I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

This fed me more than all my meals last week

A Man and His Meat Boy kibble went viral. Here, John Paul Brammer explains why you'll have to pry his dry, loose meat from his cold, dead hands.

In my latest for Playboy, I wrote about meat, masculinity, and "boy kibble," the trend of men eating a pack of unseasoned ground beef for dinner. I argue it's the perfect meal to illustrate the isolation and nihilism in our ultra-capitalist system www.playboy.com/read/lifesty...

Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.

They're calling it the best democracy ever.

www.ft.com/content/7529...

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

SUCH a Good Boy

On this date in 1918 Eugene Debs gave one of his most famous speeches, one that would see him imprisoned. welcometohellworld.com/you-who-have-your-lives-...

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.”

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):

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

And you’re correct

'All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory': video shows employee setting fire to Kimberly Clark warehouse in Southern California, destroying it completely

If Kellogg's proposed a bill that would limit their liability for any genocides caused by Corn Flakes, the entire company should be dissolved and a full scale investigation launched into whatever the hell they were doing with Corn Flakes.

OpenAI is telling on itself.

www.wired.com/story/openai...

Psst, hey kid, wanna see some good news?

Jesse Singal: “I mean, just look at my whole career! It’s homegrown obsession and transphobia, not a grift!”

If Amy Klobuchar has the audacity to ask me for money, I should be able to tell her personally to fly into the sun.

😆

The main thing that pisses me off about fundraising texts is that they can somehow text ME directly on my personal number, but I can’t directly text them back to fuck off.

Sure seems like there’s a lot of Dems who I’ve never heard from before who want money from me to keep doing nothing.

Remember that guy a few months ago who tried to use chatgpt to tell if it was day outside, and racked up an enormous bill because it was polling the server like every 30 seconds to see if it was day yet

Capitalism incentivizes losing every last shred of your humanity.

Today is a great day to check out Philosophy Tube's investigation into conversion therapy.

Microsoft, to its billions of customers:

You must use this product to be hired or promoted.

It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy.

You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it.

It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)”

You have eternity to be dead so just wait I don't particularly care what happens to them

Unbelievably great @lukeoneil47.bsky.social post from 2018 about the death of Kurt Cobain.

'Yes, bitch, I want to be dead too but you can’t do it. You have eternity to be dead so just wait like everyone else there is no point in rushing to be dead.'

www.welcometohellworld.com/you-have-ete...

John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. Not my photo.

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

Jesus fucking Christ I’m so glad I got out of teaching when I did.

YEP. And also:

bsky.app/profile/john...

Granted, being forced to partake in society instead of just leeching off of it feels like violence to the ultra-rich.

I truly think that so many rich people would be less insufferable if they were actually PART of the world.

Not living like an actual person makes you less of one.

“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.” — Everyone Into The Grinder (https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder)

I'm reminded of this exerpt: