Adam T. Whitten
@adamtwhitten.bsky.social
For some reason they let me teach the law. Aspiring unemployed writer.
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Adam T. Whitten
@adamtwhitten.bsky.social
· Nov 20
I guess I should have a first post. So it’ll be the one most dear to my heart at the old place. An important question I never received an answer to, even after 5 years:
Does anyone know whether Jason Momoa can eat 50 hard boiled eggs in one hour?
Does anyone know whether Jason Momoa can eat 50 hard boiled eggs in one hour?
This movie rules so hard.
Please make sure this movie makes enough money for the studio to green light more.
Please make sure this movie makes enough money for the studio to green light more.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This movie rules so hard.
Please make sure this movie makes enough money for the studio to green light more.
Please make sure this movie makes enough money for the studio to green light more.
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the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
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See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!
BREAKING: #SCOTUS will decide an issue near and dear to President Trump: whether federal law allows states to tally ballots in federal elections after Election Day. 5th Circuit ruled it does.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
See this? This is a case to potentially be concerned about!
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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jeff goldbloom: thread
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
jeff goldbloom: thread
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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"Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain?"
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Why? Why was I programmed to feel pain?"
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Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?
Trump on food stamp recipients: "It wasn't meant for people that could do whatever they want. The people that say, 'Well, I don't think I'll work. I'll just collect this money.'"
November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Quick quiz -- which president made food stamps into a massive national program?
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BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.
Man who threw sandwich at federal agent in Washington is found not guilty of assault charge
A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington has been found not guilty of assault.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.
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great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"
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This sort of mentality wouldn't exist, and we wouldn't have to try and undo it through awkward application of injunctive relief, if people could just sue officers for damages.
Hewson also says tear gas "doesn't harm people."
Loevy: "It really should be a last resort, would you agree?"
Hewson: "No."
Loevy: "It really should be a last resort, would you agree?"
Hewson: "No."
November 6, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This sort of mentality wouldn't exist, and we wouldn't have to try and undo it through awkward application of injunctive relief, if people could just sue officers for damages.
This will go really well and not at all create offensive ads based on skewed and sloppy generalizations about people. Definitely won’t lead to complaints against companies that have awful content they explicitly or implicitly endorse.
Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people
Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest
www.404media.co/the-future-o...
The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This will go really well and not at all create offensive ads based on skewed and sloppy generalizations about people. Definitely won’t lead to complaints against companies that have awful content they explicitly or implicitly endorse.
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speaking of things i will need to delete later but since were getting rilied up for halloween i will drop this trot: i have actually already been featured in vogue without the bag on my head
thank you VOGUE for recommending BURY YOUR GAYS one of the seven books to scare you for halloween. now please let me have a feature where i can wear a whole closet full of pink sequin suits and do a photoshoot www.vogue.com/article/scar...
Seven Books to Scare Yourself Silly With This Halloween
www.vogue.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
speaking of things i will need to delete later but since were getting rilied up for halloween i will drop this trot: i have actually already been featured in vogue without the bag on my head
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star trek muppetized: thread
October 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
star trek muppetized: thread
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My students: But I *own* an NFT
Me:
Me:
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My students: But I *own* an NFT
Me:
Me:
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An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
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Heard that law journals received a few submissions during the editor application process that they were pretty sure were AI-produced. They had no idea what to do about it.
An LLM-produced essay is tangible proof that a student doesn’t care, and yet responding to it properly requires hour upon hour of careful work. It’s asymmetrical and overwhelming.
October 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Heard that law journals received a few submissions during the editor application process that they were pretty sure were AI-produced. They had no idea what to do about it.
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magazine covers ft some familiar faces: thread
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
magazine covers ft some familiar faces: thread
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nothing fundamental is going to change about the life you’ve already built for yourself unless you make it. it’s happening right now
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
nothing fundamental is going to change about the life you’ve already built for yourself unless you make it. it’s happening right now
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.
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In the near future economy, I bet the skill of “can type a prompt into ChatGPT and repeat whatever it says” will be less in demand than “understands things enough to catch when ChatGPT makes an error or hallucinates.”
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
In the near future economy, I bet the skill of “can type a prompt into ChatGPT and repeat whatever it says” will be less in demand than “understands things enough to catch when ChatGPT makes an error or hallucinates.”
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it's also a private market story. openai and anthropic are private companies, they have a lot of investors- including indirect retail investors, who invest through funding vehicles- but they don't have to make disclosures and if the bubble bursts, those investors will have a lot more trouble suing
Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.
My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
It's Giving Enron
On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
it's also a private market story. openai and anthropic are private companies, they have a lot of investors- including indirect retail investors, who invest through funding vehicles- but they don't have to make disclosures and if the bubble bursts, those investors will have a lot more trouble suing