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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 5h

It doesn't know what data is.

Hell, I asked it to tell me if any of a set of 3 judicial opinions it had found had dissents. It missed the one dissent that existed, and false positived another. And those are very clearly labeled.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 5h

I'm highly experienced in this genre.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 5h

My favorite academic genre is "paper I would’ve written if I’d had the time"

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 6h

I've got that in my bio. It's there because I can't think of anything I've done that has had a bigger impact. It also wasn't the easiest thing to do, particularly the "stay-at-home civilian dad married to an active-duty soldier" bit.

That's the long way round to telling you both to go to hell.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 7h

One of my thoughts is that no matter how bad my twitch streams are, they aren't whatever that is.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 10h

LMFAOOOOOOOO

Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social · 11h

Paging @lexlanham.bsky.social, @tudorsandtms.bsky.social, @design-law.bsky.social, and just for kicks, @questauthority.bsky.social.

I'd page Glenn "Oh, the Places You'll Boldly Go" Haumann but he isn't on Bsky.

dinger.bsky.social @dinger.bsky.social · 11h

Who is gonna sue first, The Dr Seuss estate, or the NFL

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Jeffies on Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

Phone numbers I currently have memorized:

- My own
- My wife’s cell
- My parents’ cells
- The (no longer in use) landline for my childhood home
- My friend Ben’s parents’ house landline
- A pizza place in my hometown
- The immigration court hotline to find out when your client has a hearing.

Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

the funniest thing about this is that those of us who grew up in the divide all have a bunch of pre-cell phone numbers memorized and almost none afterwards

I know the home phone numbers of two of my childhood best friends from thirty years ago and none of the cell numbers of my college friends

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

If they feel entitled to enforce this, and that necessarily means that they're going to feel entitled to stop and ask people for their papers if they think they might be aliens.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 18h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15h

Mother of Storms did a couple of interesting-ish things with this, IIRC.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22h

For months I've been following what happened when a company forced AI into the world of craft beer. Legal threats, people quitting, and beer judges in revolt over being told to use AI.

"It is attempting to solve a problem that wasn’t a problem before AI showed up"
www.404media.co/what-happene...

What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer

A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.

www.404media.co

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Adam Pavlacka @gamescan.bsky.social · 1d

"She invited me over for nibbles and bites. How was I supposed to know she MEANT wine and cheese?"

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno. Who properly bears the risk with an invitation that doesn't specify location? Should contra proferentem apply here?

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

That's a stretch, to put it mildly.

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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 1d

unless you’re SCOTUS in six months trying to shoehorn a way to excuse quartering vampire troops in random Americans’ homes who have told their vampire neighbors they should “definitely hang out sometime” this ain’t an invite

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Divider Decider👩🏻‍⚖️🌊⚖️(Let me officiate) @dividerdecider.bsky.social · 1d

Uniter
I will Repost any #AntiFa photos from vets or their families — whether or not it’s trending!!!

That makes me an AntiFa sympathizer in the eyes of at least one draft-dodging #Fa on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Nebraskan, well-decorated Retired USMC john018511 Threads post on Oct. 13 saying “Me in my antifa uniform, Nov 10, 2023”

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Depending on context, might even have been more of an anti-invitation, or perhaps a preemptive disinvitation.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Lawsky - what say you? Invitation or nah?

#vampirelaw

Bob O’Hara @bobohara.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is one where #lawsky might help. @questauthority.bsky.social

ceej @ceej.online · 1d

caught my vampire neighbor creeping through my front door. he claims my saying “for sure dude, we should definitely hang out sometime” the other night counts as an invitation, but I disagree. we’re on hold with the etiquette hotline

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Which dude?

But no matter which dude, probably not. This actually has nearly nothing to do with the boots theory. That theory is about quality, not where things are made.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

When Brooks Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2020, it shuttered its US factories. Among them was the Garland Shirt Factory in Garland, North Carolina. Brooks Brothers acquired them in 1982, making it the center for their USA shirt production. For a while, it seemed all was lost.

Outside the Garland Shirt Company factory. There's a wall with the company name.

A shelf full of button-up Brooks Brothers shirts.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Wolflawyer @wolflawyer.bsky.social · 1d

On the downside, it’s a serious crime for which nobody will have sympathy. You’ll go to jail and hurt your cause. You’ll be hated by enemy and friends alike.

On the upside you might make them lose control of a helicopter above the heads of your friends so who is to say what’s a bad idea.

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, better choice: don't do what Comrade Cosplay the Functional Fed here suggests at all. It's a federal crime with the potential to harm innocents that accomplishes little of note.

Comrade Pancakes 🥞 @callmepancakes.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t do this standing on the balcony of your home or job, or as a solo or small group of protestors.

The reason Hong Kong protestors got away w this is bc a thousand people doing it in black bloc made individuals hard to ID. Also they wore gloves and dropped them if caught.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 1d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

YUP.

The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

Don't talk to cops includes putting your federal criming into flyer format.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 1d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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