Matthew Stiegler

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 01:35 UTC

An 87 percent failure rate. Holy fucking shit. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/n...

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 00:40 UTC

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

Makes it easier for the sticklers to find each other, on the bright side.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 13:59 UTC

“Gee I really need a new computer, but I can’t buy one, because, if I bought one for myself without also buying one for my teenager, she’d be too mad,” is a super-normal thing for a dad to say, right?

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 23:51 UTC

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 16:28 UTC

Passionately venerating a group of men you take for absolute jackasses.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 15:32 UTC

True enough. And one justifiably confident paragraph can be way more persuasive than 10 pages of kitchen sinking.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

Ironically, I’m unpersuaded because I don’t quite see what you mean.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

I don’t think of simplicity as a goal. Sure, I’m working to prune all the unnecessary clutter. But clarity lets you build complicated narratives and arguments effectively when you need to. If you keep the reader oriented, don’t throw stuff at them until they know why it matters, and so on.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

I am, once again, very jealous of your students.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

Clarity is the real reason why substantive headings and intros and roadmap paragraphs are so powerful. Not because you’re trying to persuade through repetition! Not because you think your reader is lazy and might skip the rest. Because you are making the heart of your case *clear* to the reader.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

My first drafts are the only ones attacked here.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

Your winning fact is in the brief. Great! But the reader can’t quite tell if that’s what actually happened. Or if something else happened that you’re leaving out. Or you didn’t tell them about it until 2/3 into the brief and by then the reader was already pretty sure you’re losing.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

Exactly. You do the work because the reader probably won’t.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Here’s a thing I firmly believe about legal writing that I haven’t seen written about: clarity is persuasion. You can make something more persuasive just by making it more clear. Lots of bad legal writing contains enough facts and arguments to win, but doesn’t because they’re scattered and buried.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 15, 2024 at 02:08 UTC

Yes indeed

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 11, 2024 at 23:42 UTC

I started the same year. I was proud about getting in, now I’d be alarmed if my kid wanted to go there.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 13:15 UTC

What would your most nerdy knuckle tats say? UNDO ÆDPA

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 10, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

Retweet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I get mad about naming stadiums after banks.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

Not me. Single-digit likes mostly. Nice place to interact with good people, or see posts from some big posters. But for saying things I hope anyone actually will hear, I’d still do about as well writing them on paper airplanes and sailing them out my bedroom window.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 14:57 UTC

Nothing would make me happier than for bluesky to displace twitter. I tried to my little part to help make it happen a while back. But I got tired of getting 3 likes for tweets here so I went back to the hellsite for now.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 14:54 UTC

Fair. I’ve been posting there. It’s like 5% as worthwhile as it used to be. But it still feels to me more effective for reaching people at scale than here does. I mitigate the cesspool by blocking waaay more than I used to.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

Wouldn’t Senate hearings where X leadership (and X advertisers?) were confronted with this garbage be impactful?

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 09, 2024 at 14:28 UTC

This week I reported a tweet (on X not bluesky, to be clear) that used the N-word with the g’s replaced with q’s. That account does this a lot, along with alt spellings for anti-gay and anti-Semitic content. My report was denied, and the user keeps on posting there.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 16:25 UTC

It’s a coin flip whether America is 7 months away from real governmental power being wielded by people like Mike Davis, Jeffrey Clark, Russ Vought, Jonathan Mitchell, Stephen Miller, and Steve Bannon.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 14:30 UTC

Lat’s piece tells a more complicated story than the headline might suggest. Thought he did a nice job here.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 07, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 16:31 UTC

Yes, there was a push for it in Pa.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

Why Statewide Election of State Supreme Court Justices Violates the Major Questions Doctrine, by Prof. Josh Blackman

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 13:35 UTC

Big-money nationwide push to switch from statewide elections to districts drawn by legislators in 3 … 2… 1 …

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 13:08 UTC

Lemme check

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 03, 2024 at 13:05 UTC

Remember those people who insisted that the nationwide rise in violence during the pandemic was the fault of individual local prosecutors? How many of them are crediting those prosecutors for this decline now?

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 17:49 UTC

“Until you can—if you desire—play the truth on the tuba” is a wonderful line.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

The successful prosecution of Trump by DA Alvin Bragg’s team vividly shows what’s possible when a few good people realize the impact they can make working in reform DAs’ offices.

abcnews.go.com/US/members-m...

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

If I gave him the idea, my bad.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 02:31 UTC

Of course.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

To illustrate John’s point, Noah, here’s the federal sentencing guidelines. Vastly more convoluted than a simple statutory sentencing range.

www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2...

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

How many scotus votes for magical sua sponte habeas relief, issued tonight?

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