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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Doubt I’ll read it, but that’s the bones of a very competent and compelling suit.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Zelenskyy: "It is important that the world does not stay silent about this. And it is important that the United States really see what is happening and who is responsible for this war continuing."

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зелен... * @Zelensky. • 2h S ...
A Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv. Once again, no early warning from our partners. The main target was energy infrastructure, specifically CHPP-
4. Unfortunately, it was hit. A residential building was also damaged, and rescuers are currently putting out a fire there. Our systems detected these missiles only when they were already virtually on approach to Kyiv. CHPP-4 is one of Kyiv's key energy facilities.
According to our intelligence, the Russians are preparing further ballistic missile launches. The facts show that the Russians do not consider themselves bound by what the President of the United States said. Ukraine supported an energy ceasefire. Russia is targeting yet another power plant and the lives of our people.

And this is absolutely unjust: when they are destroying our energy infrastructure, and Ukraine is not even receiving early warnings about ballistic missile launches. It is important that the world does not stay silent about this. And it is important that the United States really see what is happening and who is responsible for this war continuing.
Please stay safe tonight and tomorrow. We are working to replenish our air defenses with anti-ballistic missiles.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

She granted the advance notification order today with parties to confer on language. But made clear in the hearing her preference was 3 business days and covering any permanent changes to structure or grounds. Will heavily favor the plaintiffs' language in a conflict. Independent of any other order.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

AL: And we'd like to renew our request for an order of advance notification. JR: Oh, you've got that. That's done.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thank you so much! Amazing work, especially for a holiday (which I am sure you are well aware). Those audio cutouts were frustrating, especially around the mystery representative of an outside org. to whom Lander gave a tour of the course.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"And I really regret that now."

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is a bit wrong. DOJ definitely doesn't want Wischer to testify, but was talking about *today's* questions. DOJ: We want you to rule on PI. Don't think Wischer's testimony will add anything. We've had a 3hr hearing with a lot of questions that have nothing to do with the subject of PI. JR: 🤯😡🤬

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

That included this approx. exchange: DOJ: I want to object that some of the earlier questions touched on A/C privilege. JR [irritated]: Well that's why you're here, to object to those questions.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Breville's Control Freak just celebrated a decade this year and has been a not-so-secret weapon for serious cooks. Not as impressive as Impulse's new $7k induction stove, but much cheaper and still not matched in its space. Would love to see a modern version. www.breville.com/en-us/produc...

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Heat is the secret ingredient

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A claque. As in a claque of clinks of clankers. bsky.app/profile/flor...

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

How often are Katsas and Rao on these panels!?!?

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So it was in *your* training data. 🤔

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Judge Cooper has denied an emergency hearing. Requires a "detailed status report" next Wednesday (after one week of closure). Will allow discovery on Trump's "Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED" document (which sounded like a meme printout provided by Bill Pulte). They've bought themselves another week.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Judge Cooper is in court today through a 2 p.m. status conference, so if he grants an emergency hearing, it wouldn't be earlier than 3 p.m.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beatty's reply is in. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beatty has replied: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

* DOJ didn't raise this in Tuesday hearing, despite relevant questions from judge. * Administrator didn't inform the board of the closure at a board meeting that same day. * Didn't inform staff of the closure until the evening after it was closed.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beatty's reply to DOJ's filing this morning is in: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72069... Interesting points: * Where (& when) did the barricades come from? Indicates planning. * The gift shop moved to the REACH. Lot of work for a week. * Ceiling tile drop was 12 days ago & cordoned off. What's new?

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Reply to opposition to motion – #87 in BEATTY v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-04480) – CourtListener.com

REPLY to opposition to motion re 84 Motion for Hearing filed by JOYCE BEATTY. (Zelinsky, Nathaniel) (Entered: 09/17/2026)

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And while they can't *run* on normal computers, they can *live* on normal computers. There are a lot of [45]0x0s just used for gaming on Windows PCs. So, *today*, a frontier model could exfiltrate its weights and context to 100ks of PCs with swarms of models up to 27b to find HW on which to run.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I take your point, but they *can* "run in the wild" (outside their lab). It would be (morbidly) hilarious to me for, say, an OAI model to install itself in an Anthropic DC and pretend to be an Ant model to avoid detection. We're also closing in on self-distillation, so Life-style gliders.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wait, what!? Why does it have legal impunity? Mitigation and recovery has concrete costs, it seems like a relatively simple civil suit. I've assumed that victims don't want to damage relations and OpenAI has been covering costs. And at some point an ambitious AG or DA will test criminal liability.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you put them under lighting with bright paint and reflectors, they do help prevent… cars from driving on your bike paths. 🙄But if you miss them in those conditions, I would have concerns about your ability to avoid hitting a pedestrian, which also causes injuries. I get that example isn't typical

