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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is as if we are outlawing rescuing immobilized people from a burning building, because the house never ought to have caught fire. It is grotesque, it re-victimizes vulnerable people, and it is below our dignity as a country.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And whether there are realistic alternatives is one of the things that is legitimately considered in determining capacity.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Now, is the suffering of people with mental illness often preventable and possible to mitigate with better supports and treatment. Absofuckinlutely it is. But it is no answer to "we have placed them in a world of suffering" to refuse to let them out.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And this does not stop people with mental illness from killing themselves. It merely prevents anyone from helping them when it is a reasonable course of action they have the capacity to adopt. The people "helped" will either suffer needlessly in life, or in death. That's the net result.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There is, I promise you, NO WORLD in which a psychiatrist would assess a person to have capacity for MAID where that person has a disease where that person is at risk of acting on pathological suicidal ideation. Regretfully, they do not give people that degree of respect.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And the hearings are usually in front of other psychiatrists who are making the same mistake. That being the case, what does it mean, right now, if a doctor says a person with mental illness has capacity to accept MAID? IT MEANS MAID IS WHAT THE DOCTOR WOULD DO.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you ask the average psychiatrist "does this person have capacity" the primary factor the doctors use to decide is whether they and the patient agree. I've been in hundreds of hearings where psychiatrists could point to no other sign of incapacity than disagreement and diagnosis, neither relevant

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Canadian government has announced its intention to mandate that exact mistake with regard to MAID. The MAID system already requires that the doctors are satisfied the patient has capacity to make the decision. And let me tell you something about how doctors do that. Because it isn't good.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I used to work representing people suffering from mental illness, and the biggest injustice our legal system commits against them is to conflate mental illness with a lack of capacity. They are different things. You remove rights for a lack of capacity, not for mental illness.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm looking for Legal Engineers to join my team at NetDocuments. Remote, US legal experience preferred. Please spread the word to any lawyer-coders you know! job-boards.greenhouse.io/netdocuments... #LegalTech

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Legal Engineer

Lehi, Utah, United States; Remote - US

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eventually, yes. But I need to understand it, first. 😅 Most features of §Blawx are a user-friendly version of something you can already do in code. This is entirely novel. It will be a while before I understand what it is for, and how best to use it. But it existing sure helps with finding out. 😉

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks to my former colleague Andreas Källberg who drew my attention to the fact that s(CASP) answers were a form of partial evaluation in early 2021. And to @mattwadd.bsky.social whose unwavering appreciation for propositional logic flowcharts was the inspiration for what to do with that fact.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So this is not a way of visualizing the rules. The rules are way too complicated to be visualized this way. It is a way of visualizing a set of answers to a question. This way a human validating the outputs doesn't need to look at 16 justifications, they can look at one flowchart with 4 buttons!

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The flowchart is a "partial evaluation" of the §Blawx rules into a new program that is a) possible to visualize as a flowchart, b) can only answer that specific question in the context of those specific facts and the original rules, and c) can still answer it all the ways §Blawx could.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You may think "oh, cool, the §Blawx rules are converted into a flowchart". No. The §Blawx rules were used to run a question like "when is bob protected or not protected by this rule?" There are two answers (protected/not), and different explanations that depend on different fact scenarios for each.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

§Blawx generates multiple answers, and multiple explanations for each answer, each as a constrained tree justification. What if it was possible to take a bunch of those trees and combine them into a ternary flowchart diagram to allow you to explore them interactively? #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This past week I made 13 changes to the deployed version of §Blawx, and it took about 5 hours of my time, almost none of which was spent in an IDE. For comparison, my average in the busy part of 2025 was 0.6 changes per week. This is differnt, folx. #HarnessEngineering

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@timhortonsofficial.bsky.social Just walked in one of your stores and immediately out again. Don't do sponsorships where the owner of the IP is a famous transphobe. It's not OK. I'll get coffee somewhere else until you can get your heads out of your Azkabans.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm recruiting some Legal Engineers to work with me at NetDocuments. If you have followers with a combination of legal and software engineering experience, please pass it along! job-boards.greenhouse.io/netdocuments...

job-boards.greenhouse.io

Legal Engineer

Lehi, Utah, United States; Remote - US

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wake up, move a PR to staging from my phone, test it for 5m on my laptop or phone, merge it to main, have breakfast, go to work. 😅🚀📈⏩

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Experts are subject to the curse of expertise where they know, and the curse of ignorance where they don't. Perhaps more than most.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yes. People seem to think that because it should be hard in terms of approval thresholds to change constitutions that it should also be hard procedurally. I think it should be closer to mandatory procedurally. Getting very high levels of agreement on even excellent ideas requires an ongoing debate.

