#liability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #liability, aggregated by home.social.
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“In contrast, #Mike is #OpenSource #software meaning it is free to download and customise. It also means that using the software carries #security and #liability #risks, potentially deterring #law firms from using the tool.
Worth $15 billion and $8 billion, respectively, #Harvey and #Legora have come to dominate the legal corner of the AI universe, with all of #Australia’s top eight #LawFirms subscribing to one or both.
Mike was built as a direct challenge to their iron grip, according to its founder #WilliamChen, a former #JuniorLawyer at top-ranked US law firm Latham & Watkins, who used existing #AITools to #VibeCode” his new app.”
Cheap to use. No maintenance, support, documentation or verification that it works. Law is by definition cautious and regressive. Some law firm will try it, fail and be pushed out of an Industry where reputation to win comes before price.
#AI / #LegalSoftware <https://archive.md/mXr0t> / (paywall) <https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/meet-mike-the-free-ai-for-lawyers-that-might-blow-up-a-23bn-sector-20260506-p5zudj>
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“In contrast, #Mike is #OpenSource #software meaning it is free to download and customise. It also means that using the software carries #security and #liability #risks, potentially deterring #law firms from using the tool.
Worth $15 billion and $8 billion, respectively, #Harvey and #Legora have come to dominate the legal corner of the AI universe, with all of #Australia’s top eight #LawFirms subscribing to one or both.
Mike was built as a direct challenge to their iron grip, according to its founder #WilliamChen, a former #JuniorLawyer at top-ranked US law firm Latham & Watkins, who used existing #AITools to #VibeCode” his new app.”
Cheap to use. No maintenance, support, documentation or verification that it works. Law is by definition cautious and regressive. Some law firm will try it, fail and be pushed out of an Industry where reputation to win comes before price.
#AI / #LegalSoftware <https://archive.md/mXr0t> / (paywall) <https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/meet-mike-the-free-ai-for-lawyers-that-might-blow-up-a-23bn-sector-20260506-p5zudj>
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“In contrast, #Mike is #OpenSource #software meaning it is free to download and customise. It also means that using the software carries #security and #liability #risks, potentially deterring #law firms from using the tool.
Worth $15 billion and $8 billion, respectively, #Harvey and #Legora have come to dominate the legal corner of the AI universe, with all of #Australia’s top eight #LawFirms subscribing to one or both.
Mike was built as a direct challenge to their iron grip, according to its founder #WilliamChen, a former #JuniorLawyer at top-ranked US law firm Latham & Watkins, who used existing #AITools to #VibeCode” his new app.”
Cheap to use. No maintenance, support, documentation or verification that it works. Law is by definition cautious and regressive. Some law firm will try it, fail and be pushed out of an Industry where reputation to win comes before price.
#AI / #LegalSoftware <https://archive.md/mXr0t> / (paywall) <https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/meet-mike-the-free-ai-for-lawyers-that-might-blow-up-a-23bn-sector-20260506-p5zudj>
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“In contrast, #Mike is #OpenSource #software meaning it is free to download and customise. It also means that using the software carries #security and #liability #risks, potentially deterring #law firms from using the tool.
Worth $15 billion and $8 billion, respectively, #Harvey and #Legora have come to dominate the legal corner of the AI universe, with all of #Australia’s top eight #LawFirms subscribing to one or both.
Mike was built as a direct challenge to their iron grip, according to its founder #WilliamChen, a former #JuniorLawyer at top-ranked US law firm Latham & Watkins, who used existing #AITools to #VibeCode” his new app.”
Cheap to use. No maintenance, support, documentation or verification that it works. Law is by definition cautious and regressive. Some law firm will try it, fail and be pushed out of an Industry where reputation to win comes before price.
#AI / #LegalSoftware <https://archive.md/mXr0t> / (paywall) <https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/meet-mike-the-free-ai-for-lawyers-that-might-blow-up-a-23bn-sector-20260506-p5zudj>
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“In contrast, #Mike is #OpenSource #software meaning it is free to download and customise. It also means that using the software carries #security and #liability #risks, potentially deterring #law firms from using the tool.
