WIST QuotationsMar 10

A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

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WIST QuotationsMar 6

A quotation from Horace

Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
 
[Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

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Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 "Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos]," l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)] | WIST Quotations

Whene'er you lecture, be concise: the soul Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole: But pour in water when the vessel's filled, It simply dribbles over and is spilled. [Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles: omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.] On teaching…

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WIST QuotationsFeb 16

A quotation from Steinbeck

No one wants advice — only corroboration.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
The Winter of Our Discontent, Part I, ch. 6 (1961)

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WINGS_radioFeb 17

#Julia #Olson, #founder and #chief #legal #counsel at #Our #Children's #Trust will file a #petition on behalf of #youth.

#Environmental #Groups Vow to #Stop #Trump’s #EPA From #Revoking the #Endangerment Finding
As #global #heating #accelerates, the nation’s #environmental #watchdog is trying to #muzzle its own ability to act

https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/environmental-groups-vow-stop-trump-s-epa-revoking-endangerment-finding

WordofTheHourFeb 10

#counsel : mutual advising

- French: conseil

- Italian: consiglio

- Portuguese: conselho

- Spanish: consejo

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C.Jan 29

"The court recognizes, sua sponte, that defendant's counsel is an asshole."

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Carmelite QuotesJan 20

Quote of the day, 21 January: Mother Agnès of Jesus

Recently a tiny shellfish gave me a lesson in interior recollection. I had difficulty in opening it because it resisted strongly, and I said to myself: “It is quite a vigorous little creature: no one would think it is so far from the sea.”

It taught me a great lesson. I must be sufficiently filled with the water of recollection to resist as strongly as he did the pressure of work and various happenings of the day, anything that could make me lose the drop of water which makes possible my union with God.

Mother Agnès of Jesus, o.c.d. (Pauline Martin)

Little Counsels of Mother Agnes of Jesus, OCD Saint Therese’s Sister, Pauline (excerpt), Compiled by the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Ada (Parnell) Michigan

Featured image: Comboni Missionary Father David Bohnsack, mccj captures the humble, contemplative gaze of a child in Abéché, Chad. Image credit: David Bohnsack, mccj (By permission).

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WIST QuotationsJan 7

A quotation from Douglas Adams

   ARTHUR: You know, it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
   FORD: Why, what did she tell you?
   ARTHUR: I don’t know, I didn’t listen.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 2nd” (BBC Radio) (1978-03-15)

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ARTHUR: You know, it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what my mother told me when I was young. FORD: Why, what did she…

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Show threadC.Dec 22

But I've seen some outside of an educational context as well. This one is absolutely horrific. It's another case of a #lawyer using an LLM to generate #court filings of one type or another, without even checking its output to see if the brief makes sense, cites actual case #law, etc.

This is a #sanctions order from a #judge in this particular case. It is gripping reading.
https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/mississippi/msndce/1:2024cv00074/49169/79/0.pdf

In short: the lawyer was caught submitting briefs with "hallucinated" #citations, either to cases that did not exist, or to cases that were unrelated to the legal point the citation was being used to uphold. An opposing #counsel contacted their firm about such an incorrect citation, and the firm did some cleanup, did some continuing legal education, instituted an "AI" policy, instructed the #attorney about what was forbidden, etc. And then that attorney ... just kept on doing it. Even after judges started noticing problems in submissions, this lawyer just kept doing it.

It was so bad that it basically caused the #implosion of the law firm.

Incredible.

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Led By Gilded FoolsOct 27

How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed

Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.

https://archive.ph/zLbuW

#Crime #Criminal #President #Trump #Justice #Injustice #DOJ #Classified #Prosecutor #JackSmith #DavidRaskin #Counsel