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• On the post: A Reddit Post, An AI Hallucination, And Two Lawyers Who Never Checked Citations Walk Into A Dog Custody Case

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 04:08pm

  Lawyers have a duty not just to not produce baseless crap but also to ensure that no one else in court is producing baseless crap. If everyone is responsible then it's harder (though not impossible, as demonstrated) for baseless crap to propagate exactly like this. Everyone deserves blame here. The fines feel too small. The original judge should be disciplined as well. Everyone involved is just plugging things into ChatGPT and saying "LGTM" then why even have courts in the first place? There's no need to pay thousands of dollars for lawyers or court fees if we're just going to pour some balls down a legalese pachinko machine and take whatever comes out the bottom.

• On the post: ICE Officers Admit To Arrest Quotas During Court Testimony

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 01:20pm

  Quotas are illegal. Full stop. No "not the same". They are illegal. It doesn't matter what the supposed crime your arrest quota is for. You cannot have a "murderer arrest" quota. It's all illegal. There is no wiggle room for this. You're just wrong.

• On the post: Turns Out The DOGE Bros Who Killed Humanities Grants Are Kinda Sensitive About It

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 12:54pm

  This may shock and surprise you but: dumb people use the internet too. Dehumanizing your political opponents doesn't make them go away. Ultimately, you must convince them that they are wrong. This isn't the way.

• On the post: Roblox Rolls Out AI-Powered Real-Time Rephrasing Of Profanity Within Chat

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 14 Mar, 2026 @ 03:33am

  Parents may applaud real-time rephrasing as a way for the service to nudge younger users away from bad language in their interaction with others

  No, as a parent that's terrifying. It doesn't teach kids to avoid bad language at all. It teaches them the exact opposite: that people who use it towards them don't exist and that using it towards others has no consequences or effect. Instead of learning how to live in a world where unpleasant ideas exist, it teaches them to live in a fake world where they don't. It is actively harmful to their development.

• On the post: The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 06:04pm

  What the actual fuck dude

• On the post: The U.S. Built A Blueprint To Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 03:08pm

  Ah, so this is the "lethality" Kegseth talked so much about. Kids are the easiest way to rack up kills because they are so defenseless and don't shoot back.

• On the post: A DOGE Bro Allegedly Walked Out Of Social Security With 500 Million Americans’ Records On A Thumb Drive And Expected A Pardon If Caught

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2026 @ 01:32pm

  Every hacker who has been working tirelessly to steal this very data for decades must be facepalming so hard when the answer to "how do I steal highly confidential personal information from the US government" turned out to be "make some racist posts on twitter and apply for a job".

• On the post: Trump Kicks Kristi Noem To The Curb For Being Exactly The Sort Of Person Trump Wanted Her To Be

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2026 @ 03:43pm

  Or #4 (and most likely), if Noem even asked him, Trump gave a noncommittal answer like "just get it done" which Noem took as approval but which later on morphed into Trump's traditional "Well, I didn't say Simon Says" denial. Still doesn't reflect well on him though. Someone like that shouldn't be anywhere near the resolute desk.

• On the post: Stephen Thaler’s Legendary AI Copyright Losing Streak Ends With Nowhere Left To Appeal

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2026 @ 03:25pm

  Thaler chose to fight for the one position that had no support in law (or in common sense). His losing streak is now complete, and there’s nowhere left to appeal. But the legacy of his many, many losses is actually kind of useful: he has, through sheer persistence, generated an incredibly clear and consistent body of authority establishing that purely AI-generated works, with no human creative input, do not get copyright protection.

  I have to believe that was probably the very point. The point wasn't to win, it was to set certain decisions in stone by losing in a particular way. Hopefully that fallen sword proves useful when Disney tries to argue that AI which is merely capable of generating works with Mickey Mouse Donald Duck content on demand is still covered by its copyrights.