Worth $15 billion and $8 billion, respectively, #Harvey and #Legora have come to dominate the legal corner of the AI universe, with all of #Australia’s top eight #LawFirms subscribing to one or both.
Mike was built as a direct challenge to their iron grip, according to its founder #WilliamChen, a former #JuniorLawyer at top-ranked US law firm Latham & Watkins, who used existing #AITools to #VibeCode” his new app.”
Cheap to use. No maintenance, support, documentation or verification that it works. Law is by definition cautious and regressive. Some law firm will try it, fail and be pushed out of an Industry where reputation to win comes before price.
#AI / #LegalSoftware <https://archive.md/mXr0t> / (paywall) <https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/meet-mike-the-free-ai-for-lawyers-that-might-blow-up-a-23bn-sector-20260506-p5zudj>
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Mining harm and liability
"Brazil’s worst environmental disaster unleashed a wave of toxic sludge that killed 19 people, left thousands homeless, flooded forests and polluted the length of the Doce River. BHP cannot appeal against ruling it is liable for 2015 dam collapse" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/may/07/royal-commission-antisemitism-budget-cost-of-living-jim-chalmers-anthony-albanese-tax-islamic-state-families-syria-ntwnfbMariana dam disaster >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_dam_disasterBHP found liable in transnational claim over Brazil’s Fundão dam collapse >>
https://www.hrlc.org.au/case-summaries/municipio-de-mariana-v-bhp-group/
#mining #extractivism #liability #disaster #pollution #rivers #watercourses #contamination #environment #harm #MiningWaste #TailingsDam -
Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs
#HackerNews #Utah #VPN #law #website #liability #age #verification #privacy
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World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels,
Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’* "While the timing of the announcement – amid the US-Israel war on Iran – is coincidental, Figueres said the fuel crisis was “dramatic proof” of the global dependence on fossil fuels that is driving geopolitical instability and the health impacts the commission will examine."
“Companies should understand for their business continuation, they should reduce emissions. Governments should understand that in order for them to stabilise their economy, and protect their people, they should reduce emissions...I just think that enlightened self-interest based on scientific facts – which is what the commission is going to put forward – is a much more effective route to emission reductions than a legally binding agreement from which anybody can withdraw.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2026/apr/08/world-held-hostage-reliance-fossil-fuels-health-christiana-figueres* Sea-level rise is a health crisis and we must hold polluters accountable >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/sea-level-rise-health-crisis-christiana-figueres
#FossilFuel #climate #war #harm #oil #petrol #SeaLevelRise #coast #Pacific #inequality #ClimateCrisis #PolyCrisis #MobilityDesign #cars #accountability #liability -
"Liability" is a poignant ballad by Lorde, featured on her critically acclaimed 2017 album, "Melodrama." The live performance on "Saturday Night Live" showcases her raw emotionality and vocal prowess, bringing the song's themes of vulnerability and self-acceptance to life. The stripped-back arrangement allows Lorde's heartfelt lyrics to resonate deeply, as she reflects on feelings of isolation and the complexities of identity.
#Pop #Lorde #Liability #live #mypdns
https://tube.matrix.rocks/videos/watch/1df696ae-b49f-4988-b94e-b7234913d498
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https://theconversation.com/meta-and-google-just-lost-a-landmark-social-media-addiction-case-a-tech-law-expert-explains-the-fallout-278409. "The #jury heard that Meta’s internal communications compared the platform’s effects to pushing #drugs & #gambling. The jury found this internal awareness was the kind of corporate knowledge that supports #liability." In other words, the bastards knew what they were doing, & went ahead & did it anyway!
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EFF To Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/11/eff-to-court-dont-make-embedding-illegal/
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability
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Animal friendly infrastructure - Road ecology
"Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, yet we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. While roads are so ubiquitous they’re practically invisible to us, wild animals experience them as entirely alien forces of death and disruption. , the harms of highways extend far beyond roadkill. "
Ben Goldfarb, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet >>
https://www.bengoldfarb.com/crossingsCrossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping The Future of Our Planet with Ben Goldfarb >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVkw0fOslck
#biodiversity #wildlife #habitat #roads #highways #NegativeExternalities #Infrastructure #cars #vehicles #crashes #liability #tyres #RoadEcology #RoadKill #signage #fencing #weeds #pollution #LoggingImpacts #mobility #animals #MigratorySpecies #access #barriers #FreewayWalls #crossings #ExtinctionCrisis -
Banks "LOANS"-Is it a SCAM?AustraliasBig4.
