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I’m not usually a believer in divine signs, but if someone survives lethal injection the government should probably let them go.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 3h

This was the content of an email sent from someone I knew to a group of our mutual friends on 9/11, before the sender knew if my family and I had been killed, and it still stings.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 3h

tbh I thought all the “operators” wore beards now and they’re the warfighteriest of them all

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 3h

I wonder how Vance is holding up after that “beardo” remark.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 4h

When I see people murder innocents I believe their cause is less defensible, not more.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h

The common thread in Pete Hegseth's rant to the troops, JD Vance suggesting Talarico is a pedophile, Brendan Carr calling the Trump ads aired with tax dollars "normal force PSAs," and Eric Schmitt fabricating a Jack Smith conspiracy is the whole GOP is incentivized to be performatively evil.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 23h

It’s not that I didn’t realize some people were motivated by that, but I didn’t realize how prevalent it was.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 23h

Watching The Big Sleep (1946) in 1986 is the equivalent of watching Top Gun (1986) today, in 2026.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 30/09/2026

Greed is good (compared to *this*)

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 30/09/2026

One of the more unhappy lessons of the Trump era (for me) was realizing how many people motivated to seek power and wealth are not driven by greed or self-interest so much as by a desire to dominate and exploit others.

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i’m sorry, but i have to post this political ad

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 30/09/2026

I’d add that calling someone a dirtbag is counterproductive because without showing facts that lead your audience to conclude that on their own, name-calling blows your own credibility (and even has that effect when you *do* show those facts).

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 30/09/2026

My downfall is that when I conduct clandestine operations in a city, I always attend a televised sporting event with thousands of attendees.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 29/09/2026

This is why “imagine the harm Trump could cause if he was competent” is a bad hypothetical. bsky.app/profile/ejac...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’ve been saying for a while, someone needs to estimate the net cost of millions of people having to spend a chunk of every day worrying about what the insane president has done or will do.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 29/09/2026

Good example of this in a more general form—letting the audience enjoy making the final inference: bsky.app/profile/maxk...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funniest part to me is Jack Smith using 110% of his lawyer brain. He avoids making the connection himself; he doesn't even say "Hawkeyes," he just says "Iowa." He knows it's better to let everyone figure it out on their own. He also knows from Klobuchar's grin that she'll dunk it for him.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article

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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here to tell you that the chemistry and tension in this scene still hits for 2026 teenagers, as evidenced by the very vocal reactions of my students today

Dorothy Malone and Humphrey Bogart in the bookstore scene in 1946’s The Big Sleep

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 29/09/2026

One particularly irritating habit of LLMs is their desire to tell and repeat everything they believe they know, like a so-so student writing an essay exam. It may be too granular or completely irrelevant to the question or wrong, but it is a thing is believes and you’re going to hear about it.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 29/09/2026

I’ve now seen what appears to be a demand letter from a lawyer written by an LLM. Summarizing information but failing to explain context in ways that make reading it feel like a fever dream. ☠️

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Woman accuses Idaho drag performer of exposing himself, uploads edited version of his act blurring out what she claims are his private parts. After he sues her for defamation, her appellate filings misstate and hallucinate Idaho law. Idaho Supreme Court upholds $1.1 million verdict in his favor.

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$1.1M Libel Award to Drag Performer Who Had Been Accused of Exposing Himself Upheld

Idaho Supreme Court finds false caselaw quotations, after jury found false factual assertions.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 28/09/2026

Do you believe things like contemporary Hindutva are influenced by American theology or is it that chauvinism with a religious aspect has universal appeal, like junk food?

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 28/09/2026

It really doesn't make sense to attribute those job losses to AI-the-technology, because if that were the case we'd be observing AI outputs displacing conventional entertainment products, and they're clearly not. Rather, the impact of AI is that AI-the-business is crowding out other investment.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 28/09/2026

Guided video tour of progress on the Ballroom.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 28/09/2026

The trend she describes is particularly American, but chauvinist movements with religious elements aren’t.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 28/09/2026

Is this something specifically American? I think I’d be relieved to learn it’s not near universal.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 28/09/2026

As @zachrabiroff.com put it a few days ago: bsky.app/profile/zach...

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

It would have to make funding non-economical, not just embarrassing. And so probably not effective if the company is drowning in billions of dollars.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

With enough big settlements and forced resignations, I expect VC funds will spread the message that this isn’t compatible with a company doing a Series A. No idea if we’re close to that threshold yet.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

There are, of course, a *lot* of laws that provide recourse for victims of the kinds of things broadly encompassed by “quasi mandatory office sex party,” no need to boil the ocean.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

If Ken White was still active here, he’d pop in to say that it’s almost never RICO.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

And if you’re advising a particular kind of AI enthusiast, it may be comforting to be able to say, “look—even the silicon parrot you trust more than me says this is going to get you removed from your job, $&#%+!!!”

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

I use a different legal AI service (although I don’t recommend relying on its legal analysis for anything but a starting point). Still, this isn’t a hard question (“California / Ninth Circuit law. Is it permissible to invite company employees to a sex party?”).

Ethan, from an employer risk-and-compliance standpoint, the answer is: strongly inadvisable, and legally dangerous. There is no per se statute that says "you may not invite employees to a sex party," but doing so as an employer, manager, or supervisor exposes the company to liability under multiple independent FEHA and Title VIl theories — hostile work environment, quid pro quo harassment, retaliation, and the statutory failure-to-prevent duty. California law is markedly more employer-adverse than federal law here, and the employer's exposure for a supervisor's conduct is strict — no knowledge or negligence required. The narrow scenarios in which such an invitation escapes liability (a genuinely private, off-hours relationship unconnected to work; a truly isolated, non-severe, non-coercive one-off with no adverse follow-up) are fact-dependent, unreliable to plan around, and easy to lose.
Below is the governing framework and where the real risk lives.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

I want to know what Claude for Legal says about this.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

Startups often don’t hire full-time GCs until they reach a certain size, so there are fractional GCs / outside counsel preparing memos. Or, I suspect, not being asked for any advice in advance and then dealing with claims afterward.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

If I had to invent a hypothetical to drive Bay Area GCs to madness I couldn’t outdo “CEO seeks legal guidance on office sex party.”

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

Genuine question: a huge percentage of young Bay Area companies are, in one way or another, “AI companies.” How prevalent is this nonsense among those companies overall?

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

🎵the stars at night are big and bright [clap clap clap clap] I ain’t heard “Choosin’ Texas”🎵

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

prescription drug coverage is some of the most demonic shit you will ever encounter in your life. my doctor prescribed me a medication and somehow there are now at least two third-party corporations involved for no apparent reason and nobody knows what is going on or what needs to be done

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

All y’all haven’t heard “Choosin’ Texas” because you’re choosin’ iced coffee.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

Again tonight. Must be the time of year.

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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦 @ejacobslaw.com · 27/09/2026

The same reason it was the premise of “V”: it captures the imagination.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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