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My favorite part of the story was imagining how mad this case made the law expert who has spent his life disproving the perception that rich defendants can pretend to be insane, and then go on living life as normal after acquittal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I recently discussed Barisone's case with Michael Perlin, an authority on mental disability and the law, and a former professor at the New York Law School. The case, he said, was "the outlier of outliers," to the point that it resembled the insanity case of popular myth: a well-funded client, psychiatric experts in furious courtroom disagreement, and a swift escape from justice. Perlin has spent decades trying to dismantle this myth.

Perlin has spent decades trying to dismantle this myth. In truth, he said, an insanity defendant, if successful, typically spends far more time in a psychiatric facility than someone convicted of the same crime would have spent in prison.
Insanity defendants are disproportionately low-income, their cases rarely reach a jury, and there's usually no dispute about the diagnosis, which is almost invariably schizophrenia. As Perlin put it, the typical case involves a defendant who, after assaulting a victim unknown to him, says,
"God told me that I should hit the third woman I see crossing Lower Ferry Road wearing a purple sweater."

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 53m

This article was likely a year in the making, but easy to view it as a rejoinder to those who saw Lindsay Clancy and conclude that women get away with everything. This guy shot his client-tenant in the chest, after she was vile to him, and was found not guilty via insanity

Barisone has never fully embraced the delusional-disorder diagnosis that kept him out of prison. In our conversations, his usual framing was about good and evil, not catastrophically warped thinking. He didn't quite disown the verdict—"I agree with the jury that it was impossible for me to rationally know what was going on. I agree with that" —but he complained that the judge, Stephen J. Taylor, had denied him the chance for a
straightforward not-guilty verdict. Had Barisone been allowed to bring up every unbecoming fact about Kanarek, he told me, "I would have walked out of the courtroom a free man."

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 2h

the internet is nice but nothing beats a good ol fashioned magazine spread

photo of a page from the new yorker, featuring a full page photo of a man doing dressage riding a horse, and the headline: SHE MADE ME DO IT
A dressage trainer who shot his student thinks he's the victim.
BY IAN PARKER

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when they put out their side of the story on the shooting of Oscar Belgal that they will lie about anything and everything.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 3h

Can you briefly describe what you mean by “settled”?

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t think rape is ever really a “settled manner”

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i think the OP is just using random words to describe a vibe coded project?

jenniferhooley 2 days ago | parent | next [-]
Have you tried the apps, or have any experience with Photoshop (complex photo or art or video projects)?
Just curious, because I've worked within design/film etc. for years.
I did open the PhotoCraft and loaded a few of my simpler layout projects. And literally nothing works.
Let's see:
1. Tried to select text, like the selector is off from the cursor.
2. Tried to edit text, takes like 3 seconds to drag the slider for size, nothing happens (text doesn't change size).
3. Absolutely everything is insanely laggy: selecting, switching, etc.
4. Can't seem to expand/collapse folders.
5. Everything shows shortcut keys - shortcut keys don't do anything.
6. Tried to move something, it kind of got frozen for a while. Eventually disappeared I think?

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Where does it say it was built from the decompiled Adobe suite?

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NYT please get in touch. for a measly $1,000 I will tell you what trump meant

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

PREDATOR made me think an invisible stalker could laser me at any time

scene from predator where arnold is being seen through the predators infrared vision

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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.

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Jefferson-Pilot Pickles @jeffersonpilot.org · 04/10/2026

[inner monologue] you did it shane, they couldn't tell you did any coke

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

but he missed a semester of school 😾

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i knew nothing about it other than liking the trailer…the fact that it’s 2.5 hours made me assume it’d be a guaranteed winner with me

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

maybe it was just me but HOPE was a letdown. rare miss for south korean cinema 😿

poster for the movie HOPE featuring a woman aiming a rifle

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/10/2026

you almost have to admire the effective altruists for coming right out and saying “we feel a keen debt to the criminal who stole the money that provided seed funding for Manifund, which is why we’re hiring her and paying her with some of it instead of returning it to FTX creditors”

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

NO! … i was going to see primetime this weekend, as a little treat 🥺

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Assuming the victim wants to maintain her privacy, how would it be trivially easy for the victim to call out his lies while keeping her privacy?

