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A few lawyers still read my blog, and I’d like to offer them a bit of advice about using Artificial Intelligence in their legal practices. And if If I know my audience, you are probably screami...

https://windypundit.com/2024/05/how-to-use-ai-in-your-legal-practice/

I realize Marc Andreessen’s Techno-Optimist Manifesto is old news, but it seems to have made some waves, and I keep hearing people talking about it, so I finally decided to dig in and read it. ...

https://windypundit.com/2024/05/marc-andreessens-techno-optimist-manifesto/

On last Monday’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart interviewed Lina Khan, who chairs the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). She talked about the use of anti-trust laws against monopolies. And after listenin...

https://windypundit.com/2024/04/a-few-questions-for-lina-khan/

I’ve seen a few attempts to illustrate the size of the Dali container ship that hit the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, and I thought I’d get in on the fun. At least that was the plan ...

https://windypundit.com/2024/04/just-how-big-is-the-dali-container-ship/

I’ve been seeing some chatter about Project 2025, which is a right-wing plan for carrying out a politically conservative agenda if Donald Trump wins the presidential election this year. One of ...

https://windypundit.com/2024/03/in-which-i-consider-applying-for-the-trump-administration/

I finally got around to seeing the Barbie movie, and as everybody is saying, it’s pretty good. So when I heard that Margot Robbie did not receive an Oscar nomination for her performance as Barb...

https://windypundit.com/2024/01/why-margo-robbie-wasnt-nominated/

By now, most of my readers have already heard that Backpage founder Michael Lacey, was found guilty of a single count of money laundering for a $16.5 million transfer to a bank in Hungary, which ...

https://windypundit.com/2023/11/backpage-and-the-iron-law-of-prohibition/

In my previous post on this subject, I gave a brief outline of how ChatGPT is based on a neural network that has been trained on a huge sample of digital documents to recognize human-written text...

https://windypundit.com/2023/11/what-is-chatgpt-doing-wrong/

Almost everybody these days is making a statement about Israel and Gaza. And many of those who haven’t said anything are being attacked for “keeping silent.” I don’t need to worry about t...

https://windypundit.com/2023/11/my-statement-on-israel-and-gaza/

Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world, people have been fascinated by its successes. And even more fascinated by its failures. I realize ChatGPT is no longer the hot new thing, but in t...

https://windypundit.com/2023/10/what-is-chatgpt-doing/

John Correia and Mike Willever have just released their analysis of the shooting of Ta’Kiya Young by a police officer in Blendon Township, Ohio. I’ve been blogging about their commentary on p...

https://windypundit.com/2023/09/takiya-young-shooting-analysis/

In my first post in this series, I discussed John Correia’s collection of videos of police-involved shootings. My second post tried to extract some lessons about how to avoid getting shot by th...

https://windypundit.com/2023/09/watching-people-die-part-3-policing/

In my first post in this series, I introduced John Correia’s collection of videos of police-involved shootings, which I think is an important resource for those of us writing about police refor...

https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-2-lessons/

I’ve been watching people die. A lot. But don’t worry, it’s only in videos. I’ve been thinking of getting a license to carry a concealed weapon. I’m not planning on packing heat any tim...

https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-1-incidents/

I’ve been able to shoot an AR-15 a few times, and it was fun every time. I never bought one, in part because I lived in Chicago, which has strict gun laws, but ever since I moved out to the sub...

https://windypundit.com/2023/06/americas-rifle/

Some of you may know that our cat Ivy passed away a couple of months ago. We both needed some time for our grief to settle, but sooner or later, were getting another cat. We’ve learned that two...

https://windypundit.com/2023/05/meet-the-new-cuteness/

Yesterday, Illinois Solicitor General Jane Elinor Notz filed a brief with the Supreme Court, defending the Illinois assault weapons ban. Much of the brief is about law and procedure, which I’m ...

https://windypundit.com/2023/05/jane-notz-is-fibbing/

A recent Tweet pointed me to an opinion piece that Nicholas Kristof wrote a few months ago for the New York Times on the subject of reducing gun deaths through what he calls a “harm reduction�...

https://windypundit.com/2023/05/smarter-gun-control/

On the one hand, indicting Donald Trump for paying hush money to Stormy Daniels seems like small change. On the other hand, I sure do enjoy when bad things happen to Donald Trump. On yet another ...

https://windypundit.com/2023/04/putting-the-trump-indictment-into-perspective/

I’ve been following sex workers on social media for many yearsStrictly for purposes of libertarian activism, I assure you., and I’ve noticed a lot of escorts griping about strange first conta...

https://windypundit.com/2023/03/chatgpt-the-hobbyist/

Ivy came into our lives in 2013. We adopted her as an adult. The breeder had originally purchased her to be a queen at the cattery, but she never got pregnant, so at the age of four they spayed h...

https://windypundit.com/2023/03/ivy-r-i-p/

Somewhat to my surprise, earlier this year, Illinois passed an assault weapons ban, justified in part as an attempt to end mass-shootings. The ban is already under attack in the courts and dozens...

https://windypundit.com/2023/03/assault-weapon-ban-theater/

Some of you may have noticed alarming messages on my site saying that my account has been suspended! Or maybe you saw “Bad Gateway” errors and broken links. It’s nothing to worry about. I r...

https://windypundit.com/2023/03/still-here/

I’ve started a new website. Most of you probably know me as a guy who rants about stuff on the web. But some of you may be aware of my real job as asoftware developer. Most of the time I work o...

https://windypundit.com/2022/12/windythink/

Week after week, the competition for greatest Marjorie Taylor Green parodist on Twitter has one clear winner: Marjorie Taylor Green. And a few days ago she showed everyone else why she’s still ...

https://windypundit.com/2022/11/what-marjorie-taylor-green-doesnt-know-about-masks-or-underwear/

Elon Musk may have been kicking employees out of Twitter to reduce operating costs, but it’s possible he couldn’t have destroyed more of Twitter’s value if he’d burned down headquarters. ...

https://windypundit.com/2022/11/burning-down-twitter/

The federal Fifth Circuit court has just released its ruling on Netchoice v. Paxton rejecting the argument that Texas’s new social media law violates the First Amendment. Basically, the law is ...

https://windypundit.com/2022/10/netchoice-pruneyard-and-the-digital-public-square/

Former President Donald Trump and his supporters claim that he declassified all the documents he took to Mar-a-Lago, although they can’t quite agree how — maybe he had a standing order that a...

https://windypundit.com/2022/08/trumps-declassified-documents/

It was twenty years ago today that I wrote my first-ever blog post, and I figured I’d take a brief look back at my history here. That first post was on the on the subject of…wait for it…a y...

https://windypundit.com/2022/07/twenty-years-at-the-keyboard/

A tweet last week by Carol Fenton led me to an article in the Vancouver Province by Nathan Griffiths which begins with a seemingly shocking statistic: Roughly 40 per cent of online ads offering e...

https://windypundit.com/2022/07/no-ground-truth-sex-trafficking-and-machine-learning/