dan sutton
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@iowahawkblog can't figure out for the life of me why americans play football on a field that is 9144 centimeters long. What an odd measurement.
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Because the USA is denominated in miles. There are 640 acres in a square mile. 640 can be divided by 2 easily. A square half mile is 160 acres, a square 1/4 mile is 40 acres, a square 1/8 mile is 10 acres. Nobody in America knows what a kilometer is, let alone a hectare
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
Not coming from an agricultural background, some measurements don’t make intuitive sense to me. A Hectares are easy enough to come to terms with: 10,000 square meters. Easy. An acre?! I still can’t wrap my head around this…
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@Aaron_L_Nielson is the test of principal officer someone who can bind the government. I wouldn't expect someone adversarial to the government could necessarily bind the government? (or am i mistaken?)
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Honest question: why isn’t this person a principal officer who must be appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate? Individual federal public defenders are not principal officers (and maybe not officers at all). But someone paid by the US to act *systemically*?
Jimmy Hoover@JimmyHooverDC
SCOOP: Judiciary OKs new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS. Its full-time director will serve as counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.
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@Greg651 I thought I remember hearing that appeals require high up clearance in DOJ, possibly at the attorney general level? Is that the case?
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@TheMonke_King2 @bswud is that not the case in most of austin? Could a 7 story apartment building go into hyde park? It seems like this is a uniquely dense, walkable neighborhood. Could be better, but a wonderful addition to Austin.
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@dan_sutton @bswud Because it is a fixed Planned Unit Development locked down by HOA .
The townhomes cannot become apartment buildings as the owner requires. Residences cannot turn into shops as the owner needs. Shops cannot turn into residences.
It is stuck in Amber and cannot change.
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In 1999, Austin, TX, closed Robert Mueller Municipal Airport, the original city-owned airport, built 1928-30, and turned the site into a nice masterplanned New Urbanist suburb. Grid. Medium density. Tree-lined boulevards. On-site amenities. Classic vernacular architecture.
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@TheMonke_King2 @bswud it's pretty packed, and apartments just went in by the tower, some are being finished across manor, and some are being finished on 51st, in addition to all of the apartment buildings near the commercial side. How would this be more unadaptable than other neighborhoods?
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@bswud And as a Planned Unit Development, the supply of housing in that area is insanely difficult to increase and due to that it is set to become one of the most unaffordable, unadaptable, and unimprovable urban spaces to live in Austin. Walkable =/= good urbanism
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@ASFleischman "had voided their liberties the moment they decided they were above [...] the popular opinion." is particularly chilling.
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This is both constitutionally protected free speech and something I want stamped on all their dating profiles for the next ten years.
FIRE@TheFIREorg
The @UofIllinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus is “reviewing” the Illini Republicans student group’s social media post in support of ICE. The post states, in part, “Traitors such as Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good had voided their liberties the moment they decided they were above the law and the popular opinion.” The group says a graphic originally included in the post depicting a masked agent holding a gun to the head of a stumbling man was intended to show support for immigration law enforcement and does not target any group. While administrators condemned the post for expression that "appears to glorify violence," such statements are protected political speech under the First Amendment. UIUC itself has acknowledged that registered student organizations are independent and that their social media accounts reflect their own views, not the university’s. As a public university, UIUC may not investigate or punish student groups for their protected expression, even when others view it as controversial or offensive. Disagreement should be met with conversation and debate, not punishment.
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@danepps @WilliamBaude Starting to feel a bit predictable and scheduled. Just kidding. Love all the thoughts yall share
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Apparently @WilliamBaude and I are capable of podcasting efficiently once in a while!
Divided Argument@DividedArgument
🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎤: "Bok Choy" We're shockingly efficient as we break down the merits opinions in Coney Island, Berk v. Choy, and Ellingburg v. US, while also looking at Justice Jackson's broadside against "martinization." dividedargument.com/episodes/bok-c…
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@dilanesper @danepps This is an interesting hypothesis but it removes the discretion by having the facts come after choosing to represent. I was thinking of where this is known before and how many choose to represent or not
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@dan_sutton @danepps There's just no question about this and no "academic exception" to the rules that lawyers are required to say things they do not believe and to thwart searches for the truth. If a law professor can't do that, give up the bar license and just teach and research.
