Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”
GOOD MORNING FROM THE TRAIN!! It’s a chilly spring morning here in PA and a wonderful day to CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION!! There’s less than 2 weeks left to register or update your registration to your new name, address, or party!! Vote.pa.gov!! Make that voice heard baby!! It’s up to us! LFG!
Another @rainesford.bsky.social banger in @slate.com: Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork. slate.com/business/202...
Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.
They found one. One.
And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.
“Recently, I’ve been spending far too much of my time doing cost-benefit analyses of various inconveniences. I want to embrace minor discomforts if doing so can make me feel even slightly more alive and engaged in the world.” Everything Hanif Abdurraqib writes is extraordinary:
oh wow you’re telling me that jd vance follows yet another nazi on twitter
In my personal newsletter this week: A convo with @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social about her strategy & experience in bringing down Eric Swalwell, plus some initial thoughts on the role content creators play in politics right now. amandalitman.substack.com/p/the-influe...
"The only ones who really lost out were America’s wealthiest citizens, who had to give up their plutocratic control over government. In our current revival of the Gilded Age, they now hope to restore it with Thomas’s help."
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GOOD MORNING FROM THE TRAIN!! It’s Friday!! The weekend approacheth!! It’s Go Outside Weather and yall need to get OUTSIDE!! Go get some ice cream and leave your phone at home!! See what’s goin on at the library!! Pop by a Record Store Day performance!! Create culture! Do community!! It’s up to us!!
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
Forgive me, I have a take: Geese is good! I listen to "getting killed" often! Culture on the internet is over though. We gotta rebuild culture with people we know IRL. Online Hype is a commodity, but sharing an album with your friends is forever. Local concerts! House Parties! Explore offline!
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):
This really captures how Twitter is just not at all what it was pre-Musk.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yaaaaay!! Happy Monday!!
*Nkrumah laser eyes.jpg*
It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.
Good morning from the train! It’s Monday in Pennsylvania once again and I remain on cloud 9 from a weekend of festivities!! Local concert! Pilates around the corner from my house! Repair fair! Clothing swap! Activities fair! Ice cream date! I love spring, I love side quests, I love community! LFG!
Oh no your fraud investigation that coincidentally was in a blue state turned out to be completely bogus?
“i hope you meet jd vance” is about to become an actionable threat
Not to be the friend that’s too woke but ever since I read @lizpelly.bsky.social’s book about Spotify’s insidious plan to take over the culture, this humiliation ritual artists have to do in Times Square really makes me so sad
I like to call this French Textbook Cover Diversity and it’s just me and my neighbors doin anything ever in the world
handout photo of Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, wearing a white button down, with flowers behind him.
ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to.
Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Think you can't make a difference against ICE in your small town?
Think again.
montclairlocal.news/2026/04/mont...
My boy @jamellebouie.net said YALL GOTTA GO TO STUFF!!! There is no path to community that doesn’t include LEAVING DA CRIB and TALKING TO YOUR NEIGHBORS!!! There is real political value in chatting up the people in the park or in line for coffee!! Community is a VERB!! The Go To Stuff agenda lives!!
They put a warning label on rap albums.
The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB
GOOD MORNING FROM THE TRAIN!! At long last it’s Friday!! I have a weekend full of fairs ahead of me!! Tomorrow I’m stopping by the Lancaster Repair Fair to get a hoodie fixed for my husband!! Sunday I’m going to the Philly Activities Fair to meet the Stuff To Do Fair’s city cousin! GO TO STUFF! LFG!
I’m putting together a summer mood board
