L. Max Taylor

Student of human being. Observation and commentary. Context matters. "Fragments are the only form I trust" --Donald Barthelme, via Robert Jay Lifton

[L. Max Taylor @Lmaxt]

@paranoiacs Dreamt I met Sir Paul in a hallway of my high school, and this led to my formulating an explanation of how music heals. It seems actual particles of the song flock to the wound site, where they interknit with the scab, so that the wound and the song heal as one single thing.

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@DocPriyamMD And yet: https://t.co/44agUALDBg

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@AuthorGFAllen Maybe you don't want to read a book right now

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@thexinbetweens @threadreaderapp please unroll

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The pop-up book of phobias, by Gary Greenberg e Matthew Reinhart, 1999

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@RaminNasibov The Brothers Karamazov

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@McFaul I value hearing your voice

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This 1953 Messerschmitt Kabinenroller is a three wheeled microcar inspired by aircraft engineering and remains one of the most collectible microcars ever built.

[📹 carola_daimler_cars]

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@ProfRobAnderson Perhaps there ought to be an 11th Circuit rule of court in the nature of a reception statute, something which formally acknowledges the applicability of 5th Circuit precedent prior to October 1, 1981.

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@muheediva01 A well made bagel with lox and cream cheese

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@AMandoSch

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Now THAT is fishing

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@aroog1278 John Wetton

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Golden retriever puppy heals rescued kitten in just three days..🐕🐾🐈😊

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@jaynordlinger @social_seer We've been watching Homeland on Netflix. The main thing that makes the (2011-2020) show feel dated is the backdrop of norms which have since been thrown out the window

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Suggestions for the final panel?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

It's not a massive, ornate iron gate.

It's an optical illusion staircase by Spanish visual artist Gonzalo Borondo, chosen as the best urban artwork in France.

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court.

In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible.

We won. 6-3.

But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow.

I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves.

I also had four teachers preparing me.
A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi.
An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else.
A meditation coach who taught me stillness.
And Harvey.

Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable.

Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person.

Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written.

Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium.

AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument.

Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry.

That is the irreducibly human skill.
Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives.

The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: https://t.co/wLxKtBsHpF

What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

The llama had enough of his shit. 😂

[maddie rune🪰 @themaddierune]

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

The Onion takeover of Info Wars is even better than I imagined. Alex Jones and MAGA are cooked