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With respect, I don’t think this is right. It’s a fundamental premise of our legal system that we shouldn’t confuse a lawyer’s arguments on behalf of a client with the lawyer’s personal views. This confusion has (disgracefully IMO) reared its head in judicial confirmations.
Anthony Michael Kreis, FRHistS@AnthonyMKreis
@danepps @damintoell That’s exactly my view if it is constitutional litigation. We have no obligation to take cases or advocate for public policy that does not comport with our expertly-held beliefs. Our job is to search for truth, not take on cases to line our pockets. Criminal defense is different.
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@dilanesper @danepps I’d be interested to see if the clinic continued their representation. I would hope they would. And I wouldn’t ascribe the view to their client. I also wonder if students would protest and complain
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@dan_sutton @danepps The clinic lawyers HAVE to make that argument. There's no "intellectual purity", no "truth seeking". they have an obligation to make that argument even though it is "pro-sexual harassment", because a lawyer's ethical duties are to their client.
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@othermaciej @dilanesper in that particular point it doesn't say "do it" the text says "we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record" which seems reasonable
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@dilanesper It doesn’t say “try harder” it says “do it”. And not just in the bullet citing two specific administration figures. It definitely seems like a pretextual isolated demand for rigor.
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Weiss' side of the story. These sound like things the "60 Minutes" crew can address. So the acid test will be if the story runs in a few weeks.
Isabella Simonetti@thesimonetti
New: See the memo Bari Weiss sent to some 60 Minutes staff on Sunday:
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@EdWhelanEPPC @whignewtons The weird thing is that this actually praises the level of commentary the change brings to SCOTUSblog. Just this bit here is fairly characterized as "the change has brought in thoughtful commentary that challenges my ideas".
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Insane take. Here is author's feeble concession to reality: The Dispatch is "not necessarily MAGA."
cc: @whignewtons
Howard Bashman@howappealing
“SCOTUSblog Falls Into the MAGA Orbit”: Jonathan Zasloff recently had this post at the “LegalPlanet” blog. #231031" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">howappealing.abovethelaw.com/2025/12/19/#23…
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@mitchellh the tab displaying the running process and its arguments is such a great default! huge quality of life. Much appreciated and thoughtful.
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macOS now has tab renaming too. This was a top 20 most upvoted feature request in Ghostty. GTK will follow. This plus the recently merged tab coloring dramatically improves Ghostty's tab management story (with more to do still...).
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@frankiemuniz I remember you as the guy that graduated to the pro category of the pro-am long beach races in celicas.
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This is 40.
Little kid me would’ve laughed if you said 2025 was real… or that I’d actually get here. I used to try picturing 40-year-old Frankie...what I’d look like, what I’d be doing...and it felt like science fiction.
If you’d told 13-year-old me on the Malcolm set that I’d walk away from Hollywood, race trucks full-time in NASCAR, own a freaking olive oil store, become a husband, a dad, and somehow still get recognized as “that kid from the show” two decades later… I would’ve called you crazy.
Most days I’m still waiting for someone to tell me this is all a prank.
But here’s the thing: the wild childhood is in the rear-view, the chaotic twenties are a blur, my thirties were where I finally figured out who I am when the cameras aren’t rolling… and now 40?
40 feels like the starting grid.
I’ve got the best little family, the fastest chapter of my racing career ahead, and a hunger I haven’t felt since I was that kid begging for one more take.
This isn’t the finish line. This is engines on, green flag dropping.
Let’s go. Thank you all for being part of this absolutely unbelievable ride.
Carefree, AZ 🇺🇸 English
My work is featured on the latest issue of FRAMELINES magazine alongside some very talented people: Roger Deakins, Alex Webb, Rebecca Norris Webb, Joakim Möller, Sheron Repp, and more! See it below 👇
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@RichardTakai @TommoMcCluskey this is the race reporting the response from that organization right? It's not their views on it but raw information.
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@TommoMcCluskey TBH, I thought it was a parody account at first. Well, it was The Race, so I was sort of correct 💁♂️😉
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@callum_ilott yes but not quite cayman loud. those things are obnoxious.
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@escherize Clever! Should it use an explicit loop rather than the stack though? Just a small adjustment?
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@tracewoodgrains There was an interesting @DividedArgument episode with an author of a book comparing these two
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