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be well and have a good one

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This is what arrived in my email this morning:

Live Webcast!
Building an AI-Enabled Law Practice: Systems, Workflows, Prompts, and Ethical Responsibilities
Applies to the Texas Bar College.

Tuesday, October 27th
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CT
MCLE Credit: 1.5 hrs. (1 ethics)
MCLE#: 174336828
Registration Fee: $95 (This translates to demonstrating a product for sale for 30 minutes, then an hour explaining how it can ruin your career if you do not use it properly.)

I would love to spend the $95 for an hour of throwing rotten eggs at the screen, but I will be busy re-arranging my sock drawer.

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@on the cusp
me that for $95 they could at least offer refreshments, if only coffee to keep youo awake through the presentaion.

be well and have a good one

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neither mentions any attacks on Iraq. This doesn't mean that there weren't any, but if there was, it isn't getting much ink, which, in turn, means that major retaliatory strike is unlikely. It's a weird time, in which the war news is whether or not it is active today or not. Sputnik too is silent on the subject of Iran, so it's time to go make some sort of breakfast.

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@enhydra lutris

check the international news via Xitter (I keep an eye on the various "open-source intelligence" accounts), and the provocatively-named subreddit r/anime-titties, where international posters often make statements that could be regarded as actual news.

Nuthin'.

So either there is a bang-up job of suppression going on, or someone thought they had something to gain by fabricating a story. Either option is equally likely, to my way of thinking...

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in the county lockbox over the weekend, and I just got confirmation from the county clerk that the ballots were received and counted. I don't think that I've ever felt so unclean after exercising my franchise: having voted, I felt very much like a person who just cleaned out a septic tank with a teaspoon. Naked.

The political ads have become much more vicious in the runup here in CO. Two of the ballot proposals have to do with gender (one to do with gender-affirming medical procedures, and the other, to ban trans kids from playing sports in roles that do not align with their genetic sex). It's a perfect wedge issue battlefield, of course, and some of the ads are in the category of "This bluered-person wants to force sex changes on your children without your knowledge!!!1!11!", and such dreck. The local Fox channel is even more unwatchable than usual, as one would expect. I think that the redblue team realizes that they are in so much trouble that their only chance is to disgust everyone to the extent that they won't vote at all.

The sad thing is that it is likely to be something of a wave election, replacing a handful of redblue people with a handful of bluered people. A good example of this is the execrable Jena "Still Counting!" Griswold, who (having successfully fucked Bernie over in his two presidential runs by suppressing the news of his clear Super-Tuesday primary victories until after he had withdrawn from the races due to "poor performance") has decided to move from Secretary of State to Attorney General.

That would be a hard "no" for this reporter. She completely underscores the fact that the bluered and/or redblue monikers represent a distinction wihout a difference. I left that one blank, because despite everything I still can't bring myself to explicitly vote for her redblue opponent. Last time I voluntarily did that was John Anderson in 1980...

The bluered team will take this wave election as a mandate, of course, and will then proceed to do nothing of any value whatsoever, because of the mean old redblue people and the parliamentarian and the need to move on and the phase of the moon. As is their wont. And yet, and despite that sure knowledge, still I voted.

I need to have my head examined.

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@usefewersyllables @usefewersyllables

thanks for doing your civic duty (heh)

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@enhydra lutris

kind words! I'm still throwing up in my mouth a little, even days later. My gut feels like I just drank a quart of spoiled milk with a clot of bathtub-drain hair in it. Not a fan...

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@usefewersyllables @usefewersyllables Nope, you don't need to have your head examined. It's not worth the trouble to your GI System to barf in your mouth. You're in CO? Gorgeous state! Try living in ECFL on for size. That's right: East Central Florida. Actually, it's a civilized part of the state that is gradually becoming more civilized. I get my ballots by mail. Got it and turned it in yesterday morning when my Hubster did his early voting. I got the email confirmation first thing today. The political grassroots here are alive. We know all about American Fascists. We're the test tube state for every crook in the solar system. Our grassroots got a bitter lesson in 2000. Election Theft. But, I am still very politically informed and active. I vote! The creeps don't want informed citizens to vote. That's why they hate public education, and voting. Look at a thousand years of written history. Notice the pattern? Sickening, huh? Rec'd!!

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@usefewersyllables
"Both parties had full control. Multiple times. 30 years.
Healthcare still broken. Housing still unaffordable Wages still stagnant.
At some point the argument that one side is the solution stops being believable."

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be well and have a good one

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@enhydra lutris java this morning, watching birds, deer, and, of course, Vinnie eating his breakfast, my mind wondered back to my favorite concerts. Petty opened for Dylan for a couple of tours and was his back up band. The stadium crowd in Houston was overflow. We sat on a blanket in the football field. The crowd went nuts over Petty, and he and his band played 2 encores.

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Some headliners: Alberta rejects succession referendum,
UK sends fighter jets to Saudi, US/Kiev relations sour as Z sells
weapons to Mexican drug cartels and,trumpet approval ratings
drop to 31%. Still better than Black Rock Mertz at about 10% in Berlin.

Thanks for the OT.

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been finding. Skim of RT is pretty much same-same.

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NK News/ NK Pro web site says it's bs. Yonhap News says it's bs. Pictures from a clothing and shoe industry Expo in NK from yesterday circulating on the internet show Kim, his wife and daughter admiring the new product styles. The rumor was spread by a Chinese dissident living in the US, nuff said. Chances of Trump meeting with Kim at the upcoming APEC conference in Shenzhen don't seem promising, That would be later in November on 18th or 19th.

What would be the purpose of spreading this bs on social media and in the yellow press in the west? Attempt to provoke some kind of succession crisis? Or a conflict between China and Russia over the succession in North Korea? One aspect of the report that seemed odd was a report that after Kim's remains were returned to North Korea secretly. The Chinese sent troops to North Korea at Kim Yo-jong's request to consolidate and protect her "seizure of power." Extremely unlikely that this would happen. Of course the succession is the topic du jour even if the story is bs. Would NK want foreign troops inside its borders? Nope. If there were Chinese troops inside NK it might add to their competition (with Russia) for influence there.

I noticed in one wire picture of Trump with that geeky looking Dell woman in the WH office that the Iwo Jima raising the flag reenactment sculpture was directly behind Trump to remind everyone of how he was miraculously preserved at Butler. So there's some psychic reinforcement going on there.

Have to go unload the van.

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@soryang
fake news. I can't begin to guess who thinks that they are up to what

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Live Webcast!
Wonders and Terrors: The Texas Lawyers Duty in the Age of AI
Applies to the Texas Bar College.

Tuesday, October 27th
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CT
MCLE Credit: 3 hrs. (1 ethics)
MCLE#: 174336831
Registration Fee: $140

Learning Objectives:

Apply ethical duties to AI use: Evaluate competence, confidentiality, privilege, candor, client communication, and supervision under Texas rules, ethics opinions, and developing case law.
Identify risks and implement safeguards: Recognize hallucinations and prompt injection, verify AI-generated work, and evaluate the proper use of AI-assisted recordings, transcripts, and deposition materials.
Establish responsible practice procedures: Develop appropriate client guidance, disclosures, engagement provisions, and billing practices for AI-assisted legal services.

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