"You know," Aiden says as he finishes wrapping the bandage around Lambert's wrist. Like always he presses a feather light kiss on top of it. "If you wanted me to kiss you, you could have just said so."

Their eyes meet and Lambert makes a face at him. Aiden raises his eyebrows and Lambert makes another, uglier, face. Aiden groans loudly.

Vesemir is old. Very old. We know he was already old when he was training Geralt and Eskel. He most likely still sees his wolves as babies. Even though they are adults, hunting monsters, drinking and fucking their way through life, taking drugs in company of women with horns and even building families with witches and little princesses. Doesn't matter. Vesemir looks at them and sees three cute little boys with scraped knees. Which means

Geralt bringing Jaskier to Kaer Morhen must be equivalent of a child bringing home stray puppy and begging his dad to keep him. At least from Vesemir's point of view. It's not even that bad, because the puppy (bard) is active and playful, but polite, doesn't misbehave too much, and generally a pleasant company.

The same can't be said about dirty flea-bag kitten that Lambert drags into the keep (Aiden, just as unwashed as any witcher fresh off the road). Surprisingly, Vesemir acts exactly like a dad who said he didn't like cats - meaning, the cat is now his favorite family member.

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - A federal judge in Mississippi has disqualified the attorneys on both sides of a contract dispute after finding that their failure to verify AI-generated research led to fabricated ​legal citations in court filings.

In an order, opens new tab on Monday, U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock ‌in Aberdeen, Mississippi, said attorneys for the plaintiff and defendant had acknowledged that case citation errors in recent filings in the lawsuit stemmed from the use of AI programs.

“This case presents the court with an unusual scenario — attorneys ​for both litigants engaged in similar sanctionable conduct,” Aycock wrote. The attorneys at a hearing ​in the case “expressed embarrassment and apologized to the court,” Aycock wrote.

Both sides will ⁠need to find new lawyers, the judge said. Lawyers may use AI tools, but they ​are required to verify that materials submitted to a judge are accurate.

Aycock barred the lawyers on each ​side who either used AI for legal research or for drafting the filings at issue — Kathleen Wilson and Kathryn Williams — from appearing in the Northern District of Mississippi for two years. Wilson was fined $2,500, and Williams was fined $3,500.

The ​other lawyers who were disqualified, Shauncey Hunter Ridgeway and Mark McClinton, were serving as local counsel ​to Wilson and Williams and were not directly involved in drafting the filings. They were each ordered to pay $1,000.

Wilson, ‌Ridgeway, ⁠Williams and McClinton did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The case involves a contract dispute over legal fees with the city of Aberdeen. The plaintiff and a representative for the city did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

State and federal judges increasingly have sanctioned attorneys for misusing artificial intelligence tools that can make up case citations, ⁠misquote the law or generate non-existent legal sources.

“In an era of rampant unverified AI usage within the legal field, this case presents a prime example ​of the risk associated with serving as a rubber stamp when acting ​as local ⁠counsel,” Aycock wrote in Monday's order.

and like. first of all even for people with partners that's assuming they're abled themselves and can handle all that. you can't assume that. secondly: what about people who are single, who live alone, who will probably always do so

"get someone to keep an eye on you when you start this new medication" who. "don't over exert yourself" nobody else is going to do the tasks. "this can be a walker or a transit wheelchair so your partner can push you when you get tired" my what

i had to ask my housemate to come to the hospital in a taxi, leave the taxi waiting outside, come inside to fetch me (they wouldn't even let me go from the ward to the taxi even though i could point to my phone and the texts saying that my housemate was outside), and then go back to our house with me. fortunately it was a weekend, so she didn't have to take time off work to do this, but they went on about how she'd have to keep an eye on me for the next day or so

bear in mind that i barely knew my housemate when we moved in together. we had mutual friends but it was an arrangement of convenience

Trying to get the blood people to understand that I had driven there and that no, I didn't have a partner to come fetch me and monitor me was a flipping task and a half.

me, an elder fandom veteran, suddenly having anne rice flashbacks:

no.

NO.

starting to rock back and fourth.

you do not understand.

you were born into an age of peace. i was there Gandalf. i was there three thousand years ago. i remember the cease and desists. i remember authors hunting fanfic writers for sport. i remember when every fic opened with a disclaimer because we genuinely thought it might protect us.

we do not charge money for the copyrighted gay wizard stories.

do not tempt fate youngling.

step away from the paywall.

that is how you summon the ancient evils.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.