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ABC cancels already filmed "Bachelorette" season starring Taylor Frankie Paul amid domestic violence investigation.

Respondent made a prescient, if unsuccessful, attempt at the “Marc Andreesen” defense: “It is evident from the record that Respondent has engaged in zero self-reflection as to his actions…” (This whole thing is wild; a stupid spat over double-sided printing led to a 2-year license suspension.)

Hello and welcome on the Terry Sanford Federal Building in beautiful downtown Raleigh, NC where I will be live-posting a show cause hearing starting at 4:00 ET

Paging @juliedicaro.bsky.social & @chrisgeidner.bsky.social (and I continue to appreciate that @maxbernstein.bsky.social always includes links to actual court documents).

Made a last-minute decision last night to watch John Woo’s 1996 action thriller “Broken Arrow,” a truly cheesy offering staring John Travolta & Christian Slater. The acting is hammy, the pre-CGI effects delightfully corny. Delroy Lindo was great. At 1:48, it was the perfect use of my time.

This is especially ironic for a guy who, in his book Ending Medical Reversal, decried the medical industry's tendency to supplant "evidence-based decision making" with "eminence-based decision making."

I’m seeing so many bad AI-generated contracts, but at least my clients are having a real lawyer review them. It’s going to be a mess when the ones that don’t get reviewed lead to lawsuits in a few years and courts have to discern intent when the parties neither wrote nor read their “agreements.”

That “lost dog” commercial is a funny way for Ring to admit they are creating a surveillance state.

Democracy Dies in “The Data”

The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a ruling that barred the deployment of the National Guard in Portland, @maxbernstein.bsky.social reports:

This headline is misleading. It should say “Federal left hand dismayed that right hand keeps doing things to actively erode trust in all things Federal.”

Another welcome example of a federal judge holding the line (emphatically) against administration overreach. This time protecting Oregon’s voter rolls. cc: @chrisgeidner.bsky.social @juliedicaro.bsky.social And thank you to @maxbernstein.bsky.social for linking to the opinion in the article!

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

@joepatrice.bsky.social we should talk about the tools for beginning misconduct proceedings against lawyers. It differs by jurisdiction, but is is not so simple as “state bars sanction or disbar bad attorneys.” There’s a specific process worth explaining to people (hoping they’ll use it).

Sharing one last time for anyone who might need this.

I know I don’t have much reach on Bluesky yet, but I’m using what I have to urge folks to sign up for Julie’s newsletter. It is well worth it.

This is a mad thing to say in privacy policy for a home alarm / security camera monitoring app (Alarm.com) Paraphrasing the highlighted text - “We will not your data with others … unless ‘necessary’ for our business”

Great thread by @tessbridgeman.bsky.social on DOJ OLC memo purporting to justify legality of Maduro’s arrest.

If you happen to be watching the CFB playoffs, and you happen to be on YT tv, you should know what the “sky cam view” audio is just the stadium feed: the bands, the crowd, and the stadium announcer. None of the booth announcer hype. It is a relatively peaceful way to consume the game. #cfbplayoff

It makes zero sense to me why so many people were willing, without evidence, to give the Hilton corporation credit for doing the right thing here. Not all corporate actors are bad actors, but trends are trends.

AI companies are playing a game wherein these computer programs are presented to the public as autonomous individuals capable of issuing a meaningful apology. The machine is just a machine. Human beings owe the apology for building the machine irresponsibly and unleashing it on the world.

This is riveting! It is the first piece of content I consumed (via @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy ‘s podcast) and boy did I pick a good one. It is the most hopeful take on the current political mess I’ve seen. Bleak as hell in describing that mess, but hopeful in its potential path out of it.

Help me get to 500 paid subscribers by January 1?

Wait, has Medium become something like Spotify but for writing? I obviously haven’t read a Medium post for awhile — it is prompting me to become a (paid) “member” in what looks like an all you can eat approach where they pay contributors some (probably paltry?) percentage of my fees for each read?

#Thanksgiving & football go hand in hand, and THE FRESHMAN (1925) shows the frenzy has been around for over a century. Harold Lloyd’s chaotic climactic game helped shape every underdog sports comedy that followed. Touchdown! 🏈 Watch the full #publicdomain classic ⤵️ archive.org/details/the-...

At Law Dork overnight, I wrote about Wednesday's shooting of two National Guard troops — their presence, the shooting, and Trump's response. Quite simply, all of it is wrong. The troops shouldn't have been in DC, violence is unacceptable, and "more troops" is not the answer.

2 points: (1) This is the fundamental flaw in any argument that AI will increase access to justice. It will undoubtedly increase the volume of new proceedings, but justice happens at the end of those proceedings, not just because they were initiated. (2) the inevitable result will be an AI arms race

To sum it up, this country kidnapped a child and sent him across state lines. He’s been locked up for over a month and forced to make a life changing decision without the support of his family. A decision that results in him being sent even further away from that family. I could just scream. 5/