 2 (2025)
Or, and keep in mind this theory is undefeated: his brain is bad and he can barely identify a giraffe. He doesn’t know what’s in the files. He doesn’t weigh outcomes against each other. He’s just a dementia patient with malicious idiot henchmen.
The only explanation for why Trump is willing to take such a huge political hit keeping these Epstein files hidden is bcuz he knows what’s in those files about him is really, really, really, really bad. That’s the only explanation for this massive Trump led coverup.
December 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Or, and keep in mind this theory is undefeated: his brain is bad and he can barely identify a giraffe. He doesn’t know what’s in the files. He doesn’t weigh outcomes against each other. He’s just a dementia patient with malicious idiot henchmen.
‘28 Dem hopefuls, the correct answer is “I will let the highest bidder handle the crowbar on a per letter basis and eliminate the national debt.”
I doubt that any Democrat in the '28 mix would leave Trump's name on buildings. Questions are how they talk about taking it off, and what they say when reporters ask some version of "but wouldn't that further divide the country?"
There's a series of things (like the ballroom, Gulf of America) that we're going to have to *undo* the moment this guy is out of office.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
And yet I can already hear future Democrat presidents saying "I'm focused on the people's work, not the knucklehead stuff" and just leave this man's shit up.
December 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
‘28 Dem hopefuls, the correct answer is “I will let the highest bidder handle the crowbar on a per letter basis and eliminate the national debt.”
So much for “Why Americans should care” and “it’s important to rally support for Ukraine here in America.”
![Politico article text about Marco Rubio from 2022 that reads “He says he’s using any tools he can to convince Americans to care about the violence in Ukraine.
“[Americans] want to understand what our role in all of this is — why America should care, why it matters, what’s happening,” Rubio said in an interview. “There’s a tremendous amount of interest in it for a variety of reasons, so to the extent we can provide that information in detail, I think it’s important just to rally support for Ukraine here in America.””](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hms6aw6fkuclffandkqwxn5g/bafkreiaopzuyebsnesdcpwmd7serf5rdm5z2kya25iinvb6shdgksbshwm@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So much for “Why Americans should care” and “it’s important to rally support for Ukraine here in America.”
Great news, by firing all of us, OCR has solved racial harassment. It was the pesky civil rights attorneys all along!
STUNNING: Nearly a year since President Donald Trump took office, his education department’s Office for Civil Rights has not entered into a single new resolution agreement involving racial harassment of students, we found.
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
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December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Great news, by firing all of us, OCR has solved racial harassment. It was the pesky civil rights attorneys all along!
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In order for America to actually heal its divisions, we need to reckon with its two original sins: the genocide of Native Americans by the initial government structures during and after the Revolution, and the deliberate sabotage of Reconstruction by the racist remnants of the South.
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December 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
In order for America to actually heal its divisions, we need to reckon with its two original sins: the genocide of Native Americans by the initial government structures during and after the Revolution, and the deliberate sabotage of Reconstruction by the racist remnants of the South.
Huge asterisk needed for “When originalism produces the Republican Political Preferred Outcome”
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December 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Huge asterisk needed for “When originalism produces the Republican Political Preferred Outcome”
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any white guy who says this is an idiot loser
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 PM
any white guy who says this is an idiot loser
Evergreen tbh.
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Evergreen tbh.
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No one fights like Gaston
No one bites like Gaston
No one extends Disney's trademark rights like Gaston
No one bites like Gaston
No one extends Disney's trademark rights like Gaston
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
No one fights like Gaston
No one bites like Gaston
No one extends Disney's trademark rights like Gaston
No one bites like Gaston
No one extends Disney's trademark rights like Gaston
Just another Kavanaugh stop.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Just another Kavanaugh stop.
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Prison for Bovino and friends is the moderate position.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Prison for Bovino and friends is the moderate position.
Also worth pointing this out, Bovino is making shit up. “One must carry immigration documents” is not the law. The INA does not apply to most people, including the millions of Americans who have no “immigration documents” because they are citizens.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Also worth pointing this out, Bovino is making shit up. “One must carry immigration documents” is not the law. The INA does not apply to most people, including the millions of Americans who have no “immigration documents” because they are citizens.
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Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
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ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
my read is they were trying to whip up the usual frenzy, but then the effort got blown up by Candace Owens saying The Jews did it
It’s kind of incredible how little has been published about this guy and how little conservatives seem to care. Did people just forget these people were screeching for civil war when they thought he was a liberal?