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this

My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This sucks for many reasons. But I think it's worth emphasizing how selfish and duplicitous it is to go work with a public-facing, community-focused media org like MinnMax without disclosing this part of your past to them. (MinnMax confirmed to me they were not told.) Please support them if you can

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Skeletons, But Swole @untimelygamer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ace Combat implies the existence of Hypersexual Combat.

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In a stance that puts him at odds with other notable NBA stars, Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to FanDuel, Polymarket or any other sports betting site. “Honestly, I think it’s very sad to see some players promote it,” he said. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

expressnews.com

Would Victor Wembanyama ever endorse FanDuel or Polymarket? Don't bet on it

In a stance that puts him at odds with other NBA stars, the Spurs' Victor Wembanyama says he would never lend his name to a sports betting site

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this is the contemporary version of going to damascus and winning a sword forging contest

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

when you finally realize she’ll never agree to go out with you so now you’re trying to be the nice nerd who helps with her homework

banner prompt: Set Microsoft Edge as your default PDF viewer

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in one of the few detailed examples you provide, you say that “straight apostrophes” are the clear signs that it is AI written, but the examples (both the AI and the human version) *only* have curly apostrophes…?

Paragraph 1:

In January, the Mamdani administration stood up two new youth clinics at H+H Woodhull and Queens with $4 million from MetroPlusHealth, H+H’s own insurance plan. He has shown he can move fast when he wants to. The question is whether he will do the same for trans kids being told they have 30 days of medication left and nowhere to go.
Paragraph 2:

Mamdani built his campaign on the backs of transgender people who worked hard to elect him. And to his credit, he ran one of the most refreshing campaigns towards transgender people I have ever seen from a major Democratic politician. We were one of the first to report on his support early on, when he appeared at a protest against NYU Langone over the very same hospital’s pause on trans youth care. Throughout his campaign, he never backed down from his promise that he had transgender people’s backs, even releasing a two-minute ad about the history of transgender people in New York City, set to the music of transgender artist SOPHIE, celebrating that history in a way that made clear he cared.

Despite the lack of any of the more obvious signs of AI writing, Paragraph 2 was the pasted one.

The key to every single test was finding the straight apostrophes and quote marks. You can find examples of the difference in the graphic above this test. If you find the straight marks in the text, you can tell what is pasted without any knowledge of AI writing style.

Reed’s writing is full of text with all the signs of AI writing, but mixed in with text with a human touch. Her style is not entirely that of AI, but one where the human and the LLM text sit alongside each other, pretending to be a singular voice.

V <p>
‹strong>Paragraph 1:</strong>
</p>
7 <blockquote>
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"In January, the Mamdani administration stood up two new youth clinics at H+H Woodhull and Queens with $4 million from MetroPlusHealth, H+H's own insurance plan. He has shown he can move fast when he wants to. The question is whether he will do the same for trans kids being told they have 30 days of medication left and nowhere to go." :: after
</blockquote>
7 <p>
<strong>Paragraph 2:</strong>
</p>
V <blockquote>
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"Mamdani built his campaign on the backs of transgender people who worked hard to elect him. And to his credit, he ran one of the most refreshing campaigns towards transgender people I have ever seen from a major Democratic politician. We were one of the first to report on his support early on, when he appeared at a protest against NYU Langone over the very same hospital's pause on trans youth care.
Throughout his campaign, he never backed down from his promise that he had transgender people's backs, even releasing a two-minute ad about the history of transgender people in New York City, set to the music of transgender artist SOPHIE, celebrating that history in a way
that made clear he cared." = $0
::after
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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's another example, so apparently 100% clear cut that you don't even need to know the marks of AI-writing style to identify it as AI...because, allegedly, all the apostrophes in the "AI" graf are "straight apostrophes" ...But all the apostrophes in both examples are curly apostrophes? WTF?

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

thousands of words later, there's a detailed, purported example. And how do they know it's definitely AI? Because (compared to a human-written example) "the language is dryer and less emotional".... okay???

Here are two paragraphs from the article ‘Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocketed In UK After Care Drawdown’. One was obviously pasted; The other wasn’t.

