Rania Combs
@raniacombs.bsky.social
Estate planning attorney. I prepare estate plans that protect families, preserve their wealth, and safeguard their legacies. 🇱🇧 #lawtwitter #lawsky
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Rania Combs
@raniacombs.bsky.social
· Jan 20
“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” - MLK Jr
Now that it’s common knowledge that AI hallucinates, why would an attorney rely on AI to draft pleadings without verifying output?
An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"
cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Now that it’s common knowledge that AI hallucinates, why would an attorney rely on AI to draft pleadings without verifying output?
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The idea that there’s some tiny, identifiable group of such special talent that they must be plucked, urgently, by firms is silly. The notion that they must be grabbed from the market before a single semester of grades is idiotic and kind of pernicious.
In a first, many top law firms this year are recruiting summer associates during students' first semester. Some are dangling ‘jumbo offers’ and ‘loyalty’ bonuses for students who do two summer stints back-to-back, keeping them out of other firms' reach reut.rs/44U44cD
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The idea that there’s some tiny, identifiable group of such special talent that they must be plucked, urgently, by firms is silly. The notion that they must be grabbed from the market before a single semester of grades is idiotic and kind of pernicious.
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How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’
These Chrome extensions see everything — and take everything. It may already be too late.
www.forbes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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“[L]earning from synthesized LLM responses led to shallower knowledge compared to gathering, interpreting and synthesizing information for oneself via standard web links.”
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
Learning With AI Falls Short Compared to Old-Fashioned Web Search
In virtually all the ways that matter, getting summarized information from AI models was less educational than doing the work of search.
gizmodo.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“[L]earning from synthesized LLM responses led to shallower knowledge compared to gathering, interpreting and synthesizing information for oneself via standard web links.”
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
gizmodo.com/learning-wit...
Science is amazing: www.broadinstitute.org/news/single-...
Single prime editing system could potentially treat multiple genetic diseases
Researchers have developed a genome-editing strategy that targets a common cause of roughly 30 percent of rare diseases and could vastly improve access to gene-editing treatments for patients.
www.broadinstitute.org
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Science is amazing: www.broadinstitute.org/news/single-...
I really enjoyed talking with Ruby Powers about how using technology to make our practices more efficient gives us more space to focus on what truly matters: listening to clients, counseling them, and guiding them with care and empathy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Ep. 88: Don't Be a Bot: Reclaiming Empathy in the AI Era with Rania Combs
Podcast Episode · Power Up Your Practice · 11/18/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I really enjoyed talking with Ruby Powers about how using technology to make our practices more efficient gives us more space to focus on what truly matters: listening to clients, counseling them, and guiding them with care and empathy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
“We’re all chasing something—success, control, attention—but every chase ends in stillness.
What matters is who we loved and how we showed up while we were still running.” open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
What matters is who we loved and how we showed up while we were still running.” open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
A Nurse Recorded 300 Final Breaths—And Found Only 7 Things That Truly Matter in Life
After listening to the confessions of 300 dying people, I decided to completely change my life
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“We’re all chasing something—success, control, attention—but every chase ends in stillness.
What matters is who we loved and how we showed up while we were still running.” open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
What matters is who we loved and how we showed up while we were still running.” open.substack.com/pub/everyday...
Tech companies “have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout.”https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=ZV-j7muNajQ0dFrn8kjD7oPCHvXfCafRv5YdL5pDuR0
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Tech companies “have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout.”https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=ZV-j7muNajQ0dFrn8kjD7oPCHvXfCafRv5YdL5pDuR0
Wow.
People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain immunotherapy drugs lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or Moderna shot within 100 days of starting treatment.
Learn more:
Learn more:
COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors
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October 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Wow.
Science is amazing! www.bbc.com/news/article...
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Science is amazing! www.bbc.com/news/article...
“AI systems will always make a certain percentage of mistakes, no matter how much the technology improves”
“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws”
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4059383/openai-admits-ai-hallucinations-are-mathematically-inevitable-not-just-engineering-flaws.html
September 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“AI systems will always make a certain percentage of mistakes, no matter how much the technology improves”
What a devastating story about a company that appears to prioritize profits over safety. there should be safeguards to prevent AI from encouraging self harm in its users. techpolicy.press/breaking-dow...
Breaking Down the Lawsuit Against OpenAI Over Teen's Suicide | TechPolicy.Press
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. His parents are suing the company and its CEO.
techpolicy.press
August 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
What a devastating story about a company that appears to prioritize profits over safety. there should be safeguards to prevent AI from encouraging self harm in its users. techpolicy.press/breaking-dow...
Exactly! “If anyone asks you for cash or any sort of prepaid option like debit cards or gift cards, it’s a big flashing neon sign that you’re being scammed.” www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-...
Here’s how I barely talked my 80-year-old relative out of giving $40,000 to scammers
He was drawn in by a very sophisticated operation, and it took a lot of logic to convince him it wasn’t real
www.marketwatch.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Exactly! “If anyone asks you for cash or any sort of prepaid option like debit cards or gift cards, it’s a big flashing neon sign that you’re being scammed.” www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-...
“Critical thinking is like an exercise. If you stop doing it, your body forgets it and you lose the talent”
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’
Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking
english.elpais.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
“Critical thinking is like an exercise. If you stop doing it, your body forgets it and you lose the talent”
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
Love this: www.omaritani.com/blog/wabi-sa...
