dis-associate, JD
@dis-associate.bsky.social
she/her. mostly law and privacy topics, plus whatever content I am fixating on at the moment
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Why are pistachios so fancy
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Why are pistachios so fancy
Getting an SMS text message feels retro now. Compared to signal or whatsapp or telegram, getting sms messages now feels equivalent to getting an email
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Getting an SMS text message feels retro now. Compared to signal or whatsapp or telegram, getting sms messages now feels equivalent to getting an email
Remember this guy?
He’s already has been sent back to work.
He’s already has been sent back to work.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Remember this guy?
He’s already has been sent back to work.
He’s already has been sent back to work.
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My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.
But worry not, he has a footnote explaining why his fixation on Soros "is not political."
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My “my 17 references to George Soros aren’t political” footnote is raising a lot of questions answered by my footnote.
I’m not mad! Please don’t put in the dissent that I got mad.
Judge Jerry Smith (Reagan appointee) is out with his dissent in the Texas redistricting case, and it is WILD
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I’m not mad! Please don’t put in the dissent that I got mad.
I can’t believe Judge Jerry Smith would say something so brave, and yet so controversial
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I can’t believe Judge Jerry Smith would say something so brave, and yet so controversial
Things you never want your IT specialist to say:
“I have never seen that before”
“I have never seen that before”
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Things you never want your IT specialist to say:
“I have never seen that before”
“I have never seen that before”
Another day, another computer problem
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Another day, another computer problem
Is it just me or do headphones no longer work when it comes to phone calls? All of Bluetooth headphones have audio issues on phone calls
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Is it just me or do headphones no longer work when it comes to phone calls? All of Bluetooth headphones have audio issues on phone calls
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GitHub is down but Teams is still working? Why do bad things happen to good people????
First they came for AWS
And I did not speak out
Because Canvas was down and that was fine by me.
Then they came for Cloudflare
And I did not speak out
Because I didn't need the textbook website.
Then they came for GitHub
And there were no more internet services
For me to use to get work done.
And I did not speak out
Because Canvas was down and that was fine by me.
Then they came for Cloudflare
And I did not speak out
Because I didn't need the textbook website.
Then they came for GitHub
And there were no more internet services
For me to use to get work done.
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
GitHub is down but Teams is still working? Why do bad things happen to good people????
THIS!!
there is no amount of meditation or yoga that will restore the mental damage that stuff like this does to the legal profession
there is no amount of meditation or yoga that will restore the mental damage that stuff like this does to the legal profession
Judges every year in CLE courses: We don't understand why mental health and life expectancy are so poor among attorneys
A judge today: No counsel I won't reschedule [hearing date] for you to have surgery, I'm not delaying my docket for you. Figure it out.
A judge today: No counsel I won't reschedule [hearing date] for you to have surgery, I'm not delaying my docket for you. Figure it out.
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
THIS!!
there is no amount of meditation or yoga that will restore the mental damage that stuff like this does to the legal profession
there is no amount of meditation or yoga that will restore the mental damage that stuff like this does to the legal profession
Even if we somehow prove that AI has produced more efficiency, it is neutralized by the collective rot of technology becoming worse to use
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Even if we somehow prove that AI has produced more efficiency, it is neutralized by the collective rot of technology becoming worse to use
So I’m on week 2 of knee surgery recovery, and this sucks I do not recommend
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
So I’m on week 2 of knee surgery recovery, and this sucks I do not recommend
Everyone wants to know whataburger but no one ever asks howaburger is feeling
what i really want to know is whenaburger
November 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Everyone wants to know whataburger but no one ever asks howaburger is feeling
The reason why it’s a mystery why Houston has found so many bodies in the bayou is because Houston PD is incompetent at investigating real crimes
November 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The reason why it’s a mystery why Houston has found so many bodies in the bayou is because Houston PD is incompetent at investigating real crimes
Robert, it’s pissing me off.
“Is it a joke? Is it not? Who’s he talking about? We don’t know,” Ranking Member on the House Oversight Committee, Congressman Robert Garcia, told me in an interview today.
He added because these emails are from Epstein’s estate, the DOJ must release its records.
www.advocate.com/politics/tru...
He added because these emails are from Epstein’s estate, the DOJ must release its records.
www.advocate.com/politics/tru...
Bizarre Epstein files reference to Trump, Putin, and oral sex with ‘Bubba’ draws scrutiny in Congress
"Is it a joke? Is it not? Who’s he talking about? We don’t know,” U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia said about the peculiar discovery in an interview with The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Robert, it’s pissing me off.
Fun fact: “barely legal” is still “illegal”
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fun fact: “barely legal” is still “illegal”
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ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ok maybe the craziest thing about these epstein emails is how many of them are still emailing like this after october 2016 and the wikileaks dnc emails
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Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: executiveassistant@epstein.org
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
To: executiveassistant@epstein.org
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: executiveassistant@epstein.org
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
To: executiveassistant@epstein.org
pls pick up. Sandwich order ,, rb mayo lettuce Bacon . no pickle im going to take late lunch. with ,, for Trump Pinker Clinton Prince Andrew Dershowitz. party with some " girls". btw we're all pedophiles
The note at the email signature being off-format is just *chefs kiss*
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The note at the email signature being off-format is just *chefs kiss*
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DONALD TRUMP:
You're banned from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN:
o. ka ,, y . m? ? ? ! by t,he way i have. You r new .' Pedofile Lisense "* u orde4red _in m.y)))))) car +
DONALD TRUMP:
Thank you, my dearest friend.
You're banned from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN:
o. ka ,, y . m? ? ? ! by t,he way i have. You r new .' Pedofile Lisense "* u orde4red _in m.y)))))) car +
DONALD TRUMP:
Thank you, my dearest friend.
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
DONALD TRUMP:
You're banned from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN:
o. ka ,, y . m? ? ? ! by t,he way i have. You r new .' Pedofile Lisense "* u orde4red _in m.y)))))) car +
DONALD TRUMP:
Thank you, my dearest friend.
You're banned from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN:
o. ka ,, y . m? ? ? ! by t,he way i have. You r new .' Pedofile Lisense "* u orde4red _in m.y)))))) car +
DONALD TRUMP:
Thank you, my dearest friend.
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I would have killed Jeffrey Epstein too if I had to read the way he typed emails just saying
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I would have killed Jeffrey Epstein too if I had to read the way he typed emails just saying