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Rachel Amos retweeted
These are mild insults compared to the Big Daddy of them all.
"Misconceived".
This means that the other lot think you are deeply stupid.
Rachel Amos retweeted
Witnesses to Parliamentary Committees have absolute parliamentary immunity.
If the House of Women and Equalities Committee called Ms Berki as a witness then she'd be unconstrained by the injunction.
And, for the first time in eleven years, we could hear her side of the story.
Rachel Amos retweeted
The genius of these two is that they created a series of one-joke characters/sketches that somehow remain funny decades later - even though you know exactly what’s coming.
Happy Birthday Paul, you legend, you
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Rachel Amos retweeted
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And if you pay attention to where the deals flow and which firms work for which clients and which partners move and why
It all makes perfect sense actually
1. PE majors are repeat buyers at scale so have a roster of lawyers
2. Buyout counsel draft the soul crushing debt and indenture docs for the LBO
This. Don’t fall for easy tropes about lawyers. Most people cannot do this.
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🙄 I see people on the internet dunking on fancy law firms & law firm partners as though they don't know how to run businesses or use computers (eh maybe fair on 💻)
📢 LET ME SHOUT THIS WITHOUT STUTTERING
👏 it 👏 is 👏 HARD 👏 to 👏 get 👏 and 👏 stay 👏 on 👏 top
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Rachel Amos retweeted
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Some will take this as criticism of Weil leadership and it is not -- it's easy to throw rocks from the cheap seats and after working for/with #BigLaw chairs for 10+ years, I'm sharing this to explain why hard things are hard
Law firms are fragile, for real reasons
Rachel Amos retweeted
Funding rounds aren't milestones. It shouldn't be your goal to raise a series A. It should be your goal not to need to.
Rachel Amos retweeted
1/ A shocking turn of events at Weil Gotshal—especially since, as a partner who just got out of the meeting told me, the firm has no debt, a key factor in past Biglaw bankruptcies and dissolutions.
Breaking: Weil Gotshal & Manges plans to wind down its operations, its leaders told partners on Wednesday, according to a source briefed on the decision. news.bloomberglaw.com/busine…
Rachel Amos retweeted
I love that David Bowie's and Brian May's reactions were captured when Annie Lennox gives it everything, and that George Michael singing along in the back! Fantastic video and the very best music.
Rachel Amos retweeted
When we introduced the marketplace into neurodevelopmental assessments, something fundamental shifted.
When there is a profit to be made from convincing people they might be autistic or have ADHD, then we are all at risk of overmedicalisation. It is in the interest of private providers to expand their audience.
Once the demand is there, the incentives are to carry out assessments as cheaply as possible. And that can mean poor quality assessments leading to life long diagnoses.
bmj.com/content/395/bmj-2026…
Rachel Amos retweeted
A painfully sad piece to read. theguardian.com/society/2026…
Rachel Amos retweeted
This was an emotional interview for me to do. @joshxhowie saw my mood was quite different as he greeted me into the studio. I think what he saw was my deep shame at what the Green Party had become and I felt particularly assailed by it because he as a Jew was most directly impacted by it.
It still feels raw what has happened today. What's genuinely terrifying is the idea that members of a political association have organised intensely for the best part of a year to drive this antisemitic motion through and they were facilitated if not encouraged throughout. They did not take no for an answer in Spring and the short-termist sabotage tactics of the Party elites did not work a second time. Instead the internal opposition was too little too late and could never have been effective for the primary reason that groupthink intransigence had already been baked in.
The Green Party is an actual danger to Jews. They are an actual danger to society. It's said the road to hell is paved with good intentions, I'm not even sure of the good intentions at this point.
@GBNEWS
Rachel Amos retweeted
This needs to be against the law.
Ah yes, the "miracle" of surrogacy yet again...
A couple orders triplets through surrogacy and then... oops... discovers that three babies are “too overwhelming,” so now they’re considering putting one up for adoption.
Imagine manufacturing three children by contract, then deciding one of them is surplus to requirements.
This is what happens when children are treated like products: ordered, delivered, and disposable when inconvenient.
What a grotesque nightmare.
End surrogacy.
Rachel Amos retweeted
In my view it’s a bit odd for the BBC to use the very sad occasion of Esther Rantzen’s death to encourage campaigners to put across the contested case for assisted dying unchallenged in interviews.
Rachel Amos retweeted
We instituted an official AI Writing Policy at @Clay.
Massive thanks to @sophiebits on our engineering team who wrote this.
Originally this was just for eng, but other teams found it so helpful we expanded it company-wide.
Here are the four guiding principles:
1. You must stand behind every idea and sentence
It is your responsibility to make sure that the entire document is representative of your own thoughts before you share it.
2. Writing is thinking
Spending time on the writing process teaches you more about your topic. If you circumvent this process, you will walk away with a poorer understanding of the subject matter.
3. More time should be spent writing a document than consuming it
If you generate a document from a short prompt then ask your readers to go through the longer output, you are disrespecting their time. They can talk to ChatGPT themselves if they want to.
4. Longer is not better
AI makes it easy to generate long docs, and it loves padding them with sentences that say nothing. If you're producing docs from a short prompt, consider just sharing the prompt.
You can read (and borrow) the full policy below. Hopefully we all communicate a bit more clearly now :)
