If you have specific questions, happy to give you my two cents fwiw. Mine have both been Flemish giants house rabbits and free roam...and sometimes outsmarted me. But I respect that.
Good pets. Rabbit personality tends to be a cross of a dog and a cat, but each one is unique and breeds vary. Often, like dogs, the bigger they are, the more chill they are. They're quiet, use a litter box, and much lower maintenance than a cat or a dog. Good recyclers of veg and paper.
Interested in what Hannah Arendt would have thought of our present moment in tech? She told us.
New from me - Exploit Machina lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...
It’s an owl. It’s superb. What more do you want? Ok, it also looks like it wants to kill you.
#superbowl
brown wastewater cascades over a series of weirs into a churning frothy channel at a sewage treatment plant.
in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.
Inside voice: Did they forget the lessons of the Juicero? www.cnet.com/culture/juic...
A "'Bespoke AI Family Hub' refrigerator received the overall 'Worst in Show'..'Everything is an order of magnitude more difficult,' [the award presenter] said of the fridge that also uses computer vision to track when food items...and can advertise replacements." apnews.com/article/ces-...
"The study, published in Nature, found that the printed circuit board...accounts for 70% of its carbon footprint...
The researchers suggest...chips using common metals like copper instead of rare minerals...and mak[ing] devices modular so the circuit board can be reused"
One panel comic with one person saying to another: Philip K Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
On the Internet, everyone knows you're a dog.
Bonus question: how good are the sensors at detecting very short humans? See, e.g., the Kit Kat Incident www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Well of course... Wait til they encounter hooked turns & trams in Marvellous Melbourne
Botsplaining: When you instruct an AI tool to eliminate all sycophancy, but it still defaults to wasting your time with vaguely patronizing replies, e.g. "You have correctly identified a problem!," before it attempts to correct what it did wrong.
I think about this tweet a lot
We certainly live in "interesting" times.
A video pinball machine with a blue screen of death
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
California's Judicial Council "two weeks ago issued guidelines requiring judges and court staff to either ban generative #AI or adopt a generative AI use policy by Dec. 15": calmatters.org/economy/tech... #ethics #law #courts #tech
FTC vs Amazon opens this week over dark patterns - design tricks that make you accidentally subscribe and struggle to cancel. "The question is when design crosses the line where a reasonable consumer doesn't have a fair shot of understanding what's going on" says @andreamm.bsky.social bit.ly/4mvJV2f
the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.
LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
Sounds like maybe someone watched Battlestar Galactica one too many times...
Indirectly maybe. Specifics of particular training/use are highly relevant. We're in unsettled, fact intensive territory. Note: Some caselaw may evolve not only in copyright but also contract law and maybe even computer intrusion, depending on how data was gathered, prior legal exchanges, use etc.
WEB'S END IN THE BEGINNING, THERE WERE WEBSITES. YOU VISITED THEM AND IT WAS FUN. Computer screen: Jill's Homepage LINKS AND STUMBLEUPON HELPED YOU FIND NEW ONES. Computer screen: Cheese Art GOOGLE ACTUALLY WORKED AND SENT YOU TO SITES BUILT WITH CARE BY REAL PEOPLE. Computer screen: Lovable Expert THEN CAME SOCIAL MEDIA, AND ITS ALGORITHMS DETERMINED WHAT YOU CLICKED. Computer screen: Facebook THEN AGGREGATOR SITES TOOK OFF. Computer screen: CRAP FROM AROUND THE WEB THEN SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TRIED TO KEEP US FROM EVER LEAVING… AND WE DIDN'T. Woman on phone: SCROLL SCROLL SCROLL THEN AI BEGAN GENERATING SUMMARIES SO YOU DIDN'T NEED TO CLICK THROUGH TO A SITE ANYMORE. Computer screen: MONOPOSEARCH Summary SOON... THE AI CHATBOT BECOMES THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION AND REAL PUBLICATIONS DISAPPEAR. Woman speaking to phone: CHATBOT, WHAT IS A WEBSITE? UNTIL ONE DAY, PEOPLE WALK AWAY AND BUILD SOMETHING NEW. Woman has left devices on the ground and is walking into sunset © 2025 Jen Sorensen
This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
Here's the original for comparison purposes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooT_...
Have you ever said to yourself "Gee, I wonder what it would have sounded like if an early management team at Compaq had performed a version of the 1985 Chicago Bears Superbowl Shuffle?" If so... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB6M...
There are solid use cases for AI. But they’re not the flashy gen AI apps that get investors excited.
Incredible new privacy risk: Redditor recounts doing a job interview over Zoom with an AI notetaker on the call (Fathom). After the applicant left the call, the interviewers stayed on to discuss/bash her. She then got their post-call remarks in the AI summary. www.reddit.com/r/interviews...
1. The pro hac vice status of Counsel shall be revoked and Counsel will be removed from this case; 2. Plaintiff’s Opening Brief shall be stricken; 3. Counsel will be ordered to promptly serve a copy of this Order on Plaintiff, who will in turn be afforded time to engage new counsel or proceed as a selfrepresented litigant; 4. Counsel will be ordered to write a letter to the three Judges to whom she attributed fictitious cases, Hon. Douglas L. Rayes, Hon. Michael T. Liburdi, and Hon. John Z. Boyle, notifying them of her use of fake cases with their respective names attached; 5. Counsel will be ordered to transmit a copy of this Order to every Judge who presides over any case in which Counsel is attorney of record; and 6. The Clerk of Court’s Office will be directed to serve a copy of this Order on the Washington State Bar Association, of which Counsel is a member.7 If Counsel is a member of any other state’s bar, she shall serve a copy of this Order on that state’s bar office.
Yet another hallucinated citations case. Sanctions this time include:
* lawyer kicked off the case
* lawyer must notify all judges in the lawyer's other cases nationwide
* lawyer must write to judges who were falsely cited
* lawyer reported to state bar
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"Employed at the Post Office Research Station in London, which had the world’s first programmable computer... Tiring of the obstacles women faced, she set up her software company with an initial investment of £6." on.ft.com/3UsOi2J Stephanie Shirley, IT pioneer and philanthropist, 1933-2025
