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When five Supreme Court Justices recuse themselves from a single case, that's news. When they do it because most of them have book deals with the same publisher, that's potentially a problem. Last week's Monday order list included this unusual admission: five Justices recused from Baker v. Coates, a silly plagiarism case involving Ta-Nehisi Coates (that both lower courts dismissed).

We generally understand how LLM hallucinations work. An AI model tries to generate what seems like a plausible response to whatever you ask it, drawing on its training data to construct something t…

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A flagrantly dishonest president meets a deeply incurious conservative base