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When I got my first cease and desist my lawyer basically asked me if this is a hill you are willing to die on (i.e. spend enormous amounts of time and money on). I with them luck. I suspect a Go Fund Me announcement coming soon.

It would be cheaper to run it like a pirate site.

https://annas-archive.gd for reference.


Anna's Archive has huge data stores behind it, Nitter doesn't and is easy to replicate. You, yes you, can and should set one up right now. They can't get all of us. If you post it to #nitter:matrix.org it might even get included on the public instance lists.

You're thinking of pre-LLM times. Nowadays GPT-6 can probably advise them better than all the worlds law firms combined. And probably win too, considering the incompetence (and tech illiteracy) of human lawyers.

You presume opposing counsel isn't using GPT-6 and other, legal-specific models trained on data ChatGPT will never gain access to. Hint: they are.

Regardless of advice quality, legal proceedings aren't free-to-play, and the adversary in question here has bottomless pockets.


It's kinda-crazy the degree to which legal data--which you need for a fair trial under the law--is locked up by monopolistic brokers.

FFS, we're already at the edge of having to pay to know what the laws even are. [0]

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/pro-codes-act-wolf-she...


What's even crazier is that those brokers typically won't sell to members of the general public; there exists basically no reasonable ability to obtain most case law in most states.

Indeed the Pro Codes Act is still being pushed hard to this day.

Here's an article from this Congress: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2025/06/26/pro-cod...

Imagine having to buy a subscription to the laws you must follow or potentially be imprisoned for violating.


Such speculation is just fear mongering and that is exactly what the daft bullies want.

It's not speculation, it's simple fact. Both Lexis and Westlaw already have LLM integration that smokes the frontier models in this regard.

The best legal professionals, just like the best software engineers, have wholly embraced LLM assistance.

"Gee, we bill $700/hr but just can't figure out how to put a prompt into a chat interface." Please.


No they don't, and no they haven't.

LLMs have been making so many mistakes that the big firms have slowed or even paused their LLM spend. And that was before CA passed a law relating legal AI use.


Have citations of case law that doesn't exist been addressed? It seemed like that kind of outcome being punished might make people less likely to try relying on LLM output for legal situations without an expert human performing a review.

A problem right now is that GPT-6 is just a chatbot, and wouldn't be able to file any counterclaims (which involve human lawyers and billable hours) when fElon decides to wage a battle of attrition in the courtrooms.

Optimistically assuming you can do a lot of stuff well with GPT-6 in the legal space, its still going to be a lot of money - 1. Various court fees may still be thousands 2. You still will likely need to have at least _some_ legal representation. Not as much as before, but still thousands of dollars worth 3. You need to pray that your non-legal brain can catch any issues, both strategic & tactical, that GPT-6 produces because X's lawyers will be happy to pounce.

Advice? Maybe ballpark quality if you can avoid hallucinations. The legal connections that will help net you a win, certainly not.

I really admire their Engineering General docs on culture, values, accessibility, and more: https://github.com/NYPL/engineering-general.


I wouldn't be surprised if Fiverr and Upwork start pulling back too. There's just so much AI bots now that have flooded the task marketplace.


This is the repo if people are interesting in this work: https://github.com/ben-williams-ai/Bomb-Fishing


This El Niño is going to be interesting come Christmas time. Lot's of weather and climate unpredictability coming to a region near you!


According to a client scientist on a news program, 2027 will be the hottest year on record.

Expect lots more chaos and death of wildlife in the ocean as we are seeing in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, sharks migrating to places where they don't normally and surprising humans, gray whales are washing up on the shores at larger and larger rates, jellyfish to have a lot more food so there will be a lot more jellyfish, invasive beetle species will have a lot more food, algae blooms will be a lot more prevalent so the ocean will become more toxic.


Incidentally, the term El Niño came from Christmas time (the waters warm around Christmas time, or when the baby boy comes).


I think it's time to rename it to El Hombre.


I hope so! The area I live in has been experiencing drought and everyone seems to be predicting a wet period coming from this.

Personally, I don't put much faith in weather predictions that are more than a week away.


El nino predictions are pretty spot on. They won't be able to tell you "There will be a storm on the 30th" but they will be able to tell you that you should expect flash floods next year.

Unfortunately for where I'm at, the prediction due to el nino is more drought, which sucks because we are already desperately dry. Hopefully the following la nina year will bring us some moisture.


Predicting El Niño vs. La Niña vs. neutral: relatively reliable. Predicting how strong the El Niño will be: harder. Predicting exactly what it will do to rainfall, temperatures, storms, or snowfall: substantially less reliable.


And yet people will put forth dire predictions (drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, etc.) every chance they get. No wonder so many people think it is all a hoax.


Yes, scientists have put forth dire predictions of extreme weather. Here's the thhing though - we actually see measurable increases in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events. They put forth dire predictions.. and they are absolutely correct. It's right there in the observational record.


A preview of 2035.


I should have posted the plain URL https://pennypresses.net/ they have an About Us section and more info about the project.


I'd imagine that pennies minted before 1982 (those that are mostly copper) are best for these machines. The newer pennies (now discontinued R.I.P.) probably aren't great under pressure.


Also recommend this book. Very concise too, it's only around 100 pages.


Wow I think like 12-13 years ago I wanted to make an EverQuest clone in the browser like every teen game devs MMO dream. Great work.


I wanted to make MMOs when I was like 12 years old and everyone on the internet told me it was impossible and it took millions of dollars and a team of 200 people and crazy levels of knowledge to even do the basics. Which, to be fair, was sort of correct at the time. However, it's fun to make not just one but now have 4 seperate MMO projects I've made huge amounts of progress on! And granted it's massively helped by reverse engineering original assets and reusing existing game designs - but conceptually it's entirely possible, and I've done as much for a project I haven't released much public info on yet. I'm also running 3 of them on a $15/month lightsail server - I put a huge emphasis on client-side work to make it as lightweight for the server as possible. This makes cheating easier but I'm not really worried about that since these are sort of glorified demos and not something I'd ever financially benefit from.


Love it, thanks for your hard work and reverse engineering (def an underrated skill).


Hey! I just posted in this thread about my work on building a better CTrail app. I live in NYC - would love to get involved in this. Thanks for sharing!


Hey Will - I'd love your help! You can either go through the OSSVolunteers link above or just review this document, which includes a direct link to join our Slack workspace: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/onebusaway/contrib...


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