Blake E. Reid

Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:32 UTC

Non-rhetorical question: how many officials/candidates in a position to advance (or campaign on) court reform measures are primarily or partially hung up on misunderstandings about the history of court-packing, versus, say fear of retaliation or commitment to judicial independence or whatever else?

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

Whee

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

If only there were some private-sector experts that Congress could lean on to lend some assistance with this hopelessly complex task 🤔

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

Elections may have consequences! Fortunately, if we avoid those consequences in one election we never have to worry about them agOH MY GOD www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:56 UTC

Well, it’s a good thing that Hawaii is drawing attention to this heretofore unknown issue that could not have been addressed at any point in the past three and a half yeOH MY GOD

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

Don’t worry, there’s no obscure telecom law statute that explicitly allows the President to unilaterally shut down communications netwOH MY GOD

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

<Homer Simpson voice> They punt to judges, Sam. Judges decide tax eventualities now.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:46 UTC

The real joke is that nuclear reactors aren’t interstate commerce or whatever. The Aristocrats!

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:36 UTC

Thinking about starting a legal slop workshop

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:39 UTC

I’m sorry to report that the panel composition is now the Fifth Circuit

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

I mean, sure. But (and I’m no political scientist or marketing expert), I’m pretty that’s why you have to actually campaign and not just send people a text message

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:36 UTC

In a lot of ways this could be the easiest campaign of all time to prosecute and they are not even in the starting blocks

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:33 UTC

Well, one explanation might be that the Dems not only never really have great message discipline but are now mired in a meta-debate about who is going to even be the primary messenger

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

That Dems are regularly polling 15-20 points off of this demonstrates a giant messaging problem

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

Oh sure! There are always people who will benefit from villainy or mistakenly think they will. But 37% doesn’t win a lot of elections.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

In a reasonable political environment candidates might debate how to better and more efficiently run the government to help people and explain why their rivals’ plans are worse and will have unintended consequences. But the Overton window is now out to the point of explicit cartoon villainy.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:23 UTC

The biggest problem facing Democrats is an inability to communicate to voters the basic facts and obvious impacts of each party’s explicit platform. Incrementally improving people’s lives versus alternately weaponizing the government to hurt them and gutting programs they rely on isn’t a hard call!

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:34 UTC

Also the AI executives are galavanting around the legal issues here like a careless grave robber about to open a cursed ancient tomb

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:30 UTC

The current scraping moment is yet another indictment of the extreme naiveté of basically the entire early design of the early web

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

Probably should have just cited @hartzog.bsky.social

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:25 UTC

Should probably have said LAW WAR

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:20 UTC

Tired: politely obeying robots.txt Wired: COPYRIGHT WAR

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:09 UTC

My podcast and social feeds are 50% election chaos and 50% AI chaos and 50% Supreme Court chaos and it’s a lot of chaos

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:53 UTC

TYSM

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:24 UTC

I wonder, too, if OpenAI didn’t realize before WWDC exactly how at arms length Apple was going to keep it in the UI, which basically treats giving your query to ChatGPT like opening the Vault door in Fallout and venturing into the Wasteland, and lets Apple trivially cut off the integration anytime.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:04 UTC

Where is that endless scream bot when you need it

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:43 UTC

If I’m ever appointed to SCOTUS just going to rule that the Constitution limits outdoor humidity to 50%

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:41 UTC

It should be illegal

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:36 UTC

My desert-acclimation encounters that kind of humidity and turns into a rainforest immediately. It feels like the air is lightly buttered

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:35 UTC

I figured!!

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:33 UTC

Yes agreed! Public password hygiene is a dismal cesspit of urban legends and bad advice

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:30 UTC

To the OT it has to be kind and empowering and not rude and critical. But fluency with a password manager is kinda useful in the same way that decent flexibility and balance are helpful even if you aren’t going to compete in a karate tournament

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:27 UTC

Password managers are not simple but I kinda feel like the effort to learn them is worthwhile even for folks with the kind of risk profile that might otherwise be suited for paper because you gain so much situational awareness about other threats and how your stuff is organized

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

I mean, I suppose. But you really then should probably have 2FA on your email, even if you don’t have a high risk profile. And then you gotta back that up. And then, and then.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:42 UTC

A counterpoint is that while handwritten passwords are not a bad security idea for people without significant physical threats, there are low-likelihood but high-cost integrity threats like house fires and floods that most everyone faces and need some redundancy to address.

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:19 UTC

Interesting development in the Github Copilot AI litigation—the 1202 CMI claims are drummed out once and for all, but the breach of contract claim over license violations can proceed. (This case notably didn’t involve vanilla copyright infringement.)

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 01:03 UTC

This is the IP version of one of those is-it-illegal scenarios where someone does something so bizarrely and unthinkably awful that it takes a minute to sort out whether the drafters of a maybe-relevant-law actually covered it

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:56 UTC

It’s a real challenge to create a tech project that can be accurately described as “blasphemous” but this counts

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:53 UTC

You can show yourselves out

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:48 UTC

I can’t even think about the legal implications because the ethical implication are making my brain seep out of my ears

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Blake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:38 UTC

Tired: generative AI is a tool to help creators Wired: I am too gobsmacked to finish the meme because this story describes AI practices so gross and exploitative of and hostile to creators I can hardly believe anyone could be craven enough to even imagine them, much less actually implement them

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