The Procrastination Station

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

If you're someone who wants to be able to find (or avoid) ships while reading on AO3, odds are good that a fan coder out there has created a user script that could help you out.

User scripts are similar to extensions. You add them to your browser to automatically adjust web pages for you. User scripts allow you the opportunity to personalize them, however, which is wonderful for things like AO3 filters.

Here are a few that might be worth a look:

AO3 multishipper saviour - if you want to read about a particular character in a relationship without specifying any other person. The relationships can be specified to be romantic or platonic or both.

AO3: Reorder Ship Tags - Automatically reorders relationship tags on work blurbs so romantic ships (/) always appear before platonic ships (&).

AO3 Relationship/Character Highlighter - highlights the ship/character you’re looking for if they appear in the first two relationship/character tags.

AO3 romantic relationship savior - hides all romantic relationships in sort & filter page that has "/"

AO3 First Relationship Tag Filter - toggle on the script if you're browsing a relationship tag and all the works that don't have that tag as their first tag will be hidden. Works on both romantic (/) and platonic (&) relationships.

AO3 relationship savior - hides works that have too many relationships in them.

AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing - will hide fics that don't have the designated pairing listed first in the tags.

AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing (Auto) - The difference between this and Neeve's script is that it automatically detects the primary pairing, little to no configuration needed.

AO3 Show every pairing except THAT one - Remove relationship tags from script which you do not want to read.

what does this have to do with boiling your surgical tools? well look, the boiling water releases bubbles of steam which carries the malign influences up to heaven. you boil a knife, you send all the miasmic particles off with the steam to heaven. if you rinse the knife off in a bucket the water isn't hot enough, the particles go into the water and then right back on to the knife. you gotta boil it to get the particles all the way away. how can a tool or rag or a bed have miasmic particles on it when you can't smell them? humans have a lousy sense of smell. look at your dog on the hunt. are there no rabbits in the woods just because you can't smell them? we know that miasma is carried on the air, and is what makes stench so dangerous, and we know that humans can't smell worth a damn compared to dogs cats horses etc. a dog can smell if a rat died in a corner of the room last week. you can't. do you think licking the spot where the rat died is going to go well for you? luckily, what humans lack in snout we make up for in brains. we have extra brains where our sniffers should have been. God set that up for a reason.

and why does a rinse with wine spirits work? man, look how fast alcohol evaporates. my guess is that because wine contains a lot more vice than water, it evaporates a whole lot faster, in sort of an equal and opposite way that a rock falls faster than a feather. if you want the miasmic particles to get off there FAST, you dunk it in something that's going back to heaven at a gallop.

It was already known that the shapers didn't create the mortal races of Aramán, they simply shaped them. which means the different races (or maybe even some shared ancestor of them) existed 4500 years ago.

The elves have some connection to the realm of Faerie, possibly predating Sylandri marrying the king. But everyone else, all the mortals, are of the world. There were already established human families that had pacts with the Fae or elementals or had interbred with dragons and giants.

The world was such that they had well established Druidic traditions & religious rites. They also probably had written tradition, because we know precisely when the Shapers came and for how long they reigned on Aramán.

So the Shapers (extraplanar beings? unconfirmed but seems likely) arrive on Aramán 4500+ years ago. They take powerful primordials as spouses and dispose of them, and they exert control over races of Aramán.

The equivalent for our world would be that they arrived during the Bronze Age, which was marked the advent of written language and the formation of early governments and city states. Obviously impossible to say if their world was in a similar period of expansion pre-Shaper, but just to give you an idea of just how long ago 4500 years is in the scale of a world. The last Woolly mammoth died around 4000 years ago.

Sylandri gave the elves immortality but took their bodily autonomy.

I would speculate that all of the Shapers (except Azgra) offered the different races boons in exchange for devotion. The Hall of Mercy says non-Shaped beings that are "devout" enough can plead their case for a Shaper afterlife, so devotion does seem to be part of it.

Azgra, ever honest and also terrible, probably did not promise the Orcs anything & simply exerted dominance and that was that. But every other Shaper? Perhaps they did something akin to Sylandri and they all exacted a price for those gifts. (Tansul explicitly called for human sacrifice to create at least one of his constructs, so maybe all of his celestials were created that way)