J. D.
@jdetc.bsky.social
Chicago/ish. Civil/ish litigator. Left-center/ish. Elder Millennial. He/him. Interests/etc.: 1A/defamation, lolsuits, half of true crime, food, Cubs, Chi teams other than the Sox, EPL/soccer, art/architecture, film, indie music, enviro issues, tech
Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow imperialists with hilariously stunted imaginations.
you’re missing the whole point
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
CALLING YOURSELVES AMERICANS IS THE MOST IMPERIALISTIC THING YOU CAN THINK OF
how can you people not see such an obvious thing?
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, my fellow imperialists with hilariously stunted imaginations.
He thinks he's going to get Amazon Prime-level saturation with paid subscriptions to a nifty text generator.
Lol, no.
Lol, no.
Exclusive: OpenAI has projected 220 million people will be paying for a basic ChatGPT subscription by 2030 as it follows Slack’s and Spotify’s business playbook.
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OpenAI Projected at Least 220 Million People Will Pay for ChatGPT by 2030
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its users—which now number more than 800 million—with ...
thein.fo
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
He thinks he's going to get Amazon Prime-level saturation with paid subscriptions to a nifty text generator.
Lol, no.
Lol, no.
Imagine awakening on the eve of an American holiday and bringing a motte-bailey fallacy defending AI to Bluesky of all places. I have no idea what Flask is, but son, you just showed up to the wrong saloon on the wrong day with a butterknife. These folks have liberal arts degrees and idle time.
Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Imagine awakening on the eve of an American holiday and bringing a motte-bailey fallacy defending AI to Bluesky of all places. I have no idea what Flask is, but son, you just showed up to the wrong saloon on the wrong day with a butterknife. These folks have liberal arts degrees and idle time.
If you think the cheesecake ceiling is higher than the pie ceiling, I hate to tell you this, but you've never had great pie.
I get a lot of hate for this view and in turn I'd only ask if you've ever had a pie as good as a typical cheesecake. The answer is no, you have not. Cheesecake invalidates the whole pie category. Hell, regular cake barely survives the cheesecake onslaught on the strength of carrot cake alone.
The dirty secret of pies is that they have the lowest ceiling potential of all sweets. Your best pie is merely fine. Your median pie is bad.
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
If you think the cheesecake ceiling is higher than the pie ceiling, I hate to tell you this, but you've never had great pie.
If you're going to QT me and wildly mischaracterize what I said, please have the guts to leave your replies open so I can tell you to get bent directly.
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If you're going to QT me and wildly mischaracterize what I said, please have the guts to leave your replies open so I can tell you to get bent directly.
This testimony is as clever as a drunk arguing with the bartender.
"Sir, I'm cutting you off; six doubles is enough."
"I ain't drank six doubles."
"How many you drink?"
"Eight!"
Lawyer should also be sanctioned for frivolous objections, and also for repping a walking, talking glans.
"Sir, I'm cutting you off; six doubles is enough."
"I ain't drank six doubles."
"How many you drink?"
"Eight!"
Lawyer should also be sanctioned for frivolous objections, and also for repping a walking, talking glans.
Gregory Bovino’s deposition is out. Check here and @chicagotribune.com for highlights. Throughout, Bovino was evasive and combative. In this, while being asked about a photo showing him throwing tear gas, Bovino said: “You said canister. I threw two. That’s plural.”
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This testimony is as clever as a drunk arguing with the bartender.
"Sir, I'm cutting you off; six doubles is enough."
"I ain't drank six doubles."
"How many you drink?"
"Eight!"
Lawyer should also be sanctioned for frivolous objections, and also for repping a walking, talking glans.
"Sir, I'm cutting you off; six doubles is enough."
"I ain't drank six doubles."
"How many you drink?"
"Eight!"
Lawyer should also be sanctioned for frivolous objections, and also for repping a walking, talking glans.
