Matt Carey

Legal analyst writing software for @LIICornell. Creator of @authorityspoke. @openaustin co-organizer. Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Wouldn't it be great to not have to think about this man ever again?

Five more days. https://t.co/tTgeqxNqYm

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Jason Morris (he/him)💻⚖️🇨🇦 @RoundTableLaw]

Who wants a twitter thread showing off some new features of @BlawxAI v1.3.30-alpha?

Well, too bad, you're getting one anyway.

#RulesAsCode
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[Free Law Project ⚖ @FreeLawProject]

Despite everything, legal citations are kind of a mess. To address this, today, we're releasing an upgrade to our citation tool so that it can lookup almost any legal citation ever written. Give it a whirl: https://t.co/tr7dvCviQM

[Hebrew U. Faculty of Law @HujiLawOfficial]

The Hebrew University, The Faculty of Law, and the Philosophy Department grieve the passing of Professor Joseph Raz, one of the leading moral, political and legal philosophers of the past hundred years.

[your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷 @davidgerard]

Mayor of Austin, Steve Adler, on web3: it's a three dimensional spreadsheet that can use energy, it's like a cell phone without apps yet. So we should support it. Good to hear.

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

@RoundTableLaw You mention needing to edit your code when the law changes. Would it be possible not to need to edit your existing code (if it was correct), but instead just to append more code representing the latest updates to the law?

[Free Law Project ⚖ @FreeLawProject]

Big news! Our major new opinion summarization feature is live! This launches over a million expert-written summaries of nearly 400,000 opinions. Never before has it been so easy to understand the law. We're really thrilled with this one: https://t.co/zIK5mDUMeG

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

@RoundTableLaw What if they played a rematch? 🧐

[AuthoritySpoke @AuthoritySpoke]

AuthoritySpoke version 0.9 is out. This release adds data validation and serialization with Pydantic. https://t.co/daQVDFxviS

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

@mengwong @mattwadd @craigaatkinson @logiak_no_code @RoundTableLaw @AdamsDrafting I would trust a legal encyclopedia or restatement like the ones on this Harvard Law Library page. https://t.co/G4namLKvOM But whatever resource you use will need to be specific to the jurisdiction you're working on.

[Jason Morris (he/him)💻⚖️🇨🇦 @RoundTableLaw]

Please RT, and invite your #RulesAsCode and #ComputationalLaw friends to sign up for an account and give it a spin. 12/12

https://t.co/sWwEwq9Wff

[AuthoritySpoke @AuthoritySpoke]

Legislice version 0.6 is published. This version switches to Pydantic for serialization and hopefully makes quoting legislative text a little more intuitive. https://t.co/mr3J8OcAUJ

[Leah Bannon @heyleahheyleah]

Amazing news!!!! 🎉😍🌟👏 I couldn’t be prouder to be a longtime part of the @codeforamerica network today! Once again, these folks are leading the way in civic tech and strengthening their org and the movement for years to come.

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

@DMerigoux Awesome, I'll try it out as soon as I can!

[Denis Merigoux @DMerigoux]

@mcareyaus this is in big part intended for you to play with :)

[Denis Merigoux @DMerigoux]

Catala now has a Python backend ! Implemented from scratch in 4 days (https://t.co/dCiwwIGWHs), it showcases Catala's agility to target new programming languages.

📖 Code: https://t.co/olBPyeQZKV
⚡️ Early benchmark results: 0.6ms for a French family benefits computation

[Jason Morris (he/him)💻⚖️🇨🇦 @RoundTableLaw]

Today at #ICAIL2021 I presented an experiment we did at @cclaw_smu showing that #RulesAsCode can be used to detect and correct hard-to-find drafting errors in legislation. Please RT! The video (5m) is here: https://t.co/7Z1gXgsTqh

[Matt Carey @mcareyaus]

I looked at Docassemble-L4, a logic programming extension for @docassemble. I thought it was groundbreaking legal tech, but almost overwhelmingly complex. https://t.co/vocJBem3C3

[Jason Morris (he/him)💻⚖️🇨🇦 @RoundTableLaw]

Brand-new #legaltech
✅ Open Source
✅ Runs on #RulesAsCode
✅ Understands exceptions
✅ Answers legal questions
✅ Gives explanations in English
✅ Gives all valid explanations for each answer
✅ Integrated with @Docassemble
https://t.co/XQ5jIXH1ck