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snopes_feedSocial media users claimed commanders pushed "end-times Christian fascism" as a justification for the Iran war. Here's what that means.
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Mar. 12th, 2026 04:58 amapod_feed
Is this a cosmic monster ready to devour an unsuspecting galaxy?
The Shape Of You
Mar. 11th, 2026 09:59 pmquestionable_content_feed
At first I was like "is an Ed Sheeran reference going to make this comic seem dated" but then remembered Ed Sheeran's music sucks no matter what year it is
Video of Trump showing Laura Ingraham 'Cardboard Ayatollah' isn't real. Here's the proof
Mar. 12th, 2026 12:06 amsnopes_feedThe video was originally posted and shared by a meme page and tagged with a label indicating it was made using AI.
Unraveling rumor that US senator has seen video evidence of Trump 'raping a child'
Mar. 11th, 2026 11:11 pmsnopes_feedThe popular rumor appeared to stem from Rep. Ted Lieu's February 2026 statement calling for the resignation of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Don't add fuel to claim Trump's 'Operation Invisible Pump' bans gas price signs
Mar. 11th, 2026 11:07 pmsnopes_feedNo credible news outlet reported on the alleged ban.
Judge Prepares Slide Deck of Lawyer’s Mistakes
Mar. 11th, 2026 10:59 pmloweringthebar_feed
So you remember last year when I asked you to please do your best not to appear in the “AI Hallucination Database”? See “Please Do Your Best Not to Appear in the ‘AI Hallucination Database’” (June 6, 2025). You do? Terrific. Because I don’t want you to end up like the now-former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, a man who now regrets his decision to use AI to draft a brief.
In general, I think a good rule of thumb is: try to live your life in such a way that no judge feels compelled to create a slide deck to display your many errors. This man either did not follow that rule or failed in doing so.
As Law360 reported this week (sub. req’d), on March 2 a judge ordered the prosecutor to show up and explain why he should not be sanctioned for violating Federal Rule 11 given that he signed a response brief that included multiple fabricated quotations and misstated the holdings of several cases. The other side had pointed out the mistakes, and the prosecutor then filed a surreply attributing them to the “inadvertent filing of an unfinalized draft document.” Because that is also not something a lawyer should do, this isn’t a great defense. But the judge suspected there was more to it, and that the “more” was called “artificial intelligence.”
At the show-cause hearing on March 10, the prosecutor confirmed that this was indeed the case.
According to the report, he told the judge he had used AI to “‘catch up’ on a draft filing after realizing he’d accidentally overwritten it.” At first I thought “overwritten” meant it was too long or too flamboyant, like the brief was in the style of Edgar Allan Poe or something. But it probably means he claimed to have lost a lot of work because he saved the wrong version. Whatever it meant, the court wasn’t buying it at all. In fact, this happened:
Judge Numbers, clearly skeptical of [the prosecutor’s] statement, pulled up a slide deck which enumerated several errors in recent case filings and asked him to explain every single one. He said the mistakes appear “diametrically opposed” to [his] statement that the errors were unintentional.
“It’s difficult to credit your response given what you’ve done here,” Judge Numbers said, referencing a misattributed quote in circuit court case law.
I have been criticized by judges, but that criticism has usually been relatively minor, and definitely has never been laid out in a slide deck so the judge and I could go through my errors one by one. I’ve had relationships that ended that way, but so far my professional career has been free of it. I hope to keep it that way.
This is yet another example of a case where someone got caught using AI and not checking the results, and then did not admit what they had done. He didn’t mention AI in the surreply at all, and when the judge asked him about that omission at the hearing, he “replied that he and [his boss] decided the surreply was appropriate”–which isn’t really an answer. He insisted that all he had done wrong was to inadvertently file an unedited draft. The judge still wasn’t buying it.
Judge Numbers didn’t let up, expressing confusion at the concept of filing anything that wasn’t final. He asked why, for any reason, [the prosecutor] used generative AI to draft anything, knowing that attorneys around the country are facing sanctions for AI use.
Because he wanted to end up in the AI Hallucination Database? Sorry, I guess that was a rhetorical question.
By the way, that database is now up to 1031 cases, 730 of them in the United States (but only one so far in Papua New Guinea, so good for them). Please don’t add to it.
apparently we also need a new oven
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kaberettVia divers alarums and excursions we have established that the oven seems to trip All The Electrics... when it hits A Certain Temperature. ( Read more... )
But. BUT. Today I SAW THE BAT for the first time this year (having been doing a questionable job of actually managing to watch for it at bat o'clock over the last several weeks); and my Special Interest In Moving My Body went surprisingly well; and A curled up on the sofa and did some more Reading About Special Interest with me; and I am actually doing alright.
If I were you, I'd be out on the town
Mar. 11th, 2026 06:27 pmsovayWhatever passes for my health these days has tipped over onto the sidewalk, but my afternoon which contained far too much communication with doctors on far too little sleep was measurably improved by the discovery of Avalon Emerson's "Don't Be Seen with Me" (2025). I think of Oppenheimer Analysis as so extremely niche in appeal that it almost never crossed my mind that anyone would cover one of their songs, much less drench it in heart-racing, echo-dragged dream-pop like a night drive high on the endless windshield slide of light. I still prefer the colder, dryer original with its relentlessly weird garbage-can drum programming and glitteringly nervy columns of synths against which the vocals sound even more paranoid and plaintive, but just the fact that someone else went for their own version makes me happy. I suppose electronically unsettled meditations on the Manhattan Project and the Cold War have come back around into fashion.