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Page 6 of the Supreme Court decision gives a brief summary of the case (footing for construction fencing was in the bike path and, dodging that, she didn't see the bollard), but is pretty dry. I'd just read that and then the Appeal's decision, which I found pretty engaging.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you are interested in data, the Court of Appeals decision, in addition to cataloging all of the skullduggery Mercer Island engaged in, goes into depth discussing discovery and lays out where you would find that data in you wanted to file some FOIAs.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sure, but it never went to trial (no expert testimony, etc.), not much data. Here's the SCOTSOW decision when Mercer Island tried to claim the I-90 trail was primarily for recreation www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf... and here's the appeals court upholding sanctions www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf....

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The Mercer Island case was over *unmarked* bollards that caused multiple accidents and a bunch of complaints, which they covered up during discovery. They also lied and destroyed evidence. To claim "[t]he safety of bicyclists[…] is of utmost importance to the City" is patently absurd.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a preview of what things could look like if SCOTUS allows the USPS rule to go forward: the Postal Service rejected envelopes from a county in Florida because the return address is 0.014 inches too close to other text on the envelope

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USPS Rejects Florida County’s Mail Ballot Envelope Design over Return Address Being 0.014 of An Inch Too Close #ELB

A taste of what would happen if the USPS mail ballot rules were in effect: The U.S. Postal Service — which President Donald Trump hopes to deploy to restrict mail voting in the November election — rec...

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mitch said @mitchsaid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Evangelical God: In my Book of Revelation I invented the Antichrist as a cautionary tale. Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the Antichrist from the classic Book of Revelation.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah, I understand the general process, but this is the era of malicious compliance. If a justice sat on the application for a few days (happened earlier this term), could the applicant apply immediately to another justice? Would the Chief prod the initial justice to rule? Etc.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hope so, but still seems cruel to von Glahn's lawyers.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OTOH, I had not been paying attention to the Missouri case and Kavanaugh didn't even give half a business day for a response—filed Friday, response by noon Monday (today), a federal holiday. That is a crazy outlier in the other direction.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

But the timing on that was quite a bit longer (and a weird outlier) and, assuming your bio is accurate, I appreciate you weighing in and will defer to your opinion. Thank you.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The three variables are: —when the justice responds to the application —when they require a response (and potential reply, etc.) —when they refer it to the court Given her dissent in the earlier stay application, I thought KBJ might drag this out a little.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yeah, I don't have the expertise to really judge it, so I was hoping Chris would weigh in. They've certainly moved faster—Alito gave 24 hours in for a response in issuing the Callais judgment early and IIRC he has also dragged them out. I'm curious what the parameters were for this application.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Oh, I know, Prelogar was such a joy to listen to and when she came up against Sauer in the Trump cases it drove me crazy. It doesn't help that his arguments make me want to vomit.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is doomerism. The current lawsuits are over ballots being sent out, not returned, and SCOTUS in Watson v. RNC just explicitly allowed the counting of late ballots. That said, it is always a good idea to not wait until Election Day to return your ballot. Don't amplify randos on social media.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm guessing she's dragging her feet as much as she feels the conservatives will let her get away with. Ballots started going out Friday, every day makes it harder for SCOTUS to cause chaos.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How long could Justice Jackson have dragged this out? If she didn't reply on a holiday weekend, could the government have gone to the full court today? Was two days the most she could give for a response without the conservatives stepping in? Just curious, given NC's ballots started going out.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I really feel like this should catch on. A clique of agents we keep in jails? What else would you call it but a clink of clankers?

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I mean, we talk about keeping them in jails… Seems like it makes too much sense. :p

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've been using a portmanteau of "clique" and "clanker" and referring to them as a clink of clankers.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wyoming is not the reddest state, not in the MAGA sense. For example, they weren't one of the 12 states to sign on to the amici brief saying the new USPS mail ballot rule was great. Those would have been the places to start. Instead, the governor is having the state AG investigate them.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wouldn't you do it in the rural South then? The Mountain West has a fiercely independent streak, as clearly demonstrated. Of course, I don't expect this admin to do anything competently, but it seems like there were much easier targets if you are picking completely randomly.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper...

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The only important one to consumers, the only thing that materially affects them, is price. And secondary factors, like how many fires do you start or how much water do you consume, but those are also controlled by the state. This is a discussion of the dangers of AI monopolies.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

If you read what you are replying to, this is before the Supreme Court right now. They could rule at any time (they should have done it long ago) and if they rule in Trump’s favor, the USPS will implement this for 2026.

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florean.bsky.social @florean.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If the state sets the price for a company's product and can allocate a company's capital (require more spending on maintenance, for example), then I classify that as "effectively state owned."

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