Stephen Hardwick
Appellate public defender. Poll worker. Peace Corps Tunisia. Low-level zoning chair. Wolverine in Buckeye land. Cyclist. Personal views only. On the payroll of the rain garden interests.
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- I agree with you here, but you were defending the KKK not even a week ago. You're not fighting fascism, either.
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- When our school superintendent said that right-wing judges here have held that teachers have the 1A right to misname & misgender trans kids, I pointed out that I had the First Amendment right to address any teacher who did that as “Mr. or Ms. Bigot.” She agreed. That’s the First Amendment response.
- Does he have a humiliation kink or
- Pope Leo needs to put away his couches.
- This morning the 11th Circuit affirmed the district court’s preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of Florida’s drag ban law. Drag is not a crime.
- Congratulations! Thanks for doing this work
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- Both are bad—one is worse. I wouldn’t say mangling the citation is “excusable,” but when the information behind the cite is correct, the legal argument carries the same weight. Maybe it’s like saying one is a citation misdemeanor & the other a citation felony. Neither is excusable, but one is worse
- Oh, sweet merciful fire, two notes: (1) Even Latham & Watkins, ya'll. (2) The lawyer defending an AI company for using stolen IP to train their AI/LLM used the company's AI/LLM to cite check her brief, which hallucinated results. fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...
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- They get to bill for: 1) the AI 2) attorney time to use the AI 3) paralegal time to check the cites 4) attorney time to file the apology motion 5) other things that I’m surely missing. Win. Win. Win. Win. Win.
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- Seriously mangling a citation to something real is far different from making up stuff supposedly at a fake citation. Embarrassing but not devastating.
- Reminiscing about Moshu's first days on Bluesky, courtesy of @oregonzoo.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @darthbluesky.bsky.social. We'll miss you, Moshu!
- We got to visit the Guangzhou Zoo, and the English signs for what we in the US call “red pandas” said, “Lesser Pandas.” I thought that was very unfair.
- A Mother's Day meltdown by the owners of Stone Cellar Bistro (outside Denver) after they ask a nursing mom to stop breastfeeding in their restaurant (her right under CO law!) because they're worried about getting negative online reviews—which gets them negative online reviews
- I was skeptical, but I saw the now-deleted review & response, & the owner is kinda admitting that they screwed up, but isn’t really taking responsibility for mistreating its breastfeeding customer or for saying they “HATE” kids & saying that they filed a police report. www.reddit.com/r/denverfood...
- Last night's town hall with @votevets.org reminded me why conversations like this matter - and why a better future is still possible, but it's up to each of us to make it a reality.
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- I agree that there are really bad problems with our electoral system, especially with ballot access and that racism is a big part of that. I stand by the point that the system accurately collects and tallies votes that are cast. That’s different from saying the system is fair.
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- I’m sorry to hear things went so badly in even one precinct. A bi-partisan Board runs this county’s election process. That bipartisan board allocates voting equipment. They take & respond to complaints. FWIW, my experience is mostly in voting locations near Cleveland Ave from S. Linden to Northland
