Flutterby™! (short)

Flutterby™! (short)

Tuesday December 23rd, 2025

Henri is staying with us for two Dan Lyke / comment 0

Henri is staying with us for two nights, and you should buy their zines and stickers because they're awesome!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/henkprints

Monday December 22nd, 2025

Today I learned that deprecate used Dan Lyke / comment 0

Today I learned that "deprecate" used to mean "to pray against, as an evil," which explains why, in the modern usage, deprecated technologies are the ones we most want to adopt and use.

Super enjoyed the Candy Claus Private Dan Lyke / comment 0

Super enjoyed the Candy Claus, Private Eye comedy audio drama podcast, but when discussion episodes talk about this new medium, I wanna scream.

Where were y'all when Norm Sherman and Abigail Hilton and Chris Lester and Nathan Lowell and all those folks were doing their things over a decade ago?

LLMs in law of the day Dan Lyke / comment 1

In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, Aberdeen Division : Thomas Billups Plaintiff v. Louisville Municipal School District Defendant — Civil Action No. 1:24- CV-74-SA-RP Sactions Order (PDF)

As of March 2025, Ms. Watson was on notice of her mistakes when an opposing attorney informed her directly that she had submitted a brief that contained misrepresentations of law. She was apparently then given an opportunity to fix the issue without consequence. Instead of learning from her mistake, she failed to change her ways and continued the same practice of not verifying AI output—only then, her conduct additionally violated the Firm’s policy prohibiting use of external AI tools.

As Eric Goldman ‪@ericgoldman.bsky.social‬ summarized

An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific"

and ‪Mike Masnick‬ ‪@mmasnick.bsky.social‬ observed:

Already unacceptable to use LLMs to draft filings and even worse, if you do, not to have checked the citations. But if you ARE going to do that, why of all LLMs out there would you use *GROK*?

And elsewhere: As more lawyers fall for AI hallucinations, ChatGPT says: Check my work, same article republished as How AI-driven hallucinatory filings are impacting Arizona courts

The AI Hallucination Cases database – maintained by Damien Charlotin, a researcher at HEC Paris, a leading business school in France – identifies a half-dozen federal court filings in Arizona since September 2024 that include fabricated material from ChatGPT or another generative AI tool.

Hopefully we'll start to see some real penalties for lawyers who outsource their work to the plausible bullshit generators.

Maybe they don’t practice happiness Dan Lyke / comment 0

Max Leibman @maxleibman@beige.party

It’s offensive and presumptuous to wish strangers “Happy Holidays.”

You don’t know them. Maybe they don’t practice happiness.

No picture because it's basically just Dan Lyke / comment 0

No picture, because it's basically just another shot of that same jig, but just did the first glue-up of the veneer on the inside of the table inset, using an old yoga mat to prove pressure.

And I have some 2x12 that looks like very clean vg Doug Fir that I think is gonna be the rim, legs, and pedestal. Still need to sort inside the recess...


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