We have enough content to last several lifetimes. If you're even thinking about consuming AI slop podcasts, I'd politely suggest you try hard liquor or weed. You'll be more interesting, and also boost an economy where people are actually doing things they love instead of this cynical shit.
If you’re churning out 3,000 glops of pink slime podcasts every week, I put it to you that you are a slopmonger
November 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
We have enough content to last several lifetimes. If you're even thinking about consuming AI slop podcasts, I'd politely suggest you try hard liquor or weed. You'll be more interesting, and also boost an economy where people are actually doing things they love instead of this cynical shit.
Much of Chotiner's skill is the two things exemplified here: (a) what often is referred to as "thinking like a lawyer" (which, in very broad strokes, is obnoxious precision), and (b) refusing to participate in the customary political journalism kayfabe of being stupendously credulous.
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Much of Chotiner's skill is the two things exemplified here: (a) what often is referred to as "thinking like a lawyer" (which, in very broad strokes, is obnoxious precision), and (b) refusing to participate in the customary political journalism kayfabe of being stupendously credulous.
Get in, losers, we're doing the thing again.
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Get in, losers, we're doing the thing again.
Lol, no. There's no universe where they can win this battle in any meaningful sense.
BREAKING: The Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for possible military law violations after he joined a video urging U.S. troops to refuse "illegal orders."
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly for video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona for possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. troops to refuse unlawful orders.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Lol, no. There's no universe where they can win this battle in any meaningful sense.
It's a tight competition which is the biggest offense in this list (no Life of Brian, no Peter Sellers leading roles, Airplane! being criminally low), but ranking Sideways at 13 made me slam my phone down. That's pure rage bait.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It's a tight competition which is the biggest offense in this list (no Life of Brian, no Peter Sellers leading roles, Airplane! being criminally low), but ranking Sideways at 13 made me slam my phone down. That's pure rage bait.
If Man is five,
if Man is five
If Man is five,
then the Devil is six
Then the Devil is six,
then the Devil is six
The Devil is six,
and if the Devil is six
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
if Man is five
If Man is five,
then the Devil is six
Then the Devil is six,
then the Devil is six
The Devil is six,
and if the Devil is six
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 AM
If Man is five,
if Man is five
If Man is five,
then the Devil is six
Then the Devil is six,
then the Devil is six
The Devil is six,
and if the Devil is six
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
if Man is five
If Man is five,
then the Devil is six
Then the Devil is six,
then the Devil is six
The Devil is six,
and if the Devil is six
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Then God is seven!
Lots of communist praxis involved in running a corporate taxation seminar for students about to start summer asdociate positions with Ropes & Gray.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Lots of communist praxis involved in running a corporate taxation seminar for students about to start summer asdociate positions with Ropes & Gray.
Part of the trashy soap operatic quality to this whole <mugs for camera> affair is that Ryan Lizza resists sympathy and comes across as a journalistic suitcase pimp, which explains why he's mentioning this now instead of during the campaign or confirmation hearings.
Lizza also talks about Nuzzi going even deeper into ethics violations by doing catch-and-kill on stories about RFK and writing campaign strategy memos
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
This is far more important than the disgusting sex shit and I'm kind of mad Lizza paywalled it
November 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Part of the trashy soap operatic quality to this whole <mugs for camera> affair is that Ryan Lizza resists sympathy and comes across as a journalistic suitcase pimp, which explains why he's mentioning this now instead of during the campaign or confirmation hearings.
Trump is basically Ron Burgundy reading off cue cards at this point. Everyone but national Democratic leadership figured this one out. He'd tell America to go fuck itself if you buttered him up a bit right before the camera turned on.
Oh my god
November 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Trump is basically Ron Burgundy reading off cue cards at this point. Everyone but national Democratic leadership figured this one out. He'd tell America to go fuck itself if you buttered him up a bit right before the camera turned on.
The Right has claimed a lot of stupid things about our Founders, but this might be the new champion. Charlie Brown is way more likely to have a whole mansion full of hos than the Founding Fathers as a group would have been to even give two shits about Israel.
