anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If dems coalesce around Bodnar, MT isn’t even safe R 100
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seems like the point is to give a big gift to gas companies? 000
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026do you know historical comparisons to put that in perspective? Also how many state leg seats are currently gop? 100
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Once a week or so I wonder ‘when was the last time Matt Yglesias was right about something?’ 000
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026They have something like 34 percent black approval & the approval split between urban/suburban/rural makes no sense. I have some guesses at why this result is so whacky but more curious why you think they get such a huge outlier result. 030
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Polar Opposites is a fantastic example of this era/genre/theme 210
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Or both did about the same and the difference is fairly arbitrary? Real lesson is we need ranked choice voting at least for primaries where there is no run-off 010
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have this idea for a book called ‘Legal Fiction’ where the constraint is that the world is as judges have misdescribed it. 000
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026do you know if anyone is collecting examples of judges making up facts in their opinions? I‘ve been thinking about this for a while but would love a collection of these instances where legal and factual reality diverge. 000
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 10/08/20263) AI is not about to become a universal super lawyer. But it does risk exacerbating real, existing problems by shunting ordinary people into bad services while providing new tools for already abusive BigLaw defense firm tactics. I take seriously that slop filings may burden courts and agencies. 0100
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 10/08/20262/ The problems worry about are 1) lack of affordable legal services meaning people with real harms get misled by terrible (artificially cheap) bot lawyers and 2) that large companies with endless resources bury opponents in ai-generated paperwork and borderline frivolous filings. 170
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Lawyer here: Am consistently struck by how bad even purpose-built ai law tools are. It’s not just fake cases but (very frequent) misreadings of real cases that get people in trouble. But AI produces work with the outward gloss of expertise and it is cheap, so the fear of slop overrun is legitimate 5427
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026In CA prop 13 is driving this - the tax makes it insane to ever downsize. For years, I’ve argued that CA has less of a housing shortage and more a housing distribution problem, and taxing un- and under-occupied space would be a really good idea 010
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Prop 13 is maybe the single worst piece of public policy in the country? 4402
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Really enjoyed Hemlock House recently. 010
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Same conditions can give rise to lots of things, good and bad. Doesn‘t change the argument that you can advocate for better things by highlighting rather than distorting the facts. 010
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Seems like ‘macro economic stats aren’t that terrible yet a huge number of people are miserable and financially anxious’ is a great argument for socialism/social democracy/etc & ‘this is how you feel when the system is working as intended’ is a great argument for system change. No need to fake stats 120
anotherbensegal.bsky.social @anotherbensegal.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I’m really fascinated & encouraged by these charts, but have one lingering question: what should we make of the rise in imports? What is the generation mix for those & is CA diverting renewables that would otherwise go into other markets? 120
