@realcaseyrollins gotta keep up.

@Phil no. i mean jurists who value rule of law.

the universal binding of Supreme Court decisions affords justices more power than is necessary to give particularized litigants justice.

“inferior” judges should pay the Court no mind, do their own thing, let each set of litigants appeal to the Supreme Court if that’s their thing.

i am serious about this. the current supreme court is unworthy of respect. jurists who value the rule of law should simply not respect it.

in reply to self

if the best way to rob a bank is to own one (Bill Black), what about an insurance company? cf ft.com/content/ee40241a-c568-4

@admitsWrongIfProven “Generate timestamp indicators for Discord chat messages” hammertime.cyou/

flirt with apocalypse but turn away before consummating then enjoy the ensuing relief.

@admitsWrongIfProven we crumble them up and snort them.

@scott we should try “feet on the air and head on the ground” and see how the same correspondents react.

By far the most common SMS message I send is “stop”.

@lori @marick i’m for cooperative competition, a la good sportsmanship. if you win the competition, you get a trophy and some real honor, but we all retire to the pub together, celebrate and lament, all eat well. competition as a mutual spur to excellence, not an existential struggle.

@marick absolutely. silly dance parties, abundant housing, amazing education, free health care should exist as options, but there should be no compulsion. except for kids, some compulsion, it’s the juvenile condition under any system. people who don’t identify as queer or commie are great and always welcome! (i think all the humans are queer and ‘commie’ is just a free-floating epithet to reappropriate. i’d describe myself as a social democrat, but if they wanna call us that why not embrace it!)

that so often "insane" vibe-coding prompts are "clone this popular app!" suggests that coding LLMs are better copy machines than architects of applications.

i think democrats should rebrand themselves "queer commies for abundant housing, free health care, amazing education, and silly dance parties".

personally i like it, and it's unlikely to be worse branding than "democrats".

who lubricated the present that it slips so easily into the past?

This post constitutes the full assessment.

maybe the answer to the riddle of theodicy is just a really bad prompt.

laissez-faire ≠ liberalism

there are no deals, commitments are meaningless, but the ironclad principle of the new diplomacy is if you flatter him and make him look good he just might be nice to you. whoever you are.

and if you give him an opportunity to look good, if he can take credit, he might do whatever it is you’d like done.

Many of the worst crimes are perpetrated—by purposeful arrangement—in third countries. Auschwitz wasn’t in Germany. “Extraordinary renditions” weren’t to the United States.

A green light into black holes.

stevevladeck.com/p/161-the-cou

ht @sjshancoxli @jbouie

whenever i hear the expression "drill baby drill", i think of the dentist.