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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 10h

Just a matter of time until the client will also be replaced by an LLM AI, thus cutting out the baggage of human curiosity, emotion, thought, compassion, lies and free association. And replacing them with a statistical simulcrum which matrix-like pretends to organize everything and offer summaries

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 10h

Brad: exactly. Can you imagine law school classes based on this scenario, designed to both introduce caution and skepticism in AI and teach students indirectly (as smart editors) what they used to be required to learn, including the balance of respect & meticulous review of work by lawyers & judges

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 1d

in an ordinary world Bondi would have been required to recuse from decisions re epstein files

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 1d

while the house controls its own procedure, is there a point where a court can compel swearing in?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 3d

Does he sue in federal court in CA or OR? Can he make it a nation-wide class action for all democratic governors?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 5d

do these include firms that made "deals" with Trump?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 5d

can you turn off the "AI summary" feature?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 5d

query: are these summaries generated anew each time an article is opened? if so a hideous amount of power is being wasted for a very limited return, particularly if the article includes its own summary found acceptable by the journal it was published in. AI summaries are becoming a pet rock fad

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 5d

can she sue to be sworn in immediately?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 5d

there's a lot your first para leaves out, but that certainly is the gist. anything he shouldn't get away with as long as he gets away with it

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 6d

he came to swamp the drain - 3cs - cheating, corruption, chaos

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

There is no basis for this transactional mafia-style govt.
Also, this "regulation" flouts/evades all procedural requirements: not based on any act of Congress nor complies w the Administrative Procedure Act.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 7d

the new "McCarthy era" -- based both on an ism and a false great man theory of everything

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 8d

What do a massive spectacle of a general meeting of generals and an explicit intent to make American cities the situs of armed war games and a demand that the military be politically incorrect remind peo people (including historians) of?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 9d

The public has an important interest in courts strictly scrutinizing such settlements, given the willingness of this president to improperly use the powers of his office to influence lawsuits he brings and turn media, the means of mass speech, to his improper control.

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 9d

Why isn’t lead in NYT on peace plan for Gaza that Trump is to chair the temporary technocrat “peace” transition commission and that the redevelopment plan is Trump’s 2020 “Riviera” plan? It is all about Trump - a statesman would not glorify himself to make peace. This reality is unbelievable.

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 12d

Where in the constitution is any president authorized to direct the prosecution for vindictive reasons, to punish directly or indirectly first amendment activity, to direct prosecutors to lie or hide exculpatory evidence from a grand jury, to direct any agency to deny due process?

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 12d

NB - court shutdown might delay vindictive prosecutions

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 14d

On the environment issue (coupled with respect for the public), the pervasive presumption that everything (as in searches) should automatically have an AI summary even if the user didn’t ask for it means millions of unwanted AI procedures. This adds up to a substantial waste of energy w conseqncs

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 15d

when the theory is that anyone can do any job as long as a Trump supporter, professionalism and respect for law are replaced with decisions based on publicity, money, and retaliation. The career underlings, until fired, are a last bulwark of respect for people and the constitution

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 16d

sounds right

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 16d

was there any earlier year when SCOTUS (a) so dramatically insisted that a president supersedes Congress and the courts and (b) worked its destruction of the separation of powers in such a shadowy way?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 19d

does this mean if any democrat voted for Trump, he should quit?

stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 19d

Yes

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stephenmj.bsky.social @stephenmj.bsky.social · 19d

Relying on whether ancestors find a regime favorable is an ingenious way to avoid or ignore the will of living people (ie, no room for any sort of democracy; and controlling ancestors is primarily a matter of controlling those who “speak” for them

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