J. D.
@jdetc.bsky.social
Chicago/ish. Civil/ish litigator. Left-center/ish. Elder Millennial. He/him. Interests/etc.: 1A/defamation, lolsuits, half of true crime, food, Cubs, Chi teams other than the Sox, EPL/soccer, art/architecture, film, indie music, enviro issues, tech
This reads like someone tried to generate an extremely punchable person using AI and it almost hit the mark.
"This street epistamologist is a paragon of vitality" Girl, run.
"This street epistamologist is a paragon of vitality" Girl, run.
December 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This reads like someone tried to generate an extremely punchable person using AI and it almost hit the mark.
"This street epistamologist is a paragon of vitality" Girl, run.
"This street epistamologist is a paragon of vitality" Girl, run.
There's nothing unique about this, it's how the tips of the horseshoe have always sought to govern, and gleefully at that whenever national security is even theoretically involved. The very idea of teaming up with the Cheneys, the Lincoln Project, MTG, hard no, that's a scorpion in nicer threads.
The unique threat of the last decade has been the emergence of a political movement which wants to operate outside of passing bills and governing through regular order.
December 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
There's nothing unique about this, it's how the tips of the horseshoe have always sought to govern, and gleefully at that whenever national security is even theoretically involved. The very idea of teaming up with the Cheneys, the Lincoln Project, MTG, hard no, that's a scorpion in nicer threads.
This country has so many interesting, redeemable places in it it's actually kind of hard to wind up on my red list.
This would also be illuminating at the county level for certain states, like Texas or Tennessee, although most of you would screw up Illinois with such an exercise.
This would also be illuminating at the county level for certain states, like Texas or Tennessee, although most of you would screw up Illinois with such an exercise.
December 30, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This country has so many interesting, redeemable places in it it's actually kind of hard to wind up on my red list.
This would also be illuminating at the county level for certain states, like Texas or Tennessee, although most of you would screw up Illinois with such an exercise.
This would also be illuminating at the county level for certain states, like Texas or Tennessee, although most of you would screw up Illinois with such an exercise.
I may be a lowly state court lawyer arguing over insurance money but this seems like Exhibit A for two different motions in the event they can actually get one of these cases past a grand jury.
This is not how a normal Justice Department talks about an ongoing investigation—or about putative targets and their uncharged conduct.
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I may be a lowly state court lawyer arguing over insurance money but this seems like Exhibit A for two different motions in the event they can actually get one of these cases past a grand jury.
Beyond the delicious comeuppance of AI prompt gurus wanting copyright-like moats for their prompts, it's an admission that the technology isn't producing art in any intelligent, independent sense if the prompt has any kind of separate repeat value that would warrant protection.
AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce
December 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Beyond the delicious comeuppance of AI prompt gurus wanting copyright-like moats for their prompts, it's an admission that the technology isn't producing art in any intelligent, independent sense if the prompt has any kind of separate repeat value that would warrant protection.
If this happens here please know that if you write a single post with more than, say, six hundred characters or so, I am going to block or mute you and never look back.
Saw a post advocating for longer character limits on here and have you fucking seen a Bill Ackman tweet? Get that evil away from me.
December 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
If this happens here please know that if you write a single post with more than, say, six hundred characters or so, I am going to block or mute you and never look back.
The Party decided that it followed naturally from not being able to cancel people in the free marketplace of ideas that one loses the right to cancel even oneself.
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The Party decided that it followed naturally from not being able to cancel people in the free marketplace of ideas that one loses the right to cancel even oneself.
Some company is going to wind up in the chat for planning a murder or suicide and I'm going to have zero sympathy when they're named as a defendant in the wrongful death suit. Pitfalls so foreseeable Mr. Magoo could see them from across town.
“Staff discussions on ad implementation have ranged from prioritizing sponsored content in the chatbot’s answers to adding a sidebar that shows ads related to the user's query.”
ChatGPT could prioritize sponsored content as part of ad strategy — sponsored content could allegedly be given preferential treatment in LLM’s responses, OpenAI to use chat data to deliver highly pers...
Are we going to see ads in ChatGPT's answers soon?
www.tomshardware.com
December 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Some company is going to wind up in the chat for planning a murder or suicide and I'm going to have zero sympathy when they're named as a defendant in the wrongful death suit. Pitfalls so foreseeable Mr. Magoo could see them from across town.
