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Cake day: July 22nd, 2026

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  • I write to you all from the parents table.

    It began lame as hell. I was a single man with a married brother who had a young child. I was clearly there to keep them company.

    Later, there I was with my own child. At a table of people I didn’t know with children. Next to the goddamn speaker.

    Then, I’m happy to report, I was at one of my favorite cousins weddings. I was there with her oldest brother and his child my kids age. And a bunch of other people with kids that age. And it was awesome. Finally.

    I submit the best table at a wedding is one that you really fit in with. Whatever commonality that may be.






  • I can only speak to my field, which is legal. Incomprehensible but prolific drivel has always been something the court system has struggled with getting through. That same drivel is now pretty good at pleading generalities but it’s awful at detailing facts.

    You can get past the first hurdle in the legal world and unlock a massive and expensive cascade which AI can also effectively navigate for you.

    In essence, AI can, very effectively, take an incoherent unreasonable and often mentally unwell litigant and magnify the expense of getting rid of their frivolous claim by over 100.

    It’s almost assuredly going to 1. Chock the system. 2. Force massive reallocation of resources in the judiciary 3. Thereby vastly increasing not decreasing legal work. And 4. End up with valid claims being killed in a massive change in judicial attitude toward “clear enough” pleadings as they struggle with an AI influx.



  • I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.
    She said there’s these hills where it’s hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called . . . bromeliads, I think, and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there’s a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and don’t even know about the ground, and once you know the world is full of things like that, your life is never the same.