Under the cover of war, the US DoJ has just quietly released some of the missing Epstein files that directly relate to Trump.
In which, he is accused of sexual assault by a then 13 year old who says he tried to force oral sex on her.
Shameless. news.sky.com/story/epstei...
Here it is again for the morning scrollers!
A round of book reviews, containing fiction about gods, ghosts, and monsters, and nonfiction about serial killers, supposed AI, whether or not we'll live in space, and how (maybe) not to go insane dealing with this stupid world. Or maybe to make it happen faster. Baudrillard is hard.
doodlemancy @doodlemancy on cohost (rip): "the script at this point is just company: we're going to do something really extremely bad for our customers and possibly even people who aren't our customers. we think this is good an enormous, furious internet mob: we hate this company: we'd like to clarify our intentions. just to be clear: we're doing the same thing but we'd like you to hate it a little less now"
It's rough on the internet these days.
Please take with the caveat that I am a teacher, not a security specialist or a lawyer, but I'm trying to digest and make accessible some of the things I'm coming to understand. If someone understands better, I fully welcome corrections.
The worst damage of the far right was enabled by the center right too fearful to push back against trump
Hi. If you design games, I think you should read this blog post. It's short! I agree with everything Markus says here.
personable.blog/human-centri...
Case 1:24-cv-09429-KPF Document 227 Filed 02/05/26 Page 1 of 33 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK FLYCATCHER CORP. LTD and FLYCATCHER TOYS, INC., Plaintiffs, -V.- AFFABLE AVENUE LLC, doing business as CJ DIST; OZMOS COMPANY LLC; EYTAN GROSSMAN, doing business as EYG DEALS; CREATIVE REWARDS INC.; JOSHUA CHAVEZ, doing business as ONESTOPFASTSHOP; TOP EXPERIENCE COMPANY LLC, doing business as WE PAY COST LLC; PRETTY PRINCESS LLC, doing business as NORVI; AYANEE LLC; FORTUNA KG LLC, doing business as FORTUNAKG; JASON MANAGEMENT LLC; JOAN ALEXANDER SORIANO, doing business as PRIMECHOICEMART; A WAHABI CORPORATION, doing business as MCPROFITS; MODA ORIGINAL LLC; VALLEY BODEGA WHOLESALE INC.; EYAD WAHBY; SAM SHAMLOO; S&N GLOBAL SUPPLY INC.; VALUE VALLEY WHOLESALE LLC; ADAM HAMIDA; and JOHN DOES 1 to 25, Defendants. 24 Civ. 9429 (KPF) OPINION AND ORDER KATHERINE POLK FAILLA, District Judge: In June 2025, Steven A. Feldman, counsel for Defendant Affable Avenue LLC ("Affable"), filed a brief in support of Affable's motion to dismiss that was peppered with false citations. Concerned about both the genesis of these misstatements and counsel's delay in correcting them, the Court issued an Order to Show Cause. Perhaps not appreciating the gravity of the situation, Mr. Feldman responded to that Order with a submission that appeared to have been created by generative artificial intelligence ("Al"), and that itself contained a false citation. The Court's response was stern and unmistakable: "Mr.
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Feldman [wals not excused from this professional obligation [of verifying that the cases he submitted to the Court were valid] by dint of using emerging
technology." (Dkt. #169 at 4).
Mr. Feldman persisted. A few days prior to the Court's hearing on the
Order to Show Cause, Mr. Feldman submitted a proposed reply brief in further support of Affable's motion to dismiss. Once again, his brief contained false citations. And at the August 22, 2025 hearing, Mr. Feldman was unable to respond directly to, much less answer, the Court's questioning about his
submissions.
Mr. Feldman has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes.
And while the Court does not oppose the use of Al to assist in legal research
and writing, it must take a stand where, as here, counsel repeatedly files
submissions with false citations because counsel refuses to verify those
submissions. This Court can do no more. For the reasons that follow, the
Court sanctions Mr. Feldman pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11
and the Court's inherent powers by striking Affable's submissions and entering
default judgment against it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ssxnmhdtz6le6nxu7jfhglz6/bafkreigeefuabd636ruucelhxav3v3p43dezhotggrwlgjgsev2z2ggev4@jpeg)
Case 1:24-CV-09429-KPF Document 227 Filed 02/05/26 Page 2 of 33 Feldman [wals not excused from this professional obligation [of verifying that the cases he submitted to the Court were valid] by dint of using emerging technology." (Dkt. #169 at 4). Mr. Feldman persisted. A few days prior to the Court's hearing on the Order to Show Cause, Mr. Feldman submitted a proposed reply brief in further support of Affable's motion to dismiss. Once again, his brief contained false citations. And at the August 22, 2025 hearing, Mr. Feldman was unable to respond directly to, much less answer, the Court's questioning about his submissions. Mr. Feldman has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes. And while the Court does not oppose the use of Al to assist in legal research and writing, it must take a stand where, as here, counsel repeatedly files submissions with false citations because counsel refuses to verify those submissions. This Court can do no more. For the reasons that follow, the Court sanctions Mr. Feldman pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 and the Court's inherent powers by striking Affable's submissions and entering default judgment against it.
Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this?
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Some bangers on this book round-up: www.brokenhandsmedia.com/blog/2026/2/...
My partner calls it "Hippie Feed": brown rice, lentils, chickpeas, cooked all in one pot, add jarred curry sauce when it's almost done. You can add peas to it when you warm it up. If you've got the fortitude, it benefits from having some onion, garlic and ginger sautéed with the rice.
I really want to live someplace I don't need a car, man, this shit sucks and is too damn expensive.
I have now gone to a dealership and two mechanics to fix a car I bought less than a month ago because it stalls at red lights and randomly dies in the cold. While they all agree that there is a problem, no one can apparently identify what the problem is. Apparently, it drives done but not for me.
It's definitely not unmedicated ADD. I wouldn't say that at all.
I hate that em dashes are seen as a sign of AI writing now. I default to using them a lot, and people seem to get mileage out of pointing them out -- and, to such people, I want to say: I'm sorry that you've never had a flare for the dramatic or so many thoughts you've got to interrupt yourself.
I went to the dealership because my car has a problem my normal mechanic can't figure out. The waiting room is filled with the sound of Jeopardy reruns and hold muzak from one elderly gentleman's phone. I've been here for nearly two hours and my brain is mush.
How much is nostalgia for this demimonde (a sense that it can't happen like THAT any more) part of it? Because I think that's the commonality I'm seeing there.
I feel the urge to suggest that Seven Samurai or Yojimbo may be edge cases, but that might just be Kurosawa drawing inspiration from hard-boiled fiction, which seems like a precursor genre of the GoodFella.
The exception is, of course, the Libby app. That one's never done anything wrong.
I like how, whenever I tell my phone to do something, it instead stops to tell me that I should be gambling instead.
“Homeland” wasn’t a word people in the US used to talk about the US when DHS was created. It felt at the time like Republicans laundering explicitly fascist language into their public project
On Thursday morning, officials from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement toured a warehouse in south Kansas City with aims to hold detainees there. By the afternoon, city lawmakers banned such detention centers from being approved.
this is Minnesotan for "I am mad enough to bite through rebar"
If this is all a simulation, it's just proof that open-world games suck.
More isn't always better, and I'm beginning to think that obsessions with great magnitudes (biggest, strongest, fastest, etc.) is a mark of a childish character.
The Onion nailed it:
"ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks"
"... seeing a man in tactical gear is far better than seeing a man without a face, staring deep into that empty chasm, and instantly going mad."
https://theonion.com/ice-confirms-agents-do-not-have-faces-beneath-masks/
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
