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krisnelson

@krisnelson@legal.social

Attorney, abogado, avocat in California at TRE Legal Practice (disability discrimination/civil rights). This is not legal advice; I am not your attorney.

Current US history adjunct. Was a PhD Candidate in the Hist of Science & Science Studies/STS (historical impact of tech on US privacy law).

Also was a web dev & sysadmin.

Comms in English, español, français. (Others via machine.)

#Law #Legal #LegalTech #History #STS #Disability #DisabilityLaw #CivilRights #Privacy #fedi22

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grimalkina, to random
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Thinking about slow work, of which all justice work is a part, in a world that wants you to feel worthless for it. Thinking about how I got off a plane in time to hug my wife after we saw a picture of snipers on her campus surveilling her students. Thinking about how many backyard bbqs we've had those students over for (rented tables outside, our tiny cottage can't hold them all). Thinking what is the exchange rate of bbqs to guns on campus in the calculus of whether a student feels safe

krisnelson,
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@grimalkina This is like a mini-manifesto for one profound way to make the world a better place.

krisnelson, to Law
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At least in part for selfishly professional reasons (i.e., I'm a civil rights lawyer), I'm curious what the lawsuits that come out of these latest protests will look like.

Anyone have any that have been filed? Ideally I'd like the Complaints, if at all possible. (I'll post what I find too.)

inquiline, to random
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Another day, another ritualistic display of who really runs this country (cops)

krisnelson,
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@inquiline I’ve been thinking about this today too in terms of performativity and especially audience (or which audience matters). Like who are these cops performing for? What message are they sending and to whom? Who are administrators performing for and why does the audience they respect never seem to be students or even parents or (most) donors? And what does this say about where power lies and what interventions might alter that?

That kind of thing. When I’m not worrying.

krisnelson, to random
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What are the odds police are going to protect student protestors from more violent attacks by “counter-protestors” instead of using last night’s violent attacks on protestors at UCLA to justify violent police intervention against protestors in order to “prevent more violence”?

krisnelson,
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All that’s missing this morning is the “to prevent violence” police justification bc of course they targeted students last night: https://legal.social/@krisnelson/112371947719159198

krisnelson,
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Oh look, just as predicted, today the president’s statement says that UCLA had to send in the police last night to arrest the student protestors who had been violently attacked the night before with no response by police to protect them because the existence of the protest made people—wait for it—unsafe.

https://dailybruin.com/2024/05/02/chancellor-block-claims-unsafe-university-conditions-led-to-encampment-closure

krisnelson, to random
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I once thought that when I became a lawyer I’d have the power to do something about abuses of power by those who should protect us.

Now that I am an attorney, I can’t even begin to explain how much I underestimated the barriers to being able to do that.

It really feels like there’s an entire armed wing out there with almost no real mechanisms of accountability to the rule of law, to due process, to equal protection, to justice.

I’ll do what I can. But I don’t think lawyers can fix this.

krisnelson, to random
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So if the 60th is diamond, is the 56th the reenactment anniversary? (Asking for a university.)

https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/1968/bust

simon, to random
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I find the etiquette of Calendly (and other appointment booking things) really interesting

I've heard some people are offended by the suggestion that they use that to book a slot rather than doing a back-and-forth to find the right time for both parties

I see it as respectful of my time when someone suggests Calendly rather than having us back-and-forth over several cycles

I'd love to understand this dynamic more

krisnelson,
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@simon Yes, this is what I sense too! I even felt it myself when someone initiated a request to me, even though it's a completely irrational response on my part and I squelched it quickly. Maybe a sense (irrational, but where's it come from?) that the person initiating the Calendly (or similar tool) is the one whose time is more protected and important and the other person should adjust to them? "Talk to my secretary" sort of thing?

krisnelson, to random
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I find FedEx’s approach to sending me a pic of a delivered package a fascinating look at customer relations used primarily to benefit the corp:

My package was delivered but the pic was not of my front porch. I used the convenient function to say my package had not been delivered. They referred me to the pic and told me to go look for it bc “see pic.” I reported again, they “investigated,” nothing (see pic).

There was no mechanism in any of this for me to register the pic wasn’t my porch!

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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Have already absorbed coffee and added 300 words in revision. Not bed for a Saturday before dog-walking.

krisnelson,
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@lilithsaintcrow you are way ahead of me! The cat and I have yet to go from bed to coffee and these are the sum total of the words I’ve managed so far, lol

krisnelson, to random
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The behavior of student protestors on college campuses is worrisome and makes me uncomfortable.

