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

It’s interesting they seem tired of it now, when they’ve been so busy redrawing the lines themselves.

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

He has his own special reasons tho

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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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 · 23/08/2026

Wild thread to read from the middle and try to make sense of going both directions.

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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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CEOs as well, just throwing that out there

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If the prediction leads to something that isn't real (it's inconsistent with facts, with experience, with history), then AI (GenAI, that is, predictive text) is still doing *exactly what it is programmed to do*. It's not an aberration. It's built in to the technology.

The point is that AI isn't hallucinating because hallucinating is what people do, what thinking beings do. AI hallucinations aren't hallucinations because AI isn't thinking, it's processing and predicting text.

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

"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...

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And of course Heinlein didn’t see danger, he saw it as benign, or at least as a way of questioning what consciousness and sentience really is. But in his world AI would also develop empathy, and that’s not predictive text or large language model behavior.

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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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It would be just a tiny bit better if there was also a gigantic puppeteer visibly controlling Gromy

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

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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 · 09/08/2026

Ka was gorgeous and strange, really underrated

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

I love this. Crowley is one of those writers you feel weirdly possessive of if you found him as a kid, like I did. Deep beautiful writer and thinker.

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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 · 31/07/2026

Had the same thought. More passionate and eloquent than the whole Dem leadership.

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

“We have to go for the war powers” oh tell me more

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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