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Right has claimed a lot of stupid things about our Founders, but this might be the new champion. Charlie Brown is way more likely to have a whole mansion full of hos than the Founding Fathers as a group would have been to even give two shits about Israel.
In case anyone is unclear on this one, memes like this are conservative propaganda. This one implicitly reduces the value of civil rights as it pertains to defense to zero, which is both false and offensive.
I hate this sort of meme.
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
“The only difference between the parties is whether the power to destroy human civilization rests in the hands of leaders who think gays, women, and black people should have their rights acknowledged.”
Even if true, how is Rainbow B-52 not infinitely preferable?
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 AM
In case anyone is unclear on this one, memes like this are conservative propaganda. This one implicitly reduces the value of civil rights as it pertains to defense to zero, which is both false and offensive.
The rare lifelong Roman Catholic who does not understand his own religion at all, as opposed to the more common adult convert who slept through a foundational lesson.
you get the feeling that PEG and Jack Posobiec will not handle an outright papal encyclical on immigration well
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The rare lifelong Roman Catholic who does not understand his own religion at all, as opposed to the more common adult convert who slept through a foundational lesson.
I'm not discounting the various psychological phenomena (e.g., if you have an underlying anxiety disorder, financial security isn't curing you), but just want to note that "financial psychotherapist" is an incredibly good niche racket.
The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm not discounting the various psychological phenomena (e.g., if you have an underlying anxiety disorder, financial security isn't curing you), but just want to note that "financial psychotherapist" is an incredibly good niche racket.
This is one of the more researched, debunked, and, for that matter, litigated conspiracy theories out there.
It's wild to claim it's not evidence-based to deny a link that doesn't seem to exist.
"It's not evidence-based to deny supreme pizza causes gay because no study rules it out," be real.
It's wild to claim it's not evidence-based to deny a link that doesn't seem to exist.
"It's not evidence-based to deny supreme pizza causes gay because no study rules it out," be real.
VACCINES DO NOT CAUSE AUTISM, YOU FLAMING SHITBIRDS.
WE HAVE, IN FACT, RULED IT OUT.
WE HAVE, IN FACT, RULED IT OUT.
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This is one of the more researched, debunked, and, for that matter, litigated conspiracy theories out there.
It's wild to claim it's not evidence-based to deny a link that doesn't seem to exist.
"It's not evidence-based to deny supreme pizza causes gay because no study rules it out," be real.
It's wild to claim it's not evidence-based to deny a link that doesn't seem to exist.
"It's not evidence-based to deny supreme pizza causes gay because no study rules it out," be real.
Has anyone considered adding AI to weed? Seems like a fair way to finally get it legal everywhere.
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Takes Aim at State AI Laws in Draft Executive Order
The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Has anyone considered adding AI to weed? Seems like a fair way to finally get it legal everywhere.
The absolute brainworms to think one sub-sector represents "thermodynamics."
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What
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November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The absolute brainworms to think one sub-sector represents "thermodynamics."
-JD, U. of Chicago;
-PhD, UCLA;
-did not understand American Beauty (1999) at its most basic possible level.
-PhD, UCLA;
-did not understand American Beauty (1999) at its most basic possible level.
MAN WHAT?
using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice
using kevin spacey for a comparison or example here is definitely… a choice
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
-JD, U. of Chicago;
-PhD, UCLA;
-did not understand American Beauty (1999) at its most basic possible level.
-PhD, UCLA;
-did not understand American Beauty (1999) at its most basic possible level.
"You don't have to embarass our guest," I said when she asked why Ed Kemper was sitting in our living room.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
"You don't have to embarass our guest," I said when she asked why Ed Kemper was sitting in our living room.
Ah, yes, the thing Judy Garland is known for: marrying and reproducing with Vincent Minelli when she was in her 20s and he was in his 40s.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Ah, yes, the thing Judy Garland is known for: marrying and reproducing with Vincent Minelli when she was in her 20s and he was in his 40s.