Those are so beautiful ❤️

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.

Love my ebike. Range extender, hill flattener, grocery cart, overnight bag and a bottle of wine schlepper. (It’s also cheating to use an electric toothbrush 😉 )

Sorry, what?

That’s bonkers. How would they even be able to force someone to wear hi viz gear? Surveillance cameras at their front doors, track their route, arrest pedestrians on certain roads?

I didn’t know the documentary had been buried so effectively. But I remember it quite clearly, and long before that, Bashir’s interview was definitive. I can’t listen to any of the music much beyond the Jackson 5. Thanks for writing about it.

I really feel like that’s coming. Too much “I’m so modest and handsome and ambitious.” Just the wrong vibes, imho.

Over here in Victoria the signs on the multi use path say “use bell or voice to pass.” Calmly saying “coming up on your left” and slowing as the pedestrian registers that works great. No one gets startled, and I’m not in that much of a hurry that I’d be yelling from farther back. Bells optional!

An action figure of Jessica Fletcher from the tv show Murder She Wrote.

My sister got me the greatest birthday present ever!

Butlerian Jihad looking pretty good now.

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):

It’s to be 250 feet tall, dwarfing everything around it. He’s not being subtle about the references. The committees won’t stop the project, the rest is how much gold he uses, how many eagles. (🇦🇹🇨🇦 here 🤢)

So much sexier and cheaper than a single highway interchange 😍🚲🚲🚲

Strange days.

Where Does Publishing’s A.I. Problem Leave Authors and Readers?

It won’t solve the problem, but ensuring that book editors have ample time to thoroughly edit every single book on their lists would help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/b...

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.

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I’ll get right on that.

Getting out so far ahead of a story that you make the story? What could possibly go wrong.

I do live here and this is absolutely the plan. It’s sunny and warm today, blossom time.

I don’t even know.

lol, ok, I’ll get right on that.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

Trump: Tune in at 8pm eastern to watch me destroy the world. Will be grand!

Who will tell this man “No”? Americans, you could. But you have built your society on the idea that rich white men cannot be told no. What violence will you commit to others and yourselves to hold that lie?

The man who watches Trump all day, every day Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’

Friend of the show @atrupar.com gets the LONG OVERDUE press he deserves, talking about his great service to America. He watches Trump more than MAGA does! @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

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On April 5, 1958, Ripple Rock in Seymour Narrows was destroyed using 1,300 tons of explosives to make the area safer for ships.
The explosion sent debris 300 metres into the air and moved 635,000 metric tons of rock and water.

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I never understand this. Give me tools to doing the boring repetitive work, and let me have more time on the creative problem-solving work. But no, they’re coming for our art.

Countries with Birthright Citizenship 2026 Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.

No, most countries do not have birthright citizenship. It’s mostly in the Americas, including the US, Canada and Mexico. Other countries without it create an underclass of people who live and work there but can never become full citizens.
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Even faster than voting for it.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.