Flutterby™! (short)

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK — FLYCATCHER CORP. LTD and FLYCATCHER TOYS, INC., Plaintiffs, -v.- AFFABLE AVENUE LLC, doing business as CJ DIST; OZMOS COMPANY LLC; EYTAN GROSSMAN, doing business as EYG DEALS; CREATIVE REWARDS INC.; JOSHUA CHAVEZ, doing business as ONESTOPFASTSHOP; TOP EXPERIENCE COMPANY LLC, doing business as WE PAY COST LLC; PRETTY PRINCESS LLC, doing business as NORVI; AYANEE LLC; FORTUNA KG LLC, doing business as FORTUNAKG; JAXSON MANAGEMENT LLC; JOAN ALEXANDER SORIANO, doing business as PRIMECHOICEMART; A WAHABI CORPORATION, doing business as MCPROFITS; MODA ORIGINAL LLC; VALLEY BODEGA WHOLESALE INC.; EYAD WAHBY; SAM SHAMLOO; S&N GLOBAL SUPPLY INC.; VALUE VALLEY WHOLESALE LLC; ADAM HAMIDA; and JOHN DOES 1 to 25, Defendants.

The whole thing is delicious, it's a lawyer repeatedly fucking himself up by depending on Google search and LLMs.

On August 22, 2025, the Court held a conference to discuss Mr. Feldman’s conduct. It set out to understand how his citation errors came to be and to what extent he used AI assistance to generate his submissions to the Court. The Court began by placing Mr. Feldman under oath (Dkt. #223 (“Tr.”) at 4-5) and then proceeded to ask him a series of questions.

Via.

SuspectFile: Assault on Independent Journalism: Unfounded Legal Attacks over the Black Basta Investigation

In which the SuspectFile folks go through entirely too much effort and energy to demonstrate to The Hacker News’ law firm, Dennemeyer & Associates, that they're full of shit and need to stop with the false copyright claims.

This kinda stuff is why fraudulent DMCA claims really need some teeth. Pulling stunts like this really needs to hurt the fraudsters enough that it's a career limiting maneuver.

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OMG, I'm giggling out loud here... Global Nerdy: Claude’s Super Bowl ads are so funny that Sam Altman’s crashing out over them collects the mentioned ads, and... I'll link the YouTube versions here for posterity, but the essay collects them in a handy format.

• Treachery
• Deception
• Violation
• Betrayal

Oh, look, another data breach notification. How many decades of "free credit monitoring" are we up to now?

(Second prize is *two* years of credit monitor... Oh, who are we kidding, permission for yet another entity to mine my personal data for marketing.)