Archive
Writing.
Essays, gathered into a few running series.
From Inside the Deployments
Essays on AI, automation, and the legal profession, written from inside the deployments.
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Who Signs When the Machine Is Wrong?
AI tools fail differently than people do. They fail fluently, confidently, and without a tell, and the legal profession's entire accountability structure was built for a kind of mistake that announces itself. A note from inside the deployments on what the signature on the filing now certifies.
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Where Do Junior Lawyers Come From Now?
The apprenticeship that produced every lawyer alive was never designed. It was a byproduct of cheap junior labor doing necessary tedious work, and automation is collapsing the trade that funded it. A note from inside the room where the bottom rung is being sawn off.
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On Staying Honest About AI
An attempt to write about AI from inside the deployments, without evangelism, without refusal, and without the comforts of pretending you aren't already participating.
On Craft
Criticism of film, television, and books, mostly about why the good ones work.
Elsewhere
Selected work cross-published on The Olive Branch Review.
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It's Turtles All the Way to Phillip
Beyond the edge of the universe, an infinite stack of turtles. At the bottom is Phillip, who has decided he has had enough of being unseen.
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This is the Way Democracy Ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. On the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling and the social contract it quietly broke.
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The Creature in the Corner
Joel Portnoy sits at his kitchen table and considers, again, whether he needs to be committed. The figure in the corner of his eye has been there for over a week.