Ken WhiteI know some of you don’t have WSJ subscriptions but I don’t want you to miss the deep thoughts of Justice Alito so here I handled it
Bruce Mirken@Popehat I'm not a legal scholar, but I believe the technical term for #SamuelAlito's writing here is "horses**t."
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@BruceMirken @Popehat I think that has been amended to horsef*ckingshit in the latest edition.
@BruceMirken @Popehat Good lord, I normally pay a decent amount of attention. My exhausted brain completely glossed over that this was AI generated by @Popehat and went straight for the joke line. I apparently need about 16 naps in a row, and then another.
Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken @Popehat
I went to bed before this all went down, but this cleared things up for me:
ProPublica asked about Alito’s travel. He replied in the Wall Street Journal
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@rpardee @BruceMirken @Popehat Ha! Thanks, just read it and apparently my comment is still right on target. LoL
@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken @Popehat So is that text AI-generated then? I was thinking @popehat was engaging in satire, and posted Alito's actual prose as if it had been.
I don't have the WSJ subscription, so I can't compare.
@Pineywoozle @rpardee @Popehat I've read parts of Alito's actual column. It's as silly as Popehat says, though I didn't do a word for word comparison. Basically, his attitude is, "How dare you peasants question my free private trip with my right-wing billionaire pals who've had business before the court."
@Pineywoozle @BruceMirken @Popehat All right--just b/c I somehow can't let go of this, and refuse to send $ to WSJ, I'm now pretty convinced those screenshots really are AI-generated and not Alito's real prebuttal op-ed.
BTW--corker of an Amicus podcast laying all this out: https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2023/06/samuel-alito-wall-street-journal-response-hot-take-ethics
Alito is a crook, just like Thomas.
@rpardee @Pineywoozle @Popehat They are and the content is different but the sense of condescension is very Alito. How can it matter that he got transported on a private plane when the seat would otherwise have gone empty? Silly peasants!