5 Teachings From The Japanese Wabi-Sabi Philosophy That Can Drastically Improve Your Life — OMAR ITANI
Wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that motions us to constantly search for the beauty in imperfection and accept the more natural cycle of life. It reminds us that all things including us an...
www.omaritani.com
July 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Love this: www.omaritani.com/blog/wabi-sa...
Great explainer from Kelly Erb about the new tax bill. No one makes tax as accessible as @Taxgirl.
Questions About The New Tax Bill? @Taxgirl Has Answers via @forbes www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...
Questions About The New Tax Bill? Taxgirl Has Answers
New deductions for seniors, tipped workers and overtime, plus a tax hit on gamblers, have generated confusion, misinformation and outrage.
www.forbes.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Great explainer from Kelly Erb about the new tax bill. No one makes tax as accessible as @Taxgirl.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: “Often the job will have an easy interview or no interview, promise to let you work from home, and let you start right away” apnews.com/article/job-...
Job scams are on the rise and more people are falling for them. Protect yourself with these tips
As job-seekers look for work in an challenging environment, an increasing number are falling victim to scams that promise good pay for completing easy online tasks.
apnews.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is: “Often the job will have an easy interview or no interview, promise to let you work from home, and let you start right away” apnews.com/article/job-...
Team USA’s women’s U24 ultimate team just won the world championship! So proud of my daughter and all her teammates!
June 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Team USA’s women’s U24 ultimate team just won the world championship! So proud of my daughter and all her teammates!
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“We wanted robots to clean the dishes and do our laundry, so we could draw pictures and write stories. Instead they gave us robots to draw pictures and write stories, so we could clean dishes and do laundry.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-...
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
Tech workers at TikTok, Google, and across the industry share stories about how AI is changing, ruining, or replacing their jobs.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
June 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“We wanted robots to clean the dishes and do our laundry, so we could draw pictures and write stories. Instead they gave us robots to draw pictures and write stories, so we could clean dishes and do laundry.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-...
Great advice from Jen Mercieca.
What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling: Doomscrolling turns our phones into misery machines—and makes us see the world as a mean, scary place. Here's what happened when Jennifer Mercieca's students tried hopescrolling instead
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...
What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling
Our phones have become misery machines. Hopescrolling can change that.
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Great advice from Jen Mercieca.
Would you want to live in a vegetative state, aware but unable to communicate your thoughts and wishes? The story of Ian Berg highlights the emotional and ethical complexities that can arise after serious injuries and the importance of advance directives. raniacombslaw.com/resources/ad...
Trapped Inside Your Body: Would you Choose to Live?
Avoid family uncertainty by making your end-of-life decisions clear with an advance directive. Learn why it matters for peace of mind
raniacombslaw.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Would you want to live in a vegetative state, aware but unable to communicate your thoughts and wishes? The story of Ian Berg highlights the emotional and ethical complexities that can arise after serious injuries and the importance of advance directives. raniacombslaw.com/resources/ad...
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🚨 Hey, North Carolina!
Please search this list to see if you - or others you know - have been singled out by Jefferson Griffin.
If you're one of the 60,000+ voters on this list, please TAKE ACTION. Call your county BOE ASAP! Then tell Griffin to shove it! #RiggsWon
thegriffinlist.com#search-line
Please search this list to see if you - or others you know - have been singled out by Jefferson Griffin.
If you're one of the 60,000+ voters on this list, please TAKE ACTION. Call your county BOE ASAP! Then tell Griffin to shove it! #RiggsWon
thegriffinlist.com#search-line
The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to
early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted.
...
thegriffinlist.com
April 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨 Hey, North Carolina!
Please search this list to see if you - or others you know - have been singled out by Jefferson Griffin.
If you're one of the 60,000+ voters on this list, please TAKE ACTION. Call your county BOE ASAP! Then tell Griffin to shove it! #RiggsWon
thegriffinlist.com#search-line
Please search this list to see if you - or others you know - have been singled out by Jefferson Griffin.
If you're one of the 60,000+ voters on this list, please TAKE ACTION. Call your county BOE ASAP! Then tell Griffin to shove it! #RiggsWon
thegriffinlist.com#search-line
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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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Be careful! With so many changes happening at SSA, scammers are trying to take advantage. If you're not sure whether there might be legitimate messages in your online govt account (including SSA and IRS), navigate directly to the site. Don't click through and don't respond to these kinds of emails.
March 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Be careful! With so many changes happening at SSA, scammers are trying to take advantage. If you're not sure whether there might be legitimate messages in your online govt account (including SSA and IRS), navigate directly to the site. Don't click through and don't respond to these kinds of emails.
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i’m very busy, but also, i just thought about the fact that gene hackman’s wife probably predeceased him, which probably wasn’t what he or she expected when his estate docs were written up.
curious if it will turn into a fight about who predeceased who
curious if it will turn into a fight about who predeceased who
March 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i’m very busy, but also, i just thought about the fact that gene hackman’s wife probably predeceased him, which probably wasn’t what he or she expected when his estate docs were written up.
curious if it will turn into a fight about who predeceased who
curious if it will turn into a fight about who predeceased who