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Sometimes I forget that this is a shitposting account and almost try to post something serious. I'm just a silly little goofy King of Gondor.

@PronouncedHare Or the feeling of getting your tax bill at the same time as some ludicrous and public failure to use money wisely. And the brutal and confusing IRD fuckups if your income falls or changed dramatically.

@OliverBCushing Yea you gotta stunt on them but its undeniable that the 2 references plus a secondary reference per para is midwit territory

@AAragurn 😂 nothing wrong with a little flexing, at times.

Legal complexity is not the same thing as legal strength. Some arguments sound sophisticated only because they are hiding their weakness under a pile of unnecessary legal jargon and $10 words. In many cases, the strongest argument is also the easiest to explain.

@scottastevenson I think the relevant part here: most of the lawyers with any power are Well over 46.

Half of lawyers are over 46 years old

@theo I just burned a months worth of credits in 8 hours running a super simple CLI to md (retards version of a karpathy brain) without any integrations…. I don’t even know how they calculated my usage.

I can't help but feel personally burned by the Claude Code changes announced today. We put so much work into wrapping the (atrocious) Claude Agent SDK in T3 Code. It was the ONLY path they supported, so we made it work. It was hell. Now our users are getting their rate limits cut by 40x, despite us doing everything right. I listened to the Claude Code team. I had my issues with their direction, but I trusted them and took them at their word. I will never make that mistake again. Until we see significant change, it is safe to assume any statement from an Anthropic employee is a lie on a timer. The rug will be pulled, no matter how many promises are made beforehand.

@ItsMattsLaw It means u have spellcheck enabled in word and your emails

I don’t know what an AI native law firm really is but I assume we are one I guess

@RobertFreundLaw They COOKED with this I HAVE A MASSIVE BONER and am very smart NO I HAVEN’T TESTED IT. It’s just terminally online striver marketing.

Why can’t an AI announcement ever be normal? “Anthropic agents for legal tasks are now available” doesn’t do it. Gotta be “LAWYERS absolutely DONE HERE, 99.99% of those germs are ELIMINATED as Anthropic OBLITERATES every lawyer including CRAVATH NDA experts that cost $2M/hr!!!”

Gee I wonder why people might be upset about a foreign national who was convicted for fucking electoral fraud, meeting with our immigration minister to discuss immigration.

@ordonez_adan You write “foreign qualified” or “licensed in ABC” at the bottom of your email signature and cc in someone who doesn’t could arguably be said to have supervised you when you send over your invoice.

This might be a dumb question, but I've never gotten a clear answer (not even from Claude): how are lawyers at big law firms able to practice across multiple jurisdictions even though they're only licensed to practice in one? What is the workaround?

@JosephMooneyMP The fact that so many people feel unable to say basic shit like “what’s with all the replacement migration mate” means the democratic issue is the gap between stated and revealed preference. Downside to a low trust society I guess where most of us are precariat members.

@JosephMooneyMP lol the founding fathers all wrote anonymously, and anonymity has been a founding tenet of the internet. You can lose your job, have the police show up (per recent Indian story), be doxxed, and any director or company officer has their home address searchable.

Whether to debate anonymously is a personal choice, and one worth respecting. The whistleblower, the abuse survivor, the dissident under a repressive regime - their need for protection is real. These are not trivial concerns. But something broader has happened. Across our digital public squares, concealing your identity has become the norm rather than the exception. Millions of people now feel they cannot express an honest view under their own name without facing consequences that outweigh the value of speaking. We have quietly accepted that open participation in public debate is too risky. That is a profound cultural shift - and not one we consciously chose. The debates that shaped Western civilisation were not conducted anonymously. The barons who stood openly behind the Magna Carta at Runnymede knew the personal cost could be everything. Luther stood before the Holy Roman Emperor at Worms and refused to recant. The 56 men who signed the American Declaration of Independence did so knowing they were committing an act of treason against the British Crown - and that the price of failure was death. Their courage wasn’t incidental to the argument. It was the argument. The willingness to be known was a moral statement: I believe this enough to own it. So why do so many of our great debates now happen with the digital equivalent of a paper bag over our head? We inherited anonymity as a product design choice and rationalised it as a virtue. The architects of our major social media platforms built anonymity in from the beginning - not as a principled commitment to free expression, but because disinhibited users generate more engagement. More outrage. More clicks. What was engineered to maximise attention has normalised a culture of fear. And here is the irony: the anonymity is one sided. Your identity may be hidden from me and from most of the world, but it is not hidden from the platforms themselves. The device in your pocket, your location, your browsing history, your network - the tech companies know exactly who you are. The paper bag exists for everyone except the people who built it. Anonymous debate doesn’t just corrode courage - it corrupts the information itself. The paper bag doesn’t just hide the face. It hides the stake. We have come to treat the expectation of consequence as a reason not to speak, rather than as the normal friction of honest discourse. A true contest of ideas, conducted openly, is how the best ideas win. We built systems that removed that friction. Then wondered why public discourse feels weightless and vicious at the same time. This doesn’t need a law or a platform policy. It needs an individual decision to be courageous by many of us - that the freedom to speak and be known for what we believe in is worth more than the comfort of speaking without consequence. That’s a culture worth fighting for.

@no_folds @traskjd Similar mass immigration, identical Recognition of faux Indian quals, copying their “under 16s on the internet = surveillance” insanity. Some govt we have 💀

@traskjd Watch as the way NZ "captures this opportunity" will be a similar CGT

Watch as New Zealand fails to capture this opportunity. P.S. we have zero % capital gains on exit, come build your business in NZ talented founders.

@PronouncedHare @EricCrampton Don’t threaten me with a good time

@PronouncedHare @franks_lawyer Inserts that standing dude meme. Govt should have let it proceed back to the High Court to be fought on the merits not the strike out. Suspect they felt they couldn’t because of the “new tort” and pled application of Tikanga as a blanket consideration. Lawyers gotta chill.

On the nose to have a transman playing the shade of an ideal man, trapped in a faux life and unhappy. “You were Honoured in life, Ellen, And now you rule among the deadnamed.” “Do not console me of my transition, Odysseus…. I would yet be a woman than a 5’3 man.” Fin.

@Babygravy9 I think cutting in real footage alongside narrative sections would create a very unsettling and effective film. Even if outward shock was lower.

I actually think at this stage it would be impossible to turn Camp of the Saints into a film, for the simple reason that real life has so utterly outpaced the events of the book, what would be the point? The film wouldn’t be half as shocking as paying attention to the news.

Can someone please help me find the photo of the woman in a photo studio that has the really cheesy smile with a scrunched up nose that’s commonly posted with HR babble, not this one but one similar

@willchen500 @juliesaltman This is precisely it. The crew who will say “we’ve restricted AI in the firm, and we use Legora / Harvey” will be delighted

@juliesaltman Boomer partners fall for this crap. Makes for great polite conservation at conferences

This is a wild way to market a lawyer asking some questions to an LLM behind a UI + custom prompt wrapper. I assume the target audience in Biglaw actually eats it up anyways. Harvey marketing team is always killing it. They have my genuine admiration. (0 sarcasm)

@MHReddell @acurioushensman Nah education as a sector is just an immigration ponzi. Those informal education groups are diploma mills, and the universities are entirely dependent on foreign money to continue their bloat.

@acurioushensman "Director of Education, Skills, and Immigration" (her background seems mainly to have been in the first two)

If Business NZ’s “director of immigration” could show us any compelling evidence that large scale immigration had done anything to boost NZ productivity over recent decades her advocacy for her members’ narrow interests might be a little more persuasive. thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360999…