Five jobs I've had:
1. TKD instructor
2. Ghostwriter
3. Salesforce backend dev
4. Lawyer

And that's it, I think.

Can we talk about UC Berkeley Law? Who is teaching these students to cut the word 'that'?

Stop Cutting 'That' - BriefCatch briefcatch.com/articles/stop-…

Three-way tie for first place between Ian, Hikaru, and Gukesh. Two rounds to go. This round Ian and Hikaru play. Next round Hikaru and Gukesh play, and Ian plays the best player in the world not named Magnus Carlsen.

The last two rounds of Candidates are going to be wild.

I'm putting together a team

A remake of HITMAN but he just runs over all his targets with a car.

'Excellent work, 47. You'll be out of jail this time next week. Forwarding the balance to your account.'

I may spend a diverting bit of time imagining how various nations should name their stuff.

I have long though the French flagship should be the [FS] MAILLARD REACTION

justice alito not catching his clerks' rookie mistake of saying it is perfectly fine for a court to make credibility determinations on summary judgment is deeply embarrassing but not surprising given the court's indifference to actual district court litigation

what do we think the highlighted language was meant to convey?

people on Twitter will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in comparison to my strategy, talking about firebombing a Walmart and then not firebombing a Walmart'

'A while ago, David and Julia's marriage had gotten stale. Then David found himself attracted to a new sales associate. But, he says, this wasn't be a problem. He just wouldn't tell Julia.

David practices unethical non-monogamy. It's a new idea - but in some ways an old one.'

To revisit the 'defensive-crouch liberalism' thing, we should be more explicit about what mainstream lib constitutionalism is: Several very important rulings could not be derived from the constitutional text by normal interpretive methods. So we're stuck with abnormal ones.

Hey team thanks for coming to the standup. Just wanted to touch base on the backlog, it seems like we have some bandwidth this sprint to work through some of these jiras. It looks like it’s for a lot of sex stuff again.

this is a profile of a bad lawyer

Cat really did not want to go to the vet

0.7: Watch GothamChess's recap of Candidates round 9 so I can focus on preparing for the trial of your stupid lawsuit

'she's worked to move the needle forward for equality and justice'

the needle

on the equalityandjusticeometer

it's going forward

this car has weird axes of motion

13/

on his podcast today, dave chang of momofuku apologized for the chili crunch trademark debacle & announced that the brand 'will no longer enforce the trademark.'

eater.com/24128813/dave-…

The cool thing about a survey-level epistemology course is you can just assign this thread as reading and spend the rest of the semester flying kites