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OA698: Will Clarence Thomas Break the Internet? (Probably Not.)

Opening Arguments

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Are You Predicting Where the Supreme Court's Going?

I think that we anthropomorphize these algorithms and to pretend that YouTube knows something or Facebook knows that you want to make friends who want to blow shit up. No, it's not. It's a bunch of mathematical formulas that were cooked up and sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. I could see an affirmence, a kind of a weird alliance between Kagan and Sotomayor and perhaps some of the howler monkey contingent on one side. And then a Thomas Jackson dissent, which may be the only Thomas Jackson dissent we get in the history.

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