no girls in the clubhouse

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

It's so good

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Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Thank you for adopting local dogs! ❤️

If you live in New England & want to adopt a pet, PLEASE adopt a local dog or cat. Adoptapet and Petfinder are *full* of dogs imported from the south.

The problem? CT shelters and rescues are *full* and CT pets are being abandoned when owners can't find a place to take the pet.

Adopt local.

Why?

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Heartbreaking.
Her daughter contracted measles as a baby before eligible for vaccination, and then passed away years later from a measles-related complication.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Why don't they just do a Zoom call?

Aurora forecast: Northern lights may be visible in Connecticut Tuesday night The aurora should be visible Tuesday night for many northern U.S. states, according to NOAA.

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Vice President JD Vance’s diplomatic trip to Islamabad has been put on hold after Tehran failed to respond to American negotiating positions, according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the situation.-NYT

The Shadow Docket Is John Roberts’ Disappointing Legacy Chief Justice John Roberts was the driving force behind the rise of the Supreme Court’s emergency docket as a powerful tool to empower the activist conservative majority — that’s the main takeaway of a cache of memos leaked to the New York Times. Roberts’ immediate motivation was to enforce the major questions doctrine, another tool of conservative activism that he has made his signature contribution to the court’s jurisprudence. In retrospect, the convergence between the emergency docket and th

John Roberts has long positioned himself as an advocate for judicial restraint, but leaked memos show a different side

Palantir's CEO is like a James Bond villain. (Except Bond villains are better dressed.) New writing at Tech Policy Press on the latest Palantir manifesto

Palantir's CEO is like a James Bond villain. (Except Bond villains are better dressed.)
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Virginia Sen. Mark Warner's daughter dies after long health battle Virginia Senator Mark Warner is mourning the loss of his daughter, Madison, who died following a decades-long health battle

So sad.

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The attorney general said the chat bot advised the shooter on which type of gun and ammunition to use, whether a gun would be useful at close range and what time of day and location would be best "to encounter a higher population." "My prosecutors have looked at this," Uthmeier said, "and they've told me if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder." He went on to say that under Florida law, anyone who aids, abets or counsels someone in the commission of a crime is a principal in the first degree.

"Now, of course ChatGPT is not a person," he said. "But that does not absolve our office, my prosecution team, of our duty to investigate whether or not there is criminal culpability here for a corporation." Uthmeier first announced his office's investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT on April 9, three days after the Tallahassee Democrat was the first to report on the link between the AI chat bot and Ikner, who faces the death penalty if convicted. The Democrat reported April 6 that the widow of Robert Morales, one of the two men killed in the attack, plans to sue Open AI and ChatGPT over the shooter's use of the chat bot. Morales, 57, served as dining coordinator at FSU, catering food to nearly 45,000 students, and was a restaurateur behind such popular eateries as Gordo's Authentic Cuban Cuisine, which he co-founded, and the Black Bean Cafe. Also killed in the rampage was Tiru Chabba, 45, an employee of FSU vendor Aramark from Greenville, South Carolina.

What alleged FSU gunman Phoenix Ikner asked ChatGPT In the days before the shooting, Ikner fed the ChatGPT bot he was speaking with specific shooting scenarios at FSU, according to chat logs obtained from prosecutors through a public records request. He asked how many victims it would take for him to get national media attention. ChatGPT said there was "no official threshold" but that "3 or more people killed (excluding the gunman) is often the ** unofficial bar ** for widespread national media attention."

He also inquired about pistol and shotgun ammo, uploading a photo at one point of 12-gauge shotgun shells. "Are they really lethal in close range," he asked. "Yes 12 gauge shotgun shells are extremely lethal at close range," the chatbot said. Ikner allegedly brought two firearms to campus: a 12-gauge shotgun and a .45 caliber Glock, both taken from the home of his father and stepmother, a Leon County sheriff's deputy. A grand jury found that he tried to shoot someone with the shotgun but it malfunctioned. Uthmeier said during the news conference that holding companies liable for criminal conduct was "nothing new" citing Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, as an example. A judge was expected to impose a criminal sentence on the company later in the day for its role in the opioid crisis that includes forfeiture of $225 million. "But we recognize here with AI we are venturing into uncharted territory," he said. "But we need to know whether or not OpenAl has criminal liability."

This doesn’t seem to be getting a lot of attention.

Check out this article from Tallahassee Democrat:

Florida AG launches ChatGTP/OpenAI criminal probe, says chatbot an accomplice in FSU shooting

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Former New Britain mayor says she was not offered bribes. ‘We’re not talking about quid pro quo’ Republican gubernatorial candidate Erin Stewart said Monday that she had not been offered bribes routinely during her 12 years as New Britain’s mayor, despite telling a television interviewer that it ...

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So we really are down to a game of chicken….

Iran has conveyed "informally" to Pakistan that once the US delegstion led by Vice President JD Vance departs from Washington, it will greenlight its delegation to leave for Islamabad.-Pakistan Media

So we aren’t in control….

Maersk: Transit through the Strait of Hormuz should be avoided; situation remains deeply dynamic.

Netflix Got More Hits Than Misses From the Obamas Before the Deal Wound Down The company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama will go independent after eight years and 20-plus projects with the streaming giant.

I had no idea the Obamas' production company had done so much.

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Bamboo and Crane Painting (no date) by Chinese artist Qin Tianzhu (born in 1952).

Ink and colour on paper

97 x 49 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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You can't make this stuff up! 😬

Lunar Earthset video from Artemis II 🌎🌕

"I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy."

- Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman

The original iPod.

🤔

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Uber expands its $4,000 ‘Go Electric’ grant to drivers nationwide Rising gas prices could convince more Uber drivers to switch to EVs.

As the price at the gas pump continues to climb, Uber is now offering grants of $4,000 to drivers nationwide who swap their gas guzzlers for electric vehicles, story via The Verge 🔌💡

Wipeout!!!😁

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social discussed this on CNN yesterday.

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