Brickbat: Not What He’s Getting Paid For
A New Orleans court constable has been suspended without pay pending an investigation after being accused of ignoring a bystander’s plea to help a woman who was being raped on …
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Thursday Open Thread
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“‘Holographic Conversational’ AI Lets Dead Speak at Funerals”
From AV Magazine (Darron Kirkby): [Start-up] StoryFile creates a digital clone of the subject by using 20 synchronised cameras to record them answering a series of questions. The footage is …
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Jarkesy v. SEC
Earlier this year, in Jarkesy v. SEC, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement proceedings are unconstitutional …
Make the CDC an Infectious Disease Epidemic Fighter Again
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did neither control nor prevention when confronted with the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak over the past two-and-a-half years. The agency’s many shortcomings began …
San Francisco Spent Over $20,000 on a Trash Can
This summer, a collection of custom and off-the-shelf trash cans hit the streets of San Francisco as the city prepares to replace its stock of over 3,000 public bins. The …
Federal Circuit Bulk Unsealing Plans
An interesting order today, from the Federal Circuit: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit intends to unseal certain paper case records in accordance with Federal Circuit …
Lisa Murkowski Survives, Sarah Palin Struggles Under Alaska’s New Voting System
On Tuesday, Alaskans voted in their first regularly-scheduled primary since overhauling the state’s election rules. Results will not be finalized until the end of August, but the new system is …
A Mom Let Her 7-Year-Old Play in the Park. Arizona Arrested Her and Banned Her From Working With Kids.
It was a pleasant November day in Tucson, Arizona, and Sarra needed to procure a Thanksgiving turkey. The COVID-19 pandemic was still raging—this was fall 2020, before vaccines had been …
The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the “Most-Favored-Nation” Theory of Religious Liberty, Part III: Misconstruing the State Interest
Here I will consider how the MFN theory was expanded to its present bloated proportions. Recently members of the Court, and sometimes a majority, have developed variants of MFN that …