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The early reviews of Super Mario Bros. Wonderwere universally positive, but for me, the review that mattered wouldn’t happen until later, when the family sat down and tried to play together. Could my children reconcile not being able to play as Peach at the same time? How would the game handle my oldest daughter’s tendency to immediately run to the right at the fastest speed possible, ignoring all of the coins?

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking on the button below. Thanks! As part of my continuing catch-up efforts here at Original Jurisdiction, I’m returning to another popular feature that I haven’t done in a while: my “SCOTUS Clerks: Where Are They Now” roundups, where I catch up with Supreme Court clerks a decade after their clerkships.

Summary: AI outputs can be disappointingly conventional. To avoid predictable responses, I like instructing AI engines to be strange. Unexpected, radical ideas can be useful for creative inspiration. Odd perspectives stretch my thinking. Read on for specific ways to prompt AI to break beyond its bland boundaries. When I’m in a creative rut, I paste in a section of writing and prompt AI to be bold and unconventional: “Offer five surprising, unexpected suggestions for specific ways to improve the following piece of writing.

This is the second installment in my series about how sexual violence is portrayed in TV and film. Please be aware that some readers might find it triggering and that there are spoilers ahead. Here are the earlier posts in this series: the introduction, ‘Promising Young Woman’. Unbelievable is a true crime miniseries that was released on Netflix in September 2019. It stars Kaitlyn Dever as Marie, a young woman who is raped by a man who breaks into her home.

Thank you for reading Beyond Survival, a publication about life after trauma. This is the fourth installment of Survivors on Screen, a series about how sexual violence is portrayed in TV and film. Please be aware that some readers might find it triggering and that there are spoilers ahead. Here are the earlier posts in this series: the introduction, ‘Promising Young Woman’, ‘Unbelievable’ and ‘The Assistant’.  Today, I’m speaking with WGA-nominated writer and on set producer of The Morning Show, Ali Griffin Vingiano about the show’s first season which was written in response to the #MeToo movement.

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.They’re harder than hen’s teeth to actually see; kinda like imaginary friends, guardian angels …and Bigfoot.* But you can hear them from a quarter mile away, those brief, upward soaring spires of crystalline sound. How they can throw their voices like ventriloquists and give that sense of spiraling and those echo-y reverberations in a woodland without walls is one of those lovely mysteries I am grateful to encounter again and again.

Like any tech-addled millennial in the past decade, I’ve often been asked which apps on my phone I love more than others. Some of the answers aren’t so surprising. But there’s always one that manages to throw people off. It’s an app that I’ve used for more consecutive days in the past decade than Twitter, Spotify, Whatsapp, Facebook, and even Instagram. An app that has managed to surpass my longest Snapchat streaks, Amazon binges, and aspirational Kindle reading challenges.

Bad before World War II. Bad during. Still bad now.  The worst kind of bad.  There are no “very fine people” among them. If you disagree, you won’t like my writing. Also, fuck you.  Still here? Cool. I’m James Fell, the “Sweary Historian.” My bestselling book On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down was published by Bantam Books. You can find it in bookstores, or find links to purchase here.

I don’t know about you, but if I see a platter of glistening pork belly placed on the dinner table I’ll be reaching for it immediately. Lunar New Year is less than 2 weeks away, so here’s a stunner of a recipe for your LNY menu consideration. Pork belly is something that I always associate with special occasions (with the exception of bacon). It meant a trip to either the local Chinese chop shop to get the best piece of crispy roast pork belly hanging in the window display or to your favorite butcher to find the most even and perfect slab of center cut pork belly to bring home and cook yourself.