Jamie Crooks

Co-Founder, Fairmark Partners. Anti-monopoly litigation & policy, workers' rights, access to justice, armchair con law.

[Jamie Crooks @jamietryhard]

@ImShahinyan @ChessvisionAI scan black please

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@poorlyreasoned @hecubian_devil It’s legitimate but don’t call it Democratic policy

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@mollyxbrady Seen yesterday on the tube in London

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@poorlyreasoned Are you taking the OP at its implication that people who learn about the allegations are supporting him *bc* the allegations? Or is this story just reporting they don’t care upon hearing? Bc former I’d agree but latter I very much wouldn’t

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@GMIgorSmirnov @ChessvisionAI scan black please

[Elai @elaifresh]

The Crunchwrap Supreme has existed for 5x longer than the Confederacy

[Jamie Crooks @jamietryhard]

I have this exact bad dream like once every two weeks.

[En Júpiter @En_jupiter_]

Imagina que estás corriendo para salvar tu vida y esta es la mayor velocidad que puedes alcanzar.

[Jamie Crooks @jamietryhard]

@TheRealStone seriously:

https://t.co/bZt4HyMvel

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

That’s right, the Knicks were given a 0.1% chance to win — and they won. This night will live in New York lore for generations.

[Jamie Crooks @jamietryhard]

Interesting. What do you think her research would find about AI generated slop?

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[Jamie Crooks @jamietryhard]

Yes.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Am I the only one who thinks that Caitlin Clark has gotten annoying?

[ABA Antitrust Law Section @abaantitrust]

[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 13, 2026]
NCAA Gets Final Approval of $303 Million Settlement With Coaches

(Bloomberg Law) The NCAA won final court approval of a $303 million class action settlement in an antitrust case brought on behalf of Division I volunteer coaches. The case alleged that binding NCAA rules unlawfully restricted Division I schools to a limited number of paid coaching positions in most sports, forcing any additional coaches to forego salaries for the sake of their career aspirations and love of their games. The settlement, agreed to by the parties last year, covers thousands of coaches who worked for NCAA Division I sports programs other than baseball between March 17, 2019 and June 30, 2023.
https://t.co/1oLkI9uuSD

[Bummer T. Vibes, Esq @VibesBummer]

When I’m eating shared nachos I’m always thinking 3 nacho moves ahead of my opponent.

[Jamie Crooks @jamietryhard]

@NoContextHumans only note is background music shoulda been Shaggy "it wasn't me"

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@smmarotta look on my [em dash] ye mighty and despair

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@dj_roots i didn't know i needed this, ty

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@joshtpm Nobody is arguing that "everyone in the legal academy is completely onboard with reform." They're correcting your misconception that *nobody* in the legal academy advocated for reform. As Epps pointed out, most of the ideas talked about by politicians were developed by academics.

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@ImShahinyan @ChessvisionAI scan white pls

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@CapitolKVD @DeptTransport @threader_app unroll please

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@CapitolKVD @DeptTransport @threaderapp unroll please