Bob Matthews
@bobm3.bsky.social
Alabama lawyer doing criminal defense appeals and post-conviction work. Coffee hater and tea drinker who loves a good book.
No Kings in Birmingham, Alabama aka a “Trump state”
October 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
No Kings in Birmingham, Alabama aka a “Trump state”
This is my my biggest issue with the "see what ChatGPT says."
Doing it that way, you aren't learning anything. You are getting a snippet of information with no context for why, when, who, where, or how. You have no way of judging the accuracy or stupidity of the answer.
Doing it that way, you aren't learning anything. You are getting a snippet of information with no context for why, when, who, where, or how. You have no way of judging the accuracy or stupidity of the answer.
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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."
October 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This is my my biggest issue with the "see what ChatGPT says."
Doing it that way, you aren't learning anything. You are getting a snippet of information with no context for why, when, who, where, or how. You have no way of judging the accuracy or stupidity of the answer.
Doing it that way, you aren't learning anything. You are getting a snippet of information with no context for why, when, who, where, or how. You have no way of judging the accuracy or stupidity of the answer.
Da Vinci: designed theoretical inventions for 2 of our favorite things as Americans, tanks and helicopters, and some paintings
Marcella Hazan: great cookbook
Enrico Fermi: too many scientific achievements to list here
Marcella Hazan: great cookbook
Enrico Fermi: too many scientific achievements to list here
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
October 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Da Vinci: designed theoretical inventions for 2 of our favorite things as Americans, tanks and helicopters, and some paintings
Marcella Hazan: great cookbook
Enrico Fermi: too many scientific achievements to list here
Marcella Hazan: great cookbook
Enrico Fermi: too many scientific achievements to list here
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Dear AI pushers:
You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.
Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney
You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.
Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney
October 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Dear AI pushers:
You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.
Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney
You cannot force me to use AI, no matter how many weird pop-ups and icons and auto-settings you generate in your apps, browsers, and search bars. I can work around you, and if it comes to it, I am happy with pen and paper.
Fuck off very kindly,
Courtney
Okay… we might have found something more terrifying than Derrick Henry with a head of steam.
September 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Okay… we might have found something more terrifying than Derrick Henry with a head of steam.
And I’m watching on YouTube because the local ABC is owned by Sinclair
Have I ever intentionally watched Jimmy Kimmel’s show? No.
But I am watching now.
But I am watching now.
September 24, 2025 at 4:02 AM
And I’m watching on YouTube because the local ABC is owned by Sinclair
Have I ever intentionally watched Jimmy Kimmel’s show? No.
But I am watching now.
But I am watching now.
September 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Have I ever intentionally watched Jimmy Kimmel’s show? No.
But I am watching now.
But I am watching now.
It is on brand for a modern era former Georgia football player to get ejected before the first snap of the first game of the regular season.
September 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It is on brand for a modern era former Georgia football player to get ejected before the first snap of the first game of the regular season.
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This is why there's never been a popular show called Law & Order: Appeals Unit.
As I’ve always said, I’m delighted to have coffee with law students and aspiring appellate lawyers. The one request I always turn down, which I sometimes get, is “shadowing.”
This would consist of sitting in my office staring at me rub my head at the screen.
This would consist of sitting in my office staring at me rub my head at the screen.
August 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is why there's never been a popular show called Law & Order: Appeals Unit.
Do the words "unconditional surrender" mean anything to you?
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Do the words "unconditional surrender" mean anything to you?
Mixed berry cobbler for office birthday lunch. Blue, black, and raspberries with a butter biscuit topping served warm with ice cream.
Happy with how this turned out
Happy with how this turned out
August 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Mixed berry cobbler for office birthday lunch. Blue, black, and raspberries with a butter biscuit topping served warm with ice cream.
Happy with how this turned out
Happy with how this turned out
Whenever you struggle for motivation in the morning, there is one surefire way to find it.
