Autumn is a good time for a jab 💉🛡️

Yes the world is nuts right now. Unrelatedly, AI has some very fun uses. Here is Perplexity's pretty great rhyming summary of my lecture handout on fraud under the UK's Fraud Act 2006.

Will it help my students remember the elements of s.2 fraud better? Let's find out next term...

For adjudication, we're told it's all about what the judge had for breakfast. Wonder what effect it has on the criminal law when legislators are prohibited from drinking tea or coffee.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Good stuff here -- last paragraph should be read in movie trailer voice:
www.anneapplebaum.com/2025/01/07/t...

Def my mood most days: www.infinitescroll.us/p/the-unbear...

But equally, I have to tell myself, being depressed benefits nobody. "Lol nothing matters" is understandable-but a luxury we don't have. The only way for it is to stay upbeat & keep our ideals alive. The Brits nailed this one 80 yrs ago.

Indiana Jones and the decision by university management to shut down the archaeology program because it doesn't score well enough on their artificial metric of impact/growth potential devised by some MBAs at PwC, even though the department is the most highly ranked on research quality in the country