ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Today, we filed our final brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the publishers’ lawsuit against our library. For four years we've been fighting for library rights—what our founder, @brewsterkahle, calls “a battle for the soul of libraries in the digital age.” https://blog.archive.org/2024/04/19/internet-archive-stands-firm-on-library-digital-rights-in-final-brief-of-hachette-v-internet-archive-lawsuit/

New York AG rejects Trum $175M bond, setting the stage for a Monday hearing which may result in determination that the bond is without effect and lead to asset seizure.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4606053-ny-ag-trump-civil-fraud-judge-declare-175m-bond-without-effect/

"The New York attorney general’s office has asked a judge to void the $175 million bond former President Trump secured to put off paying the larger monetary damage award in his civil fraud case."

Seriously, how is it that insurance companies can track every little infraction that civilian drivers commit, but police departments can't tell when their officers are blatantly breaking the law?

Trump lost a $464M case because he fraudulently overvalued his properties -- from 200% to 3300%

Then for the bond, he found an insurer that is illegally taking on a risk far higher than they're allowed to under NY law -- by 1260%

Trump literally found the Trump of insurance

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded

and i just finished another quick doodle! :) hope you all like it :BlobhajBlanketBlue:

#art #sketch #doodle

Meta’s AI chatbot informs a parents' group that it has a disabled child who is both gifted and challenged academically and attends a NYC public school. https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

It seems like a lot of people I see here need a 🫂 or few lately.

If you're feeling like you might hurt yourself, please consider a helpline or even DMing me as an alternative (see profile for contact options). I may not be able to respond *immediately*, but I will read it and I will respond.

Yes, I'm just some queerdo on the internet, but sometimes that's enough to get through a hard patch. How do I know? Because if it wasn't for the kindness of some of the people on this site, I wouldn't be here today. (thank you 💕)

You can call a peer-run warm-line for your state here: https://warmline.org/warmdir.html

If it's critical, you can go to https://988lifeline.org/ or call tel:988, but beware of the risk of possible emergency services involvement.

If you're not in the US, here's a list of crisis lines by country: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

#SuicidePrevention #ItGetsBetter #YouAreNotAlone #BoostWelcome #Boost

World's favourite cuisines. 25,000 people in 24 countries were asked which nation's food they preferred. Interesting results.
(via @yougov)

Photos of Bicycles of WWII in the Atlantic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/04/photos-bicycles-world-war-ii/678086/

This was quite the cargo bike / ambulance thing

my friend's #queenofthenight did her thing again 😯☺️ #bloomscrolling

New from the Newberry Library, a collection of more than 8000 digitized postcards illustrated by named artists. Perfect for posting to Mastodon--they come with alt text! https://www.newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-john-i-monroe-collection-of-artist-signed-postcards

"This toy does what I’d hoped the first one would do, and *then some.*"

#ICYMI - my review of the @HotOctopuss Pulse Queen - https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/hot-octopuss-pulse-queen/ #SexToys #Vibrators