Kick It. Kick It Good.

I write here to remember. That's pretty much it.

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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

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Let’s fucking go

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This is HUGE.

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.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

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Additional source and more details below. Absolutely thrilled to say that this is real. And yeah, it's huge.

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 Munich court ruled Google's AI Overviews are its own words, making it liable for false claims, a decision that, if it holds, could reach e

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.

-via Search Engine World, June 10, 2026. Emphasis mine.

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My soft little day today.

Sunshine, sweet Buddy, a lemon in my garden that escaped the slug invasion, bat rays and a baseball game.

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My vet is an hour late. Still, I have a spread for them but I’m annoyed. The kittens are zonked out after I gave them their gabapentin but I gave it to them timed by when they’d be here but I just checked and they are still snoozing and he’s coming check their blood pressure and Buddy’s labs again, so it’s important they’re really mellow. Giving It to them was as bad as it was the last time it’s the bitter taste that makes them feel really nauseous – so I learned you can actually mix up the medication in a little bit of baby food and feed it to them in the syringe that way, which I’ll try next time. And I just need to learn how to confidently pill them but I just want to get through this appointment first.

My friend R called, we used to chat and text almost everyday but it’s been weeks. She’s got a disaster with her house and has to live in an Airbnb with her husband and four cats, and I’m proud of myself that I haven’t spiraled about it. But maybe that’s just because I’m a little blah about everything I just don’t really care too much right now. I think that could be the effect of the Zepbound, it reduces your reward center activation around food, but apparently it drops its activation about everything else, which makes sense.

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Walking home from my appointment, saw these two little sweeties. I watched them for a while and then the littlest one climbed the top of the ladder so they could snuggle and make a little heart.

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Clear mammogram.

I’m celebrating with sugar.

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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodat

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse," wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.

Employers could wind up in court if they outright dismiss workers who request a faith-based exemption from using AI, said Ashley Herd, a former McKinsey counsel and head of North American HR who now advises managers and employers on workplace issues.

"Playing priest, and telling employees their request isn't legitimate, does not tend to bode well for companies," said Herd, also a cohost of the "HR Besties" podcast. "A jury doesn't like it when employees get made fun of by managers or HR."

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To help manage my anxiety about giving the cats gabapentin before their appointment on Tuesday. I asked my pet sitter to come over and help me give it to them.

She insisted on coming over tonight and trying a few different things so we could use the syringe as the last resort – it was a disaster. She tried to use pill pockets and stuff I’ve tried before - I made sure they were really hungry and I had churro waiting - they eat the entire churro and leave the pill pocket every single when we tried. And just like she always does, Minnie figured out what was going on and started screaming like she was on fire to go out on the deck. Which terrified Buddy.

We finally just followed them out there and I said “just let me have you watch me do it so I make sure I’m doing it the right way”. In hindsight, I should’ve used water instead of actual gabapentin which they don’t need until Tuesday.

They did whatever they usually do - drooled like they were zombies in an apocalypse and convulsed like they were dying. It freaked her out as well. After googling it it apparently is a very common reaction to liquid gabapentin because it taste so bad.

Now they’re stoned for no good reason so I decided to take an edible and join them.

And that’s Sunday.

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Ferry Terminal farmers market on a Saturday morning. Oat milk mocha, a chicken avocado and most delicious scoop of lemon merengue ice cream i’ve ever had the pleasure to eat.

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Every morning.

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What is the deal with Threads? I feel like I’m walking in to people‘s journal entries that I don’t even know. It feels like LiveJournal on steroids, just more hostility and racism and white aggression. Is it me? I cannot figure it out.

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I hate Claude so desperately. I can’t explain it. I’m going to have to write that every single day here until this contract is over.

I spent hours redesigning a website last night writing copy that actually made sense and clearly communicated in practical language what this thing is and why someone should be interested in it.

And they completely rejected it and instead used Claude to rewrite it. It makes less sense than it did before.

I care about these people not looking like fools and they’re about to if they go live with this thing, but I have told them the unvarnished truth and if they’re not going to listen, that’s on them. And who knows maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this is just what people want now, this drivel. Let me off this ride, please.

I am begging anyone who will listen. Stop letting it do your writing for you. Your initial drafts should be yours. People are literally losing the ability to think because it just thinks and writes for them based on their prompts. Use it to edit your document for sure, but only do that if you ask it to absolutely roast you – to act like an editor who has rejected your work 1000 times.

People are not understanding that are looking like fools posting this stuff as though they wrote it themselves. As my nephew said, “it’s twice as clever as it needs to be with so much dramatic pause and a fistful of corny.

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There’s nothing more that will drive you toward a hatred of generative AI than a client who is in love with it.

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love this picture of my dad