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Xander de los Reyes retweeted
This shouldn't be unexpected in a well-functioning world, but it seems noteworthy that not only were the mid-term elections held, but they were administered without major incident, and the lopsided results are apparently not being questioned by those on the losing side of it.
I’ve been meaning to read @whignewtons’s Last Branch Standing since it came out. Last night, I finally picked it up to read while supporting today’s election. I’m not far into it, but it’s been great so far. – at Laguna Beach, CA
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
The First Monday of October—which is tomorrow—is a good time to remember the importance of state courts and state constitutions. For most Americans, state courts—not the Supreme Court of the United States (or other federal courts)—are where they will experience justice firsthand.
If you’re interested in learning more about state judicial systems, please follow the National Center for State Courts at @StateCourts.
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
This is actually really bad for the justice system
Lindsay Clancy holdout juror shares pictures of himself with newborn daughter - as his fundraiser tops $350,000 trib.al/7Qs2Ngh
I'm skeptical that watermarks are free speech violations. If content isn't affected, it's unclear how this is different than policies that (A) affect text's format and (B) apply equally to all "speech." Does a style manual violate FS by requiring certain elements or formats?
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A lot of despair in this good article. From many academic voices.
"I believe that students need to practice putting their thoughts in an essay—they need the friction and difficulty of putting words together and learning how to think." Right, "friction" is a good term here.
As more and more students begin using A.I. to complete assignments, professors across the country are changing their approach—and losing their hope. “My emotional response to all this is hard to describe, something between disgust and despair,” a history professor writes. “Was it always the case that half of our students would cheat if it were easy enough?” Jay Caspian Kang collects testimonials from 12 faculty members from across the country on how A.I. usage in the classroom has changed their work. Read them here: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Pc…
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
If you know what you want to say but you "just can't express it," then you do not in fact know what you want to say. The knowing is the saying. This is the most basic lesson of good writing, and it is why the act is so alternately frustrating and rewarding.
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Fn. 51 is horrifying, but IMO worse is the actual text of this paragraph. It's dangerously unprofessional judicial writing (see article linked below). "[A]ny boomer watching cable news knows…"—why should an article III judge ever signal out a sector of his fellow citizens as ignorant.
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i'm sure the ability to fabricate convincing historical footage that eventually drifts across the internet, where it's picked up by people who present them as real, at a time when trust in educational and media institutions is already eroding, will prove to be a net positive
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
I think the fundamental disconnect here is that you wants politics to solve man's search for meaning and I want politics to deliver a prosperous, safe, free society in which everyone can go find meaning in something other than politics.
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No conservative could possibly have come up with a self-parody of the left this good. College Democrats invite an openly socialist China simp as a speaker, and he shows up in a commie suit. Incredible.
Dressed like Mao and talking about how much he hates the majority of Democrats as an invited guest of @CollegeDems. Our party having a normal one.
Can't say how interested I am to listen to Chatrie. Brushing up on the briefs, some of Chatrie's points (pic 1) mirror points I made in my Princeton thesis (pics 2–3). Very curious to hear how property-based 4A approaches (or as I called it, "property analogization") fares.
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“One, if by land, and two, if by sea.”
On this night 251 years ago, two men climbed Old North Church's steeple. They held high two lanterns as a signal from Paul Revere that the British were heading to Concord via the Charles River.
Their famous “one if by land, two if by sea” warning ignited the American Revolution.
ALT A photo of two lanterns shining from Old North Church's steeple in Boston.
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
Not sure how I missed this Trump insanity.
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There's a toxic culture coming out of the AI industry that keeps trying to get us not to think.
The message is everywhere. Don’t read the code, just vibe-code. Don’t try to understand all the text, just let AI summarize it. Don’t bother educating yourself, it’s too late.
Don’t worry about the errors. Trust that everything will be fixed in the next version.
The theme is the same. Don’t think too hard. Just keep swallowing the slop.
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
A very good decision. Students do not abandon their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.
Instead, disagreement is an opportunity for education, not a pretext for censorship -- even at a young age.
Xander de los Reyes retweeted
Teachers and parents: if you know anyone on a curriculum selection committee, please send them this tweet, ask them to choose book-and-paper oriented curricula.
Thank you @karenvaites
Paging educators 🚩🚩🚩
This is the second time in 2 weeks that @JonHaidt has called to get Ed Tech out of classrooms by September:
"I hope that many elementary schools will remove devices by Sept., or create an analog path for parents who want that. Let's see if kids do better with books and paper"
Haidt drove the cell phone ban legislation. What are the odds his words carry in a similar fashion?
Are we doing enough to signal this shift to districts?
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