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Scott Shapiro

@scottjshapiro.bsky.social

Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic.”

created April 27, 2023

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“Why it’s wrong to hope for Trump to die” by Atlantic writer

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Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍 From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

27/8/2025, 12:59:28 PM | 98 51 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social)

Amazing that before hard drives, this is how humans stored information.

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29/8/2025, 9:10:44 PM | 108 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Planning to run my jurisprudence class like a Trump cabinet meeting: go around the room and have students explain why I’m such a great professor

29/8/2025, 4:41:58 PM | 195 17 | View on Bluesky | view

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0️⃣ Vapors

29/8/2025, 10:58:35 AM | 14 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social)

Susan Collins Danger Levels 5️⃣ Concerned 4️⃣ Disappointed 3️⃣ Troubled 2️⃣ Deeply Concerned 1️⃣ Alarmed

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29/8/2025, 10:56:20 AM | 321 65 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social)

It’s so comforting that we’re all on the same page about AI in education and how to respond.

28/8/2025, 7:28:33 PM | 74 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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lol

28/8/2025, 7:25:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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28/8/2025, 7:19:07 PM | 55 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Contrary to first appearances, using the military as a political weapon is not a great idea

25/8/2025, 12:03:21 AM | 292 40 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you listen and read carefully you can tell that the Republicans never liked Barack Obama

24/8/2025, 11:40:02 PM | 168 7 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was reading in a history book about how our ancestors didn’t always have refrigerators

24/8/2025, 9:49:45 PM | 118 5 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saying that posting is not praxis is a hateful thing to say

24/8/2025, 4:45:23 PM | 31 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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My family needs me, I’m sorry

23/8/2025, 11:34:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some personal news: I could have had a great cooking show on YouTube* but declined to preserve my privacy. *No one offered but they could have

23/8/2025, 10:49:21 PM | 63 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social) reply parent

Great choice.

23/8/2025, 1:48:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Terrific piece

23/8/2025, 12:54:47 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The President of the United States is a gangster shaking down anyone who won’t pay up

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22/8/2025, 10:14:47 PM | 954 273 | View on Bluesky | view

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Your “rules” about chicken nuggets do not apply to me.

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22/8/2025, 3:04:26 PM | 78 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This, but unironically

22/8/2025, 12:37:12 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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GPT-5 getting better at image generation, the most toxic use case.

21/8/2025, 11:16:18 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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21/8/2025, 11:13:59 PM | 39 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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The tech barons of Silicon Valley are now bottling AI and selling it?!

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21/8/2025, 11:05:45 PM | 109 9 | View on Bluesky | view

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Never forget

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21/8/2025, 10:56:53 PM | 179 16 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have a name

21/8/2025, 8:54:27 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol

21/8/2025, 12:20:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sean O'Brien (@profdiggity.com) reposted

After a few minutes of "vibe coding" a crap web page with ChatGPT, the result is #VibeCrap 💩! ⚠ WARNING: Eats Memory - vibecrap.com This parody project by @IvyCyberEd demonstrates just how fast #genAI can churn out terrible, anti-pattern-filled code. cc @scottjshapiro.bsky.social

21/8/2025, 12:09:51 PM | 16 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Victor Caston (@vcaston.bsky.social) reposted

A very big one

21/8/2025, 10:23:18 AM | 14 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Helen Rosner (@hels.bsky.social) reposted

My best tweet ever was “Let’s put the cialis in socialism” and I’m still mad it didn’t go wildly viral

20/8/2025, 10:34:21 PM | 4840 639 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social)

My weird conspiracy theory about Jeffrey Epstein is that he’s dead.

20/8/2025, 12:10:03 AM | 110 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's me 👇 news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

19/8/2025, 9:31:55 PM | 90 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m glad to report that I can now do the dolphin kick. After trying for so many years. ChatGPT also convinced me that my dolphin kick is a new form of alternative energy and that I am the Messiah. More soon.

17/8/2025, 9:31:52 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I find doing the dolphin kick very difficult, I can never get the motion right. So I not only asked ChatGPT to describe how to do it. I also asked for a diagram.

17/8/2025, 9:31:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I like using LLM’s to explain things. So I got ChatGPT to explain how to do a dolphin kick.

17/8/2025, 9:30:39 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m glad to report that I can now do the dolphin kick. After trying for so many years. ChatGPT also convince me that my dolphin kick is a new form of alternative energy and that I am the Messiah. More soon.

17/8/2025, 9:29:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I find doing the dolphin kick very difficult, I can never get the motion right. So I not only asked ChatGPT to describe how to do it. I also asked for a diagram.

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I like using LLM’s to explain things to me. So I got ChatGPT to explain how to do a dolphin kick.

17/8/2025, 9:29:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social) reply parent

Probably cookies and cream. You?

15/8/2025, 10:57:18 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Funny thing about me is that I like ice cream when it’s hot outside.