December 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ultimately, no one even grieved Charlie Kirk. he was just another thing for the worst people on earth to get outraged over. and when the outrage of real events wasn't enough, they invented new ones.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
not even his wife saw his death as anything other than an opportunity.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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But also all of the SES who followed illegal orders should be fired and prosecuted. It is the only way to stop this from happening every Republican administration, to rebuild faith in government service, and bring back the institutional knowledge that was purged.
I am deadly serious when I say that any liberal Project 2028 people should be taking names of the civil servants who go way past their authority to do stuff like this.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That is very much not me saying that normal employees following bad orders should be fired. But there’s a line. This crosses it.
That should be a career ending act of corruption
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
But also all of the SES who followed illegal orders should be fired and prosecuted. It is the only way to stop this from happening every Republican administration, to rebuild faith in government service, and bring back the institutional knowledge that was purged.
This whole screed is dumb, but "are you okay with losing access to medication because the United States Government won't be able to afford it" is the dumbest. It is a rewrite of Ben Shapiro's "sell their flooded houses." It is a testament to the fact that rich people are lucky, not smart.
R U ok with paying 8 to 12 pct more in taxes and possibly losing your standard deduction ?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This whole screed is dumb, but "are you okay with losing access to medication because the United States Government won't be able to afford it" is the dumbest. It is a rewrite of Ben Shapiro's "sell their flooded houses." It is a testament to the fact that rich people are lucky, not smart.
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GOP is responsible for widespread gerrymandering to minimize/exclude Dem votes (esp minorities).
SCOTUS blessed it where for political advantage—against Dem party hopes & args.
If Dem states don’t fully take advantage of new reality & gerrymander the heck out of their states they’re abdicating.
SCOTUS blessed it where for political advantage—against Dem party hopes & args.
If Dem states don’t fully take advantage of new reality & gerrymander the heck out of their states they’re abdicating.
July 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
GOP is responsible for widespread gerrymandering to minimize/exclude Dem votes (esp minorities).
SCOTUS blessed it where for political advantage—against Dem party hopes & args.
If Dem states don’t fully take advantage of new reality & gerrymander the heck out of their states they’re abdicating.
SCOTUS blessed it where for political advantage—against Dem party hopes & args.
If Dem states don’t fully take advantage of new reality & gerrymander the heck out of their states they’re abdicating.
Surely there will be consequences for respondents, right? Right? …Bueller…
"Respondents did not just stonewall. They affirmatively misled the tribunal."
December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Surely there will be consequences for respondents, right? Right? …Bueller…
The failure to create good, new, or interesting art rarely stops people with capital from selecting a cheaper "artist."
In this case, it is true that AI is already being leaned on to replace artists and that AI is not doing anything good, new, or interesting.
In this case, it is true that AI is already being leaned on to replace artists and that AI is not doing anything good, new, or interesting.
"AI is a stochastic parrot, it can't make anything genuinely new or interesting" and "AI will replace human art" are fundamentally contradictory opinions to hold. Choose one.
December 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The failure to create good, new, or interesting art rarely stops people with capital from selecting a cheaper "artist."
In this case, it is true that AI is already being leaned on to replace artists and that AI is not doing anything good, new, or interesting.
In this case, it is true that AI is already being leaned on to replace artists and that AI is not doing anything good, new, or interesting.
Vaccines.gov doesn’t work? Every ZIP I tried is invalid, apparently.
December 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vaccines.gov doesn’t work? Every ZIP I tried is invalid, apparently.
FWIW, every state does constitutionally guarantee a public education system. The fact that idiot parents are willing to risk their kids health AND education simultaneously doesn't change that.
So to be clear: ACIP didn’t vote to remove the hepatitis B birth dose because of new safety concerns. They did it to make a political point about mandates. Thank you for saying so explicitly.
December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
FWIW, every state does constitutionally guarantee a public education system. The fact that idiot parents are willing to risk their kids health AND education simultaneously doesn't change that.
If the case is related to republican political interests, textualism does not matter. It is so silly that seemingly smart attorneys litigating in appellate courts cannot wrap their head around that.
the attempt by the attorney representing Rebecca Slaughter to use Trump v. United States for good is going sideways hard and it is making me even more confident in my opinion that there's no real upside to using Republican legal doctrine
it won't convince Republican judges
it's not meant for us
it won't convince Republican judges
it's not meant for us
December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If the case is related to republican political interests, textualism does not matter. It is so silly that seemingly smart attorneys litigating in appellate courts cannot wrap their head around that.