Pamela Samuelson @PamelaSamuelson

HOLY CHAP! The Trump admin’s Kimberly Guilfoyle was promoting IRGC (Iranian) interests in exchange for cash payments, all while American soldiers were dying from Iran.

Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen

18 hours ago

BREAKING: Jonathan Constantine tells @bulllaw that Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle was promoting IRGC (Iranian) interests in exchange for cash payments, all while American soldiers were dying in Iran. Now if that's not treason, I don't know what is.

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%$&*!!! whoa. This reads that Meta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - once a company uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services after October 30, 2026. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

Here is the list of Trump’s ballroom donors. 50% of this list has received a government contract since making a donation. 65% of this list has benefited directly from executive orders made by Trump.

TODAY we learned Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 MILLION to Trump’s $400M White House ballroom. The Washington Post found the vast majority of the money came from companies and wealthy people with interests before the federal government. Trump himself wasn't even listed among the donors. A $25M check from corporations doing business with your government isn't normal. It’s exactly why we have ethics rules. #TrumpsAbuseOfPower reuters.com/world/us/nvidi…

Computer glitch.....yeah right.

Polymarket @Polymarket

2 days ago

BREAKING: Computer glitch reportedly delays nearly 600,000 voter registrations in Texas, just days before early voting begins for the midterm elections.

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🚨 72 retired senior military officers speak out "We ask the President, our Congressional representatives, and our fellow citizens to act to prevent this barbaric abuse of authority: Livestreaming an execution debases the ... commitment to basic human dignity.." 1/🧵

Not suspicious at all.

Polymarket @Polymarket

2 days ago

BREAKING: Computer glitch reportedly delays nearly 600,000 voter registrations in Texas, just days before early voting begins for the midterm elections.

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What's on your bookshelf this weekend?

US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle and the embassy she leads are under now formally under investigation by the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General for allegedly asking a rich donor to pay her $100,000 Amex bill.

Trump’s deal to buy Russian diesel from Putin just weeks before the midterms funnels money directly into Russia’s war machine. Trump is now facing calls for Congress to block the deal and impeach him. Meanwhile, energy analysts say it’s unlikely to even make a dent in fuel prices. meidasnews.com/news/trump-ann…

Today I learned that most data centers forced on communities have clauses hidden in their contracts that essentially say if water levels hit draught territory, it is the responsibility of the municipality to turn off water for the community and keep the data center running because they “have a contract” and homeowners “do not”. This is the billionaire class: Save our data centers, die of thirst. They’re literally trying to kill us in the fine print of their greed, hoping we won’t notice.

Members of the military did not volunteer to perform executions. Furthermore, a public execution in this day and age is an egregious act of a vindictiveness and hate, not justice. Hegseth and his blood fetish must be removed from office.

As a homicide detective, I can say with all of my being that there is no lesson learned in seeing someone die. But there is a price. And that price is your peace. Your decency. And the soul of our society. We don’t have to be this way, this fake tough but real ugly way. Stop

The Washington Post @washingtonpost

a week ago

Breaking news: The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

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Watch: Clinical Professor Claudia Polsky spoke to @californiamag about restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to UC researchers: bit.ly/4i7iXix

Judge Chhabria's "collection" of related gen AI © cases v @Meta has just plussed up ... again ... with the stipulated transfer of Hobbs v Meta from the SDNY:

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If there is only one paragraph from Dostoevsky you'll ever read, let it be this:

