Rakuten Kobo Rejects 45% of Submissions After Slew Of AI-Generated #Books Uploaded (via @thebookseller.com) www.thebookseller.com/news/rakuten... #publishing #GenAI #AI #ebooks

LOL LMAO Even

Surprised it wasn’t a Cybertruck

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This is bombshell stuff.

@lawfaremedia.org has a fantastic new tool for legal research that builds on the CourtListener database. You start with a keyword search, then you ask a question about the result set using AI to filter the results further. It's really neat and quite powerful! www.lawfaremedia.org/article/intr...

Fantastic initiative by IL Secretary of States office. Now all in Illinois have access to reliable information sources. www.ilsos.gov/departments/...

This is important work. library.kansas.watch

@washingtonpost.com Has been slop for some time now.

Too much fun

We elected this unrestrained, delusional, ass-ignorant brat to the United States presidency twice. Our republic is tragedy and farce.

Preemptive post:

Once again wondering where the book from @jaketapper.bsky.social is, discussing the obvious and severe mental decline of someone who already started off low on the IQ totem pole.

Running a small independent news site covering the courts, we’re stuck by how many stories bigger news orgs missed. For example, a pro se litigant in Oregon filed a lawsuit to stop the production of a U.S. mint 24 carat Trump commemorative coin. He convinced a judge yesterday.

He’s always unaware when something inconvenient comes out.

Highly recommend subscribing, this read was great.

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

new @cdt.org study out this morning looks at how chatbots deploy manipulative "dark patterns" to get people to offer up more than they bargained for: www.404media.co/new-study-re...

It’s a fitting court district for two news startups (well, one news startup and a rich guy trolling with a substack) to fight about what to call themselves when they don’t cover the Eastern District of Virginia. www.courtwatch.news/p/177-csi-co...

A big, fat, fucking “duh”. @nytimes.com

Holy shit

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Ok this is a truly great tweet

Transcripts detailing federal prosecutors’ alleged misconduct during multiple grand jury proceedings in the “Broadview Six” case are expected to be released publicly after the politically charged case fell apart last week. https://to.wttw.com/4nPWtUt

Pretty solid strategy

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Thwarted Terror Attacks. Attempted School Shootings. Suicides. Are A.I. companies complicit in a string of violence that began online? New piece that examines the rash of new lawsuits against A.I. companies. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

This book should be required fucking reading:

There is a docket which notes every time a judge rejects a pro se initial filing. It’s filled w/ heartbreaking stories of folks looking for relief through the court system. They’re all denied on technicalities like page numbers, paragraph sizing, and formatting www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Outside of the bare-knuckle legal fights that will in many ways shape our future, there exists another space. A place where people cannot afford $3,4000 rates at top-tier law firms & in some cases can’t find a lawyer to hire, even if they could swing the price. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

NEW: 404 Media’s experimentation with Haotian AI marks the first time a journalist has managed to test this deepfake software to see how it really works. What did we learn? Haotian AI demonstrates its tool as a way to impersonate at least one US police department. And it's extremely effective.

Fuck yea

Wait a sec, I’m confused, if this is illegal why does congress do it with stocks, not to mention donny’s temu regime www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I can’t comment more until the text is released. I’ve been wanting to see a national privacy framework for a while, but I don’t have much hope for it seeing which side of the aisle it came from. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Trump University has just found its Dean of Mathematics.

Discovery is going to be the most fun any working journalists can ever have.

We’ve reviewed hundreds of court dockets this week to find news stories that went unreported. Please don’t also make us write a clever social media post to get you to read it. www.courtwatch.news/p/171-santacon

The Maine legislature passed a bill imposing a temporary moratorium on new data centers, making it the first US state to do so amid nationwide pushback against the projects.

Chicago IG Witzburg's last report reveals city employees drinking on job, falsifying work hours https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-inspector-general-deborah-witzburgs-final-report-reveals-city-employees-drinking-job-falsifying-work-hours/18893766/

No need to apologize to that piece of shit.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for. apnews.com/article/pitt...

NEW: Thomson Reuters, the technology and content conglomerate that owns the Reuters media agency but also owns and operates the investigative CLEAR database, fired a longstanding employee after they spoke out about the company selling data products to ICE.

Wait you mean Meta, Google, and Microslop are lying? Color me fucking surprised.

#Microslop strikes again

I’m so glad we are now getting into AI squared. Artificial intelligence intelligence is clearly the next and most worthwhile pursuit.

With regard to our berobed and beshitted Justice Alito: If the Founders had no capacity to conceive of illegal immigration, then they also had not the imagination to conceptualize automatic weapons. Originalism is and always was a pathetic, desperate lie of miserable, ideological shitheels.

Well, can’t say I’m surprised

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