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David Friedman

@profdaf.bsky.social
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Law professor. Law school associate dean. I teach Torts. Oregon guy who is still a Connecticut guy. Personal account.

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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 5h
I deserve some kind of photography prize.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guess what I’m teaching tomorrow!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s 1pm, and I find it incredibly assuring that the HMO phone advice nurse greeted me with a “good evening” and concluded with a “good night.”
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That pronunciation didn’t exist before the Thomas hearings and didn’t last much longer than that. Weird stuff.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I tried to get Claude to start a doomsday but I ran out of tokens. Now I have to wait until 5:20 am.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think I should document my NYC 9/11 experiences… before my memories fade and fray at the edges.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I did see that! That’s a social media tradition. Congrats on slugging through it - and I’m sure there are great things ahead for you!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s this kind of garbage that made me cut my presence and time on these websites by 99%.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I haven’t been on here much in over a year. Did I miss anything? How’s everyone doing?
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Spray-on liquid bandage helps! It will sting like absolutely crazy for a minute, but then you’re good.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
40s are the best decade. Energy and wisdom converge!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Mt Hood trying to stay above the smoke…
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Hey congrats on getting through it! Enjoy your August :-)
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Lets be honest .It’s not about how you handle it, it’s about what life gives you.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’d want to know more about NCBE’s counsel about Yakima location / 700 testers on the system at same time . Oregon broke up our administration into 3 separate sites.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Wachtell is regressing to the mean!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My sense is that it’s the complexity of administration that caused the problem - regardless of who owned the failure.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fair point - choose the failure you want to have, I guess. Oregon bar is doing a great job, incidentally…
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I have about 5,000 posts about that - all sealed up on the other site :-)
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s just not feasible to have the state bars administering the exam. Find a way to configure it to be administered by real testing companies, like the accounting and medical boards
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Oh how’s that all going for you?
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
What’d I miss?!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Kicked my social media addiction only to realize how overrated IRL is
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Cats know when they are bad. It comes from their hyper awareness that they are in the predator and prey Venn diagram
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Instead of shaming the lawyers who get caught using hallucinated citations, maybe we should be shaming the AI instead - we are supposed to trust it
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You only ever hear about the subset of lawyers who *get caught* with the hallucinated citations.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hi, cow! Long time no mooooo!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Whalers!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
No, no. He looks too healthy!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I have already had that! Mid career student followed by kiddo 10 years later.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I realize now that my teaching career has now equaled a K through JD in duration.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yowzers. I just finished my 20th year of law teaching. Tempus fugit.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I just used Claude to complete all of my NYT games. It’s remarkably good at it. And wow. It’s going to save me so much time.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Especially in real terms
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Marinating the chips overnight in lard can restore some of the oomph to baked lays
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I don’t get it. lol
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My colleagues here have named him “David”
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Hi, A-MWC!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It helps to teach torts for 15 years AND have a sick mind
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It’s niche, sure.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I’m back. And I have 4 years worth of stockpiled nonsense takes
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨 I found a companion case to Summers vs. Tice! 🚨
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I think they’ll PROBABLY be ok. the panic in some circles about the death of social media is unwarranted. They’ll adjust, they’ll settle.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Agree 100%. The smoking gun memos are durable and the effects will have a long tail. Unless they find their way to legislative outcome like PLCAA.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The Meta /YouTube verdict sure opened the floodgates to the open the floodgates metaphor.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Absolutely. Well, I guess we won’t have Anthony in front of us in line!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
lol - I will buy you a slice anywhere - anytime!
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
You may be entitled to your own facts, but you aren’t entitled to your own opinions.
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
What’s the matter with you?
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David Friedman @profdaf.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Not that there isn’t merit - or nuance - here. But we all know … don’t we…
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