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playful and kind as often as i can muster. he/hmm
Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
apparently there isnt a cluster at 150 Image
Image if elon is right about this im gonna be so mad

this absolutely cannot be real. the federal government cannot be this incompetent. there are not actual dollars being disbursed on the legal theory that 190-year-old people are alive

right?
Jan 5 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
a brief commentary on this graph 🧵

in the original paper, this chart appears above the caption "household sharing unit". that's kinda important Image
Jan 2 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
Yesterday, I wrote a thread critical of Blake Lively.

I think Justin Baldoni's PR team used a bot network to boost me with over a thousand retweets, bringing millions of impressions.

I'm here to gossip with friends, not fix his reputation. So I'm mad about this. 🧵 Context:

Last week, I wrote a thread musing about Stephanie Jones' involvement in the Lively-Baldoni suit. It's not particularly favorable to either party, but it spills a lot of tea.

I'm proud of it. If you haven't read it, I bet you'll enjoy it. ⬇️

Jan 1 • 27 tweets • 8 min read
A New Year's Eve legal filing sheds new light on the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni situation.

It seems the @nytimes made a major error in their reporting. I'd like to know how it happened.

🧵 @nytimes The main character of today's story is not mentioned in Blake Lively's filings. The main character of today's story is a lowly emoji: the upside-down smiley face, icon of irony and sarcasm.

🙃
Dec 30, 2024 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
hunter is an excellent follow but imo barking up the wrong tree with griggs v duke power. quick thread the argument goes like this:

iq is an important driver of job performance. griggs v. duke power prohibits employers from iq testing in the hiring process, so as a substitute means of filtering by iq, they demand education credentials (mostly university degrees).
Dec 28, 2024 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
Blake Lively's sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against Justin Baldoni is very well-evidenced for a pre-discovery complaint.

She quotes many juicy and damning text messages among Baldoni's publicity team.

How did she get those texts? It's a good tale, I think. 🧵 Image
Image For this story, our protagonist is not Blake Lively or Justin Baldoni. In fact, our protagonist is not even mentioned by name in Lively's legal filings. Our protagonist is a veteran publicist by the name of Stephanie Jones.
Dec 13, 2024 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
white killers of blacks escape conviction 11x more often than black killers of whites, due to stand-your-ground laws?

this is a horrifying claim.

shall we dig in and see how well it stands up to scrutiny?

(spoiler alert: not well. not well at all.) 🧵 @rebmasel isn't the only one making this sort of claim. i found similar statements written on cnn, pbs, nytimes, nbc, bbc, and others. let's chase down a source.
Nov 28, 2024 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
native american women face murder rates 10x the national average, and murder is their 3rd leading cause of death?

these are horrifying claims.

shall we dig in and see how well they stand up to scrutiny?

(spoiler alert: not well. not well at all.) 🧵 let's start with the "murder rate 10x the national average" claim.

@rebmasel isn't the only one saying this; i found similar claims in the ny times, guardian, abc, cbs, pbs, thehill, and in congressional testimony by an obama DOJ official. ⬇️ Image
Nov 12, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
this "94,000 veterans deported" figure is horrifying.

shall we dig in and see how well it stands up to scrutiny?

(spoiler: not well. not well at all.) 🧵 @rebmasel cites a Berkeley Law report which contains the number 94,000. Unfortunately, it is not presented as an estimate of veterans deported but rather veterans deported *or at risk of deportation*.

eek. not off to a good start.

law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/upl…Image
May 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
60% of their calories come from /honey/ in some months, but ~no diabetes or obesity?

i am increasingly convinced that nobody knows a damn thing about nutrition. well except maybe these people ok a slightly more charitable read:

nutrition science knows some things. but everything it knows is nonspecific and has been goodharted to hell by agribusiness
May 3, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
so - someone leaked a draft SCOTUS opinion, let's say a clerk. is this leak illegal? did the leaker actually break a law to do this?

tentatively, i think the answer might be "no" clerks have an often-discussed moral duty of confidentiality to their judges, but moral duties aren't necessarily legal ones.
May 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
this is the first time a supreme court draft opinion has been leaked?

that's going to be a fun click of the ratchet huh unswerving loyalty to ritual and procedure is a hallmark of the Serious Lawyer, whose principal job is not to advocate for the client but to legitimize the state to the public
Mar 29, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
this barclays unregistered securities story is wild

they forgot to file a form that, near as i can tell, no one actually gives a shit about. but b/c they didn't file this form, their sec registration became ineffective and they spent a year selling unregistered securities. in general, selling unregistered securities is a *big* no-no. if you do it, your buyers are entitled to rescission -- basically, they can force you to buy the securities back for the price they paid plus interest.
Mar 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
real hustle culture is a non-proselytizing religion the evangelizing hustle is a false hustle