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A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/ai-lawyers-sanctioned-mississippi.html

In an order filed on Monday, Sharion Aycock, a senior U.S. District Court judge, wrote that the four lawyers had violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when they certified that the information in their filings was factual.

I think one concerning thing is that this is the easiest thing to check. I mean, at some point, I assume that someone is going to rig something up to LexisNexis to actually validate the existence of cited cases, because that's pretty simple and mechanical. Heck, even those lawyers, even if they don't have any tech people at their fingertips, could have had a paralegal check citations or something. It really shouldn't be that fundamentally hard for a lawyer to avoid getting in trouble for this specific issue, even if they generated the text with an LLM.

My bigger concern is that if lawyers are willing to put stuff like this out, they're presumably also willing to put out information that hasn't been checked where the errors are subtler and it's harder to find erroneous material. In the case of citing nonexistent cases, it's really easy to say "the lawyer clearly didn't even look at this", because it's hard to make that kind of error if you have read over it. This is, once highlighted, flagrant and obvious. But...there's potential for subtler errors, where it's harder to tell whether the lawyer did at least try to review the material and just made a basic error, and thus it's harder to impose punishments for it.

2. Lamplighter

Lamplighters were responsible for lighting and extinguishing gas street lamps in towns and cities before electric lighting became standard. They typically carried ladders and torches to perform their duties. The job was crucial for maintaining public safety during the evenings. However, with the introduction of electric streetlights, the need for manual lamp maintenance disappeared, leading to the decline of this occupation. Lamplighters are now part of history, representing a bygone era of urban infrastructure.

The lamplighters themselves were machine operators that replaced earlier professions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-boy

A link-boy (or link boy or linkboy) was a boy who carried a flaming torch to light the way for pedestrians at night. Linkboys were common in London in the days before the introduction of gas lighting in the early to mid 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washerwoman

A washerwoman or laundress was a person, usually a woman, employed to wash laundry by hand, before the widespread use of washing machines and commercial laundries. The profession existed in many cultures, spanning from antiquity to the early modern period. While the profession has historically been gendered, often associated with women, in some contexts, men also performed laundry labor. It was typically low-paid, physically arduous, and associated with lower social status.

The occupation began to decline with the rise of commercial laundries. The spread of domestic washing machines and self-service laundries further reduced the need for the independent washerwomen profession. By the late twentieth century, the profession had largely disappeared in industrialized countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostler

A hostler (/ˈhɒslər/ or /ˈɒslər/) or ostler /ˈɒslər/ was traditionally a groom or stableman who was employed in a stable to take care of horses, usually at an inn, in the era of transportation by horse or horse-drawn carriage.[1]

7. Ice Cutter

Ice cutters were essential in the days before modern refrigeration. These workers harvested large blocks of ice from frozen lakes and rivers during the winter, storing them in ice houses for use throughout the year.

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceman_(occupation)

An iceman is someone who sells or delivers ice from a wagon, cart, or motor-truck. While the advent of modern refrigeration and freezers have made the profession increasingly uncommon, in previous eras of human history, the iceman transported and sold ice harvested in frozen regions to customers in warmer climates intended for cellars and iceboxes, to help preserve food and cool down beverages and homes.

Iceman and ice-wagon in Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station_attendant

A filling station attendant or gas station attendant (also known as a gas jockey in the US and Canada[1][2]) is a worker at a full-service filling station who performs services other than accepting payment. Tasks usually include pumping fuel, cleaning windshields, and checking vehicle oil levels. Prior to the introduction of self-starting vehicle engines, attendants would also start vehicle engines by manually turning the crankshaft with a hand crank.

In the United States, gas jockeys were often tipped for their services,[3] but this is now rare as full-service stations are uncommon except in New Jersey, 16 “urban” counties in Oregon, 4 cities in Massachusetts, and the town of Huntington, New York, where there are laws or restrictions against letting customers pump their own gasoline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Worldwide#History

In 1925, the world's first fully automatic elevator, Collective Control, was introduced. In 1931, the company installed the world's first double-deck elevator at 70 Pine Street in New York City.[11][12]

End of an era.

