Highball With Lemon

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.

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.

They released an album too! I don't think this song is on it but the rest of their stuff is SO GOOD !!

194. Being Quiet

Jayce is the most only child ever. hashtag derogatory.

When you eventually get arrested for playing out your fantasies in real life, I hope you get chemically castrated.

And this one that's much newer came up in my feed right afterwards, so I will be watching it very soon!

A crackship isn't just any ship that makes you go, "Eh, I don't see it." A crackship is absolutely WILD in concept. A crackship is the one that makes your friends look at you with the beginnings of existential horror. It's the one where they wave a circle round you thrice and close their eyes in holy dread, for you on honeydew hath fed and drunk the milk of paradise.

But! I would like to introduce you to a version of this trick called progressive muscle relaxation.

I've never been able to get into meditation because my brain moves too fast and my stress and anxiety want me to ~do something~ instead of sitting down and acknowledging thoughts. This is nothing against meditation, it just doesn't work for me.

A couple years back, I was introduced to progressive muscle relaxation. It's like meditation, but faster, and with physical tasks which let me deal with physical symptoms very effectively.

Basically, turning slow tigers into fast tigers over the course of 10-ish minutes with the help of a guide so you can target specific muscles one at a time, until your whole body has calmed the heck down.

The one I use (below) is by the Department of Veteran Affairs in Australia. I like this one because the pace is fairly quick and they get right to the point - nothing except for noticing your body, tensing muscles, and then relaxing - so that you can get right back on with your day.

I've also used this in the past when I've been too restless to sleep - if once wasn't enough, I was definitely sleepy by the time I finished it the second time.

I've reccomended this to friends in the past, but I hope knowing that this is a thing will help folks on here too. As someone who has stressed themself into having pretty bad angina before, I cannot overstate how important it is to deal with not just your mental anxiety/stress symptoms, but your physical symptoms too.