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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · 3d

Autumn is a good time for a jab 💉🛡️

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Gotcha, yes a recipe for anti-fun!

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Sep 9

What are the ways in which you're thinking it would be unfun more specifically? (Trying to collect as much nightmare fuel before lunch as I can, I suppose...)

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Joshua G. Schraiber @jgschraiber.bsky.social · Sep 3

Actually, the rest of that section also screams "SCOTUS is losing legitimacy in the eyes of the District Courts"

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ouch SCOTUS

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Sep 3

Love this

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Sep 3

Philosophy is structurally unable to acknowledge that "I dunno, man, maybe?" is objectively speaking the correct answer to most of our questions.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Aug 12

Good read. Besides rejecting short-termism, we also need to reject the nihilistic worldview on which there are no principles only power and any lie or harm is ok if it helps your side. Rhodes is right we need a vision of a valuable & fair future worth sacrificing for www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/o...

Opinion | We’re Trapped in Trump’s Reality. This Is How We Escape It.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Aug 12

Was reminded of Bentham’s argument that fear of crime can be a worse harm than crime itself. Everyone can be affected by fear of crime but relatively few people experience serious crime. And fear of crime can easily be manipulated for nefarious purposes.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hi Crim Theorists: Great discussion happening rn at PEASoup of Elise Sugarman's fantastic paper in Free & Equal abt correspondence btw mens rea & actus reus--and what it shows abt culpability, diff prosecution strategies & more. (Online debate can be good actually!) peasoupblog.com/2025/08/free...

Free & Equal – Elise Sugarman’s “Supposed Corpses and Correspondence” with a précis from Gabriel Mendlow

PEA Soup is pleased to announce our discussion from Free & Equal, on Elise Sugarman’s “Supposed Corpses and Correspondence” with a précis from Gabriel Mendlow. Critical Précis…

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jul 17

I defy you to name a worse topic for your neighbors at the cafe table next to you to be loudly pontificating about you while you're trying to get work done than the importance of investing in innovation to the future of the company.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Yes the world is nuts right now. Unrelatedly, AI has some very fun uses. Here is Perplexity's pretty great rhyming summary of my lecture handout on fraud under the UK's Fraud Act 2006.

Will it help my students remember the elements of s.2 fraud better? Let's find out next term...

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jul 13

This is a treasure:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLw...

Frank O´Hara reads "Having a coke with you"

YouTube video by Modo de Usar

www.youtube.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · Jul 10

Explaining to the normies that memes are political propaganda and it’s taking over (present tense) the Republican Party in the year of our lord 2025…

I imagine it’s needed, but man

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...

Opinion | Trolling Democracy

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Jul 4

It has been overshadowed because the law is silly and there’s so much other lawlessness, but there is no legal justification whatsoever for the president deeming this not to be an enforceable law, and companies relying on that representation do so at their peril.

Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Jul 4

The original second term power grab. Without protest. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jul 4

Saddened to read about the attack on protesters at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law yesterday (where we have close project partners).

Authoritarian tactics hit close to home wherever they're used.

Faculty statement: readers-attend-gcb.craft.me/dmm5PvKWlJ9h2M

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thoughtful article: "Addressing Deskilling as a Result of Human-AI Augmentation in the Workplace"

4.4 especially interesting discussion of how AI can reduce work satisfaction (esp for creatives) and how augmentation can be a first step towards substitution.

ceur-ws.org/Vol-3901/sho...

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Jun 27

The best solution for nationwide injunctions is for Congress to provide for such requests to be adjudicated by three-judge panels, as proposed by former 5th Cir judge (and my former colleague) Gregg Costa.

Congress can still do this after today’s decision.

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An Old Solution to the Nationwide Injunction Problem - Harvard Law Review

Samuel Bray’s Multiple Chancellors: Reforming the National Injunction addresses what has increasingly become the recipe for legal challenges to federal policies. File suit in...

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Seems right. Though isn't that just how it goes when the methodology is analogical and historical? Some of originalism's defenders say it better constrains judges and leaves less room for implementing the court's own political or policy preferences. But maybe it just makes it easier to hide them.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 27

And conservatives find analogies when it's stuff they like, deny analogies when it's stuff they don't. The level of abstraction goes up, goes down. Here, it goes down because they don't like universal injunctions because they think they give judges too much power. Therefore this is new and illegal.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 27

Jackson seems right on the impact of CASA. Kavanaugh's attempt to soften the blow by pointing out that preliminary class-wide relief can still be granted on a regional or national basis isn't very convincing. As Jackson points out, it means anyone's rights can be threatened if they haven't sued yet.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 24

And I'd add, reinforce that the law on the books still matters beyond the law in action. Just bc a law prohibiting X is not enforced, that doesn't mean X is legally permitted. That still matters e.g. for shaping the arguments that can be made in the public sphere. (What's enforced isn't everything!)

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 24

James Acton is smart and worth listening to on nuclear stuff
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | JD Vance Said the Iran Strikes Set Their Nuclear Program Back ‘Substantially.’ He’s Wrong.

The strikes probably only delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions — and reinvigorated them.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Some good stuff here. I liked the point about how many jobs aren't so much about just producing text but standing behind the words and taking responsibility for them.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...

A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 10

And I bring this up in part bc I'm seeing students making plausible arguments but then hedging at the end of their analysis and adding these general case cites as a basis for softening their conclusions. That's how it connects to lack of confidence. But agree it's not a new prob as such!

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 10

Maybe they think this sounds good? If it were journalism, maybe I'd agree such general case cites sound nice. But for criminal law analysis, the main thing is to get them to intelligently discuss the offense elements. So these general cites (almost certainly due to AI) are one example I'm seeing.

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