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  1. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance

  2. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance

  3. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20042…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #advice #awareness #counsel #education #error #information #mistake #reminder #teaching #willfulignorance

  4. #counsel : professional advice

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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  5. Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
    [SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
    #all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
    abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federa

  6. Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
    [SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
    #all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
    abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federa

  7. Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
    [SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
    #all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
    abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federa

  8. Some very funny lines in this article about a federal judge who denied having sex WITH A COP in her judicial chambers, for over two years, where her clerks could hear them!
    [SPOILER: she got a slap on the wrist & was only identified by Bloomberg news.]
    #all #rise #gavel #bang #dodged #bullet #JDVance #sofa #stain #analysis #Duke #mayo #chambers #loveseat #litigation #judge #criminal #civil #blackmail #risk #judicial #counsel #federal #case #investigation #flips #cushion
    abovethelaw.com/2026/05/federa

  9. 📖 “I will #instruct you and #teach you the way you should go; I will #counsel you with my eye upon you.” ‭‭ — #Psalms‬ ‭32‬:‭8‬ #NRSVue #guide #guard #Jesus

  10. The chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Jens Spahn, has reportedly nominated Martin Plum for the role of the faction's new legal advis... news.osna.fm/?p=44401 | #news #cducsu #counsel #groups #lead

  11. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  12. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  13. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  14. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  15. A quotation from Thomas More

    But doubtless Plato was right in foreseeing that unless kings became philosophical themselves, they would never take the advice of real philosophers, drenched as they are and infected with false values from boyhood on.
     
    [Sed bene haud dubie praeuidit Plato, nisi reges philosophentur ipsi, nunquam futurum, ut peruersis opinionibus a pueris imbuti, atque infecti penitus philosophantium comprobent consilia.]

    Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
    Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83253/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #advice #advisors #corruption #counsel #inculcation #king #philosopher #philosophy #ruler #upbringing

  16. A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #advice #busybody #control #counsel #duty #imposition #interference #others #perspective #requirements #responsibility #selfdirection

  17. A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #advice #busybody #control #counsel #duty #imposition #interference #others #perspective #requirements #responsibility #selfdirection

  18. A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #advice #busybody #control #counsel #duty #imposition #interference #others #perspective #requirements #responsibility #selfdirection

  19. A quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson

    You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
    Essay (1841), “Self-Reliance,” Essays: First Series, No. 2

    More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #emerson #ralphwaldoemerson #advice #busybody #control #counsel #duty #imposition #interference #others #perspective #requirements #responsibility #selfdirection

  20. A quotation from Horace

    Whene’er you lecture, be concise: the soul
    Takes in short maxims, and retains them whole:
    But pour in water when the vessel’s filled,
    It simply dribbles over and is spilled.
     
    [Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta
    percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles:
    omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 335ff (2.3.335-337) (19 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/33634/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #brevity #briefness #counsel #edification #keepitsimple #lesson #maxim #moral #moralizing #precept #succinct #teaching #wisdom

  21. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  22. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

    ------------

    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  23. "The court recognizes, sua sponte, that defendant's counsel is an asshole."

    #SuaSponte #counsel #defendant #asshole

  24. "The court recognizes, sua sponte, that defendant's counsel is an asshole."

    #SuaSponte #counsel #defendant #asshole

  25. Quote of the day, 21 January: Mother Agnès of Jesus

    Recently a tiny shellfish gave me a lesson in interior recollection. I had difficulty in opening it because it resisted strongly, and I said to myself: “It is quite a vigorous little creature: no one would think it is so far from the sea.”

    It taught me a great lesson. I must be sufficiently filled with the water of recollection to resist as strongly as he did the pressure of work and various happenings of the day, anything that could make me lose the drop of water which makes possible my union with God.

    Mother Agnès of Jesus, o.c.d. (Pauline Martin)

    Little Counsels of Mother Agnes of Jesus, OCD Saint Therese’s Sister, Pauline (excerpt), Compiled by the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Ada (Parnell) Michigan

    Featured image: Comboni Missionary Father David Bohnsack, mccj captures the humble, contemplative gaze of a child in Abéché, Chad. Image credit: David Bohnsack, mccj (By permission).

    #counsel #MotherAgnesOfJesus #PaulineMartin #recollection #unionWithGod

  26. But I've seen some outside of an educational context as well. This one is absolutely horrific. It's another case of a #lawyer using an LLM to generate #court filings of one type or another, without even checking its output to see if the brief makes sense, cites actual case #law, etc.

