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[starsfart]

No kids. I do not self-censor. Go over to yonder kid zone, leave my swamp. I witch here. I mean, i bitch here.

Most people and most praxis have more in common than not. But i will accept no bad faith arguments for Israeli, pro-empire, all the -isms, fuck off and fuck you. Choke on your death throes, and soon.

I'm old. Been here forever. Don't remember anyone's names or dramas. This is my scrapbook. I have no clue if there are broad narrative themes or communities within.

I tag at whim. Cry about it.

Always trying to find more hopecore solarpunk things to feed my fighting spirit.

[sztupy]

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

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

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.

[reasonsforhope]

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.

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[reasonsforhope]

Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!

-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026

[animentality]

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[etriva]

sometimes I have to pause the television and scream for a little bit

[generaljenobi]

[muscleluvr4-deactivated20140223]

why the fuck is it called the xbox 360 what does 360 mean???????????????????

[wariolands-blog]

when u see it u turn 360 degrees and walk away

[viseriontargaryen]

turning 360 degrees would face you right back to the xbox you dipshit

[davekat-deactivated20130315-dea]

[btc-official-deactivated2024071]

this post somehow still in circulation despite everyone involved being deactivated

[rain-droplet]

even you

[hufflepuffharukananase]

Even me

[fictionalgod]

MLP art by @onionpwder

[dogpuppy]

[homunculus-argument]

Okay, so rationally I was aware that this is just a hairless mammal pictured from a very unflattering angle, but also the first thought that popped into my head was that it was shaped like a terrible fleshy bird.

[artemisrhodon-deactivated202403]

staff member getting dunked on by one of their favorite bands you love to see it

[starsfart]

I'm trying this new thing.

See, I'm really, really mean to myself. In my head. It just keeps happening. I'm constantly criticising swearing sighing. And I'm all frozen up all the time because when people yell at me, i freeze up. I'm scared of what I'd do if i yell back so i rarely do.

Earlier tonight on the way to work, i sort of interrupted myself with this new sweet voice. Almost mothering.

I thought it'll feel fake.

But i felt something inside react so hungrily, eagerly. I'm not as numb as i thought.

[starsfart]

Sometimes I'm cycling on the road thinking it's a bit mad I'm trusting the cars to not hit me, and then I'm congratulating myself for being stoic and not as scared as i was at the beginning of the ride and almost without fail within minutes of the thought a car would pass me much too closely and much too quickly and is this how i toy with my adrenaline now

[repent-zoomer]

[dogsuffrage]

memes that get you unfriended by relatives on facebook

[technofeudalism]

memes that get you unfollowed by randoms on tumblr

[freelancedumbass]

[lilyofficial]

[rubylang-official]

Reblog to do this to prev

[ladyshinga]