I'd be a lot more willing to listen to calls for newer citizens to not "spew venom at the American ancestors who built the very framework of society and legality that now protects his speech, his livelihood, his very [sic] life" if so-called Heritage Americans did that. By and large they do not!
So what he's saying here is that Roger Taney is part of that adoptive family which must be worshipped but Frederick Douglass and David Walker and and William Lloyd Garrison and other fantastic spewers of venom against the founders were not
December 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'd be a lot more willing to listen to calls for newer citizens to not "spew venom at the American ancestors who built the very framework of society and legality that now protects his speech, his livelihood, his very [sic] life" if so-called Heritage Americans did that. By and large they do not!
Never change, Bluesky.
Oh gotcha. The Pope is still a polytheist not a Christian.
December 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Never change, Bluesky.
Republicans: saying "Happy Holidays" is a woke WAR ON CHRISTMAS
Also Republicans: Santa represents a degenerate assault on America
Also Republicans: Santa represents a degenerate assault on America
December 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Republicans: saying "Happy Holidays" is a woke WAR ON CHRISTMAS
Also Republicans: Santa represents a degenerate assault on America
Also Republicans: Santa represents a degenerate assault on America
Merry Christmas to all, especially to the leopards, who are enjoying some of the tastiest faces of all time.
Republicans can’t afford to lose the antisemitic conservatives and still win elections. So they have courted them for a long time. I don’t see them expelling the antisemites from the party. I also expect a lot of other conservatives to close their eyes and cover their ears.
Ben Shapiro’s desperate stand against right-wing antisemitism is receiving major pushback
Showdown at Turning Point USA convention highlights how Jews and Israel have become fault lines in conservative American politics
www.timesofisrael.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Merry Christmas to all, especially to the leopards, who are enjoying some of the tastiest faces of all time.
"No amount of outrage . . . will derail us"
Ma'am, you're a division manager at a publicly traded company. You're not running a splinter religion. Mass outrage should prompt a glance in the mirror.
Ma'am, you're a division manager at a publicly traded company. You're not running a splinter religion. Mass outrage should prompt a glance in the mirror.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"No amount of outrage . . . will derail us"
Ma'am, you're a division manager at a publicly traded company. You're not running a splinter religion. Mass outrage should prompt a glance in the mirror.
Ma'am, you're a division manager at a publicly traded company. You're not running a splinter religion. Mass outrage should prompt a glance in the mirror.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the author elaborated on puffery of the title when the book was published, and for that matter my client couldn't even make money selling out."
What
What
Yep. It is, uh, not the best complaint. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Complaint – #1 in Taibbi v. Higgins (S.D.N.Y., 1:25-cv-09511) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against BOLD TYPE BOOKS, Eoin Higgins. (Filing Fee $ 405.00, Receipt Number ANYSDC-31994120)Document filed by Matt Taibbi..(Garson, Robert) (Entered: 11/13/2025)
storage.courtlistener.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the author elaborated on puffery of the title when the book was published, and for that matter my client couldn't even make money selling out."
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What
Trump is not the natural progression of Bush.
Trump is the natural progression of Goldwater/Reagan/Birch Society policy preferences fully synthesizing with the descendents of the Confederacy.
Trump is the natural progression of Goldwater/Reagan/Birch Society policy preferences fully synthesizing with the descendents of the Confederacy.
The left will absolutely eat you alive if you note either:
-Trump is a contingent, unpredictable twist no one could have seen coming, or
-Trump is not the natural progression of Bush Republicanism
-Trump is a contingent, unpredictable twist no one could have seen coming, or
-Trump is not the natural progression of Bush Republicanism
December 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Trump is not the natural progression of Bush.
Trump is the natural progression of Goldwater/Reagan/Birch Society policy preferences fully synthesizing with the descendents of the Confederacy.
Trump is the natural progression of Goldwater/Reagan/Birch Society policy preferences fully synthesizing with the descendents of the Confederacy.
I hadn't seen the rubric for this dumb essay story until now but 650 words? They made a multi-day national story over a 650 word assignment?! Come on.
