Couldn't agree more... #humansaregarbage

I just posted episode 431 of Ipse Dixit, A Podcast on Legal Scholarship, in which Clark Neily Clark Neily of Cato Institute discusses his article "Jury Empowerment as an Antidote to Coercive Plea Bargaining" & his work on criminal justice reform. Recommended!!! shows.acast.com/ipse-dixit/epi…

The same judge imprisoned a teen for 19 years for lighting a mattress on fire that inadvertently led to a responding officer dying from smoke inhalation. But gives probation to this ex-NYPD who shot a man in the mouth & then placed a knife next to his body.nypost.com/2019/12/12/rit…

I saw the movie Parasite randomly on a plane flight, with few priors. I didn't realize my reaction was unusual until just now reading Alex Tabarrok I found it mostly a warning of the vast destructive power of elite wannabes. Anyway, agree with Tabarrok. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

Jefferson Parish Sheriff Office deputy was captured on video repeatedly SLAMMING Shantel Arnold to the ground by her hair! This is absolutely horrifying and UNACCEPTABLE! An investigation has been opened into this officer's actions. He must be held accountable!

I want to highlight a common practice at the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Washington Post, MSNBC, and many other corporate news outlets: The report what officials *say* their reasons are for a policy as their *actual reason.* Here is an example from NYT:

THREAD. A rare thing is happening today: we are about to get a window into the secret world of how cops shape the news. There's a hearing this afternoon into how San Francisco cops manipulate the media through “strategic communications.” The internal documents are shocking.

She Was Having a Seizure. Police Shocked Her With a Taser. trib.al/xBnc3OL

When people demand a ban on “assault weapons,” they don’t actually want to ban them. They want a concentrated group of government agents with a long and extensively documented track record of committing violence against innocent people to have a monopoly on them. Pass it on.

Andrew Kinsey (@andrewkinsey.bluesky.social) All 3 of these pass thru Portland: "Widely regarded as one of the most spectacular of all train routes" amtrak.com/coast-starligh… "Vancouver, BC... past Mount St. Helens... across the Columbia River Gorge" amtrak.com/routes/cascade… Lewis & Clark trail amtrak.com/routes/empire-…

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of econ-assessments.org, a new web site where any economics instructor in the world can browse the Cornell Suite of Economics Assessments and set up online tests for their students! Check it out! #ctree2022

There is no subject on which SCOTUS's fair-weather originalism, lack of rigor, and proclivity for magical thinking has been more evident—or more destructive—than plea bargaining. Try to find one thing in the highlighted passage that isn't palpably false. scholar.google.com/scholar_case?c…

Top 25 #Stata Commonly used Visualizations with full replication code is now up! Link: medium.com/the-stata-gall… #Stataviz #Dataviz #TheStataGallery #visualization Do press clap at the bottom of website if you like and want more such posts. Preview of some graphs below 👇

I spent the weekend playing with ChatGPT, MidJourney, and other AI tools… and by combining all of them, published a children’s book co-written and illustrated by AI! Here’s how! 🧵

In 2020, Prof. bennett capers published a groundbreaking article advocating a shift away from prosecution as we know it. This month, CLR organized a symposium to build on this proposal & re-imagine what justice can be without prosecutors. californialawreview.org/online-publica….

So The New York Times still hasn’t covered any of the #twitterfiles revelations, but they do have a 2500 word front page of Style section profile piece on a random Twitter employee no one has ever heard of before who was fired.

I rarely agree with Bernie but thought his comments on the Kirk murder were fantastic