Defending Disabled Adults
Private and Medicaid health insurance plans are preventing many disabled adults from accessing rehabilitative care for the health conditions causing their disabilities. Instead of getting help, disabled adults suffer injuries and become more disabled. It’s Wrong. It’s illegal. And It’s not going to stop until people are willing to pay attention and take action.
What I’ve Been Up To
The Future of the AI Harness is User-First and Open-Source
Anthropic currently has, hands down, the best AI models for coding and knowledge work. But, the closed-source AI harnesses (the ‘Harness’) Claude Code and Claude Cowork are fundamentally handicapped due to being closed-source software. The future of the AI harness is open-source because only then is the Harness User-First. A User-First Future is the…
I Have Been Building AI Tools for Pro Se Civil Rights Litigation
Today I published an MCP server that connects the Free Law Project’s CourtListener API to AI agents running in Claude Code and OpenCode (https://github.com/DefendTheDisabled/courtlistener-mcp). This gives my AI agents the ability to search CourtListener’s extensive case law databases with both keyword search and semantic search. The courtlistener-mcp should run with any AI CLI or desktop…
Rational Thinking as a Civic Duty: An Examination of Classical Republican Principles During the Founding of the United States
Generated using Claude 4.5 Sonnet Extended Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro on 10.15-16.2025.Factual claims verification and in-text revisions manually performed by Sean Smith, DefendTheDisabled.org Authors Foreword:The United States was founded upon a set of principles which seem largely absent from the rhetoric driven positions and agendas of today’s political Left and Right. The founding fathers…
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