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Law practice in the United States is self-policing.

So you want it to teach you and take notes for you?

Case numbers? I'd love to take a look at the dockets.

The Castros coming into the USA on a special orange visa in exchange for giving away part of Cuba will be quite the leopards-eating-faces moment in Miami!

https://xcancel.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2085817074816070014

Would you mind elaborating?

I couldn’t help but think of Nute Gunray’s walking throne in The Phantom Menace .

> … a Kentucky-based organ procurement organization that made headlines over a 2021 incident in which it was accused of trying to harvest a man’s organs while he was still alive … …

Direct link to en banc opinion: https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202312160...

> Martha Stewart and her coconspirator went to jail for lying to the FBI. Jail ≠ prison.

Seems like “probably has negative health consequences” in the article is missing “ ceteris paribus ” (negative when remaining sedentary).

A wonderful corollary work: Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (see https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/06/15/how-to-talk-about-... ).

Sometimes a user-initiated overview is helpful to winnow wheat from chaff. Even when I'm using a filter for better material like HN, most of the articles (really, the authors) seem…

People always seek shortcuts to true learning and understanding.

Providing an accountability sink. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book)

misled

Tiresome, or tiring, perhaps; but not tired.

Nation beset by interrogative titles: Betteridge

Good writing enables the reader to assess, skim, understand, and work with the text as fast as possible. If you want to enable your audience to read quickly, learn to write better.…

To me it’s all quite analogous to walking up to, but not crossing, a border with, say, a fruit that’s legal to possess on the side you’re on, but not on the other side, and either …

Generative language models have helped me most by drawing my attention to the importance of context, communicative compression, prompting, comprehension, coherence, and coordinatio…

Pleased to see that debt forgiveness and jubilee are at least mentioned!

Apparently not a dupe: the story you link to posted a Guardian article; this is Tech Crunch.

Fair enough. I first learned of it on law review in law school, from the Texas Law Review’s Manual of Style .