    This is a #sanctions order from a #judge in this particular case. It is gripping reading.
    cases.justia.com/federal/distr

    In short: the lawyer was caught submitting briefs with "hallucinated" #citations, either to cases that did not exist, or to cases that were unrelated to the legal point the citation was being used to uphold. An opposing #counsel contacted their firm about such an incorrect citation, and the firm did some cleanup, did some continuing legal education, instituted an "AI" policy, instructed the #attorney about what was forbidden, etc. And then that attorney ... just kept on doing it. Even after judges started noticing problems in submissions, this lawyer just kept doing it.

    It was so bad that it basically caused the #implosion of the law firm.

    Incredible.

    2/2

  27. But I've seen some outside of an educational context as well. This one is absolutely horrific. It's another case of a #lawyer using an LLM to generate #court filings of one type or another, without even checking its output to see if the brief makes sense, cites actual case #law, etc.

    This is a #sanctions order from a #judge in this particular case. It is gripping reading.
    cases.justia.com/federal/distr

    In short: the lawyer was caught submitting briefs with "hallucinated" #citations, either to cases that did not exist, or to cases that were unrelated to the legal point the citation was being used to uphold. An opposing #counsel contacted their firm about such an incorrect citation, and the firm did some cleanup, did some continuing legal education, instituted an "AI" policy, instructed the #attorney about what was forbidden, etc. And then that attorney ... just kept on doing it. Even after judges started noticing problems in submissions, this lawyer just kept doing it.

    It was so bad that it basically caused the #implosion of the law firm.

    Incredible.

    2/2

  28. How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed

    Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.

    archive.ph/zLbuW

    #Crime #Criminal #President #Trump #Justice #Injustice #DOJ #Classified #Prosecutor #JackSmith #DavidRaskin #Counsel

  29. How Jack Smith’s strongest case against Donald Trump collapsed

    Seeking to get the classified documents case to a jury before the 2024 election, the special counsel made a fateful decision that some in his office saw as a misstep.

    archive.ph/zLbuW

    #Crime #Criminal #President #Trump #Justice #Injustice #DOJ #Classified #Prosecutor #JackSmith #DavidRaskin #Counsel

  30. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Try our new word guessing game @ 24hippos.com

  31. #RobertSMuellerIII, the former special #counsel on Trump Russia was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease 4 yrs ago.
    Since he has difficulty speaking and has mobility issues he won’t be able to testify this week on the Epstein investigations.
    nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/poli

  32. A quotation from Gene Fowler

    I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

    Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
    Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the ’20s, ch. 8 (1961)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fowler-gene/78389/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #genefowler #advice #counsel #error #experience #failure #learning #makemistakes #mistake

  33. A quotation from Gene Fowler

    I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

    Gene Fowler (1890-1960) American journalist, author, and dramatist. [b. Eugene Devlan]
    Skyline: A Reporter’s Reminiscence of the ’20s, ch. 8 (1961)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fowler-gene/78389/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #genefowler #advice #counsel #error #experience #failure #learning #makemistakes #mistake

  34. Its too hot outside so I've been doing some #emacs hacking porting #counsel-compile to a #casual #transient interface: github.com/stsquad/casual/comm

    It's been a bit of a learning curve as I'm not familiar with the philosophy of the transient #API and #vibe coding with an #llm fails hilariously because this is a super niche of a niche. Any tips on how to save a set of arguments on a per-project basis would be appreciated. #hothacking

  35. Its too hot outside so I've been doing some #emacs hacking porting #counsel-compile to a #casual #transient interface: github.com/stsquad/casual/comm

    It's been a bit of a learning curve as I'm not familiar with the philosophy of the transient #API and #vibe coding with an #llm fails hilariously because this is a super niche of a niche. Any tips on how to save a set of arguments on a per-project basis would be appreciated. #hothacking

  36. “We are seeing very quick turnaround with certain cases,” Ms. Méndez said, adding that the lack of #access to #counsel raised serious concerns about #DueProcess violations.

    She said that federal #immigration agencies had refused to release to lawyers the alien identification numbers of the people who had been detained, making it difficult for the lawyers to locate their clients in the federal database that is used to track #immigrant detainees.

    #Trump #law #injustice #CivilRights

  37. “We are seeing very quick turnaround with certain cases,” Ms. Méndez said, adding that the lack of #access to #counsel raised serious concerns about #DueProcess violations.

    She said that federal #immigration agencies had refused to release to lawyers the alien identification numbers of the people who had been detained, making it difficult for the lawyers to locate their clients in the federal database that is used to track #immigrant detainees.

    #Trump #law #injustice #CivilRights

  38. A quotation from Judith Martin

    Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

    Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
    “Miss Manners,” syndicated column (2014-05-11)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/76874/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #advice #attention #counsel #listening

  39. #counsel : mutual advising

    - French: conseil

    - Italian: consiglio

    - Portuguese: conselho

    - Spanish: consejo

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    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  40. #Comer: We’re going to bring the physician in… we’re going to have #RonnyJackson there to #counsel us