Loans without Applying ?? Australian Banks.
Is it a SCAM ? How can you be liable for a bank loan you DID NOT apply for?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xiolDv1wwjo____
#australia #banking #government #scam #bankloans #commbank #commonwealthbankofaustralia #ANZBank #legal #justice #whistleblower #liability #loans #big4 #regulation #accountability #business -
Ways an "AI" LLM is trying to kill you today, part 37:
An article on maintaining and repairing your hydraulic jack (trolley jack, bottle jack) recommended using a good water-based fluid to refill your jack.
Great job, everybody!
#AI #LLM #slop #danger #dangerous #kill #liability #safety #AYFKMRN #GreatJob #shop #tool #ShopTools
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Ways an "AI" LLM is trying to kill you today, part 37:
An article on maintaining and repairing your hydraulic jack (trolley jack, bottle jack) recommended using a good water-based fluid to refill your jack.
Great job, everybody!
#AI #LLM #slop #danger #dangerous #kill #liability #safety #AYFKMRN #GreatJob #shop #tool #ShopTools
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Ways an "AI" LLM is trying to kill you today, part 37:
An article on maintaining and repairing your hydraulic jack (trolley jack, bottle jack) recommended using a good water-based fluid to refill your jack.
Great job, everybody!
#AI #LLM #slop #danger #dangerous #kill #liability #safety #AYFKMRN #GreatJob #shop #tool #ShopTools
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Ways an "AI" LLM is trying to kill you today, part 37:
An article on maintaining and repairing your hydraulic jack (trolley jack, bottle jack) recommended using a good water-based fluid to refill your jack.
Great job, everybody!
#AI #LLM #slop #danger #dangerous #kill #liability #safety #AYFKMRN #GreatJob #shop #tool #ShopTools
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Ways an "AI" LLM is trying to kill you today, part 37:
An article on maintaining and repairing your hydraulic jack (trolley jack, bottle jack) recommended using a good water-based fluid to refill your jack.
Great job, everybody!
#AI #LLM #slop #danger #dangerous #kill #liability #safety #AYFKMRN #GreatJob #shop #tool #ShopTools
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Farmers ‘very worried’ as US pesticide firms push to bar cancer diagnoses lawsuits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/pesticide-lawsuits-cancer-gag-act
Pesticide company efforts to push through ‘Cancer Gag Act’ laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.
#Malfeasance #Death #Profit #USA #Pesticide #Corporate #GagOrder #Liability #Iowa #EPA #Corruption #Lives #Health #Food
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#Flooding is a challenge affecting everything from economic security, to drinking water & the pursuit of truth & reconciliation. #Canada must adapt to the urgent risks posed by worsening floods. Luckily, numerous pathways exist for individual #Canadians to engage in #CollectiveActions to protect ourselves & our communities.
#ClimateChange is shifting how water moves through landscapes both in our #communities & around the globe. #Information & #awareness is key in this world of changing conditions. However, a 2022 #audit of #FloodRisk preparedness in #Ontario reported that public awareness of personal flood risk & #liability is poor across the province.
Many Canadians are just one bad storm away from an unmitigated watery #disaster. Floods are the most expensive & most frequent type of #NaturalHazard in Canada. An analysis of #insurance solutions for flood risk found that current residential flood risk in Canada is estimated at $2.9 billion per year.
#NatureBased #CommunityDriven #solutions have huge potential to address gaps in #infrastructure, promote resilience & build #ecological knowledge—often at a much reduced cost than traditional hard solutions like seawalls or embankments.
