The final season of Game of Thrones is starting today (you may have heard something about it) and there are a few things I want to get off my chest.For one thing, I'm wondering if all the death-related magic is connected in some way. Everybody makes a big deal about the Night King and his army of White Walkers because they can raise the dead, but there's a lot of that going … [Read more...] about Getting a Few Things Off My Chest: Game of Thrones Edition
The Software Engineer’s Bar Exam
I follow a bunch of legal blogs, and one of the things they consistently complain about is the content of the bar exam. As Ilya Somin describes it, "the bar exam is primarily a test of memorization that covers huge amounts of material most lawyers won’t need." As a consequence, time and effort spent preparing for the bar exam do very little to make one a better lawyer.I'm … [Read more...] about The Software Engineer’s Bar Exam
Shazam! – Review
The first trailer for Shazam! came out eight months ago, and it looked like a pretty good movie. Unlike certain other DC superhero movies, it looked like the Shazam! filmmakers remembered that comics were supposed to be fun.https://youtu.be/go6GEIrcvFYI managed to catch one of the sneak preview showings of Shazam! last week, and I thought it lived up to the promise of … [Read more...] about Shazam! – Review
The Walking Authorial Intrusion
Walking Dead is pissing me off. Again.The problem started with the final episode of Season 6, when Negan finally appears. The show had been building up to this for several episodes, as Rick's group had a series of run-ins with Negan's minions. In this episode, several of Rick's group were captured by Negan's much larger force and hauled into a clearing where they were … [Read more...] about The Walking Authorial Intrusion
The FACES of Justice
The ACLU and several other public interest groups have filed a brief with the Florida Supreme Court urging them to look into the use of automated facial recognition in criminal proceedings. In 2015, two undercover cops purchased $50 of crack cocaine from a Black man on a Jacksonville street. Instead of arresting him on the spot, one officer used an old phone to snap several … [Read more...] about The FACES of Justice