#legalese — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #legalese, aggregated by home.social.
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🍒🚀 Ruby Central's latest saga is just a *gem* of boardroom #drama and verbose non-statements 🤐. If you love #legalese and cryptic messages more than actual coding, this one's for you! 🧐🤷♂️ #NothingToSeeHere
https://rubycentral.org/news/a-message-from-the-ruby-central-board/ #RubyCentral #BoardroomSaga #TechNews #CodingCommunity #HackerNews #ngated -
CW: Too boring for words.
I am drafting a "rules of association". It is partly an exercise, and partly an guess at of something that may become real.
Starting with the standard rules for an "unincorporated association": (https://www.acnc.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021-07/download_template_rules_for_unincorporated_associations_with_notes_pdf_639kb_.pdf)
But I am tired of organisations infiltrated by arseholes, and I wonder if it is possible to put standards of behaviour front and centre.
I am inspired by Mastodon's "No Nazis", but I am not sure it is either specific, nor general enough.Please help. Does your group have something-like this? What have I missed, and, in the interests of sanity, what has been double-defined?
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17. Membership hurdles.
17.1 The association insists on the following psychological characteristics and standards of behaviour from all members.
17.2 No member will be accepted, and existing members will be expelled if they fail any of these hurdles.
17.3 The psychological characteristics. Members must not be:
i. psychopaths,
ii. sociopaths,
iii. narcissists,
iv. liars,
v. egomaniacs.
17.4 The standards of behaviour. Members must never indulge in :
i. crime,
ii. racism,
iii. misogyny,
iv. criticism of person,
v. aggression, threats, shaming,
vi. coercive control,
vii.prejudice, bigotry.
17.5 The association explicitly rejects the notion that a person’s ability can replace or diminish their need to clear these hurdles. The most able and talented member will be expelled if they fail.#rules #DarkTriad #constitution #legalese #IANAL #arseholes #governance
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👨🎨🎨 Ah, the digital masterpiece that is "Mozilla right now": a stunning tableau of links to #donations and licenses that could turn any #art lover into a patron saint of patience. Revoy, in his infinite wisdom, has crafted a masterpiece not of visual delight, but of #endless #scrolling and #legalese. 💸📜
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1108/mozilla-right-now #Mozilla #PatronSaints #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀💼 Wow, thrilling news: #Guideline was absorbed by Gusto! 🤯 Now you can read the same FAQ five times while deciphering #legalese and font licenses! 🧐🎉 Because who doesn't love a corporate #merger with the #excitement of watching paint dry? 🖌️😴
https://help.guideline.com/en/articles/12694322-guideline-has-joined-gusto-faqs-about-our-recent-acquisition #Gusto #CorporateNews #HackerNews #ngated -
✨🚀 Wow, John Carmack, the programming legend, is back with a riveting talk buried under a mountain of #legalese and tech support! 🔍🤖 Who knew the pinnacle of technological advancement in 2025 would be... the Supported Browsers page? 📜💻
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326 #JohnCarmack #TechTalk #SupportedBrowsers #2025Innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
🔥🐍🚀 Behold: #Pyrefly, because who doesn't want to run a #Python type checker written in #Rust that launches in the distant future of Spring 2025? 🤔 You'll be faster too if you never actually do anything! 🌟👻 Enjoy the endless scroll through #legalese and cookie policies. 🍪📜
https://pyrefly.org/ #Spring2025 #TypeChecker #HackerNews #ngated -
MIT study explains why #laws are written in an incomprehensible style
Analysis revealed legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences -- known as "center-embedding." #Linguists have previously found that this #legalese structure can make text much more difficult to understand. "Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages,"
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819 -
Today in BoneQuest History for July 4th 2024 "DEFENSE OF HABITATION" https://bonequest.com/9239 #bonequest :spigot: #beat_off #beating_off #facial #legalese #single_panel #spigot_solo
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New blog post:
One of the best uses of GenAI I've seen yet - CanLII the Canadian Legal Information Institute https://distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2024/06/one-of-the-best-uses-of-genai-ive-seen-yet-canlii-the-canadian-legal-information-institute.html
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Forced to accept a huge pile of indigestible #legalese terms and conditions of some service? Paste it into #AI and have it summarize the disadvantages you're facing as a customer. It's pretty good at it afaict.
Here's #Bandcamp's latest terms and conditions as an example:
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Always make sure things are FINAL when you buy something so shady companies can't pull stuff like this-- trying to yo-yo a sale back when you think it's finished. Read the fine print when you buy. The FTC really needs to stop companies from doing predatory crap like this. ALL companies need to be held accountable ALL the time. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1152932192/yo-yo-car-sales
#accountability #corporateaccountability #legal #legalese #fineprint #readthefineprint
