have we considered the possibility that the openly smash-and-grab long-term-consequences-be-damned mentality of the ruling class lately is because their advisors with good data have reason to believe long-term is such a different world they may as well go for it while society as we know it functions
Can you imagine the world we could build if people checked their egos at the door when they entered a room?
It's almost never about you. It's always about the world we could build for each other and our (speaking widely here) kids.
NEW: Two Palestinian-Canadian students and a Jewish faculty member are taking U of A to court for ordering police to disperse a pro-Palestine encampment in its Main Quad in 2024.
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YOU - What am I doing?
SHIVERS - Looking up at the sky, cold water dripping from your hair.
YOU - What do I see?
SHIVERS - Grey sky like great battleships, clouds colliding with one another. Rain falls down on the world.
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):
Not years lol weeks I am tired
I love that! Went to a masked "rave" a few years ago that had seats for people near the dance floor and there were definitely people working on their port de bras dancing while sitting! Love that!
If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious.
Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.
This obsession over upholding politeness and propriety over literally everything else is how we're all stuck in a death cult as the climate and ecosystem collapses around us. Tact is just not saying true stuff. Please stop admiring it to the point of being completely unable to face reality.
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we don't quite have the same issue with hospitals the usa does because the funding and management is so different, but as privatization increases in canadian provinces thanks to american insurance companies (or telus) lobbying the hells out of our govts, we gotta be aware of this shit it's coming
immediately otherwise no funding or charitable status!!!!!!!
Ive been going dancing too! I've become the awkward person who is both masked and trying to get shy people to dance which is not actually a departure from how I was in my very early twenties
So many people uplifting the Pope on my feed better be actively organizing every damn fucking day to get your churches to stop funding and allowing conversion therapy.
Banderole : une promesse est une promesse sauvez le PEQ
Une pancarte : assez de promesses brisées des actes maintenant pour nos familles
Depuis 5 ans au Québec. Ici c’est chez nous ne nous abandonnez pas
Le PEQ est équitable . On le veut Pas des chiffres, des familles
Retour sur notre manifestation du dimanche 12 avril (la 8e depuis nov 2025) pour le retour du PEQ.
La candidate Fréchette a fait une promesse, la première Ministre Fréchette doit la mettre en place ✌️
En immigration, nous avons suffisamment de promesses brisées pour ne plus en accepter aucune ✊🏽💙
Beyond this article's (very true) point - the media focus is always on the young kids, & rarely mentions us oldsters who didn't even have women's hockey as an option when we were little, but who have been there, watching and hoping and believing, as the sport has grown.
I'll be part of a Zoom panel with the New York Historical Society regarding the growth and increasing attention on the sport of hockey, from Heated Rivalry to the Olympics to the PWHL. You can register here: www.nyhistory.org/programs/pow...
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Remember when Canadaland broke important stories?
It would be interesting to know the details of Jesse Brown's LLM useage. There's stuff in this story (I could not make it through the ep, had a friend tell me a couple highlights) that really has me wondering.
Money for AI is just such a stupid waste and shows a government that is so idiotic that they've grabbed onto the first shiny bauble that was waved in front of their faces. Evan Solomon is far too cowardly and mediocre to deal with the tech sector.
Ask them what the business case is. There's none.
Read this whole thread. We basically elected Stephen Harper as Prime Minister again.
The other thing is that in a gig economy there is no degree that promises a good career anymore, not because you should have studied computer science or social media management instead of history or Russian literature, but because there are no careers
tag yourself i'm "unending torments"
Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...
NEW: I had some ~thoughts~ after attending last night’s PWHL game at TD Garden. “When do we stop asking players to “do it for her [insert photo of little girl in the stands]” & let them do it for themselves, simply because they want to be great?”
hey the bot did the one that's tattooed on me
Hi! Are you a PWHL fan who uses (or would use if there was access) assisted listening devices at games? If so, could you let me know which team’s games you attend and whether or not assisted listening devices have been available for you?
This obsession over upholding politeness and propriety over literally everything else is how we're all stuck in a death cult as the climate and ecosystem collapses around us. Tact is just not saying true stuff. Please stop admiring it to the point of being completely unable to face reality.
on s'est débarrassé de legault, on s'est débarrassé de drainville, il reste à finir la job et de se débarrasser de la caq
In a just society he would never be allowed to retire with his riches to a quiet life where he never has to be held accountable for what he has done to this province.