Department of Defense spent $93B in one month under Hegseth
Mar. 11th, 2026 09:23 pmsnopes_feedOpen the Books, an organization dedicated to watching government spending, published its report on March 9, 2026.
Ymlaen i Gymru!
Mar. 11th, 2026 08:33 pmcosmolinguistI'm in south west Wales now, helping angelofthenorth get her stuff from storage so her nice flat will finally have her nice furniture and books and etc.
We're here with a church friend of hers who drove the rented van, and we'll get to meet local friends of hers tomorrow as we tackle it.
We had a little look when we got here and I can see why she's intimidated by the task at hand: there's a lot of stuff and while we don't want much of it, some of what she does want will be way at the back so everything else might have to get moved. I brought tape and scissors and a sharpie so boxes that have to be opened can be re-packed and labeled.
It's nice to have a few days off work, and to be only needed as a henchqueer. I've had a nasty headache most of the day, so my two wishes for tomorrow are that it fucks off and that we don't get the rain that is forecast here (the storage containers are open to the elements).
Statue of Trump holding Epstein in 'Titanic' pose appeared on National Mall
Mar. 11th, 2026 06:43 pmsnopes_feedThe statue is titled "The King of the World," referencing another iconic moment in "Titanic," according to its plaque.
Don't be fooled by image of 'Iranian missile' with inscription about Epstein victims
Mar. 11th, 2026 06:25 pmsnopes_feedThe missile inscription allegedly read, "In memory of the victims of Epstein Island."
BIPOC bookbinders
Mar. 11th, 2026 02:13 pmlibitinaSince there are a decent number of fanbinders here, if you know anyone who is BIPoC and interested in a bookbinding scholarship, please feel free to spread the word. I am reading the announcement as open without restriction to guild members only since winning the scholarship includes getting a membership in the guild. This was the announcement on the book-arts listserv I read:
In partnership with the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Guild of Book Workers is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity for any individuals who identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) within the Book Arts community.
The scholarship is designed to help expand funding opportunities in the area of Book Arts to support creative projects, education and research.
Individual grants will be awarded in the full sum of $1,000 and a complimentary Guild of Book Workers membership for 1 year. Awarded funds will be payable to individuals with a US tax ID.
Awardees will be required to submit a brief write-up for the Guild of Book Workers Newsletter summarizing the experience and impact of the grant.
This fiscal year’s grant money must be expended by June 30, 2026. Submit your application by April 20, 2026.
Project proposals may include but are not limited to:
- Taking a class offered through a book arts institution
- Materials fees for a university class
- Private study with a bookbinder
- For the purchase of materials necessary to teach a class, etc.
- Costs of travel for research related to Book History, Book Arts, etc.
- Materials to purchase supplies for an individual book project or develop an entry for an exhibition
- Press time for printing
- Support the purchase of big ticket bookbinding equipment
Beginning March 5, you can find the application to apply here: (link)
Thank you for helping us spread the word!
Membership Outreach Committee
Guild of Book Workers
Were US troops told Iran war is to bring 'Armageddon,' return of Jesus? Inspecting claim
Mar. 11th, 2026 04:33 pmsnopes_feedA watchdog founder told Snopes he received hundreds of complaints about religious messaging in the U.S. military after U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.
March: Pusekätzchen
Mar. 11th, 2026 04:24 pmbookscorpion posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
common_natureI went out for a little walk this morning and found the first willow catkins - Pusekätzchen! They are an important flower for bees at this time of year, not just for honey bees but for solitary bees, bumblebees and solitary wasps.
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Damn, It’s Windy
Mar. 11th, 2026 02:34 pmscalziwhatever_feed
We briefly had a Tornado Warning in our area, which fortunately was quickly downgraded to a Thunderstorm Warning. Not that we had to be warned about that, it was in fact happening, and it brought with it 80mph winds. It was those winds that just now took out our porch railing.
We’re fine and everything else is fine, minus the power being out, which is a thing happening all over town. If this is the worst that happened around here because of this storm, we’ll count ourselves lucky.
— JS
Thursday: Markings
Mar. 11th, 2026 09:30 pmThe following dates are available for hosting:
March 17 & 19
March 31 & April 2
April 7 & 9
April 14 & 16
April 21 & 23
April 28 & 30
I am aware that interest has waned in both hosting locations. If posts are not done, then that more than likely means no one signed up to host for the week...and it is what it is.
Now for why you're probably here. Hello, everyone. I’m
Today’s theme is Markings. These can be physical, symbolic, temporary, or permanent, anything that leaves a visible trace. Think tattoos, scars, birthmarks, paint, ink, magical marks, bruises, or even something drawn in the sand.
Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full name and fandom's full name for ease in adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.
Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Teen Wolf, (pre) Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Derek discovers Stiles has a mark meant only for his mate.
+ Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett + Danny Williams, Danny asks about the scars Steve never talks about.
+ Teen Wolf, Erica Reyes/Boyd (Vernon Boyd III), Erica paints a symbol on Boyd before a dangerous mission.
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2026 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community. Fret not, DW members; we are working on a way to search through old entries for prompts for you! As of right now, the best way to search for a lonely prompt on DW is to search the community’s archive, which can be found [[HERE]].
While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.
As a friendly reminder about our schedule, Lonely Prompts and sharing completed fills are encouraged on Sundays, while new themes and prompts are posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Saturdays are a free-for-all day. We'll share our posts on DW and LJ for everyone's convenience. Keep an eye out for notifications!
If you have a Dreamwidth account and would feel more comfortable participating there, please feel free to do so…and spread the word!
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