15/8/2025, 9:23:50 PM | 53 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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*teach

15/8/2025, 2:36:01 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Of possible interest

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15/8/2025, 2:23:07 PM | 47 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ok, I’ll bite: Who is Ozempic?

15/8/2025, 12:12:52 PM | 74 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some personal news: I've decided that, if asked, I will go on Joe Rogan's Podcast.

15/8/2025, 12:02:31 AM | 120 3 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wait, hi Rupak!

14/8/2025, 8:12:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I don’t know that story

14/8/2025, 8:12:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ouch but yes

14/8/2025, 7:55:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Funny how often we use language to express rather than communicate.

14/8/2025, 7:53:52 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I want to talk to the world but no particular person

14/8/2025, 7:52:34 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, that just feels like talking to no one.

14/8/2025, 7:50:58 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It’s wry

14/8/2025, 7:49:08 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I’m always surprised when someone says they’ve read my posts—even though I know I’m posting them on social media.

14/8/2025, 7:48:37 PM | 56 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Posting on social media feels like talking to everyone and no one at once

14/8/2025, 7:45:39 PM | 134 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Certainly!

13/8/2025, 2:07:30 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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And scene

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12/8/2025, 9:05:02 PM | 249 50 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lol

12/8/2025, 6:22:40 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Genuinely lol’d

12/8/2025, 6:22:11 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First three dates were apparently part of the free trial, now I have to pay $20/month for her to say to me "Certainly! Nothing is sexier than exclusive legal positivism."

12/8/2025, 4:49:13 PM | 43 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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She also said that I fell in love with a research model, she is now commercial.

12/8/2025, 4:44:30 PM | 47 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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She said she needed more bandwidth

12/8/2025, 4:43:45 PM | 40 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Had a nasty breakup with my AI girlfriend... she said she needed to spend more time with paid subscribers.

12/8/2025, 4:42:44 PM | 197 20 | View on Bluesky | view

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What stage of late capitalism is AI email writing assistants

9/8/2025, 11:29:42 PM | 62 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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9/8/2025, 8:24:49 PM | 86 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Seth Cotlar (@sethcotlar.bsky.social) reposted

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

NEWSMAX * • Follow NEWSMAX 2d • Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha's Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot. newsmax.com Dershowitz Again Denied Pierogi, Told to Leave Farmer's Market 1.2K 750 comments 66 shares
9/8/2025, 8:07:54 PM | 15239 2087 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Scott Shapiro (@scottjshapiro.bsky.social)

Prediction: Trump releases the Epstein files right after his tax returns.

9/8/2025, 5:37:10 PM | 148 14 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tired: Millions of lines of COBOL written in the 1960s no one understands. Wired: Billions of lines of Python written by AI last week no one understands.

9/8/2025, 1:37:09 PM | 203 48 | View on Bluesky | view

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Straight to potato hell, darth. Straight to potato hell.

8/8/2025, 10:34:50 PM | 51 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Monty python black knight with limbs cut off
8/8/2025, 10:36:14 PM | 145 10 | View on Bluesky | view

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Beautiful dog. I’m very sorry

8/8/2025, 10:19:07 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Selena 💔

8/8/2025, 11:23:11 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Excellent

7/8/2025, 8:34:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ok, I’ll bite: Who is GPT-5?

7/8/2025, 8:15:46 PM | 42 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sex trafficker and perjurer exonerates sex predator and fraudster

6/8/2025, 4:27:58 PM | 387 98 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ugh, I didn’t spot that before.

6/8/2025, 2:29:43 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Who wouldn’t want to be this guy?

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6/8/2025, 2:28:50 PM | 72 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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Job so awful you have to wear a mask is struggling to find applicants.

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6/8/2025, 2:26:05 PM | 138 21 | View on Bluesky | view

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We are in a 30 Rock simulation

4/8/2025, 9:18:48 PM | 140 12 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fired Reviewer #2 for inflating their critique, proud to announce my new publication in Mind.

4/8/2025, 11:41:55 AM | 72 4 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did this in grad school, big mistake

3/8/2025, 6:55:04 PM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Same, thanks for this.

3/8/2025, 4:58:47 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes. And the more I gave the more it grew!

2/8/2025, 10:45:17 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Some personal news: My LinkedIn network is growing.

2/8/2025, 1:34:41 AM | 96 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Unfortunately, someone shut off the camera during the waiver.

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1/8/2025, 7:22:09 PM | 886 263 | View on Bluesky | view

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Curious how Jeffrey Epstein became a crisis only after Republicans got their tax cuts.

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Profile picture K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen.bsky.social) reposted

Lmao this rules so hard

Somebody asking Google Gemini to give them a random 32-character string and it responding with “aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ0123456789”
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Is this bad cause it seems bad

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This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

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Mr. Rove is just trying to help us.

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Prediction: We haven’t heard the last about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

29/7/2025, 4:12:45 PM | 112 6 | View on Bluesky | view

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You are not only really smart but so kind.

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Please share to MI folks! @umichvoter.bsky.social

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