OK, wasn't hard to find the rubric. Suggested approach #1: say if you think the topic is worthy of study. She says no, because demons or something. 10 pts: can the instructor tell whether student read the paper? Well, yes, the instructor can tell the student didn't read the paper. 10/10 points. Etc.
December 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I hadn't seen the rubric for this dumb essay story until now but 650 words? They made a multi-day national story over a 650 word assignment?! Come on.
And another thing: I'm not mad. Please don't put in the official U.S. Reports that I'm mad.
Kavanaugh goes out of his way to pen a footnote not having to deal with the case at hand.
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
He appears to be trying to narrow the forces he unleashed with his prior opinion allowing for race- and ethnicity-based #KavanaughStops
December 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
And another thing: I'm not mad. Please don't put in the official U.S. Reports that I'm mad.
I remember as a kid rolling my eyes when my dad would yell at the TV. It's inanimate. It can't hear you, sir.
Now as a grown man I yell at AI summaries to get the hell off my screen and I've never felt so righteous and correct.
Now as a grown man I yell at AI summaries to get the hell off my screen and I've never felt so righteous and correct.
December 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I remember as a kid rolling my eyes when my dad would yell at the TV. It's inanimate. It can't hear you, sir.
Now as a grown man I yell at AI summaries to get the hell off my screen and I've never felt so righteous and correct.
Now as a grown man I yell at AI summaries to get the hell off my screen and I've never felt so righteous and correct.
Basically any time you see a coastal journalist who grew up in well-off suburbs and went to elite schools venture into Middle America, it's like watching a noob sit at a poker table not realizing that they're the sucker in the room.
If you, an academic or a journalist for a liberal coded institution drop into a place where the church leaders talk about the seven mountain mandate & call America god's chosen land, they're going to be nice to you, especially if you're white! It's not as if they don't know they're being evaluated!
December 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Basically any time you see a coastal journalist who grew up in well-off suburbs and went to elite schools venture into Middle America, it's like watching a noob sit at a poker table not realizing that they're the sucker in the room.
"It only works when the wind is blowing" is truly a wild thing to hear from a guy who governed North Dakota, a state very well-resourced in wind going across empty land. It's like hearing a Canadian politician who thinks maple syrup comes from maplebirds and that politeness is overrated.
Burgum: "The wind energy only works when the wind is blowing. And at times when we've needed it the most along the east coast during the coldest days and hottest days, we've had 2% of the entire grid being powered by wind. You still need all the rest of the power."
December 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"It only works when the wind is blowing" is truly a wild thing to hear from a guy who governed North Dakota, a state very well-resourced in wind going across empty land. It's like hearing a Canadian politician who thinks maple syrup comes from maplebirds and that politeness is overrated.
Reminder that Item No. 10 on Bari Weiss's Journalism Decalogue that she had the audacity to send to CBS news staff less than 90 days ago was: "Journalism that understands that the best way to serve America is to endeavor to present the public with the facts, first and foremost."
Some endeavoring.
Some endeavoring.
Bari Weiss's first message to CBS staff as Editor-in-Chief, shared with me:
"…I stand for the same core journalistic values that have defined this profession since the beginning, and I will continue to champion them alongside you…"
(Staff tell me CBS would never publish stuff The Free Press has)
"…I stand for the same core journalistic values that have defined this profession since the beginning, and I will continue to champion them alongside you…"
(Staff tell me CBS would never publish stuff The Free Press has)
December 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reminder that Item No. 10 on Bari Weiss's Journalism Decalogue that she had the audacity to send to CBS news staff less than 90 days ago was: "Journalism that understands that the best way to serve America is to endeavor to present the public with the facts, first and foremost."
Some endeavoring.
Some endeavoring.
"The Free Press"
here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here
December 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"The Free Press"
The Founders had an answer for this "problem" and it's something along the lines of "tough titty, you're the lower house."
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
The Founders had an answer for this "problem" and it's something along the lines of "tough titty, you're the lower house."
You know what? Fuck it, I agree with Mike Lee. You want to take your gun collection and square off against cartels in international waters, you go right ahead, son.
Apparently this is not the onion: www.lee.senate.gov/2025/12/patr...
December 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
You know what? Fuck it, I agree with Mike Lee. You want to take your gun collection and square off against cartels in international waters, you go right ahead, son.