Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What's the collective noun for a plurality of psychopaths? An administration? 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Just got my copy of this amazing book, long in development and more important than ever. More info at www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... 041
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Chris Rufo has long been the canary in that coal mine. Seemed to have an obsession with rehabilitating Tricky Dick back when I followed him on X. 030
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Corrupting and misappropriating. In this economy? 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You'd almost think this administrative prefers criminality to law-abidingness 120
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Impressive to see a satisfying post emerge almost as quickly as supposedly incriminating texts on a large poster are whisked away 032
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026But just think how great an honor it is to represent a lunitary executive 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Perhaps the whole voting suppression effort is just a diversion from the true plan, which is use billions in dark money and aggressive AI to ensure the plutocrats that the Outlaw in the Oval (ht Maureen Dowd) can continue unrestrained. 011
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"We find interstices everywhere — in our bodies, societies, and work environments. The focus here is on how they work (and don’t) in the complex dance of humans and machines engaged in law practice." marclauritsen01.medium.com/interstitial...marclauritsen01.medium.comInterstitial IntelligenceOur bodies are full of containers and conduits. (Things that hold stuff and things through which stuff moves.) So are information systems… 020
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Couldn't we become the 11th province? Or at least a Canadian territory? 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I foretell a 15 member court by 2031 in marclauritsen01.medium.com/the-end-of-a...marclauritsen01.medium.comThe End of a Legal Ice AgeRemember when ice had to be delivered from afar, not effortlessly produced in your own home? 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Is a law practice like a human body? Hold that thought. marclauritsen01.medium.com/interstitial...marclauritsen01.medium.comInterstitial IntelligenceOur bodies are full of containers and conduits. (Things that hold stuff and things through which stuff moves.) So are information systems… 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I first heard that alternative in a talk by a Canadian Supreme Court justice at the 1989 AI & Law conference in Vancouver 130
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You may remember that I used poems and a painting about Icarus in a LITcon speed-talk some years back. Managed to tie him into the challenges of tech for unrepresented litigants. 020
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I assume someone has already characterized Natalie as Trump's lady in waiting 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In one of my semesters a designated 'Nay Sayer' emerged organically, producing a useful ongoing meme 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Products are only not UPL when no bar authority thinks they are 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Is Rosey the Robot cleaning up as you code? 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Scams used to be obviously fraudulent to catch less attentive victims. Now some leave imperfections to avoid being thought AI-generated. 011
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A good way to support your false claim that past elections have been rigged is to rig the next one 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Many of us instinctively regard the past as less complex — and its leading thinkers/doers as less sophisticated — than now. Each time I read a Shakespeare poem, play a Mozart sonata, or watch a Hitchcock movie I'm reminded how untrue that is. 120
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Most days I get in an hour walk in the nearby woods. Good therapy for the discontents of civilization. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduThe best medicine may be free — Harvard GazetteSusan Abookire, a Harvard Medical School forest therapy guide, explains what a daily dose of nature does for the body. 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Worsening the problems it was ostensibly meant to solve is on brand for this administration 011
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...scholarworks.umass.eduBlack Swans, Gray Cygnets and Other Rare BirdsSurprising, exceptional cases — so-called black swans — can provoke extraordinary change in the way we do things or conceptualize the world. While it is not unreasonable to be surprised by a black swa... 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I may have already noted this, but U Mass emeritus professor Edwina Rissland, who wrote a seminal AI/law article in the Yale Law Journal and taught a related course at Harvard Law for a decade, gave a talk once about 'gray cygnets' (as opposed to black swans, when it came to unusual court rulings.)scholarworks.umass.eduBlack Swans, Gray Cygnets and Other Rare BirdsSurprising, exceptional cases — so-called black swans — can provoke extraordinary change in the way we do things or conceptualize the world. While it is not unreasonable to be surprised by a black swa... 230
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Same here — but I always have to look up how to enter it 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I love how you can pick up a chat with a bot from a few weeks ago and continue like it's only been a few seconds 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Encouraging, even given that "We law people—those of us who spend our careers within the legal industry and its systems—could have spent the last half century or more trying to answer these broader questions of law’s linkage to, obligation to, justice as a central norm." 131
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026My favorite memory is rushing to finish the exam early so I could meet my favorite professor for a pre-arranged beer and getting to his office only to be told he had left for the weekend 090
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Now it's "They're not real Americans, let's keep them down!" 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Yes, who needs to witness explosive logorrhea? 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026You surely remember this - www.instagram.com/reel/DA2jjBF... 100
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I've often found courthouse signage unhelpful even for veteran litigators (when you're not on home territory) 220
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026At least it's not the Crits doing the porting 110
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Our photogenic president evidently loves photo bombing almost as much as real bombing 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026We've had decades of technological breakthroughs that might have softened the ATJ crisis. Something tells me that the solution lies elsewhere. But there's always hope! 120
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Working on my CS degree (Before leaving the house, remember to Check the Stove in case I left a burner on) 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Well scheduled in a season of explosive diarrhea 000
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Hopefully it was not about marshmallows and a pillow or two is missing 010
Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I imagine that in the White House Counsel's Office more sycophantic is good 010