Lee on Prison Abolitionism, buff.ly/3WlysZ5 - Youngjae Lee (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Is Prison Abolitionism Self-Defeating? (Criminal Law and Philosophy, 0[10.1007/s11572-024-09743-6]) on SSRN.

When as 1Ls, we complained that our criminal law professor's teaching left us confused, he quoted David Lynch: “I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” That wasn't soothing but it helped me understand the class better.

"David couldn’t get Blue Velvet made. Dino . . . told David he’d pay me to rewrite the script and David gave it to me. . I told Dino there was no way I could improve it. David thanked me & Dino financed the film. The rest is film history." - Paul Schrader theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/…

This "misrepresentation" charge in this case reported in NYT is quite an understatement ("defendant . . . represented to the Victims that she wanted to date them but . . . knowingly omitted to disclose" that she may drug them and steal from them). nytimes.com/2025/02/21/us/…

wow it was north koreans

good piece I Loved ‘Anora’ but I Still Hope It Loses at the Oscars nytimes.com/2025/02/27/opi…

"The officers were initially skeptical that the couple would have been able to pass through security with a sea turtle skull in their carry-on" nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/…

Agreed - "One Fine Morning" and "Things to Come" are both great

When it comes to explainable AI this is all one needs #xai

interesting

Catharine MacKinnon and Max Waltman: legalizing prostitution leads to human trafficking and violence in ways that satisfy the definition of a crime against humanity. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

didn't know this: "nearly all of the improvised lines of dialogue needed to be written down as Belmondo and Seberg ad-libbed, and then dubbed in post-production." bbc.com/culture/articl…

this indictment says a lawyer kidnapped and killed his own client to avoid a trial. what?

"Mr. Prevost said he usually spoke by phone with his brother every night, but had not talked to him since the conclave began." Every night? nytimes.com/2025/05/08/wor…

To legislators in New Hampshire, as you consider making your schools phone free: Multiple studies now show that bell-to-bell policies greatly reduces class-time disruptions. Banning phones only during classtime does not help much x.com/JonHaidt/statu…

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study time.com/7295195/ai-cha…

Still the best pop cultural reference to philosophy.