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“Most of the time, government officials, landlords, employers, educators, and others who use AI to make decisions don’t announce it. This guide is meant to help you figure out if AI is being used and what you can do about it.” www.techtonicjustice.org/resources/ti...

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Spring on the New Haven Green

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WHOOF. Going to have to add this one to the "Boolean tools are powerful but easy to misuse" example bank (I maintain that searching for "haunted house" when searching for Stambovsky v. Ackley is the best example of this, but this one has more material consequences).

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The latest issues of Lawyer Ex Machina is out. More AI Fabrication Follies, the SEC drops its suit against Ripple, and more. #lawsky #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

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Tapping this sign again. By @emilymbender.bsky.social buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... "As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access."

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Connecticut folklore makes the @nytimes.com

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The Yale Law Library acquires the notes of an American (colonial Maryland) student who attended Blackstone’s 1758 lectures at Oxford library.law.yale.edu/news/new-acq...

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Our new "PACER Pray and Pay Project" is launched! This project lets you "Pray" for PACER documents you want, and has a leader board where other people can "Pay" for the most-wanted items. When your prayer is granted, we let you know! Details below and here: www.courtlistener.com/help/pray-an...

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The more vendor AI demos I attend, the more I think the end result, if not the end goal, is further dissociation from information. A lot of our technology already removes us from active processing, and this next step allows yet another step back while it all flows by.

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“Kirby’s on My Mind: A Material Culture Approach to Critical Legal Information Literacy,” my essay about teaching the foundations of legal research with rare law books, is now out in the Journal of Legal Education and posted to SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I think there is a distinction to be made between different styles of headnotes. Lexis Headnotes, for instance, are mere summaries, often taken directly from the text (Lexis brags about this), but West attorney editors have to restate points of law to digest them (assign West Topics and Key Numbers)

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www.lawnext.com/2025/02/brea...

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“OpenAI said that the tool might struggle to distinguish authoritative information from rumors and that it often failed to accurately convey when it was uncertain about the information it was delivering….Still, Mr. Weil argued that [it] could help the United States accelerate economic growth.” LOL

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Re: the Deep Research discourse, it’s apparent that most tech bros, having never conducted a literature review, fundamentally misunderstand its purpose, which is primarily about edification and thesis development rather than synthesizing text to insert at the beginning or in the footnotes of a paper

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Student absent last class: “Will you be posting the slides?” Me knowing my slides consist of photos of early-modern law books and memes:

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Seemed like a good day to break out the tulipiere

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After spending a week taking Waymo all over San Francisco, I couldn’t agree more with this take. Finally a technology to be be excited about; more Waymo, less generative AI junk! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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San Francisco #AALS2025

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“The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917” at the Yale University Art Gallery

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On the one hand, I’m jealous of this publicity on behalf of rare law books connoisseurs everywhere. On the other hand, my rare law book collecting days are over if investment bankers get in the game… www.wsj.com/lifestyle/bo...

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“For better or worse, organized religion is in decline.” Tech Bros: “Can God speak to us through AI?” 🙄 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/t...

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Sad to hear of the passing of pioneering gay legal scholar Marc Fajer, who I had the privilege of befriending during my time at Miami Law. news.miami.edu/law/stories/...

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It was great speaking with the New Haven Independent about Center Church’s concerns regarding the city’s plans for the Upper Green (an unmarked mass Colonial burial ground) www.newhavenindependent.org/article/gree...

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Thornton Wilder’s Our Town staring Jim Parsons at the Barrymore Theatre

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I don't know if it's just me, but the Westlaw AI-powered research thing is comically bad. Me: "Find me cases about X" Response: "I have found 12 completely irrelevant cases. Here, have a yellow flag calling a SCOTUS case into doubt because of a district court opinion as a treat."

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A wonderful example of the continuing relevance of the legal treatise

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Happy Saint Nicholas Day, especially to Dutch Calvinists celebrating in private

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In truth, this is just a less articulate version of what most legal tech bros believe

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Attended an incredible talk about the dispersion of and ongoing efforts to reunite and preserve the Salem Witch Trials papers by Margo Burns at the Witch House (the 17th-century home of Judge Jonathan Corwin), Salem, Massachusetts

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