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Civil and Commercial Litigator. Second-class intellect, first-class temperament.
@peter @VE7WYC whereas the HOA’s are just frustrated dudes who plateaued at middle management and whose spouses/kids started tuning them out about a decade and a half ago.

@peter @VE7WYC in addition to having to deal with my own Association, as part of my law practice I’ve represented hundreds of them over the last couple decades.

I tell people constantly that I have way more respect for the criminal defense clients I’ve worked with than the HOA ones, because on some level many of the former group at least operate from some baseline code of honor.

Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars

President Trump is set to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on America’s currency.

The New York Times
I am giving up drinking for a month. Sorry, that came out wrong. I am giving up. Drinking for a month.
Disney’s $1B Investment In OpenAI DOA As Sam Altman Pulls Sora Plug: “The Deal Is Not Moving Forward”

Disney's much heralded $1 billion investment in OpenAI is over as the Sam Altman-led tech giant shuttered its stand-alone Sora text-to-video app.

Deadline
@peter I remember reading that some guy had installed a variation of this (Claude Bot? I don’t remember what exactly it was named) and it literally called him the next day. Like, the AI he was running found his phone number online and called his phone and started asking him what to work on. He never gave it his phone number.
Yes, you got that right.
OpenAl is offering private equity firms a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5%, as well as early access to models not yet in public release. Which seems totally normal!
@peter the most charitable thing I can say is that it is abjectly insane how big of a fucking mark some of these guys are.