Archit Shah
@tenarchits.bsky.social
Professional attorney and software engineer. Amateur everything else. Views expressed here are mine alone.
Why must "kinds of beings that could be granted or denied rights" have "lived embodied experience"? Animals are in. Disembodied AI is out. The paper takes as a given some philosophy that is hardly universal (phenomenology from Merleau-Ponty and Husserl), but doesn't provide a justification for this.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Why must "kinds of beings that could be granted or denied rights" have "lived embodied experience"? Animals are in. Disembodied AI is out. The paper takes as a given some philosophy that is hardly universal (phenomenology from Merleau-Ponty and Husserl), but doesn't provide a justification for this.
Increased unemployment? More of a winner-takes-all economy?
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Increased unemployment? More of a winner-takes-all economy?
To be more clear: I didn't expect that the any account of US courts in the 21st century ("the law") would provide ample support for the most nihilistic critical legal realism.
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
To be more clear: I didn't expect that the any account of US courts in the 21st century ("the law") would provide ample support for the most nihilistic critical legal realism.
When I chose to study law for a living, I had no idea that law would get this illegal.
November 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
When I chose to study law for a living, I had no idea that law would get this illegal.
Something like the UK then?
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Something like the UK then?
Maybe because the press doesn't believe that Ted Cruz believes all the BS he spouts?
November 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Maybe because the press doesn't believe that Ted Cruz believes all the BS he spouts?
Me too. That was then. But this is now: "What has changed is simple: people are scared of crossing Trump this time." (Ed Luce, bsky.app/profile/jame...)
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Me too. That was then. But this is now: "What has changed is simple: people are scared of crossing Trump this time." (Ed Luce, bsky.app/profile/jame...)
Also, this is directly from Gemini. "I'm almost certain you're thinking of Justice Brennan's dissent in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978). ... also possible you are thinking of ... Justice Powell in his concurrence in Lewis v. City of New Orleans (1974)."
October 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Also, this is directly from Gemini. "I'm almost certain you're thinking of Justice Brennan's dissent in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978). ... also possible you are thinking of ... Justice Powell in his concurrence in Lewis v. City of New Orleans (1974)."
Citing B. Jackson, "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" (1974); ... W. Labov, Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (1972). ... C. Bins, "Toward an Ethnography of Contemporary African American Oral Poetry," ...
October 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Citing B. Jackson, "Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me" (1974); ... W. Labov, Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (1972). ... C. Bins, "Toward an Ethnography of Contemporary African American Oral Poetry," ...
"[I]n our land of cultural pluralism, there are many who think, act, and talk differently from the Members of this Court, and who do not share their fragile sensibilities. It is only an acute ethnocentric myopia that enables the Court to approve [this] censorship."
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"[I]n our land of cultural pluralism, there are many who think, act, and talk differently from the Members of this Court, and who do not share their fragile sensibilities. It is only an acute ethnocentric myopia that enables the Court to approve [this] censorship."
FCC v. Pacifica (1978) (Brennan, J., dissenting):
"Today's decision will thus have its greatest impact on broadcasters desiring to reach [... those who ...] express themselves using words that may be regarded as offensive by those from different socio-economic backgrounds."
"Today's decision will thus have its greatest impact on broadcasters desiring to reach [... those who ...] express themselves using words that may be regarded as offensive by those from different socio-economic backgrounds."
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
FCC v. Pacifica (1978) (Brennan, J., dissenting):
"Today's decision will thus have its greatest impact on broadcasters desiring to reach [... those who ...] express themselves using words that may be regarded as offensive by those from different socio-economic backgrounds."
"Today's decision will thus have its greatest impact on broadcasters desiring to reach [... those who ...] express themselves using words that may be regarded as offensive by those from different socio-economic backgrounds."
"I’ll dispose of you. ... All is uneven,
And everything is left at six and seven." www.folger.edu/explore/shak...
And everything is left at six and seven." www.folger.edu/explore/shak...
Richard II - Act 2, scene 2 | Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare's Richard II presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke. Richard is the legitimate king; he succeeded his grandfather, King Edward III, after the ear...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:44 AM
"I’ll dispose of you. ... All is uneven,
And everything is left at six and seven." www.folger.edu/explore/shak...
And everything is left at six and seven." www.folger.edu/explore/shak...
Which syllabus? I'm always looking for FinTech coverage in academic contexts that really connects the Fin and the Tech.
October 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Which syllabus? I'm always looking for FinTech coverage in academic contexts that really connects the Fin and the Tech.