#GreenInfrastructure can also be highly effective along #watercourses where, once established, vegetation helps to filter surface #pollutants, stabilize #erosion & prevent surges of water from spilling over.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nature-based-solutions-effective.html
#CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #ProtectGreenspaces #SaveGreenbelts #CreateGreenspaces #GreenSolutions
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#Flooding is a challenge affecting everything from economic security, to drinking water & the pursuit of truth & reconciliation. #Canada must adapt to the urgent risks posed by worsening floods. Luckily, numerous pathways exist for individual #Canadians to engage in #CollectiveActions to protect ourselves & our communities.
#ClimateChange is shifting how water moves through landscapes both in our #communities & around the globe. #Information & #awareness is key in this world of changing conditions. However, a 2022 #audit of #FloodRisk preparedness in #Ontario reported that public awareness of personal flood risk & #liability is poor across the province.
Many Canadians are just one bad storm away from an unmitigated watery #disaster. Floods are the most expensive & most frequent type of #NaturalHazard in Canada. An analysis of #insurance solutions for flood risk found that current residential flood risk in Canada is estimated at $2.9 billion per year.
#NatureBased #CommunityDriven #solutions have huge potential to address gaps in #infrastructure, promote resilience & build #ecological knowledge—often at a much reduced cost than traditional hard solutions like seawalls or embankments.
#GreenInfrastructure can also be highly effective along #watercourses where, once established, vegetation helps to filter surface #pollutants, stabilize #erosion & prevent surges of water from spilling over.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nature-based-solutions-effective.html
#CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #ProtectGreenspaces #SaveGreenbelts #CreateGreenspaces #GreenSolutions
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#Flooding is a challenge affecting everything from economic security, to drinking water & the pursuit of truth & reconciliation. #Canada must adapt to the urgent risks posed by worsening floods. Luckily, numerous pathways exist for individual #Canadians to engage in #CollectiveActions to protect ourselves & our communities.
#ClimateChange is shifting how water moves through landscapes both in our #communities & around the globe. #Information & #awareness is key in this world of changing conditions. However, a 2022 #audit of #FloodRisk preparedness in #Ontario reported that public awareness of personal flood risk & #liability is poor across the province.
Many Canadians are just one bad storm away from an unmitigated watery #disaster. Floods are the most expensive & most frequent type of #NaturalHazard in Canada. An analysis of #insurance solutions for flood risk found that current residential flood risk in Canada is estimated at $2.9 billion per year.
#NatureBased #CommunityDriven #solutions have huge potential to address gaps in #infrastructure, promote resilience & build #ecological knowledge—often at a much reduced cost than traditional hard solutions like seawalls or embankments.
#GreenInfrastructure can also be highly effective along #watercourses where, once established, vegetation helps to filter surface #pollutants, stabilize #erosion & prevent surges of water from spilling over.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nature-based-solutions-effective.html
#CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #ProtectGreenspaces #SaveGreenbelts #CreateGreenspaces #GreenSolutions
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#Flooding is a challenge affecting everything from economic security, to drinking water & the pursuit of truth & reconciliation. #Canada must adapt to the urgent risks posed by worsening floods. Luckily, numerous pathways exist for individual #Canadians to engage in #CollectiveActions to protect ourselves & our communities.
#ClimateChange is shifting how water moves through landscapes both in our #communities & around the globe. #Information & #awareness is key in this world of changing conditions. However, a 2022 #audit of #FloodRisk preparedness in #Ontario reported that public awareness of personal flood risk & #liability is poor across the province.
Many Canadians are just one bad storm away from an unmitigated watery #disaster. Floods are the most expensive & most frequent type of #NaturalHazard in Canada. An analysis of #insurance solutions for flood risk found that current residential flood risk in Canada is estimated at $2.9 billion per year.
#NatureBased #CommunityDriven #solutions have huge potential to address gaps in #infrastructure, promote resilience & build #ecological knowledge—often at a much reduced cost than traditional hard solutions like seawalls or embankments.
