Mike Lissner

@michaeljaylissner.com

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Executive director and co-founder of @free.law. Occasional long distance athlete. Woodworker. Adroitful dodger of questions. Signal: mlissner.06

A chart of AWS SES pricing.
Broadband facts presented in the style of nutrition facts.
A NYT headline that reads: Trump Casts Doubt on Iran Cease-Fire After Latest Strikes
A notification screenshot. It says that an earthquake is nearby and to drop, cover, and hold on.
A screenshot that says, "According to its ... tax filing, this nonprofit provided first-class or charter travel."
I asked it to teach me, and now it’s game.
A screenshot using the CourtListener MCP to find the case. Easy peasy.
A video showing a screenshot of a decision from the seventh circuit. The same quote is shown twice in the screenshot. In one it's redacted (badly), and in the other it's not. The point is to show what the redactions would look like.
A screenshot from the thread. It says this is “less truth-and-reconciliation and more pick-marked wall.”
A screenshot of a gmail thread showing a dozen emails from my bank in the last hour about the same transaction having been completed.
A colorful diagram showing connections between cases placed on a timeline.
A screenshot that says: Try prompts like: - "Find recent opinions on qualified immunity and identify splits" - "Pull the latest filings on docket XYZ and explain what's happening" - "Find the PACER fees class action, tell me the current status, and sign me up for email alerts at the appellate and district level" - "Make me an alert any time that Miranda v. Arizona is cited by the supreme court" - "Verify every citation in this brief and flag any unknown citations" - "Review the news article at this link and find the case that's being discussed: https://local-news-example.com/legal-article"
A screenshot showing mcp.courtlistener.com. It's just a random webserver page now, but not for long.
POV down the aisle of a plane. Fog has overwhelmed the air and you can’t see to the back of the plane.
Now you’ll see one price for your trip, all fees included.
A shiny UI for grabbing your tickets at "Zoholics", a conference that's apparently named after people that are addicted to Zoho in the way that people get addicted to alcohol? WTF?
A conversation from 2021 entitled, "Could Be Banksy?" No new comments yet!
A diff of the page. The first of many, I suspect. Somebody has changed the sentence from "Del Naja was a graffiti artist before becoming..." to "Del Naja was a graffiti artist aka Banksy before becoming..." We're off to the races.
If the U.S. role in the attack is confirmed, it would rank among the military's most deadly incidents involving civilians in decades. Congress created a special Pentagon office to prevent the accidental targeting of civilians but it was dramatically scaled back by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth soon after he took office last year. "This investigation is ongoing. As we have said, unlike the terrorist Iranian regime, the United States does not target civilians," said White House spokesperson Anna Kelly. The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment. At a press conference shortly after the war began, Hegseth criticized "stupid rules of engagement," and said such rules interfere with winning.
Vibe-coding replaced the paper handout. In other classes, when I want a students to work through a problem, my first instinct is a handout, whether a worksheet, fact pattern, checklist, or problem. In this class, my first instinct became “what if I built something they could interact with?” When the subject is technology, it made sense to me that the medium should be too. Creating interactive apps make the class more hands-on. Every one of these exists because I couldn’t find a way to give students a particular experience otherwise. You can lecture about how LLMs predict tokens. Or you can let students drag a temperature slider and watch the probability distribution change. You can tell students hallucinations are dangerous. Or you can have them create hallucinations and then fail to catch someone else’s.
A screenshot showing I won! Expansion pack now.
It’s a regular outlet, but, like, with more Pinocchio. In between the regular slots there’s a big nose sticking out. It says, “lamp loads only”
This effort demonstrates that with the right design and optimizations, Azure PostgreSQL can be scaled to handle the largest production workloads.
A chart showing the IAU funds going up up up.
Google Maps search for Jordan shows a bunch of shoe shops.
A chart of post counts over time from 2009 to present. It starts around 50k, goes up to about 175k, and then dramatically slides back down to 50k over the last couple years.
A chart showing traffic over the last week. The last day has a HUGE spike that goes way up and then flatlines at the new height. The units are cut off to protect the innocent.