Paragraph 1:

The gap between the Appleby Report, which was used to absolve the government of any culpability in trans youth deaths, and the Good Law Project’s freedom of information request is no accident, but rather, a deliberate framing choice. The Appleby Report only examined patients of GIDS. But in the aftermath of the Bell v Tavistock ruling, wait times for GIDS appointments skyrocketed, now sitting at an estimated average of 25 years. Youth who were suffering no longer saw a pathway to gender-affirming care. Referrals stalled. Diagnoses became increasingly impossible to obtain. As restrictions piled on, these young people saw their future pathways to obtaining gender-affirming care shuttered in front of them. These youth were ignored in the Appleby report.

Paragraph 2:

The UK government fought hard to keep transgender suicide data from the public, and now, two years after its attempt to bury the deaths of children, that data is out. Even what has been released is limited: the NCMD’s own response indicates that its methodology may not capture all transgender youth suicides in the country, meaning the true toll is likely higher. But what is now known is the grisly impact that anti-trans restrictions have had on the youth of England. And in the United States, where a similar effort to restrict gender-affirming care is underway across the nation, it is likely that similar devastation is unfolding, unreported and silent.
The answer is that Paragraph 1 was pasted. Despite it covering the same topic as Paragraph 2, the language is dryer and less emotional. Paragraph 2 also reads as being more directed, with one sentence neatly flowing into the next.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

after the nutgraf, the first 2,500 words of this is boilerplate about plagiarism and ethics that might as well have been from chatgpt. I'm not saying that it is, but if you're going to accuse someone of massive clear-cut plagiarism, you're obligated to start off with egregious specific examples

1: The Journalist, the Reader, and the Robot

Using LLM in journalism, whether for writing, research, and/or analysis, is not harmless. It fundamentally alters the connection between the author and the reader for the worse.

News readers rely on journalists to take complex information about the world and summarize it in a way that can be understood by non-specialists. Every part of a journalist’s job, from research, to talking with sources, to formatting the information, to fact checking, to writing in an accessible way, is in service of this goal.

Journalists using chatbots to research and write their work gets in the way of all this.

1.1: Undisclosed AI Use

The point of journalism is to tell human stories. Humans have a way of

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

why didn’t the dog follow orders

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Xeynon @xeynon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of people listen to country, but a lot of people don't. There's a big overlap between the people who do and the type of people who get big mad that America isn't a monoculture and not everyone looks, talks, thinks, or acts like they do. Their music being ignored reminds them of that.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is Chicago’s version of July 2020 Vietnam, when citizens offered to donate their lungs to save the life of an ailing man who would have been the country’s first COVID death

a sandwich board that reads WILL
DONATE MY HAMSTRING
FOR CALEB
WILLIAMS

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026

Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

hollywoodreporter.com

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

fbi and dark mode funding the toner factories

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

you’re the real lawyer now

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Klobhouse has been open for years, for those who have ears

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Construction workers get a bad rap for commenting on womens’ appearance but one just stopped me to tell me he appreciated my suit’s color coordination and I had to contain the impulse to hug him

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So many people got yelled at for months on here when they correctly pointed out that Gavin Newsom was a rat.

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you’re going to stretch that much for an excuse, just go ahead and say you’re anti trans rights and skip this pathetic dance

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If I had a nickel for every time story from ProPublica made me spit out my coffee in the past week, I’d have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's (not actually that) weird that it happened twice.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 21/09/2026

i think it's nice no one is mad about air fryers anymore

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

update: if you are in the Chicago area and want a small gray tabby kitten maybe 8-10 weeks old, dm me (don't congratulate me on our new cat, we have four cats already, we are not keeping this one)

a gray tabby kitten in a cat climbing tree

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Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I bought a Quest 2 during covid and was definitely impressed with Alyx, but only got to the second level before i stopped, vowing to continue someday when i’ve got a place big enough to use walk around VR 🥺

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Streetsblog Chicago @chi.streetsblog.org · 20/09/2026

Monday morning, a pickup driver ran a red at Archer/Laramie and fatally struck Juan Martin Marquez Luna, 54, as he rode to work on an e-moto. chi.streetsblog.org/2026/09/17/d... A GoFundMe has been launched to help his family and has raised over $8,800 so far. www.gofundme.com/f/support-Ma...

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