If every single one of those 345k people burned their PS5 in protest and swore a blood oath to never give Sony another dollar they wouldn't notice. Even if they did, if it increases their profit margin by more than 0.37%, they'd cry all the way to the bank.
Luckily (or unluckily depending on how you look at it), this isn't a new problem. People have been handing political and economic power to people who project confidence over demonstrating ability for millennia.
An essential part of growing up and becoming educated is not just learning facts but also learning to evaluate people who claim to have them. Many adults are not great at it (as evidenced by the endless history of scams). Hopefully in the future, by necessity, society starts more rigorously training kids to spot a charlatan.
Judge: You didn't tell the judge that the subpoena was about reporters, about the New York Times?
Sullivan: We did not. It was an oversight. Later we did legal research.
"Your honor we didn't realize the story in the New York Times was written by reporters." is certainly... a take.
It also renders the whole confirmation process moot as well. The delay in the confirmation process is so that all the senators from the 13 colonies can travel to Boston by horse, not so that the president gets an endlessly repeating four month free trial.
I think the twisted logic being used here is that because Bytedance may own a non-zero quantity of shares in many companies, by that posters own insane reading of the law, the government must be prohibited from using anything at all, because Bytedance owning <0 shares of something poisons the well so to speak.
AC should apply to be a lawyer for the government. They really like people like him these days.
Given that kind of work environment, is it really any surprise that the few remaining DOJ lawyers would turn to hallucinating AI tools to “generate” their legal filings?
Yes.
Lawyers are responsible for the things they submit in court. That's literally the beginning and the end of their job description: being responsible for the position their client wants to make in court. That is why we, as a society, have lawyers. They are legal professionals. In fact, getting it right is so important that they make you go to extra school for many years and then take a test and then join a guild. The entire point of all of this is to have some kind of standards.
Imagine for a moment if doctors were allowed to use AI to conjure up test results for their patients and then use that as a basis for treating them. Oops, sorry about the chemo. Don't blame me. ChatGPT told me you had cancer.
Let's call citing non-existing cases what it is: lies. It is lying. It is equally as bad as if the lawyer made up the cases from their own imagination rather than using a random text generator to concoct it. Refraining from telling lies in court is not a "best practice". It should be the very most basic elementary requirement, even more essential than wearing clothes. That it's happening in cases where peoples' freedom is at stake is almost beyond the point. It is a firetruck showing up at a burning building with no water. The fact that there are people trapped in the inferno doesn't make it worse. It is the level at which the people supposedly here to help should just leave.
So, assuming Mullin gets the chop I can only wonder who they plan to sacrificeoffer the job to next. Presumably someone even more incapable of predicting how this will inevitably turn out.
How does Trump do it? Where does he find all these people willing to jump off a cliff for him?
This lawsuit seeks: (i) a judicial declaration that Defendant violated Plaintiff’s
applicable Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy, (ii) enforcement of the indemnification provisions contained therein, (iii) injunctive relief preventing Defendant from creating additional accounts or further circumventing Plaintiff’s safeguards, and (iv) all damages to which Plaintiff is entitled, including attorneys’ fees and costs.
Most TOS violations end with you getting banned from the service. Is there really a court ready to entertain the idea that breaking TOS can leave you liable for attorney fees? Which other TOSs have most of us already signed onto which could then be sued for breaking?
I get that this is mostly legal posturing because they want a court to stamp its seal of approval on their having nothing to do with this, but the devil is always in the details.
It depends on your definition of "silly" I think. The root problem is people assuming that Google's AI search result is in any way authoritative. In a way, I feel sorry for Google on this one. The AI is simply reading a bunch of search results and producing a summary of what it finds therein. In that extremely limited sense, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. It can't (and can't be expected to) call phone numbers or double check LinkedIn profiles.
People just need to stop ascribing intelligent thought to fancy autocomplete. Though, I get it, "When will people stop being dumb?" is a rhetorical question that will always disappoint.
Trick question! It doesn't matter, because knowing, understanding, following, and applying the law is for peons. For the government, ignorance of the law is the perfect excuse.
Also, since there are no penalties for government noncompliance other than "file another lawsuit in district court... and wait" I'm sure this 90-day deadline is going to be taken extremely seriously by ICE.
Gibbons cut in: “They’re illegal. They are not in any way affiliated with Microsoft. Microsoft, for Minecraft, has gotten a lot of criticism because of those community servers not employing the same safety standards that Microsoft does on their Minecraft servers.”
Imagine applying this nonsense to literally any other aspect of life. Cooking food is illegal because your kitchen doesn't have the same safety standards as... uh... *checks notes* a corporate cafeteria? Owning a house is illegal because it doesn't have the same "safety standards" as a prison cell?
Why stop at $0.12? Why not $12.00 per page? Surely that would get them all the funding they need and more. What are you going to do? Use an alternative system? Lawyers are just going to bill their clients anyway and I don't think any law firm would complain about being more expensive.
