Curiously SCOTUS isn’t even trying. I expect them to be Cardinal fucking Richelieu in their arguments, capable of explaining logically how they reached their findings so that any reasonable person (e.g. me) would be able to understand their conclusion.

But no. Dobbs, for instance, is word salad, and there are numerous legal scholars who have dissected Alito’s opinion, and concluded not only that it doesn’t make sense but reached consensus as to how. When you’re the captured US Supreme Court and beholden to absolutely no ethical or professional obligations, you can opine obvious bullshit, and that counts.

Maybe, once we can get AI to stop from hallucinating, we can get it to overhaul court opinions from appeals courts up, and highlight which ones are sound and which are folly. But for now, everyone knows SCOTUS is captured and beholden to a specific agenda and ideology in defiance of logic or the good of the public. And there’s nothing (legal) that we can do about it.

Maybe a plumber’s brother might help, but that’s a different topic.

I agree with you, AI should not be used in legal cases, but good luck with that.

Without paywall

Left 4 Dead had the achievement What Are You Trying to Prove? earned by completing all the campaigns on expert.

L4D2 had Still something to prove, again by beating all the campaigns on expert.

I was able to get the second one by playing Last Man On Earth, which is single-player, but special infected only. The higher difficulties are mostly harder by having common infected do more damage.

A party with gender balancing rules is generally a singles mixer.

I’m enby but probably ace, so not very exciting for a pool party.

I’ve actually thought about what I’d do with billions. Free high-speed internet for the entire populated world is one of my goals.

On one hand, I’m terrified that suddenly acquiring billions would poison my mind. Even though Bill Gates has done some good stuff with his foundation, he still has biases and because he’s that rich, they’re all amplified for all to see. (His gains are also still ill-gotten.) Bios on Elon Musk have observed he’s gotten progressively worse, and more unhinged over time.

On the other hand, Demonetized, a small sister project to How Money Works did a bit on why billionaires are so crazy (on YouTube), and he points out that we’re used to seeing the dicks out in the open, like Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk.

𝕭𝖊𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖆 𝖏𝖎𝖍𝖆𝖉𝖎 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖓 𝖆 𝖋𝖆𝖘𝖈𝖎𝖘𝖙

This isn’t the first time police have followed up on a license plate without confirming the make and model to assure it’s the same vehicle.

It’s a preventable problem.

The real problem is that law enforcement don’t care, any more than they do when they SWAT the wrong house.

What’s scary is that AI as a service is really expensive, and the AI companies have been selling tokens as a severe loss all this time.

If you’re that dependent on AI, what happens when you have to bear the full price?

You’re going to give up your AI girlfriend, is what.

The Sierra Nevadas are no joke. If you drive through them in wintertime you are absolutely taking a risk, not only because you’re driving on windy (if well-maintained) mountain highways, but you may get stuck in snow despite your chains and will freeze to death.

If you are lucky, a CHP or forest ranger may see you and help you out.

Heaven forbid you have engine trouble or run out of fuel.

I’ve never had a Facebook account, and decided never to have one after FarmVille and the rest of the social networking game trend made Zynga and a handful of other companies very very rich at by making people very addicted.

Zuckerberg is a merciless evil bastard even as billionaires go.

While I can appreciate that it’s not a good thing to let AI do your work for you (not just laziness but hallucinations), I can see this is only going to encourage cheaters to use competitors to Claude.

Like Deepseek.

Sans paywall and registration wall

I wish I had a gay room.

I wish I had a gay room.

According to Bob Chipman

Superman only makes sense in the context of a worldview where good is the default setting of the universe and the job of a being of godlike power who aims to do good is to fix things when they break and thwart evil from spoiling the natural state of goodness.

Because if the universe is not good at its core then the moral responsibility of that same godlike being who wants to do good is to assume power absolutely and make the universe good by force.

And that’s not Superman.

I don’t think IRL, good is the default setting of the universe.

According to Bob Chipman

Superman only makes sense in the context of a worldview where good is the default setting of the universe and the job of a being of godlike power who aims to do good is to fix things when they break and thwart evil from spoiling the natural state of goodness.

Because if the universe is not good at its core then the moral responsibility of that same godlike being who wants to do good is to assume power absolutely and make the universe good by force.

And that’s not Superman.

I don’t think IRL, good is the default setting of the universe.

I can totally understand the reason to capture video and conversation during a medical consultation. As someone who has to see a dermatologist from time to time, I’ve had pictures taken.

The proper protocol is to get consent first, before donning the glasses or pulling out the camera.

And I bet that the perv glasses are not the best option for capturing data for medical analysis.

If Guwutine doesn’t get to eating soon, we’re all going to be super sad, according to an awful lot of economists telling us that wealth redistribution is the only viable solution out of this mess.