Sam Jefferson

Come as you are. Onward, Upward, Forward | MSU ‘18 | UT Law ‘23 | Lifelong & Proud Texan 🤘| @Spurs & @MinnesotaLynx Fan 🏀

[Sam Jefferson @SamJefferson__]

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[Stephen Simpson @Steve55Simpson]

Gov. Greg Abbott signed an emergency order to deploy all available state resources to combat New World Screwworm. This includes university assistance, specifically from Texas A&M.

Follow the thread below for more.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Today Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is announcing that he will temporarily halt tax breaks for data center developers.

He will also call on the state legislature to take multiple actions around data centers, including banning NDAs that have been used to keep these projects secret.

[Sam Jefferson @SamJefferson__]

Miscellaneous, equally as important

1. Housing - studying new kinds of single-family occupancies for first-time homebuyers

2. Please for the love of all that’s good: TRAINS. Texas Triangle. Come on

3. Ensuring the AG’s office investigates and prosecutes all harmful acts

[Sam Jefferson @SamJefferson__]

If I were a legislator, big issues in the coming session would be:

1. Data Centers/Tech Projects - water usage, electricity generation, ensuring tax revenue
2. Water infrastructure & protection
3. Surveillance pricing & consumer protection
4. Nat. Disaster preparedness

#Txlege

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The New York Legislature has passed landmark legislation to stop surveillance pricing and ban corporations from using personal data to set individualized prices.

The bill now heads to the desk of Governor Kathy Hochul.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A Texas county granted Elon Musk an 100% tax exemption for a proposed TeraFab chip manufacturing facility that could cost upwards of $119 billion to implement over four years.

Grimes County will be home to a massive data center that produces high-performance semiconductor chips for Tesla vehicles, robots, and SpaceX systems.

Musk won't pay a dime thanks to the tax abatement the county commissioners are giving SpaceX.

So who will pay for the complex? The residents of Grimes County when they check their electric bill.

[StatMuse @statmuse]

The most 3P in a game by a rookie in WNBA history:

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘interloper.’
https://t.co/eIXl4QeDuc

[Dictionary.com @Dictionarycom]

Today's #WordOfTheDay is magniloquent.

Learn more about this word: https://t.co/6bEh4ucgap

[James Barlowe @DraftJunkyJames]

The WNBA needs to put the same machine behind Olivia Miles they had with CC. At the very least give her the Ionescu push.

She’s a superstar

[espnW @espnW]

MINNESOTA'S ROOK IS DOIN' BIG THINGS 🔥

Olivia Miles has the MOST 3-PT FG by a rookie in WNBA history, passing Caitlin Clark and Crystal Robinson 👏

[Sam Jefferson @SamJefferson__]

Just once, I’d love to hear Fox News give praise to a Democrat who isn’t “the only one siding with republicans” or a “Republican who sided with democrats”

If an outcome fails to pass, it’s because the people don’t want it. Not because people balked or were “weak”

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: Four Senate Republicans just joined Democrats to block one of President Trump’s key legislative priorities.

In a setback for the White House, GOP Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis and Mitch McConnell broke with their party to help stop the SAVE America Act from advancing in the Senate.

The vote exposed a familiar divide inside the Republican conference, with concerns over the bill’s provisions outweighing pressure from Trump and GOP leadership.

[Texas Softball @TexasSoftball]

YOUR TEXAS LONGHORNS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS… AGAIN 🤘🏆

#HookEm

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

Congress approved the 19th Amendment and sent it to the states to ratify on this day in 1919. Whenever a new state voted in favor, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) sewed a star on this giant flag. 🧵

[Nathan Bernier @KUTnathan]

I learned more about this fire. After it happened, people assumed it was arson. AFD doesn't think so.

AFD radio communications and the fire incident report point to the fire starting in a battery charging room.

CapMetro hired a forensic investigator.

https://t.co/PL6DcoYB7E

[Lily Kepner @lilykepner]

BREAKING: Without warning, @UTAustin takes down its Cesar Chavez statue today.

https://t.co/UPG48xRzND

[City of Austin @austintexasgov]

We’re excited to welcome you to the Mexican-American Cultural Center reopening on June 6, 11a.m. – 9 p.m., where you will get an opportunity to see the work, creativity, + influence of our community come to life. 🧡💛

🦋 Event details: https://t.co/7NQZ0U7TKw

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

More lawyers misusing AI - 9th Circuit weighs in:

The order begins with a "warning to the members of this Court's bar: be aware of the risks of overreliance on generative AI, read everything cited in a court filing—whether drafted by generative AI or not—and disclose quickly and transparently generative AI hallucinations that are inadvertently included in court filings."

Lawyers here submitted briefs "containing hallucinated fabrications and inaccuracies."

They tried to blame "copy-paste errors" or typos.

At oral argument, they initially insisted that AI "was not used." Later, they admitted it was "possible" that AI might have been used.

Court: "The misconduct in this case did not end with the initial filing of the briefs. At every subsequent step—including a Motion to Correct, oral argument, the Response to the panel’s Order to Show Cause, and more recent filings in other cases—the attorneys knowingly or recklessly made false statements to this Court."

"While not inherently unethical or irresponsible, using generative AI without rigorously checking its output does present a higher risk of violating certain ethical and procedural rules.

This is due to the nature of mistakes that generative AI is prone to make, at least in its current stage of advancement."

"It is no excuse that Sethi entrusted substantive cite checking to subordinates, and it is no excuse that Sethi purportedly did not know his subordinates had used generative AI."

Sanctions:

-Each lawyer must pay $2,500
-Both suspended from practicing before 9th Cir. for 6 months
-Must send copy of order to all clients, opposing counsel, every presiding judge in their cases, every attorney in their firm.
-Both attorneys and all lawyers at the firm must include a statement disclosing AI use in all future filings.
-Order served on Cal Bar for further proceedings.

[Katie Buehler @bykatiebuehler]

BREAKING: An 8-1 Supreme Court rules the Federal Communications Commission *can* impose monetary forfeiture orders against wrongdoers, finding the practice doesn’t violate the Seventh Amendment’s jury trial right because the orders aren't final. #SCOTUS https://t.co/vvVYBj4vXT