Last weekend, the Organization of American Historians was in Philadelphia. My friend and I had a lot of fun joking about how we all musta looked to the other young twenty-somethings partying it up in Downtown Philly.
Cocaine Fish is how you get Cocaine Bear.
Ahem
Bipartisan support for policing and militarism—including at US borders—probably did more to pave the road to fascism than any other single phenomenon.
![It is plain that what the Democratic party has done is fund a massive expansion of policing and jailing that will be used by Trump to continue and expand the mechanisms for imprisoning, torturing, and deporting more people. Trump’s promised mass deportation will rely upon the network of immigrant detention facilities that Biden built in order to house the growing number of people Biden detained before Trump’s victory. And Trump has been very clear about what he intends to do with the law enforcement officers and the jails Democrats paid for — at an FOP conference, Trump said, “[W]e will give the heroes in blue the power to legally protect us and the respect that you deserve more than any other group of people.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:moejpt72sm743idbk3xc46mx/bafkreicv2kj5snu6rop63i72zul72oksdo3oe34p2fadi6vkmcsecgdfsy)
It is plain that what the Democratic party has done is fund a massive expansion of policing and jailing that will be used by Trump to continue and expand the mechanisms for imprisoning, torturing, and deporting more people. Trump’s promised mass deportation will rely upon the network of immigrant detention facilities that Biden built in order to house the growing number of people Biden detained before Trump’s victory. And Trump has been very clear about what he intends to do with the law enforcement officers and the jails Democrats paid for — at an FOP conference, Trump said, “[W]e will give the heroes in blue the power to legally protect us and the respect that you deserve more than any other group of people.”
One of the greatest failure of the "opposition" has been a constant drumbeat that police are a good solution when they themselves are telling us they support fascism.
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Found in the Densho Digital Repository
A photograph of a Japanese American woman and child at Searsville Lake in California. The woman, identified as "Mrs. Miyaki," recieves a kiss from a boy named Bobby. Captions in album: "Searsville Lake April 20, 1941" and "Mrs Miyaki - Bobby"
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
One day after JD Vance unveils “I will lecture the pope on religion,” Dave Chapelle pops the cork on “I had no idea Republicans were using my jokes the way literally everyone told me they were.”
Great stuff everyone.
I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on
TechCrunch's story about the new lawsuit v. OpenAI:
techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/s...
And more details from the SF Standard:
sfstandard.com/2026/04/13/w...
...as their AI use/fixation intensifies; delusions become wider-ranging over time; escalating abuse, harassment, and stalking ensues.
The pattern here is really striking: a current or former romantic partner turns to ChatGPT or another chatbot to analyze their relationship; becomes obsessed with drumming up these bizarre, one-sided, pseudo-therapeutic psychoanalyses of the other person; the chatbot user's mental health erodes...
Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.
![For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.”
Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”
Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.”
“He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fhnih5ovyd5w5pch254ordo2/bafkreidy34if6qaoxglmgyuqzd45qrtblapduetgu6y3m4vwuto6etcmem)
For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”
Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”
A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)
This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):
My stab at a usable history of our environmental present - plz read!!
An Onion headline reads: Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto.
Viktor Orban to join Harvard Institute of Politics.
In a sane world this would be completely disqualifying, and yet barely anybody has blinked an eye over it.
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birkenstocks imply the existence of birkenbonds, birkenberkshire birkenhathaway and birkenwarren birkenbuffett
[last supper]
Jesus: *raising chalice* let us sup
Judas: what's sup?
Jesus: Not much what's up with you lmao
Judas: this is the last straw
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.
King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
New on Knock: "I’ve been handed a tent and a ticket in the same exchange — the citation still warm from the printer"
Kaylee Dunson shares her experience of anti-homeless sweeps, and the failures of a policy that says "housing first" but treats visibility as a problem.
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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
Agree; it’s heartening to see @inquirer.com meeting the moment while serving the best city in the world.
I’m really excited to share that Made by History is partnering with @inquirer.com & will be publishing again soon.
Historians, pitch us at madebyhistory@inquirer.com.
Cat in bag.
Morning 😂
I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die
(And to Al Horford.)
This is hateful to Kevin Garnett.
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.
Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
trans woman: I am a woman and am taking fairly straightforward measures to establish that womanhood in my body and in the world
queer theorist: I agree, in the sense that no one is and everybody always was. the native. the totally other. a kind of drumbeat beyond time. similar to LSD. we are raving
we watched "the hunt for red october" and it was really fun!! i love submarines. stepdad greg called me a submarine sicko many times
