ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear

Faint-hearted descriptivist. Corpse linguistics and uninquisitive semantics. Retweets are proposals of marriage.

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

My partner died this afternoon, just now.

She was responsible for improving, and saving, millions of lives because she was an absolute fucking pest. She made government better because she cared.

I am alone and do not know what to think.

[Mike Berg @MikeKBerg]

Platner campaign admitting he said he would rape men, but “not in a gay way.”

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Three women who dated Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, told The New York Times they found his actions intimidating and disturbing, describing volatile relationships. https://t.co/ClaeKxVUEs

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

Here's an updated version with aurora viewlines. The color scheme needs work but I'll have these auto-generating every hour or so on the site soon.

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

NORTHERN LIGHTS are possible tonight due to a possible geomagnetic storm!

This could lead to auroras being visible as far south as Kansas with a camera. If you live in Canada, your odds of seeing Northern Lights are increasing. Severe storms will increase cloud cover across the Northern Plains and Midwest tonight, so this could disrupt viewing.

[Rebecca Shabad @RebeccaShabad]

There’s a baby piglet on a leash at Union 😍

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@EbrightYon @WilliamBaude Depends on the writing sample.

Finished work product (notes and comments) definitely involve the assistance of others.

Bench and research memos usually don’t, but those aren’t usually shareable.

There’s a reason judges are increasingly relying on writing tests.

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@elainemittleman @WilliamBaude The ability to come up with the right answer for the professor in 20 minutes on an exam is pretty useful signal for someone who will you have 20 minutes to come up with the right answer for the judge during trial.

[William Baude @WilliamBaude]

Interesting finding from the latest George/Yoon/Gulati clerkship paper:

[The Little Platoon @PlatoonPod]

"Jyn, my stardust, I have placed a weakness deep within the system. A flaw so small and powerful, they will never find it. I have made the Death Star non-compliant under OSHA 29 CFR 1926.502, incurring a cost of $16,550 per day for failure to abate violations."

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@brianlfrye @OrinKerr Hear me out….

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@OrinKerr @RobertFreundLaw It’s oddly stressful watching lawyers actually live out my actual stress dreams.

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@Dori_Duz @DavidLat @bloomberglaw @BLaw Do you think that person is likely to be the district judge when it comes to patent cases, ERISA, Bankruptcy Appeals, and countless other niche areas of the law?

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

There are no UFOs.

There’s no Catholic doctrine that says they must be, or even likely are likely to be, demons.

And even if UFOs are real, and they’re demons, FFS don’t go around call the being with death rays and hyperspace/inter-dimensional travel mean names.

[David Lat @DavidLat]

Sex Scandal Report Highlights Judges’ Overdelegation To Clerks

My new @BloombergLaw/@BLaw column looks at an issue raised by the Judge Eleanor Ross scandal that's of greater systemic import to the judiciary than the sex and lies.

https://t.co/4VzgCu99Oc

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@OrinKerr

[Orin Kerr @OrinKerr]

I was recently on "Status Check with @SpiveyConsult," a podcast mostly for those thinking about going to law school, talking about law professors. For those interested, the episode is here:
https://t.co/lKxfXgjM7s

[Lana the Bug 🪲💕 @lanabeesfw]

They’ve found that sperm whales have such complex language that its structurally comparable to Chinese. They use what are essentially vowels. They have different cultural identity markers for each clan of whales. Thats actually insane.

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@langofmind Completely orthogonal, but there was a speaker often described as “who needs no introduction,” and so I took that to heart and introduced him as “Professor So-and-So, 7 time faculty racquetball champion.”

[ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ the average bear @an_average_bear]

@lawprofblawg The authors were fairly open about the shortcomings (e.g., profs were given 3 minutes to answer off the top of their head; pairwise preference isn’t a measure of pedagogic quality).

It’s still super useful and interesting for what it showed and as an iterative block.