*air guitar solo*

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.

Sources

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Some 38 people came down with tetanus in 2025, the highest number in nearly 20 years. Experts blame declining vaccination rates and worry that case numbers will keep rising in the coming years if fewer people get the recommended shots.

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The disease was once widespread in the U.S.—and not because more people had barns. It was the development and deployment of a highly effective vaccine in the 1930s that plunged annual cases, which fell from roughly 600 Americans in the 1940s to 17 in 2020. Mortality also dropped, by a whopping 99 percent, following the vaccine’s introduction. “Americans forget how serious these infections are,” because we no longer see so many people around us developing them, says Kristin Moffitt, a pediatric infectious disease doctor at Boston’s Children Hospital. But globally, the disease still kills 50,000 people a year. In the U.S., tetanus kills roughly 12 percent of people who come down with it, according to an analysis in April of a recent 15-year period by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Most deaths happen in people over 70, as well as in infants. Another analysis published last year in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases found people with diabetes and heart disease also face a high risk of serious complications. Once the toxin takes hold, there is no cure. Doctors administer antibiotics and other drugs to help neutralize the poison, surgically clear the wound that harbors the bacteria, and control muscle spasms with medication. Because nerve damage in the throat is common, about half of hospitalized patients need breathing tubes.

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WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"