Hoping this leads to a renaissance of music videos featuring sports bloopers

You can't really compare AI to previous tech advancements and new gadgets, because never before has something so flawed and ineffective been thrust in so many people's faces, never before has a product that doesn't work had the entire economy hinging on it before it was even fully released.

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

remember this out of no where in the shower this morning and had a big laugh

Whales have language similar to us, but chose not to talk to us after learning we named them stuff like "humpback" and "sperm."

This is so Dot Com Bubble coded it's gonna cause 9/11 2

all due respect but i do not think shepherds know what pie is

Science literacy rates are at an all time low

"social contract strained to breaking" says young members of the social contract breaking party.

Votes against renters,Votes against workers,Votes against people with disabilities,Votes for corps over Ireland but the min he sees he's claiming more on fuel...
These fuckwits are embarrassing.

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate.

Taxing billionaires is not radical.

What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

🧵 I grew up when the BBC >tried< to be neutral & unbiased*. We knew it wasn’t on Northern Ireland, but on many other things, particularly foreign reporting, it was better than Irish state TV. In the past decade it has been so interfered with that it’s now a vehicle for conspiracy & pseudoscience [1]

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

Police officers stand in the street, as tractors block Dublin's O'Connell Street, as part of a protest over the high cost of fuel that clogged up busy thoroughfares and motorways across Ireland for a second successive day, in Dublin, Ireland April 8, 2026

The meta, Meta and meaning of the Irish fuel protests - a longish read about what more than 20 years of studying and covering the far right has taught me about these political moments.
#speirgorm
philipoconnor.com/the-meta-met...

The principal function of journalism is to hold power to account. The BBC, by contrast, is going out of its way to persecute the powerless.

In which case we get into the absurd situation that the German government are proposing that the ability to exercise one's speech & assembly rights depends on signing up to the German government’s list of which countries are naughty and which are nice.

The real reason Vance thinks he knows more than the pope on Catholicism is the reason he thinks he knows more than everyone in everything: the malignant effects of Yale Law School

A man looking at a map on his phone with a cape of solar panels

Aldi is selling wearable solar panels in case you were wondering how close to the apocalypse we are.

I’m sorry but the rest of your life is going to be spent finding out about some new weird annoying guy, and then finding out he died

The phrase "The mother of all ______" was introduced into the English language by Saddam Hussein in the '90s.

very funny Hater Shit™️ in the complaints about the basic income scheme for the arts

I mean, we see the evidence around us every single day, but still, stark to see this so plainly in graph form.

Nicolai Tangen in . Following Chief Executive Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management 2w Top 10 Things I Learned from meeting CEOs in New York in November: Al Isn't Optional Anymore-But Adoption Is Hard Washington Is the New Full-Time Job The War for Talent Has Changed Innovation Is Creating "Winner-Take-Most" Markets Geography Matters More Than Ever The Employment Paradox Cybersecurity Is a Daily Battle We're Losing Quantum Computing Is Closer Than You Think CN China: From "Made in China" to "Invented in China" Hidden Risks in Private Credit 10 things from USA. 10 pages 1. Al Isn't Optional Anymore-But Adoption Is Hard Every CEO sees Al as fundamental to future competitiveness. The surprise? Internal resistance is fierce. They described the pattern perfectly: one-third of people embrace it immediately, one-third adopt after seeing results, and the final third resist. The solution? Remove the leaders of the resistant groups. The message is clear: Al adoption is now a leadership capability test. > 1/10 Tell Muenzing and 1,462 others 66 comments 63 reposts

A completely unhinged post from the head of Norway's oil fund: to hunt down the "leaders" of groups resisting AI implementation in companies and "remove" them

archive.ph/r0u2r

Major news organizations including The New York Times and USA Today are blocking the Wayback Machine while using it as a tool for their reporting. Attacks on the Internet Archive jeopardize Internet freedom, free speech, and data integrity.

Usha should be worried. Catholics only do this when they can't secure an annulment.

No protest movement can control a fringe element, but the amount of times I've heard "civil war", "traitors" and "revolution" mentioned has been worrying, as well as conspiracy theories re WEF/EU control, lockdowns, etc.

Let's think about this next time we talk about children and social media...

it goes like this
- the economy is strong
- no, there's a lot of money in the economy it's just going to 11 people
- yeah, that means the economy is going strong
- but 80% of us are struggling
- but on average the economy is strong
- gas prices are ten bucks and I can't afford rent
- (transphobia)

"The left has one job in the months ahead, and it is not to run their play from the other side of the pitch. It is to name what it would build, who it would build it with, and by what methods."

They are talking about the UK, but look where Ireland is!! 🙄⬇️

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):