#GreenInfrastructure can also be highly effective along #watercourses where, once established, vegetation helps to filter surface #pollutants, stabilize #erosion & prevent surges of water from spilling over.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nature-based-solutions-effective.html
#CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #ProtectGreenspaces #SaveGreenbelts #CreateGreenspaces #GreenSolutions
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#Flooding is a challenge affecting everything from economic security, to drinking water & the pursuit of truth & reconciliation. #Canada must adapt to the urgent risks posed by worsening floods. Luckily, numerous pathways exist for individual #Canadians to engage in #CollectiveActions to protect ourselves & our communities.
#ClimateChange is shifting how water moves through landscapes both in our #communities & around the globe. #Information & #awareness is key in this world of changing conditions. However, a 2022 #audit of #FloodRisk preparedness in #Ontario reported that public awareness of personal flood risk & #liability is poor across the province.
Many Canadians are just one bad storm away from an unmitigated watery #disaster. Floods are the most expensive & most frequent type of #NaturalHazard in Canada. An analysis of #insurance solutions for flood risk found that current residential flood risk in Canada is estimated at $2.9 billion per year.
#NatureBased #CommunityDriven #solutions have huge potential to address gaps in #infrastructure, promote resilience & build #ecological knowledge—often at a much reduced cost than traditional hard solutions like seawalls or embankments.
#GreenInfrastructure can also be highly effective along #watercourses where, once established, vegetation helps to filter surface #pollutants, stabilize #erosion & prevent surges of water from spilling over.
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-nature-based-solutions-effective.html
#CDNpoli #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #NatureBasedSolutions #ProtectGreenspaces #SaveGreenbelts #CreateGreenspaces #GreenSolutions
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One of the problems with trying to hold the builders responsible is that the terrible ones you would actually need to sue tend to "recycle" their business every year or two. They may still be operating, maybe even the same name, but it's a different corporation, and the old one is kaput with no assets to make a claim against.
At least in Canada, anyways.
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The campaign of Gov. Ron #DeSantis of Florida made two payments last quarter, totaling more than $480,000, for “travel” to a company in Athens, Ga. The company was set up around the time he entered the race, and lists Paul Kilgore — a Republican political operative — as a manager.
Neither Mr. Kilgore nor the DeSantis campaign responded to requests for comment.
Former President Donald J. #Trump’s 2020 campaign was the subject of litigation over its use of #limited #liability companies run by campaign staff and family members that were allegedly #conduits for hundreds of millions of dollars of spending. His campaign defended the practice, saying the intermediary companies were acting as the primary vendors.
“The idea of disclosing payments in this way defeats the whole purpose of campaign finance disclosure law,” said Saurav Ghosh, a former F.E.C. lawyer and the director of federal campaign finance reform for the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit campaign ethics group that sued the F.E.C. over the 2020 Trump campaign’s actions.
He added, “It’s been a problem for a while, but like most that go on unaddressed, it has a tendency to get worse, and I think this one is getting worse.” -
The Federal Election Commission has allowed committees to not itemize subvendor payments when those payments are an extension of the original vendor’s work.
But in recent years, this interpretation of the law has widened into a gaping #loophole that campaigns are exploiting.
Experts say it is illegal for campaigns to pay campaign staff members through #limited #liability companies, or for vendors to serve merely as #conduits to hide the ultimate recipient of campaign money.
In recent years, the #FEC., whose six commissioners are #deadlocked between the parties three to three, has essentially allowed campaigns to get away with minimal disclosures.
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Another German Court Says The DNS Service Quad9 Is Implicated In Any Copyright Infringement At The Domains It Resolves
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/08/another-german-court-says-the-dns-service-quad9-is-implicated-in-any-copyright-infringement-at-the-domains-it-resolves/
#eucopyrightdirective #digitalservicesact #switzerland #sonymusic #article17 #copyright #felixreda #liability #germany #hamburg #leipzig #quad9 #wifi #dns -
Another German Court Says The DNS Service Quad9 Is Implicated In Any Copyright Infringement At The Domains It Resolves
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/08/another-german-court-says-the-dns-service-quad9-is-implicated-in-any-copyright-infringement-at-the-domains-it-resolves/
#eucopyrightdirective #digitalservicesact #switzerland #sonymusic #article17 #copyright #felixreda #liability #germany #hamburg #leipzig #quad9 #wifi #dns