Because that's not my position and never has been my position. You may disagree with me, and that's fine, but you're assuming stuff about me that is honestly really gross and reflects more poorly upon you than me.
I know you're baiting the assumption that it's the 2nd but too late. He already shat on that one too. Remember the bump stock ban? The entire document is meaningless to Trumpists.
How in the actual hell do you see any of what this Supreme Court has done and not think drastic measures must be taken to correct for its bullshit?
Because "look what you made me do" is the last moral refuge of tyrants and despots. I get that you probably mean well, but more blood and misery can be laid at the feet of that kind of thinking than perhaps anything else in human history. The alternative is not necessarily passivity though. You can resist in ways that reinforce the system rather than degrade it. Truth has to work harder than lies. Fixing things is harder than breaking them. That's all true, but it's the essential essence of what elevates us above cavemen.
I don't think stacking the court is a good idea. That's an escalation that never ends and the court needs a de-escalation of politics. Better to more aggressively impeach justices who have clearly breached the ethics required for the job. Set up some sort of (non-political) way to judge the judges and let it do its thing. I know it's tempting to go right for the solution but the solution only lasts as long as a strongman can hold it together. Virtuous processes self perpetuate long after their champions are gone.
Classic DEA. Walk some guns. Walk some pills. Criminals are hard to catch when you don't create them yourself and doing a little dirty smuggling on the side is so much easier when you can paper over the whole thing as a """"sting"""" operation.
If every single one of those 345k people burned their PS5 in protest and swore a blood oath to never give Sony another dollar they wouldn't notice. Even if they did, if it increases their profit margin by more than 0.37%, they'd cry all the way to the bank.
Luckily (or unluckily depending on how you look at it), this isn't a new problem. People have been handing political and economic power to people who project confidence over demonstrating ability for millennia. An essential part of growing up and becoming educated is not just learning facts but also learning to evaluate people who claim to have them. Many adults are not great at it (as evidenced by the endless history of scams). Hopefully in the future, by necessity, society starts more rigorously training kids to spot a charlatan.
It also renders the whole confirmation process moot as well. The delay in the confirmation process is so that all the senators from the 13 colonies can travel to Boston by horse, not so that the president gets an endlessly repeating four month free trial.
I think the twisted logic being used here is that because Bytedance may own a non-zero quantity of shares in many companies, by that posters own insane reading of the law, the government must be prohibited from using anything at all, because Bytedance owning <0 shares of something poisons the well so to speak. AC should apply to be a lawyer for the government. They really like people like him these days.
So, assuming Mullin gets the chop I can only wonder who they plan to
sacrificeoffer the job to next. Presumably someone even more incapable of predicting how this will inevitably turn out. How does Trump do it? Where does he find all these people willing to jump off a cliff for him?For once, Thad and I are wholeheartedly in agreement. Here's hoping for sanctions and/or disbarment!
It depends on your definition of "silly" I think. The root problem is people assuming that Google's AI search result is in any way authoritative. In a way, I feel sorry for Google on this one. The AI is simply reading a bunch of search results and producing a summary of what it finds therein. In that extremely limited sense, it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. It can't (and can't be expected to) call phone numbers or double check LinkedIn profiles. People just need to stop ascribing intelligent thought to fancy autocomplete. Though, I get it, "When will people stop being dumb?" is a rhetorical question that will always disappoint.
You're an awesome person who just made my day. Thank you very very much.
Bluesky is unusable by anyone of any age in Texas this morning thanks to the site's proactive decision to force age verification on all users.
Trick question! It doesn't matter, because knowing, understanding, following, and applying the law is for peons. For the government, ignorance of the law is the perfect excuse. Also, since there are no penalties for government noncompliance other than "file another lawsuit in district court... and wait" I'm sure this 90-day deadline is going to be taken extremely seriously by ICE.
Why stop at $0.12? Why not $12.00 per page? Surely that would get them all the funding they need and more. What are you going to do? Use an alternative system? Lawyers are just going to bill their clients anyway and I don't think any law firm would complain about being more expensive.
Because that's not my position and never has been my position. You may disagree with me, and that's fine, but you're assuming stuff about me that is honestly really gross and reflects more poorly upon you than me.
I know you're baiting the assumption that it's the 2nd but too late. He already shat on that one too. Remember the bump stock ban? The entire document is meaningless to Trumpists.
I don't think stacking the court is a good idea. That's an escalation that never ends and the court needs a de-escalation of politics. Better to more aggressively impeach justices who have clearly breached the ethics required for the job. Set up some sort of (non-political) way to judge the judges and let it do its thing. I know it's tempting to go right for the solution but the solution only lasts as long as a strongman can hold it together. Virtuous processes self perpetuate long after their champions are gone.
Classic DEA. Walk some guns. Walk some pills. Criminals are hard to catch when you don't create them yourself and doing a little dirty smuggling on the side is so much easier when you can paper over the whole thing as a """"sting"""" operation.