John Laforet

I'm a proud dad to two energetic boys (5 & 3) & loving husband | Blending creative design with business acumen, PR and marketing | Sailor and explorer at heart

[Judge Stephen Dillard @JudgeDillard]

If you give up the em dash, the machines win.

Don’t do it.

[TMZ @TMZ]

🤣 Rep. Tim Burchett tells @hicharliecotton that Taco Bell is to blame for Chuck Schumer's apparent fart.

[John Laforet @laforet]

Years of slanderous commentary about Taco Bell, validated by the lettuce of all things. 😬 https://t.co/CJibG8XTJe

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

Runners! The shout goes out as interns run the Supreme Court decisions to their network anchors today. At least one more day of decisions coming as the court ruled on only 3(4) cases today.

[Adam Carlson @admcrlsn]

For journalists covering the Alaska Senate race, a note on grammar in unique situations like this:

Please refer to them as “Dans Sullivan” — like you would for Attorneys General or courts-martial.

[Greensboro Police Department @GSO_Police]

As temperatures warm up, please remember to drink lots of water and stay indoors between 10:30 a.m. and November 1.

If you are planning on doing crime, please do it outside our jurisdiction.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: No 10 has ordered takeaways to Downing Street as Keir Starmer battles to save his premiership

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

Our primary dictionary, Merriam-Webster, defines hantavirus as "any of a family (Hantaviridae and especially genus Orthohantavirus) of bunyaviruses transmitted especially by rodent feces and urine and including viruses causing serious pulmonary disease or hemorrhagic fevers marked by renal necrosis."
https://t.co/6IaHgG54bH

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

Warren Buffett on Charlie Munger’s hearing problem

“I stood across the room and said - Charlie, we should buy General Motors at $35. No reaction.”

“Got closer and repeated it. Not a flicker.”

“Finally I shouted in his ear and Charlie replied - For the 3rd time, Yes.” 😂

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

It's shutdown, one word, as a noun, but two words when it's used as a verb, shut down.
https://t.co/2Y2zU5hNGg

[John Laforet @laforet]

@cselley Chris, you got a list handy of 80 year old, bilingual females from the west lying around that you’re not sharing?

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

We added new terms to AP Stylebook Online last week:
* jumpscare
* fanbase
* lipsync
* offside
* primetime
All of them are styled as one word with no hyphen.

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

Do you put a question mark inside or outside quotation marks? That depends on the meaning.
Are you asking a question about what's in quotes? Then the question mark goes outside: Who wrote "Gone With the Wind"?
Is the quoted matter a question? It goes inside:
He asked, "How long will it take?"

[Mostly Peaceful Memes @MostlyPeaceful]

Congress watching soldiers get arrested for insider trading

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

Christ this dystopia is depressing

[Rob Freund @RobertFreundLaw]

A law firm sues a client for $1.24M in unpaid legal fees.

But in that litigation, the lawyer cites 23 fake cases, on 47 occasions, across 19 filings, including in a motion for sanctions against the client (!).

The court also notes "at least 83 instances" where the lawyer misstated case holdings, with examples "too numerous to detail fully herein."

The client defendant who allegedly owed the money says he never even signed a retainer agreement, was never invoiced, and he filed an ethics complaint against the lawyer.

The court points out that the lawyer sought $50,000 in fees "for work product that appears to have been generated through the use of artificial intelligence, without adequate verification of the accuracy of the cited authorities."

The court grants the client's cross-motion for sanctions against the lawyer. Sanctions hearing and order to follow.

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

e.g. means for example. It is always followed by a comma.
i.e. is the abbreviation for the Latin "id est" or that is (to say). It is always followed by a comma, as well.

[John Laforet @laforet]

@RobynUrback @Anthony__Koch Do we think he’s coming back?

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

Let me just double click for those of you that don’t know:

This is probably the #1 litigation law firm on the planet submitting AI hallucinated cases in a ~$8 billion bankruptcy case.

This should be a wake up call to EVERYONE.

If it can happen to them, it can happen to you!

[Aaron @aaronp613]

White smoke seen from Apple Park to signify a new CEO