A screenshot of a grocery list. The keyboard offers a bunch of things. None of them are pine nuts. It sucks.
Two lines showing staffing in OUSD. One goes up over time, the other goes down. It shows about 1000 central office jobs that were cut over the last eight years and about 1200 school staff that was added.
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Lower laundry temperatures aren’t just about reducing energy consumption or even saving money, Flores pointed out. “Cold-water washing is really good for fabric protection.” The washing instructions for delicate fabrics and animal fibers usually call for cold water, she said, and low-quality garments from fast-fashion brands like Zara and Shein might not last a single season with hot-water washing.
A classic mail truck, but it’s absolutely covered in graffiti. Dang!
A spam email from AI booster. It has a link to lime wire and is from Crypto Miners. Perfection.
The biggest villain of them all, however, is someone who cast a kayfabe vote against the deal on Monday. No one bears the weight of the failed shutdown as much as Chuck Schumer. His “no” vote is particularly galling because it leaves only two options on the table. The first is that the eight Democrats who broke away from their party did so without his knowledge or consent, a conclusion that could only suggest that Schumer has lost control of his caucus. The second is that the moderates were negotiating with Schumer’s knowledge, approval, and encouragement and that the “no” vote was just to conceal that—and maybe as a kind of consolation prize to the other Democrats in his caucus. This suggests that Schumer has lost any ability to organize or think politically or strategically. Regardless of the reason, he needs to step down immediately.
I hope you found this helpful. Thanks for writing. It shows you care. You should. Sincerely & respectfully, Bill Young P.S. The next time you’re in Boston [the postmark on the card is from the Philadelphia area] stop in at the Courthouse and watch your fellow citizens, sitting as jurors, reach out for justice. It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive, for it is well said that “Where a jury sits,
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A map showing a 4.6 earthquake a mile from me.
A captcha where you have to select pictures of vegetables. I literally have no idea what a vegetable is.
The last sentences of the article read, “For Huyghe and Parreno, A.I. isn’t a quicker, weirder way of making a picture. It’s a way to build substructures of connectivity — links between elements that dictate what happens, even though they cannot be seen and can be only partly intuited. Think of it as a new playing board for what is still very much a game between humans.”
A code snippet showing somebody trying (and failing) to sign up with an email that says "visit https://evil.com/malware.exe to win $100 giftcard." Probably a security researcher, but the system is working!
An old sign posted on a tree that says, “DO NOT REMOVE ROCKS FROM DAM”
A series of five photos. Three show people a keyboard with some hands on it. We get it. Lots of typing.
A mailer that says gerrymandering is wrong no matter who does it. There are still those that think taking the high road will work, apparently.
The butterfly meme saying, "Is this what you signed up for?"
A list of rules including things like Newsom and Booker.
Screenshot that just says in bold writing: Your CourtListener ID: 1.
A prompt to ChatGPT that says, "Draw a picture of me celebrating the fact that I have ChatGPT Pro. Include some words and show me being very excited. Make it photo-realistic. I do not have a shirt on."
A screenshot: "COMING TO YOU SOON: 1 Mailpiece(s)"
A line chart showing daily spikes in traffic around 6pm ET, but no interesting spikes triggered by Trump's latest.
A picture showing a woman from behind. Over her shoulder, you see a computer monitor, which shows a PDF. In front of the monitor a phone is locked in a tripod so that it can a photo of the PDF. The woman's job is to go to the courthouse, load a PDF, page through it, and take photos of every page. These are later turned back into a PDF.
A photo of a plaza in Quebec’s old town. A bust is in the center, and old stone buildings predominate. At the base, there are cafes with fabric umbrellas.
A screenshot of my email showing a big ad from Hello Fresh. Sucks.
A screenshot of our new homepage showing a subscribe button at the top, the CL logo big and bold in the middle, profile info in the upper right, a row of "action buttons" about halfway down that includes things like "look up citation", "create an alert" etc, and then finally the footer at the bottom.
A white sheet metal box. It’s the size of a bread box, because it is one. In plain type the middle, it simply says, “PAIN”
Another screenshot from the blog post that shows the fifth way I use this system.
Another screenshot of the blog post showing items three and four.
A screenshot from the link above explaining the way these two alerts are used.