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Mimi Reyburn @mimi.computer · 15/09/2026

I LOVE this talk

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

youtu.be/L8QwMIza74g?... A little video introducing MCP Deployments in §Blawx v3.0.7. Two blog posts at app.blawx.dev/content for details. Optional OAuth authentication using any provider you specify. #RulesAsCode #LegalTech #LegalQuant

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Blawx MCP Deployments Intro

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The moment someone reminds him who the head of state of Northern Ireland is...

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've been doing it on and off for a few months, but I still get giddy asking Claude to do a #RulesAsCode encoding in §Blawx, and watching these little purple dots appear as sections of of the law are encoded one by one. One prompt, and it's done. Insane.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KNk... Did a talk for the #RulesAsCode Guild last week on §Blawx v3, and officially announced a new experiment generating an AI reimplementation of the SARA dataset inside §Blawx, and previewing plans for the rest of 2026. #LegalTech

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Jason Morris at RaC Guild September 2026 — Introducing §Blawx v3

YouTube video by RaC Guild

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey, cool! The §Blawx MCP Apps work inside Codex, too! When did that happen? Time for a Fable/Astra code-off, maybe!😅 #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

§Blawx hasn't had an "or" block for 5 years. Today I released v3.0.6 and finally fixed that. Disjunction function resumption. Next version should be pretty fun. #RulesAsCode #LegalTech

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

So Trump confuses "exchange rate" with "trade imbalance" because he's losing his mind, and all of our news outlets are reacting with credulity that he wants to do something about the USD/CAD exchange rate, so our news is also utterly detached from reality. Do better, journalists.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

158 Canadian military died in the Afghanistan war, which was triggered by the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington. 158 Canadians who died defending our "allies". Now cabinet members for a New Yorker President in Washington are saying Canada does not have a military. Utterly beneath contempt.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There are plenty of reasons to boycott Google anyway, so no arguments there. As for agency, we vacationed in Europe this summer, partly because we couldn't stomach going to the US. And I buy Canadian or non-US whenever I can at the grocery store. I don't pay for Google maps, so I'll probably stick.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is not what I see in Google maps, which I think is geolocation specific.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I sort of like Carny making social media posts with words he knows Trump won't understand, like "hydronym."

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Remember, this is a trade negotiation with the dotard who wants to use economic power to annex Canada. Of course we are going to be given terms we are forced to refuse. He sees trade as a zero sum game.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I understand and regret the pain it causes short term, but I'm happier with this than I am with acceding to the demands of a bully, cheat, and liar. Every time the US injures the trade relationship our resilience as an economy is forced to expand, and our reliance on the US is reduced.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

app.blawx.dev/content/an-h... In 1986, they published "The British Nationality Act as a Logic Program", which started the academic field of legal knowledge representation and reasoning. Today, §Blawx has an encoding of the same act as an example project, but written entirely by Opus 5. #RulesAsCode

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It maintains the reliability of Canada as a negotiating partner, puts the onus to solve the problem on the US, supports unity among the confederation. The current strategy makes us liars and/or weak, and justifiably pisses off the provinces. Seems genuinely inept.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you're not happy with that, we understand. We could have warned you it would happen, but you didn't ask, or you didn't listen. Listen to us now. Impose these tarrifs on Wednesday, these talks will stop, and you will end up with more boycotts we are powerless to do anything about. Like travel." /3

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Think of the provincial alcohol bans as a boycott, not a trade policy. If you make yourself less hated by the provinces, you might get them reversed by a good trade deal. But we will not promise what it would require us to violate provincial sovereignty to do. 2/

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It feels to me that the only coherent position for the government of Canada to take with regard to alcohol sales is to say "the Provincial governments do not negotiate international trade agreements, we do. We don't control alcohol sales, they do.1/

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Scott is not going to be there, sorry. Happy reasons. And I don't know when I will next be in the physical proximity of anyone who is going to be there. Joys of remote work. It's okay. I'm grateful to have a thing to look forward to.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I don't think that's weird. I think that's Fable.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gaw, man. Now I really wish I was going. If I've only worked there for two weeks, is it too soon to ask the CPO to collect stickers for me? Probably, right? 🤔

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Ignore this point at your peril. If you are still hiring for job descriptions that existed three years ago, that is a bad sign. You aren't going to get it right on the first try. But the first try should already be happening, anyway.

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Jason Morris @lexpedite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

youtu.be/n9BI5neXgTY §Blawx v3 is live. Huge improvements in UI designed to allow you to validate what your AI agent is doing in real time. This is what the future of #RulesAsCode #LegalTech has looked like in my head for about 10 years. #LawSky Please share, and try it (free!) at app.blawx.dev

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Blawx v3 Announcement

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