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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️

@rlheppner.bsky.social
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Law Prof at Duquesne Kline Law (Civ Pro, Fed Courts) • Former Appellate Attorney • English PhD (Modernism) • Posts too infrequently to have a brand. • Overeducated, overtired, underwhelmed. • see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵 • he/him

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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 11h
This is essentially the message of the Coyote v. ACME movie.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 21h
This is something that a lot of pundits and economists (but not a lot of politicians) tend to forget: The purpose of the economy is to encourage human flourishing. If some economic indicators are increasing while human happiness is decreasing, then those indicators don't mean what you think they do.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Unplugging a White Cord
Alt: Unplugging a White Cord
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Having never heard it, I’m going to assume it’s a song advocating for abortion rights in Texas.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“most popular song in history” factoid actualy [sic] just statistical error. average person has never heard it. Choosin’ ’Texas Georg, who lives in cave & streams over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn [sic] should not have been counted
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Agreed! I saw Coyote v. ACME today too, and it was great fun. It would be a lot of fun for law students too!
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
A Post analysis found that immigration judges have ordered more than 440,000 asylum seekers removed during President Trump’s first 19 months back in office — more than during the previous eight years combined. wapo.st/4yZlKjy
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 25/09/2026
I guess that the best argument, for me, against AI is that everyone advocating it seems to be a psychopath.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone should make a little web tool/template for making these.
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CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sep 24th 1975 - After being allowed back on the air for a final farewell, Howard Beale launches into a rant about life being "bullshit", causing the ratings to spike. 📽️📅 Network (1976)
3 Screenshots from the movie "Network" (1976): First, a newsroom control room filled with men at monitors and staff watching intently as a broadcast goes live, with the subtitle reading “Good evening. Today is Wednesday, September the 24th…”. Second, an older news anchor in a suit sits at a desk under studio lights, leaning forward with a grave expression as the subtitle reads “…and this is my last broadcast.” Third, a man in a suit speaks urgently into a phone in the control room as people move in the background, with the subtitle reading “He’s saying that life is bullshit and it is. What are you screaming about?”.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I use a lot of The Simpsons for in-class examples. I figure it’s still on TV and has been since well before my students were born. This year for the first time, a lot of students don’t seem to understand the (very basic) references.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The principles for imposing liability for AI malfeasance is pretty basic. They can be found in the Katko v. Briney ("spring gun") case and the Escola v. Coca Cola (strict product liability) concurrence. You don't actually need much else.
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#OnThisDay September 19, 1994, #TheSimpsons began airing in syndication. Local Fox stations aired repeats 5 days a week, sometimes up to 5 times a day, aiding in every Simpsons nerd's ability to commit entire classic episodes to memory for the rest of their lives.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This seems like the apotheosis of the Silicon Valley business model of planning to succeed by selling your startup to Google or Meta or whomever. You’ve always gotta find a bigger buyer…
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/09/2026
I think what is saddest about the accelerated destruction of public higher education in the 2020s is seeing the right-wing out-organize and out-strategize the left even as we on the left have thought so deeply about organization and strategy for decades.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I mean, AI happily confesses to hiding mistakes ALL THE TIME. And some of those confessions are also mistakes.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is it just me, or does the apparent need to specify "willing" raises some questions about the Clown Brigade's past practices?
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Jetsons lied to us
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I mean, AI happily confesses to hiding mistakes ALL THE TIME. And some of those confessions are also mistakes.
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Alexandra Lahav @alahav.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I would love to hear from professors in humanities or law who are assigning longer form research papers in seminars and the like, how are you doing it in the "age of AI"?
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Is it just me, or does the apparent need to specify "willing" raises some questions about the Clown Brigade's past practices?
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
[discourse voice] what’s the best conservative work of art
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t find this “AI won’t destroy humanity, people will destroy humanity (using AI)” argument all that comforting.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Only 10 years. It’s been a hell of a decade.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Only 10 years. It’s been a hell of a decade.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 13/09/2026
That one bors comic, but:

[a peasant carrying a bundle of sticks looking at a smiling man sitting inside a stone well.]

Peasant: "These sticks are heavy... what are you doing?"

Man: "I'm sitting in the well that makes people smarter. I AM VERY INTELLIGENT."
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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Does anyone have a contact in or otherwise know something about Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in Bolivia? I have been trying to reach their librarians/archivists/historians about a manuscript preserved there. I have emailed every address I could find, to no response. Any leads apprciated!
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Garratt v. Dailey
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“I have so many bags, but getting this one will solve all my problems.” The RLHeppner story.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This depends on when my midlife was, I suppose. In my 30s, I quit academia and became a lawyer. In my 40s, I quit practicing law and became a professor. Now, in my 50s, I’ve taken up rock climbing again. (But honestly, none of those really felt like “existential crises.”)
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don’t know if the new Apple phone will do it well, but a foldable phone is obviously a good idea: small when it’s in your pocket, large when you are using it.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New data-visualization of BlueSky.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is it just me who thinks "using AI to write code is really helpful, especially for people who don't know how to code" and "using AI to write is generally a bad idea, especially for people who don't know how to write" are not really contradictory?
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New data-visualization of BlueSky.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Welp, the viral post of the day hit early today.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m not from New Jersey. But one parent is and I spent some formative years there. mydialect.us/quiz-standar...
Redder areas talk more like you; bluer areas least.
You talk most like someone from New Jersey - about 52% of your answers match a typical resident.
MYDIALECT - STANDARD
Least like you
Most like you
https://mydialect.us
Save map as PNG
Cities most & least like you
Interpolated from the nearest survey responses.
MOST SIMILAR
1. New York, NY (50%)
2. Philadelphia, PA
(50%)
3. Boston, MA (50%)
LEAST SIMILAR
1. New Orleans, LA
(42%)
2. Omaha, NE (42%)
3. Kansas City, MO
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Peter Orlowicz @peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is also true for legal writing, of course (appellate and otherwise). @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social @smmarotta.bsky.social @elliemargolis.bsky.social @djsziff.bsky.social @aznchew.bsky.social
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
@lastpositivist.bsky.social is this accurate? It seems accurate.
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Philosophy
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
But wouldn’t it be good to decrease the surplus population? Just asking questions.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I just sent an email thanking all the backers of TAG!, and I wanted to share some of it with all of you. BlueSky has been my primary and best means of sharing information about the game and the sale, and I want to thank you all for putting up with me for the past month.
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thanks, everyone, for putting up with all the marketing. I will now return to my normal BlueSky snark-posting.
Another satisfied customer! (A little terrier, with TAG! The Jurisdiction Game.)
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Richard Heppner 🤷🏼‍♂️ @rlheppner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
TAG! The Jurisdiction Game: The Crowd Sale has now ended. We sold nearly 100 copies and all the supporters will get a 32% discount. (You can learn more about the game, and find the link to buy it, at the website.)
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