Recent Bluessky Posts- Official CFP for We Robot in Oxford, UK, April 22-24, 2027 is now available at easychair.org/cfp/WR27. Submission deadline is Oct. 5, 2026. Also, AI disclosure requested and "papers may be reviewed by AI detection, whose feedback will be instructive but not determinative." September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- For a chilling analysis of where we stand see Professor Kim Lane Scheppele on "What is a Constitutional Crisis?". And that was almost a year ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-8A... September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- @miamilawschool.bsky.social does a feature on @jotwell.bsky.social, "Jotwell: the journal legal scholars turn to for research that matters" news.miami.edu/law/stories/... September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Private right of action (in court) vs government-must-initiate enforcement (before court or via agency). So the difference from the econ or polisci dichotomy is less than it may seem? September 8, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Is it not the case that as new LLM models are trained on the corpus of academic articles and internet posts, they learn about ways of breaking out of alignment? Plus that "cheating" can help "success"? So shouldn't we expect more and more of it? #AI September 7, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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Clinton Attack: Salvo 2
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Clinton Fires 1st General Election Salvo
Clinton calls Trump a unifier.
Click the link, it’s worth it.
PS. If anyone knows how to embed that sort of video in WordPress, please share. Never mind, the Clinton people provided one.
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Everyone Hates Cruz
“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
I don’t see it in the archives, but it’s hard to believe I haven’t blogged my favorite Ted Cruz joke yet:
Q: Why should people hate Ted Cruz on sight?
A: It saves time.
OK, it’s my only Ted Cruz joke so far, but comments are open.
Previously: Tell Us What You Really Think
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They Deserve Each Other
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You Don’t Say
My brother is being resasonable about what he calls “The Brooklyn Dodgers,” namely Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’s non-answers at the most recent debate.
WHEN A CANDIDATE for high office can’t respond to a simple question with an honest answer, attention should be paid. More often than not these days, that kind of behavior is just greeted with a shrug by the members of the elite media, but specific acts of evasion are worth studying. Because if something’s important enough for a candidate that they concoct a ludicrous non-response, there’s probably a sore point under there somewhere.
And when a candidate won’t directly answer the question, it’s also legitimate to speculate why that might be.
I’m not talking here about the positions on the issues that the candidates are taking, and whether they are logically consistent or wise. I’m not fact-checking. I’m just looking at evasive responses, and what they mean.
There follows multiple examples. I think this a model of what news analysis during campaigns should be.
PS. That said, reasonable surmise #2 appears to have been disproved by events? Could the reason Bernie hadn’t released his returns have been as simple as the returns being back home, the family is on the campaign trail, no one else had the key?
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Peak Trump?
There are signs that some time this week–maybe over the weekend? –we reached Peak Trump.
That doesn’t mean momentum won’t carry him to a lot more delegates, and maybe even enough to scrape a majority, but I think the bloom is off the rose tinted glasses. Not sure if it’s the Trump misogyny, the arrest of Trump’s campaign manager followed by doubling down on the guy’s defense, the really weird panel of foreign policy advisers, the articles about Trump’s dominance games (more), or the resignation and damning open letter of a pro-Trump “super-PAC” PR person, but something gives me that feeling.
Yes, lots of people have said ‘surely the GOP will come to its senses’ at various times over the past 25 years, and mostly they’ve been wrong. And I’m not exactly saying that myself, just that I’m going to guess his popularity has peaked.
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