Last semester our Westlaw rep very confidently told students that CoCounsel doesn't hallucinate, which I found out when giving a research presentation later in the semester (It does in fact hallucinate and also misstates/mischaracterizes case law frequently, which I have proof of!)

I got Wolf Worm early thanks to @libro.fm and yes, there are botflies, but also, it's a damn good book

Have I ever attached buttons to anything before? No. Did I look up how to do it correctly? Also no.

I’m getting a sleep study done, and there is a painting of Sleeping Beauty in my room?? I am here for insomnia??? And a lot of people come here for narcolepsy????

I graduated high school in 2012. There was an implication that because I was "only" good at humanities stuff, I was therefore actually not smart at all. People who were good at math and science but not good at humanities stuff were seen as inherently smarter, even though it should've evened out imo.

I read "Radium Girls" for the first time a couple of years ago and couldn't help but notice that a lot of the language used in promoting radium is now being used in promoting genAI

My high school mascot is, horrifically, the Midgets. (I wish I was kidding. I'm not. It's the Freeburg Midgets. Google it.) I cannot IMAGINE what genAI would do with that.

This is genuinely what most sleep doctors sound like: "have you ever tried removing the gong from your room??" as if you never thought of doing so before

A few studies have shown Gemini to be the most hallucination-prone genAI, but I'm sure this will be fine! (also, I do in fact think that the DOT should be crafting as perfect a rule as possible? And that an agency rule requires expertise and isn't an email that can be done in a few minutes??)

the posts from Forbes that most often show up in my feed are ones with clickbait titles that are about MASSIVE MICROSOFT PROBLEMS THAT WILL MAKE YOUR COMPUTER EXPLODE IF YOU DON'T FIX IT and then it turns out to 1) be paywalled, and 2) not actually be a problem, there's just a software update

All proceeds from this pattern go to Minnesotans impacted by ICE (have I ever knitted a hat? No! But I started with sweaters, so hopefully I can figure out a hat) www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

My best friend lives in Lewiston. She's a special ed teacher at a school with a relatively high number of immigrant/refugee students. She's already seen changes among the students and their parents, and she is terrified that one of her kids is going to get hurt.

No one from my hometown has the right to say "Chicago politicians are crooks" to me anymore (Also I went to high school with his kids. Nothing about this situation surprises me.) www.bnd.com/news/local/a...

Guess where my best friend lives? 🫠

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

This thing seems like a phone that just does Dumbphone Stuff in various contexts? It's really focused on emails and chat apps. There's a deeply ironic analog/anti-social media trend on TikTok right now, and I could see this appealing to that crowd!

Got honked at twice by the same dude for taking full stops at stop signs I love driving in Chicago it’s so fun and great

They got it to be communist 😂

all i'm saying is that there were better options

This is very weird to me. Disney is notoriously stingy with its copyrights, so handing its characters over to the Plagiarism Machine That Also Makes Porn is...a choice. It seems like they want to use it as a way to get free content out of fans, but I'm not sure they thought this through??

I already finished my reading goal for the year, but I didn’t really like the last book I read, so I’m ending on what will surely be a high note (also this will be 12th @tkingfisher.com book of the year somehow???)

Does anybody know what the audiobook situation is for @tkingfisher.com's newest book "Snake-Eater"? There seem to be a US and UK edition. I can't get the UK edition because I'm in the US, but the US edition seems to be Audible-only, but it doesn't actually say that anywhere on the website.

I looked into the company and am literally crying. They save gay sheep from slaughterhouses. They have a program where you can "adopt" a sheep and they call it Sponsorsheeps. This is the best thing I've ever seen. rainbow-wool.com

I'm only on page 11. This really stuck out to me. They're probably flat-out lying in their reports and are absolutely viewing all protests as riots, but asking ChatGPT to create a report for them probably didn't help!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

If Sinners doesn't win any of its categories I'm going to riot

HeinOnline, a company I genuinely like, released AI-generated article summaries on some of the articles that live in their Law Journal Library. I've now compared two of the summaries to their parent articles. Both were not that good. /1

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.

NEW — Video footage obtained by The TRiiBE shows federal agents pulling Laugh Factory Night Manager Nate Griffin as he holds on to a scaffold. Bystanders screamed at the agents, saying "Show your face," as they detained Griffin. thetriibe.com/2025/10/laug...

ICE is confirmed to be using tear gas in Lakeview

Not about to blast my entire stress address, but there have been more ICE abduction reports in my neighborhood, including some around the corner from my home. This is the closest they've physically come to me and it's utterly terrifying. (I'm working on campus today at least.) iceout.org/en/

My alderman just posted this, and I got an ICIRR alert about it. Broadway/Belmont is close to my home. They also grabbed people from LaSalle/Stockton, which all of the Lakeview/LP/express buses go through.

When I think of A.I. I think of asbestos. To begin with everyone thought Asbestos was amazing, folk used it in everything. Then they started learning it was dangerous, research was done, they stopped using it, thou for some the damage was already done. Stop using A.I and limit the damage it's doing.

Bost represents my hometown, and this is the least shocking thing he could’ve done

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

(I know that that's not the conclusion of the study, but seriously, what do you expect us to do???????)

I’m in this picture and I don’t like it

Hey so the president is saying that he's going to use major cities with Dem mayors (including the one I live in) as training grounds for the military, which is so beyond unsettling and terrifying that I don't really have the words! What the hell is going on!

I've been playing The Sims in some form or another since 2004, but I can't in good conscience give these people/entities my money. It's my comfort game, but I just can't do it. apnews.com/article/ea-e...

There are quite a few posts on the Chicago subreddit with photos and videos. They snatched an entire family. They’re armed and in one of the busiest areas of the city on a Sunday. I want to say that this is unbelievable, but I can’t quite get there anymore.

Idk if there's just too much traffic on the site or what, but Hulu will not let me change my plan right now. It just keeps refreshing the "manage your subscriptions" page.

One of the comments on this article suggests using this tool to weed out "fake" disability claims for depression. I have depression. I also have no poker face and raging RBF. I look upset by default. But if my facial muscles don't move in the way the AI wants, would my depression be discounted?

The complaint in this case is BANANAS. "Trump /is/ a success!!!" 😫 *stomps foot* (Also thank to to the author for including a link to the complaint. A lot of articles don't do that and it makes it harder to find things.)

Reddit is a cesspool *if you let it be.* I stick to my subreddits about cross stitch and The Sims and it's mostly a delightful experience. If you had any inkling of the "deep, dark Internet" at all, you would know this.

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces