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Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

*finds one that throws a wrench into a funny moment instead*

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.

For all the reasons above AND ALSO because this particular lawsuit is a defamation case

Privacy lawsuits are hard because most privacy laws are super super weak, and there's very rarely a lot of money or enforcement backing privacy laws for...twenty million reasons, really...

But defamation suits? Those have teeth.

(In large part because, at least in some countries and including in the US, defamation laws protect public figures the least - and "public figures" legally includes most if not all politicians, and a hell of a lot of other rich ppl too)

A German court has ruled that Google can be held directly liable for false claims made by its AI Overviews, a decision that could put a serious legal dent in the whole “the AI made me do it” defense. According to The Next Web, the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction after Google’s AI Overviews wrongly tied two Munich publishers to scams, subscription traps, and dubious business practices. The court treated those AI-generated summaries as Google’s own statements, not just ordinary search results pointing to third-party pages. That distinction matters. Search engines have traditionally had more protection because they index and link to other people’s content. AI Overviews changes the machinery. Google is not just showing the web anymore. It is summarizing it, rewriting it, and sometimes apparently hallucinating a tiny legal grenade into the results page... This is still a preliminary injunction, not a final ruling, and Google can appeal. But for publishers, brands, SEOs, and anyone watching AI search swallow the results page, the message is clear: if Google wants to be the answer engine, courts may start treating it like the publisher of those answers.

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.

Mew didn't appear in any episodes, and was not included in the pokerap, we didn't see any merchandise of it for a while, even things that included every pokemon excluded Mew, hell, pretty sure the official pokemon guidebook's second edition is only justified because they updated it with Mew and the few Gen 2 pokemon that appeared in the pokemon movie. Literally Mew was basically treated like a pokemon cryptid like Pikablue and Doomsay until promotions for Pokemon the First Movie started appearing.

Amethyst spin-dashed through the door with style as she had become accustomed to. 

You never know who might be watching.

As she did so she noticed something got stuck in her hair. She pulled it out and saw that it was a flower petal. 

“That’s weird,” she muttered as she examined it. Then she looked at the floor and saw a trail of them.

Just for the heck of it she decided to follow them. Eventually they led to the bathroom.

Or as it’s become, Peridot’s room.

Amethyst opened the door and saw a sight she would not soon forget.

Peridot leaning on the wall with a flower clutched in her teeth. She seemed like she had at one point looked flirtatious but apparently she had been in that pose for a long while so discomfort had started to colour her features.

She couldn’t help it, Amethyst started to laugh. “Man Peri, what were you up to?”

“MmmI h-ve b-n w-ch-ing,” Peridot tried to reply but the flower in her teeth made it a bit difficult.

“Peridot, try taking the flower out of your mouth first,” Amethyst had a difficult time stopping her chuckles.

“R-t,” Peridot removed the flower from her teeth. Well, mostly, bits and pieces did get stuck to her fangs and her tongue. “As I was saying, in my quest to find a new show to watch since Lapis, well, soured me on Camp Pining Hearts I have noticed a trend on the more romantic entertainment. For some reason humans create trails to their resting place to lure their mate. From what I understand the goal is to engage in an evening of fun.”

“And you decided to lure me so we can have an ‘evening of fun’ like on TV?” Amethyst covered her rising smile, her mind went to places, some hilarious, others very tantalizing. You never knew with Peridot. “So what do you think this ‘fun’ is?”

“That’s the thing, Pearl always turns off the TV before I get to see.”

The giggles came back. “Does she now? So what’d you have in mind for us?”

“I always hear moaning start up right before the screen goes blank…”

“You do huh?”

“So I think that they’re performing a difficult task of some sort…” 

At this point Amethyst had to literally bite her tongue to not burst out laughing. Peridot tried and that was very endearing.

Or at least it was to Amethyst.

“Well, I guess it is kinda difficult, well, for some people,” Amethyst stated without thinking.

“So you know what they’re doing?” eagerness was all over Peridot’s face. “Amethyst! You have to tell me!”

“Pearl’s would kill me,” Amethyst thought. She instead said, “hey, why don’t you guess? And if you’re right I’ll tell you. You’ve watched enough CPH to have some idea of what people do for fun.”

Peridot’s expression wilted at the mention of her former favourite show, but she did regain some of her joy when she started to think about what she’s seen in media and experienced during her time on Earth.

“Perhaps they’re playing a difficult video game?” she speculated. “But I’ve never seen a game console or a tablet… Or maybe they’re playing Pretzel’d? That’s difficult and easy to hide under a bed.”

Amethyst chomped on her fist and hoped Peridot didn’t think anything of it. “You know what, that’s pretty darn close. I think I’ll give this one to you.”

“Close isn’t good enough,” Peridot protested. “I want to know exactly what they do!” She stomped her foot for emphasis.

“Sorry bud, Pearl would never let it go if I told you,” Amethyst blushed. “Besides, that’s something people do when they’re really really close. Like, closer than us, even.”

“Then I will make it my goal for us to be that close,” sheer determination fueled Peridot.

But only momentarily as she realized what Amethyst had meant. Blue tinted her cheeks. “Oh stars. But uh, only if you are comfortable with it.”

Amethyst shyly crossed her arms. “Yeah, I think I’d be okay with that.”

So it was decided.

"bomb that kills all-" "I just don't get bi women bringing their-" "pansexuality isn't a real thing-" "all lesbians-" "trans men really are the men of the-" "theyfabs-" "pfft aroace people are cringe-" "nonbinary people are actually all-" Instant block. Goodbye. Not listening. It's for both solidarity with your fellow queers AND to protect yourself, because once a person is convinced to hate one group for their immutable traits they can be convinced fairly easily to hate another too, and thus I do not trust them.