• On the post: ICE Detainment Center Guards Allegedly Set Up Suicide Death Pools

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2026 @ 01:40pm

  Tell that to the people snatched from outside their immigration hearings.

• On the post: If You’re Going To Defend AI And Whine About Its Critics, You Should Probably Be Honest About Its Actual Harms

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 09 Mar, 2026 @ 06:27am

  He also warns critics of AI to adjust their priors and realize the AI tools you mocked just six months ago, aren’t the ones in use today

  I am inherently distrustful of anyone who's answer to an argument is "my position has changed since the argument started". Also, let's be really clear-eyed about who Matt Schumer is. "AI Industry CEO" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. His company, HyperWriteAI, has dozens of employees (38), and his "product" appears to be repackaging a single old GLM version into hundreds of different "tools" and then selling them to anyone doofy enough to not realize ChatGPT does all that better for free. A quick google search of their products reveals that most users seem to think they are outdated trash and that this company is more of a fly-by-night investment-bro trap than an actual service which hopes to make money from satisfied users. Putting "CEO" at the end of your title doesn't make your opinions worth reading. It means you spent a couple hundred bucks to form an LLC. This guy is a salesman. His arguments are not worth the time it takes to rebut them. Just ignore him and let him scam some more venture capital fools so that the house of cards falls down faster.

• On the post: Rethinking And Refreshing Techdirt’s Weekend Posts: We Want Your Feedback

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 08 Mar, 2026 @ 03:23pm

  So with that in mind, we want to know: do folks like these posts?

  I don't particularly care for any of the regular weekend posts but that doesn't mean you need to put something there. Enjoy your weekend, writers. The tech will still be dirty on Monday.

• On the post: FTC Admits Age Verification Violates Children’s Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 04 Mar, 2026 @ 04:21pm

  So what I hear you saying is they could selectively sue any website they want for violating COPPA or for failing to comply with age verification mandates. Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

• On the post: Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2026 @ 06:52pm

  Don't even bother man. Dude is spouting so much inane nonsense and outright lies you aren't going to convince him with facts or by pointing out the illogic of his position. It keeps the Don in power or else it gets the hose again.

• On the post: Fuck ICE Says West Virginia Court, Threatening Fines And Contempt Charges

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 03 Mar, 2026 @ 04:09pm

  Oh noes! He's going to count to three! Still not a contempt ruling, just a statement that could happen if the government continues to fuck around for an unspecified (possibly indefinite) amount of time. The finding out is still not happening.

• On the post: US Military Shoots Down CBP Drone, Which Certainly Instills Confidence In Its Offshore Murder Program

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2026 @ 11:59am

  To be entirely rational, even if the Department of Defense War Armed Stupidity rolled out a policy of intentionally shooting down a 777 full of passengers every month of the year air travel would still be an order of magnitude safer than driving in a car. That's not saying I want them to shoot down passenger jets, or that it's okay to risk shooting down passenger jets, but that as a matter of "relative" safety, flying (even in the US, even in 2026) is still just that safe.

• On the post: With Netflix Retreat, Trump Ally Larry Ellison Will Soon Own Warner Brothers, HBO, CNN, CBS, Paramount, Discovery, And Part Of TikTok

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 27 Feb, 2026 @ 09:13am

  The saudis are going to literally murder him to death when the whole thing crashes and burns in the shitheap it's headed for and Trump isn't going to save him.

• On the post: Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2026 @ 06:12pm

  I keep telling them I was born in 1901. They always believe me.

• On the post: Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney Hours After It Replaces His Illegally-Appointed Former Campaign Lawyer

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2026 @ 08:46am

  The cases against him should remain. If he can't get an attorney and refuses the one the court appoints him, he should have to defend them pro se.

• On the post: Trump Fires Court-Appointed US Attorney Hours After It Replaces His Illegally-Appointed Former Campaign Lawyer

  

  n00bdragon ( profile ), 21 Feb, 2026 @ 06:25am

  It's not really much of a "game". Trump is playing 52-pickup here.

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