LOTR The Return of the King - The Ride of the Rohirrim
YouTube video by EgalmothOfGondolin01
youtu.be
August 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Whenever you struggle for motivation in the morning, there is one surefire way to find it.
What are you biggest red flags in cooking videos?
Mine are:
1) barely salting meat,
2) someone saying brown the meat and then very clearly doing a shit job of it,
3) same thing for vegetables, and
4) water when stock and/or alcohol would be so much better.
Let me know what yours are
Mine are:
1) barely salting meat,
2) someone saying brown the meat and then very clearly doing a shit job of it,
3) same thing for vegetables, and
4) water when stock and/or alcohol would be so much better.
Let me know what yours are
August 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
What are you biggest red flags in cooking videos?
Mine are:
1) barely salting meat,
2) someone saying brown the meat and then very clearly doing a shit job of it,
3) same thing for vegetables, and
4) water when stock and/or alcohol would be so much better.
Let me know what yours are
Mine are:
1) barely salting meat,
2) someone saying brown the meat and then very clearly doing a shit job of it,
3) same thing for vegetables, and
4) water when stock and/or alcohol would be so much better.
Let me know what yours are
Reposted by Bob Matthews
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
August 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
[writing the constitution]
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"
Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that
Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down
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I don’t think I’m exaggerating that this letter is sanctionable. All of it is total nonsense. For one thing, no money has been paid or will be paid back.
John Sauer says that if the US had to pay back all the taxes it illegally collected from consumers, it might ruin the country.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
August 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I don’t think I’m exaggerating that this letter is sanctionable. All of it is total nonsense. For one thing, no money has been paid or will be paid back.
This is long been my biggest thing about generative AI. If all you do is input some information and it generates "work" for you, you haven't learned anything.
You don't have the knowledge to critically evaluate what has been generated. And you haven't learned anything to apply in the future.
You don't have the knowledge to critically evaluate what has been generated. And you haven't learned anything to apply in the future.
July 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This is long been my biggest thing about generative AI. If all you do is input some information and it generates "work" for you, you haven't learned anything.
You don't have the knowledge to critically evaluate what has been generated. And you haven't learned anything to apply in the future.
You don't have the knowledge to critically evaluate what has been generated. And you haven't learned anything to apply in the future.
In undergrad, a history professor had us pick a topic from a list and research it on Wikipedia. Then we had to go look at books in the library on that topic and compare.
I love Wikipedia, but never treat it as gospel.
I love Wikipedia, but never treat it as gospel.
July 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In undergrad, a history professor had us pick a topic from a list and research it on Wikipedia. Then we had to go look at books in the library on that topic and compare.
I love Wikipedia, but never treat it as gospel.
I love Wikipedia, but never treat it as gospel.
I fucking hate summer
July 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I fucking hate summer
July 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Seeing a lot of “in an age of AI why be a writer/artist?” takes. 🧵 ahoy. #BookSky #AI
I’d argue that, as a human endeavour, art is now more important than ever. It’s not just the need to combat an endless tide of mundane or outright awful AI slop, and the corporate greed that powers it.
1/7
I’d argue that, as a human endeavour, art is now more important than ever. It’s not just the need to combat an endless tide of mundane or outright awful AI slop, and the corporate greed that powers it.
1/7
July 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I think I have learned of an allergy that scares me more than peanut and meat allergies and my personal antibiotic allergies combined.
A garlic allergy.
A garlic allergy.
July 15, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I think I have learned of an allergy that scares me more than peanut and meat allergies and my personal antibiotic allergies combined.
A garlic allergy.
A garlic allergy.
Properly crusty cornbread. Glad it rained and dropped the temp outside before I cranked my oven up for this. But totally worth it.
July 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Properly crusty cornbread. Glad it rained and dropped the temp outside before I cranked my oven up for this. But totally worth it.
Back on my premier protein shake for breakfast or lunch bullshit. Time to get this diet back on track after a couple of lackluster months
July 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Back on my premier protein shake for breakfast or lunch bullshit. Time to get this diet back on track after a couple of lackluster months