Interesting @derektmuller post on law faculty using AI detection in hiring, article reviews, and tenure & promotion. Thanks for taking this on, Derek. I urge law faculty to be very skeptical about the Pangram estimates of AI-generated text, especially numbers like "28% AI drafted." Pangram asserts a very low false positive rate in its evaluations, such that only 1 in 10,000 times is text labeled as AI when it was not AI-generated. But read the fine print. My understanding is that this is based on testing with pre-ChatGPT (2022) text. See: pangram.com/blog/all-about… Post 2022, text is cross-contaminated: a lot of text in the world is a mix of human- and AI-generated text. There is also data drift, as human writing styles mimic AI generated text and copy-editing. See: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/… In other words, large-scale testing of the accuracy of Pangram on 2026 documents would almost certainly reveal a much higher false positive rate. I'm not aware of such testing. And there has not been independent third-party testing to support Pangram's numbers. I mention Pangram both because Derek mentions Pangram and Pangram asserts that it is the most accurate of the AI-detection tools. There are many AI-detection tools that perform worse, creating even more risks of false positives and false negatives. Pangram asserts a false negative rate of about 1 in 300, again, when testing on pre-ChatGPT (2022) documents. See: pangram.com/blog/pangram-4…. It is obviously better to err on the side of a false negative, but we don't know how the errors are distributed across different groups. For example, there is a body of literature finding that AI detectors are biased against non-native English writers. See: hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-detect… Also consider that there are many "humanizer" tools available to avoid detection of AI-generated text. Someone can use AI prolifically and use a "humanizer" to greatly decrease the probability that their use of AI will be detected. Sophisticated AI users can likely avoid detection. Also, consider the ways in which a person uses AI. Say that Researcher A leverages AI extensively for brainstorming, research, outlining, and generating drafts, and then rewrites the text in their own words. Researcher B manually does brainstorming, research, outlining, and drafting and only at the end of the process uses AI to help improve clarity and conciseness. Researcher A's use of AI is highly unlikely to be detected. Researcher B's use of AI to polish text is far more likely to result in text that is labeled as at least partially AI-generated. Which use of AI is more objectionable to the anti-AI crowd? Law faculty and law schools should not be making high-impact hiring, publication, and tenure & promotion decisions based on AI-detection scores. There is insufficient evidence of the validity and reliability of AI-detection in this context, and there is evidence that AI detectors are biased. Based on the evidence, we should be very concerned about the fairness of using AI-detection for student and scholarly writing. In my opinion, we should not discourage the use of AI by scholars in any event. Used responsibly, AI can facilitate much more rigorous research and raise the bar for the expected quality of scholarship. There seems to be a concern that scholars are entering a prompt into a system, generating a law review article, and submitting it for publication. While AI systems have improved greatly, in most cases (nearly all?) a one-shot article will be weak upon close inspection. Used responsibly, AI tools can augment the brainstorming, research, outlining, drafting, and editing processes, with the human in the loop playing a very important role. I don't see the role of the human in the loop changing anytime soon, including because we will soon begin to recognize that some scholarship is within the capability of AI tools and we won't value it as much. We will value scholarship that is the product of an AI baseline plus what a human contributes to the process. What counts as scholarship will change. What scholars do in a world with AI--just like what lawyers, doctors, software developers, and other knowledge professionals do--is evolving, rapidly. Whatever you think of AI use in scholarship, the use of AI detectors for high-impact decisions regarding hiring, article selection, and tenure & promotion without stronger evidence of their validity and reliability in this context is highly problematic. The risks of using AI-detection tools outweigh the benefits, and--as discussed in the WaPo article above--the risks of errors will increase with the passage of time as AI- and human-generated texts converge.

Derek T. Muller @derektmuller

2 weeks ago

New over at Law School Docket: "Faculty are quietly being judged by those using generative AI detection tools" derektmuller.substack.com/p/faculty-are-…

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Trump's puppets are dismantling the Kennedy Center. National treasures are being removed. Gifts from foreign nations in memory of JFK are disappearing! Congress needs to conduct an audit & the Trump-appointed board should be charged with theft!

The President callously called the lives of 13 million Americans “a small price to pay” in his war. Comments like these from the commander in chief are unworthy of the office. Republican, Democrat, it makes no difference: the President’s obligation to defend all Americans is sacred. San Diego, Los Angeles, and the entirety of our nation deserve better. This is a shocking low, even for Donald Trump.

Dear USA, you are being set-up, read his posts he’s gonna steal midterms and claim win because of rallies. Make a plan now, because it’s coming. Trump’s a criminal as is his Cabinet. Patel, Hegseth, Blanche are treason weasels. Forget about his sexcapades w/Natalie Larp & focus.