The behavior of militarized police on college campuses is terrifying and makes me unsafe.

krisnelson, to disability
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Just got the jury verdict in our favor in a case against Alameda County in CA! Still more work to do because we think they haven't fixed all their issues (but the advisory jury didn't agree on this).

Still, feeling vindicated that this never should have gone to trial bc it was so obviously wrong on their part (yes, you really do need to write on a piece of paper for a individual so they can file their gov form that day).

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18454459/martinez-v-county-of-alameda/

StillIRise1963, to random
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At the rate we're going, Sanatoriums will make a comeback.

krisnelson,
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@StillIRise1963 Tbh I'm more concerned about the return of workhouses. At least sanatoriums tried (some of them at least) to help patients within the limits of then-available medical knowledge.

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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There is a house in our neighborhood with an inflatable leprechaun in the front yard and Boxnoggin views it as a personal enemy.

krisnelson,
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@lilithsaintcrow this sentence would make a stellar opening line in a novel

krisnelson, to random
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It's not so much that I'm angry & bored (bangry?) about politics per se in my news & in my timeline (the personal is political & the political is personal after all) as it is that I'm SO VERY VERY tired & worn & irritated & annoyed by all the repetitive partisan posturing, ungrounded political theorizing, badly argued & poorly evidenced political analysis, and the endless amateur & monotonous doom & gloom trotted out after every single damn bad political event.

Can we try something new plz?

jessamyn, to random
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Got the option to set up a Signal username. I grew up in a time when having to put a number at the end of your username meant you didn't get there first, so I had a hard time picking. Wavered between 411 and 443 and then was like "This is stupid, the choice is obvious" and now mine ends with 31337 because why not?

krisnelson,
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@jessamyn Lol, I just went through this same quandary about 2 hours ago. The pain is real!

StillIRise1963, to random
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If you're willing to meet a fascist halfway, it means you're a fascist too.

krisnelson,
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@StillIRise1963 unless by meeting “halfway” you mean on the beaches of Normandy, then yeah—which I think only reinforces your point!

inquiline, to random
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    krisnelson,
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    @inquiline fedi is so much like irl it’s painful

    joelanman, to accessibility
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    some people treat accessibility as an abstract, intellectual puzzle.

    'Well it would/wouldn't pass wcag because of [obscure detail]'.

    The point is how accessible you're making something for disabled people - the spirit, not the letter

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    @joelanman also why it’s so important to have actual disabled users test your site—does it actually work for real people? WCAG is useful, but the actual real-world impact matters!

    grimalkina, to random
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    Putting the word "cognitive" in front of stuff doesn't make it more sciencey and more technical; unfortunately this IS the implicit association that many folks make. I read a hundred things a week that would prefer to say "cognitive science" instead of psychology and then aaaaaall their topics and all the findings they're ripping were produced by psychologists. Just fascinating. Like Andy Huberman getting credit for research on praise because he read a cliff notes summary of years of work.

    krisnelson,
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    @grimalkina this same kind of effect is why history departments are sometimes classified into “social sciences” (versus “humanities”). Tbh, I suppose this same thing is why the term “social sciences” exists!

    So much “science” (& “sci comms”) must perform like this & manipulate perceptions in order to actually get shit done, funded, published, believed. I guess it’s pretty much always been like this since modern “science” became a thing, even if sometimes it’s more hidden.

    krisnelson, to random
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    I know it’s really old news by now but I just wanted to note that I still really really hate not having a headphone jack on my iPhone

    futurebird, to random
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    For Republican Lawyers
    A Logic Review

    "If A then B." Is a logical statement known as an implication. What this means is that any time A is true, B must also be true. It's a common fallacy to think that this is the same thing as "If B then A."

    Now it is true that "If not B then not A" is logically equivalent. But "if not A then not B" certainly isn't! Really this is the same error as thinking "If B then A" follows from "If A then B."

    I think you legal folks have a fancy latin name for this...

    krisnelson,
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    @futurebird Really, I'm thinking law schools ought to have had classes dedicated to logical reasoning (and statistics—so many lawyers are so very bad at even the basics of statistics) in addition to the case-based classes bc yikes

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    krisnelson,
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    @lilithsaintcrow ok, part-clockwork zombies sound like fun! (I say in anticipation, looking up from reading a book that I just realized was in fact written by Past You, lol)

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    krisnelson,
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    @weirdwriter My understanding—and I could be wrong—is that the integration isn't fully in place for public use as yet, so I don't think it will work still (and I haven't heard a timeline or further details beyond speculation based on a post by Zuck on Threads)

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