Every moment I spend trying to craft and deliver an assignment that can't be cheated on is a moment I'm not spending explaining a substantive concept. To do that on the strength of the assumption that some students will be inclined to cheat is to punish everyone for my own assumptions about a few.
26 August 2026 @ 2:14 am
I'm also reluctant to stand at the front of the class, before a group of people I'm only just meeting for the first time, and casually inform them that I don't trust them. That doesn't engender the kind of dynamic I'm aiming for and as a student I would have been put off by that tack immediately.
26 August 2026 @ 2:14 am
And while it may be the least important factor, and it is definitely peculiar to law and other professional disciplines, I don't think it makes a ton of sense to do anything that makes the classroom experience significantly different from practice. </rant>
26 August 2026 @ 2:14 am
I'll caveat all of that with a general observation that none of the above is to suggest I believe those resorting to blue books and pencils, etc. are *wrong* -- just that there is definitely another side to consider.
26 August 2026 @ 2:14 am
Seeing a lot of discourse around AI and assignment creation. I definitely do what I can to make it straightforward to *not* cheat and more difficult *to* cheat, but I’m not giving up on writing assignments entirely. I have more faith in my students than that. Small diatribe incoming.
26 August 2026 @ 2:14 am
I don't think the art, science, or magic of writing is going away because AI can do a serviceable job of it. Owing to that, I reckon that it's my job to do the best I can to deliver graduates that can reduce their ideas to the written form with as much fidelity as possible.
26 August 2026 @ 2:14 am
Whenever my vanity Google search alert fires off that I’m mentioned by another city council or state house in an anti-data center bill, my heart warms.
25 August 2026 @ 7:46 pm
Interesting little finding: The eCFR is the public's authoritative lens into what fed regs say—including what they said on past dates. We found a case where that view lagged: for weeks after an amendment's effective date, eCFR rendering continued to show pre-amendment text.
https://frtracker.app/blog/ecfr-incorporation-lag
25 August 2026 @ 3:05 pm
If you haven’t given Wallflower a shot as a Bluesky/Mastodon reader (also RSS feeds, “Commonplace Book,” read it later, etc.) — consider doing so. Lots of quality of life improvements. I’ve been blowing through a backlog of articles with the custom podcast feed.
https://thewallflower.app/about
24 August 2026 @ 2:20 am
