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Comment on AI hallucination cases - When lawyers use hallucinated legal content in ~tech
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentAfter you read This is how you lose the time war, check out the Tildes book club discussion.After you read This is how you lose the time war, check out the Tildes book club discussion.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance (edited )LinkI'm reading the Lion Women of Tehran I'm reading the Eye of the Bedlam Bride from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I'm about to start the Truth by Terry Pratchett for Tildes book club. I'm about...I'm reading the Lion Women of Tehran
I'm reading the Eye of the Bedlam Bride from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.
I'm about to start the Truth by Terry Pratchett for Tildes book club.
I'm about to start Every Tongue Got to Confess, a collection of folk tales collected by Zorah Hurston in the Gulf States. (These include some of the same stories that inspired Uncle Remus and Song Of The South. I'm looking forward to reading a version collected by an African American. Hurston is also a gifted author)
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentAfter you are finished, check out the book club discussion of small gods here on tildes. You can contribute if you like.After you are finished, check out the book club discussion of small gods here on tildes. You can contribute if you like.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentFeel free to join in the discussion at the end of the monthFeel free to join in the discussion at the end of the month
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentMost of the discworld books including this one were built to each tell a complete story. But this book is late enough in the series that Ankh Morpork the city has been thoroughly mapped and...Most of the discworld books including this one were built to each tell a complete story. But this book is late enough in the series that Ankh Morpork the city has been thoroughly mapped and described.
If any detail seems unexplained, just roll with it. You should be fine.
Also @kfwyre
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance LinkThis will be a reread for me, but I plan to start soon. I'm currently working through a couple of other books.This will be a reread for me, but I plan to start soon. I'm currently working through a couple of other books.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started? in ~books
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Tildes Book Club - February 2026 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett - Have you started?
Happy February readers. This month we are reading The Truth by Terry Pratchett. This one focuses on the newspaper business of Ankh Morpork and Pratchett himself had worked as a journalist. Have...
Happy February readers. This month we are reading The Truth by Terry Pratchett. This one focuses on the newspaper business of Ankh Morpork and Pratchett himself had worked as a journalist.
Have you found the book? Have you started? Do you plan to join us this month?
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Comment on A 24-year-old Frenchman shows up at hospital with a World War I shell lodged in his rectum in ~news
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentFortunately, being misunderstood by medical staff in a way that is embarrassing isn't that serious in the grand scheme of thingsFortunately, being misunderstood by medical staff in a way that is embarrassing isn't that serious in the grand scheme of things
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Comment on Seeking guidance on a week long LA to Bay Area trip in ~travel
boxer_dogs_dance (edited )LinkI'm local to northern California and Calaveras Big Trees is a place I love and have visited many times. Are you prepared for the steep windy mountain driving to get there and back the day after a...I'm local to northern California and Calaveras Big Trees is a place I love and have visited many times. Are you prepared for the steep windy mountain driving to get there and back the day after a wedding? Will you wake up refreshed and ready for an adventure?
You didn't mention Yosemite at all. Yosemite Valley views are iconic and amazing.
June in Palm Springs will be hot! Make sure your rental car has effective air conditioning before you leave the rental place.
There is interesting architecture in San Francisco.
Bottom line, it's going to be a great trip, but you might be trying to do too much in one week.
Edit - if you do go to Calaveras Big Trees, consider flying out of Sacramento. That will reduce your driving time by roughly 2 hours
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance (edited )Link ParentIt makes sense that I also disliked most of the stories in A People's Future. I had an easier time with the earlier time line. The depiction of slavery and of how it feels to be a civilian when a...It makes sense that I also disliked most of the stories in A People's Future.
I had an easier time with the earlier time line. The depiction of slavery and of how it feels to be a civilian when a war intrudes on your town was reasonably well done. But I quit before the halfway point. I got similar educational content about slavery from Roots in my teens and Kindred and other books later in life. The 'utopia' in the 'modern' timeline didn't resonate with me at all.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentJoin us next month for the Truth by Pratchett.Join us next month for the Truth by Pratchett.
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Comment on I let my wife have an affair. Do I have to console her now that it’s over? in ~life
boxer_dogs_dance Link ParentAside from countries where polygamy is allowed, although women are rarely given the same freedom to legally marry multiple partners.Aside from countries where polygamy is allowed, although women are rarely given the same freedom to legally marry multiple partners.
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance LinkWhat else do you want to talk about related to this book?What else do you want to talk about related to this book?
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance LinkWhat do you think about this as science fiction from the 1980s? Was there anything interesting about the use of technology?What do you think about this as science fiction from the 1980s? Was there anything interesting about the use of technology?
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance LinkWhat are your thoughts or reactions to the supposed utopian qualities of the later timeline?What are your thoughts or reactions to the supposed utopian qualities of the later timeline?
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance LinkWhat did you think of the ending?What did you think of the ending?
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Comment on Tildes Book Club - January 2026 - Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson in ~books
boxer_dogs_dance LinkWere there characters that you disliked or didn't relate to?Were there characters that you disliked or didn't relate to?
I have a law license. Lawyers and law firms in the US (and I believe in other common law countries as well) should most definitely be held liable for false statements of the law generated by an AI/LLM. Even when researching laws and related cases in paper books, and when using the older research databases such as Westlaw, lawyers and paralegals are ethically obligated to verify that the case or version of the statute that they cite is STILL GOOD LAW. Case rulings issued by appeals court judges change law all of the time in common law systems. Lawyers who write in a court case to claim that the law says one thing or another are ethically obligated to verify that their statement is true as of the date they wrote it/date it is filed with the court. Adding Artificial Intelligence to the mix of research tools does not change that obligation.
Lawyers who rely solely on AI to verify their legal statements are careless and or lazy and what they are doing is unethical based on standards that existed long before AI. This behavior is absolutely Unprofessional.