Mithradates

@mithradatesvi

Teacher / lawyer: health law, contracts, ethics. UChicago Law alum. Interests in cooking, video games, jazz. Skeets are exclusively jokes. Reskeets and likes are strictly by accident.

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Mithradates@mithradatesvi· 12d

My man… that is literally what they do. They do this constantly, so much so that it is now a major component of the American retail chain of commerce.

A picture of a high-end American work boot.

A picture of how one might take out a loan for that high-end American work boot.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· 13d

Is this you?

Kingfisher: I believe you are missing the joke here.

Idiot: in jokes are virtue signals - used often by the far right. No I don’t get your ‘joke’

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· 27d

Greentext image: “What are some examples of qualityslop? Movies people only like because they’re good?”

Reply: “What?”

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Jul 8

I need this engraved on a plaque. 👇

The Litany Against Opposing Counsel
I must not rage. Rage is the case-killer. Rage is the little death that brings the bar complaint. I will face the ALL-CAPS email sent at 11pm. I will face the objection to every interrogatory as "overbroad, unduly burdensome, and not proportional to the needs of the case." I will face the refusal to stipulate to anything, anything, including facts established by their own client's testimony and doc production. I will face the document production of 4,000 scanned pages, single-sided, unsearchable, out of order. I will face the motion to compel I now have to file because they think everything responsive constitutes their mental impressions. I will let the bad faith pass over me and through me. And when the meet-and-confer ends with nothing resolved, I will turn to see what remains. Where the rage was, there will be nothing. Only the motion, and the fee request, remains.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Jul 4

Celebrating America by taking the leftovers and making a delicious leftover stew.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Jun 21

I picked a Pilot Metropolitan to start, but the LAMY Safari was on everyone’s list of starter pens, so being a very serious person I also bought one of those this week.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Jun 17

I was obsessed with this show for a hot minute around age 3, but have never seen it some much as mentioned by in the last 35+ years. There was a point where I thought I had dreamed it.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Jun 4

When that thing you said would happen in a case immediately starts happening 😏🍸

Post: The natural endpoint for this kerfuffle is that she gives up the trademark application and instead uses the litigation as a launching pad for a new, arbitrary mark for her merch and continues on performing as Pattie Gonia.
If she's got half decent counsel, this lasts another week or two, max.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 29

The most amusing defense of Pattie Gonia is “how dare they sue a queer performer this close to Pride” like Pride is the Gay Purge and Pattie can infringe whatever trademarks she wants in June.

An excerpt of an interview in Forbes arguing that the timing of Patagonia’s suit was relevant because “Pride month starts Monday”

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 27

This prediction re: AI assisted contracts is right on the target, and I think anyone who regularly drafts contracts ought to see it, because it suggests to me that most of us already have the technical expertise for what’s coming. From @hoffprof.bsky.social profhoffman.substack.com/p/the-declin...

But vague standards— "reasonable wear and tear," "sudden and accidental," "in the landlord's reasonable judgment"—are harder to attack because the fight becomes about applying the standard to facts the consumer (and thus the AI) doesn't fully have. So, if firms wanted to walk a self-protective line against AI bots, they might themselves try to avoid bright line rules and move toward standards.
My guess is the equilibrium looks more like bifurcation.
Firms will make the grounds for denial or exclusion in consumer contracts standard-like
—discretionary, fact-intensive, textually slippery, hard for an Al to attack on the face of the contract. And they will make the procedural preconditions more rule-like, more unforgiving, and more numerous. That is, we'd see a growth in strict notice windows, documentation requirements, insurance cooperation clauses, appraisal-process requirements, etc. I am skeptical there will be a net effect on litigation filing rates.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 24

Cardigans are man cardigans.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 22

Sad to hear that Tulsi is retiring, presumably to spend more time tormenting the Thunderbolts.

Tulsi Gabbard in The Falcon and The Winter Soldier

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 20

Trader: This is a stock exchange. There’s no money you can steal.

Bane: Really? Then why are you people here?

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 20

The season opener of Game Changer is an entire episode of lawyer jokes. This show could not be more perfectly to my taste.

A panel from the Enigma of Amigara Fault, in which a person crawls into a hole meant for him.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 18

Fucking WHAT

An image of the landing page for Grade Coach an AI essay grader.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 18

Oh great, another one of these situations.

Post from “all things interesting”: This 5,000-year-old prosthetic eye found near Zabol in Iran is the oldest in history. It was made from tar and animal fat and painted gold. The wearer was a 6' tall priestess.

Reply from Like Kurosawa: Do. Not. Remove. The. Golden. Eye.
From. The. Unnaturally. Large. Holy.
Woman's. SKELETON.
Please.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 15

I’m pretty sure I saw this baby in concert with KISS.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 13

Love seeing a Discourse line up in my timeline in a really convenient and digestible way first thing in the morning.

An image of Faine Greenwood and Will Stancil Discoursing about the same topic, but not at one another. Faine blames Elon Musks algorithm for silencing left of center voices on Twitter, Will thinks it was a mistake for them to leave twitter for their own island. (Faine is right.)

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 11

Looks like it is the first one.

A screenshot of a person angry at an article they don’t seem like they read.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· May 9

At what point did we just accept citing to prediction markets as though it were expert evidence in anything other than elections? Journalism is dead. This is its rotting corpse.

Screenshot of a WSJ article citing prediction markets as though they were experts on outcomes.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Apr 30

He does have Jude Law sexbot from AI vibes. And he’s married to a billionaire techbro, so there’s a very real chance we are looking at the first sexbot senior US official. A big breakthrough and a win for diversity.

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Apr 29

30 rock meme. Lemon: “I’m feeling pretty drunk”. Jack: “well, it’s business drunk. It’s like rich drunk. Either way, it’s legal to drive.”

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Apr 29

In all seriousness, what the fuck are these two thinking?

Mithradates@mithradatesvi· Apr 28

I had a nostalgic hankering for Arby’s curly fries today. Now I’m scarfing down an inferior roast beef sandwich in my driveway, only now remembering that the comedy of that one 30 Rock scene was how preposterous it was that Isabella Rossellini would enjoy Arby’s.