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Vicarious liability may be the thing that finally reins them in

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Everyone is dunking on these people for not understanding how insurance works, but we should be dunking on them for knowing exactly how it works and being unprincipled goons

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Easily the saddest tennis news of the season for me. I revered Sampras. Loved his style and his game. And the fact that this is the one thing he comes out of his hole to promote is so incredibly disheartening.

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This is a law school student’s answer on a cold call when asked how you’d defend your client’s conduct. Then there’d be a pause and everyone would laugh, including the student.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love this post so much. There are no NYC transplants. It’s a great city because it invites everyone, puts everyone through the ringer, and makes you give a shit about everyone else here.

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I started law school last month and I haven’t posted about it because it turns out law school is existentially exhausting. Which I should have expected! And it did, but whatever. It’s been a ride. I’ll chime in when I can.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Say what you want about Zverev as a human being, but you have to admit his tennis is also ugly.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the AO 2025 nod. She talked so much after that win about going all-in and not wanting to regret anything, and I’d be so happy if she found that again here

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Love Tiafoe and love Fils, happy for Fils. He’s been through a lot.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also looks an awful lot like this guy

Michael Emerson from Evil. Who is a cool actor and doesn’t deserve this comparison, but there you go.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I can think of good AI use cases. But if even an ethical AI would rely right now on massive data centers and energy expenditures to be functional at all, even to run dumb things like Chat, then there are no actual good use cases for it. We can figure out other ways to do the cool things.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot recommend enough that you read this article. It gets better and better.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"It comes as President Trump pressures the agency to increase logging and to thin forests to prevent wildfires." Ah, so it's about preservation then www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Seeks to Lift Ban on Development in National Forests

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Heinlein didn’t envision hallucinations, or predictive text, but he did (in Moon is a Harsh Mistress) imagine sentience arising from crossing some threshold of connections. It’s exactly what tech CEOs are saying has happened now. But it’s not hallucination because they’re not thinking.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Didn't realize there was a Venn diagram overlap between heartwarming, life-affirming, awe-inspiring, and genuinely creepy.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm sure it's just preference

NYT headline and subhead:

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent
The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Sitting on the porch with my wife listening to baseball on the radio like it’s 1950. Just waved away some bugs and said, all right, all right like they were pesky kids I was sending away.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Losing John Crowley feels so deeply personal. One of those favorites among writers, I think, the writer we don’t even think to emulate because he was doing something different, playing a different instrument. Many great novels but Love & Sleep destroyed me. I’m still inside that book.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One endearing thing I do in my notes for potential novels is to write "This would just be a short novel," and it's so transparent that I'm trying to convince myself it's no big deal, just knock it out, don't overthink it. I appreciate this little kindness to myself.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Just thinking about how emotional and happy my wife and I were when we drove two hours to get our first COVID shot. We felt like we’d won the lottery. My wife got a Fauci bobblehead for her desk after that.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

15 million regrets seems like a lot

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is brilliant but I'd also add it's not just your uncle voting to strip you of your civil rights, it's your uncle voting to strip anyone of their civil rights, and not getting why you care because that's not why he voted like that, and anyway your civil rights are probably safe for now.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's even worse with the British spelling honestly

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

What we all strive for as writers, to point to our best work and describe it as "technically mine"

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This wasn’t all Mamdani but one of the cool revelations this summer has been how much a mayor can do to make the city actively better, not just tackle the same old problems and deal with emergencies.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“I have no idea how to get around this”

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just happy to realize we still have the Muppets

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

An all-Muppets Super Bowl halftime show would be amazing.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Really feel like Spain scored too early

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This should rightfully be an 8-7 game

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Love a defense optional World Cup match

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This makes it harder to root against England. But not impossible.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Watching France Morocco and my hot take is that it’s fine that the US may never win a World Cup. We don’t need to win at everything. It’s not a tragedy, it’s good that we get this regular reminder that the rest of the world is pretty good at things too.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Still thinking about the Coco Muchova match hours later. Happy for Muchova, who deserves a final and played beautifully, even if I'm always rooting for Coco. And as awful as that Coco miss at 9-8 was, she played with so much heart to get back into the match, and that was incredible to watch.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This made me laugh out loud because I wasn’t expecting half the goals in the montage to be fired in off other players’ faces.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Men’s World Cup has been nice but really looking forward to the actual World Cup next year.

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This Gauff v Brazil match is fun to watch

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We're getting all the Gauff today, looks like

Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Feel like the World Cup lesson here is not to ever let up on the gas.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

By Alito’s reasoning any votes that can’t be counted by midnight should be invalid too, shouldn’t matter if they were mailed or done in person.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Underrated aspect of Panama’s win is that it was their 6th kicker who won it (and Germany’s 6th who missed). Expectations for everyone after #5 are so wildly different from 1-5.

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Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

God that was deranged and wonderful Paraguay