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Joe Dunman

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Asst. Prof @Louisville Law (torts, writing, religion, employment) Former: Mng. Attny @Ky. Comm. on Human Rights, prof @MoreheadState, and lawyer for KY plaintiffs in Obergefell. Scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2147917

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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 20d

"Amos chastised the rich and powerful because they treated the poor with contempt: “They trample the heads of the destitute into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way [Am.2:7].”", writes @thomasreesesj.bsky.social in an excellent piece for @rns.org

#Amos #SocialJustice #Theology

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Rad, Gerhard von. The Message of the Prophets. New York, 1972.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 6h

Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks

How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7h

NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”

Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement:
In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7h

By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the 6th Amendment was violated when a juror completely lost her mind and viciously coerced other jurors to return a death verdict even though they opposed it and voted 11-1 for life without parole. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

On the second day of deliberations, “even when the other
eleven jurors . . . voted for life without parole” in an internal
poll, “Chancey would not even consider it.” Id., at 71a–72a.
At that point, the foreperson wrote a note to the trial court
explaining that the jurors were “‘unable to come to a
unanimous decision on either death or life imprisonment
without parole as a sentence.’ ” Id., at 9a. Chancey,
believing the note as written would result in a mistrial,
revised the note to say that the jurors were “‘currently
unable to come to a unanimous decision.’” Id., at 9a–10a.
The court instructed the jury to continue deliberating.
Chancey then “snapped.” Humphreys v. Sellers, No.
1:18–cv–02534 (ND Ga., Sept. 19, 2018), ECF Doc. 42–7, p.
443. She yelled, cursed, and screamed that she would “stay
[t]here till forever if ” that is what it took “for [Humphreys]
to get death.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 9a. She threw the
victims’ photos across the table and demanded, “‘[D]o you
want this to happen to someone you know?’” Ibid. She
reminded the jurors of the similar details of her own attack,
and told them that “‘they had to reach a unanimous
decision or [Humphreys] would be paroled,’” which was not
true under Georgia law. Ibid. She then levied personal

attacks against the jurors and refused to engage in any
debate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, jury deliberations almost
completely broke down. Screaming could be overheard from
the courtroom. One juror “‘took a swing’” at Chancey and
punched a hole in the wall. Ibid. Jurors were seen crying
on several occasions. A juror later recalled that “it was as
if an evil force took over . . . Chancey.” ECF Doc. 33–12,
p. 13. The foreperson even wrote a note asking to be
removed from the jury because of the “‘hostile nature of one
of the jurors.’” App. to Pet. for Cert. 12a. The court instead
gave an Allen charge and instructed the jury to deliberate
further. See Allen v. United States, 164 U. S. 492 (1896). It
also rejected defense counsel’s renewed motion for a
mistrial. On the third morning of deliberations, the jury
returned a unanimous verdict of death.
The above facts constitute a likely violation of
Humphreys’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury.
The problem for Humphreys is that these facts came to light
largely through juror affidavits and juror testimony
obtained after the trial. The Georgia courts held this
evidence inadmissible under Georgia’s no-impeachment
rule, which generally prohibits the use of juror testimony to
impeach a verdict, even in death penalty cases. See App. to
Pet. for Cert. 325a (citing Spencer v. State, 260 Ga. 640, 643,
398 S. E. 2d 179, 184 (1990)). The no-impeachment rule,
however, is not an absolute shield, and in extreme cases it
must give way to constitutional guarantees.

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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 9h

Oral argument today in Bowe v US presents one of the most profound constitutional questions: Just how much power does Article III's Exceptions Clause give Congress to strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction? I offer some history and context in my latest column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social 👇

Will SCOTUS Decide What Its “Essential Functions” Are?

Cornell Law professor Michael C. Dorf discusses the U.S. Supreme Court case Bowe v. United States, which raises the question of whether limits on successive habeas petitions for state prisoners also a...

verdict.justia.com

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 20h

Of its own output.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 21h

I am full on hoping for the Mariners to win their first Series.

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 21h

I think those new texts qualify as data. Not the data this user thinks they are “extracting,” but still data.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 22h

As other commenters have noted, telling generative AI not to invent anything does nothing at all. You can’t command a machine to not do the very thing it was created to do. It generates new data, it does not extract data!

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 22h

Is it bad that a struggling economy is being obscured by an obvious speculative bubble? stocks.apple.com/AJizc0u9XRqi...

"You have the software and services world accelerating, and becoming almost a monomania for the culture, at the same time that manufacturing remains flat or worse," said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "The Al boom is kind of papering over some other parts of the economy that aren't going well."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

our current crop of techbros, like despots throughout history, are convinced that they've finally solved the Brutal Peasant Revolt Problem

i think they are absolutely wrong about this, to be clear

Jonathan Pierce @jonathanpierce.bsky.social · 1d

always funny that “hordes of unemployed show up at his gate with a battering ram and guillotine” is never a scenario they consider

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my stars and garters

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 2d

Are you subtweeting the Action Bible

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Dean Dettloff @deandettloff.bsky.social · 2d

In fact they do! Though minoritarian and located primarily in the Global South (like Catholic liberation theology). Juan Stam is one interesting bridge figure, a Wheaton/Fuller grad who taught in Costa Rica. His 2003 column on George W. Bush:
www.thenation.com/article/arch...

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Helen King @helenking.bsky.social · 3d

What’s really going on in the Church of England? I go back to this much-read piece from Via Media News viamedia.news/2023/12/30/p...

Plotting the Division of the Church of England - ViaMedia.News

by Nic Tall, member of General Synod and Secretary of the General Synod Gender & Sexuality Group If you have been paying attention to the church press recently, you will have a sense of grumblings fro...

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 3d

This is probably a better way to put it: bsky.app/profile/blea...

Boorke Gutslinger @bleaktheology.bsky.social · 3d

It feels like we're in an epistemological death spiral.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a shame we’re closing philosophy departments at the exact same time society as a whole is questioning whether the identification of truth and the maintenance of a shared reality are worthy efforts anymore.

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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 3d

I do not like this situation we’re in, not one bit.

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Scott Edgar @scottedgar.bsky.social · 3d

It's been, what, three days since the text-to-video lie machine went live, and my TL is now a steady stream of fake slop videos.

I yearn for the internet of 2003.