This is what I imagine that they're concerned about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

You've got a left-economic vote with socially-conservative positions, especially anti-immigrant, that's pretty substantial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Wall_Caucus

The Red Wall Caucus is a British political caucus and pressure group of backbench Labour MPs who represent red wall seats in the House of Commons. Led by Bassetlaw MP Jo White, the caucus was formed in November 2024 and has 43 members as of May 2025.

The Red Wall Caucus mainly focuses on opposing immigration, with the group arguing that immigration is opposed by the British people. It believes that opposing immigration is necessary to prevent the loss of red wall Labour voters to the anti-immigration right-wing populist party Reform UK, which has gained support in the region as a protest to high immigration numbers under previous Conservative governments. The group also focuses on issues which it sees as affecting Labour's traditional working class voter base in particular, such as the cost-of-living crisis, anti-social behaviour and crime, access to GPs and welfare benefits.

Personally, I think that immigration is usually a pretty strong positive for a country, but if you can't sell your policies to voters, you don't get to hold power. British political parties, including Labour, are going to have to figure out some way to handle anti-immigrant sentiment among the electorate.

EDIT: I'd add that I also think that the recent anti-pornography stuff is obnoxious too, but I imagine that the same sort of thing is driving that. They're probably going to have to have some kind of game to win more-socially-conservative voters over, or they're going to have a difficult time of it.

EDIT2: Another option: they could go beat up on transexuals instead of immigrants to try to get those presently-planning-to-go-for-Reform votes. Probably not a very appealing option for a lot of people here either.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/05/08/reform-uk-lgbtq-policies-local-election/

Reform UK’s LGBTQ+ policies

Reform UK’s manifesto – titled ‘Our Contract With You’ – takes aim at “‘woke’ ideology”, specifically “transgender indoctrination”.

In the opening statement, from party leader Nigel Farage, it says: “Divisive, ‘woke’ ideology has captured our public institutions. Transgender indoctrination is causing irreversible harm to children.”

In its education section, it vows to “ban transgender ideology in primary and secondary schools” in their first 100 days in government.

“No gender questioning, social transitioning or pronoun swapping. Inform parents of under 16s about their children’s life decisions. Schools must have single sex facilities,” it reads.

Later, it vows to “mandate single sex spaces”, saying: “Public toilets and changing areas must provide single sex facilities.”

It also says it will “review the online safety bill”, adding: “Social media giants that push baseless transgender ideology and divisive Critical Race theory should have no role in regulating free speech.”

In February 2026, Suella Braverman said that, if voted into power, “on day one, we will get rid of the equalities department, we will scrap the equalities minister … and we will repeal the Equality Act”.

I mean, the real sin here is from the Bluetooth SIG. If you make a radio protocol that broadcasts a unique identifier, it's going to be abused sooner or later.

Google and Apple already know where Bluetooth devices have traveled if an iOS or Android phone using Location Services has come near them at any point.

Other people, like these ALPR guys, can probably harvest a little more data from users of Bluetooth devices, but they aren't going to be the most meaningful harvester, as they have far fewer collection points.

checks

https://lemmyverse.net/communities has a list.

It's on the lemmy.porn instance, !forcedincest@lemmy.porn. Presumably that instance is, well, for porn.

If you don't want to see it, you can block that community and you won't see any more from it. If you don't want to see anything from that instance, you can block that instance. If you don't want to see NSFW content in general, you can block that.

As to "why" in the broader sense, it's because the Threadiverse is a global system. It spans many countries and different groups of people. It's like asking why something is "allowed" on the Web

everything is allowed as long as the local country is okay with it.

I don’t think he decided to end it all over AI

It's hard to know what's going on in someone's life. That is, the proximate cause of him storming off might have been that argument, but that didn't mean that he didn't have other things creating pressure.

Magewell Pro Capture card

I've been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.

All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.

But I've seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I've had sitting around, and that's just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.