I work for a city that’s an enclave for the mega-rich and is going through hyper-gentrification. People are buying 3 million dollar houses, tearing them down, and building 15 million-dollar houses.

It’s the 1%ers being pushed out by the .01%ers. It’s a whole different planet.

But the contractors still suck and cut every corner they can, so it really is the same anywhere you go.

They walked out of an extremely boring ceremony. That’s nothing.

Don’t forget to schedule your colonoscopy.

I use vanced and uBlock Origin, but I do also pay for YouTube. I watch more YouTube than anything, and I’m okay paying for it.

But I still use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ad nauseum (really cool if you want to fuck with the algorithms on the stuff that gets through), etc.

Pointing out that Windows Vista is turning 20 this year is a gut punch.

You need different boys.

I got together with some of my old college buds a while back, and they got drunk and started droning on about how much they loved and depended on their wives and how they never imagined they’d grow up to be excited about settling down and redecorating and shit, but that it was amazing.

It was wholesome as fuck.

I love how that also applies to Harry Potter.

Obligatory note: The author is a terrible person and she’ll never get another dime from me.

8 was pretty solid under the hood, but they really pushed that Metro interface, and even if you managed to disable it with something like Start8, it was still crippled by the tablet-first design on an OS that had like 2 tablets. And even with the tablets it sucked because lots of settings were still in the old control panel that required a mouse and keyboard.

If we’d had a Service Pack that just gave us the Win7 UI and the Win8 backend it could have been great.

I’m guessing that’s what I heard a few months ago.

People all around our lake heard a loud explosion at the same time, but nobody ever found the source.

They’re barred from that court, which is the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi.

They’re not barred from State, County, or Municipal courts, or from other federal courts because the judge only has control over their District.

Ads aren’t always there to get you to buy something specific. In fact, an ad you don’t interact with is a better ad because they don’t have to pay for click-through.

You don’t want to buy brand A because they have ads, so you buy brand B instead, but both widgets are owned by the same holding company. Or they’re made in the same factory. Or they use the same components. Or they have the same shareholders. Any way you slice it, the same rich assholes are getting your money.

The goal of the Ads is to put a bug in your head and get you to buy something.

And that’s just the Ads. The tracking is also (increasingly primarily) about political manipulation and surveillance.

They’re barred from presenting federal cases in the Northern District of Mississippi. That covers all federal cases for 36 counties - half the state.

The point is control, not safety.

If they can use a system to prosecute anyone, they can target anyone they don’t like.

It’s worse than that. The AI isn’t part of the attorney/client relationship, so anything shared with it isn’t covered by privilege and is discoverable.

A judge can’t revoke a law license. But they can issue a fine and bar them from their courtroom.

The judge’s action in this case was brutal. It’s the legal equivalent of a public caning.

It’s more about the barring and the official censure. A couple grand doesn’t mean much A judicial beatdown is professionally damaging.

And since it’s federal court, being barred from that courtroom is a real blow. It’s not like they can just focus on the next city or county over.

Between 1100 and 3500. It’s in the artiblcle before the paywall kicks in.

Never, ever use AI for legal review for a client.

Inviting an AI into the threads removes privilege.

There were actually 4 lawyers, and all 4 were fined and 2 of them barred from presenting to the Court for several years.

Judge wasn’t fucking around.

I also get it in my toes now.