Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.

Woah this is an amazing website

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Thread. The tl,dr:

IF YOU SHOP AT TARGET, THEY MAY HAVE YOU ARRESTED.

Don't shop at Target.

hi! tube amps guy here to remind you that new tech isn't always better

the reason vacuum tubes are still used in audio is because a lot of people legitimately think they sound better, and there is science that proves that harmonic distortion from tubes can impart favorable sonic characteristics

omg he got mogmogged

look I'm all for getting rid of tyrants but we have to talk about how it only took one wannabe tyrant to make a complete joke out of our constitution

the punks were fake punks, the hippies were fake hippies, every fad we stole from another generation was to cover up for the fact that ours was seriously lacking verve and authenticity

I keep trying to tell you all, my generation is the fakest-ass loser juice suckballs generation alive, and it always was

PBS celebrity Justin Wilson was a segregationist

FUCKING LEAVE SUBSTACK

NO SHIT THEY SUPPORT NAZIS

IF YOU BIG PUBS LEFT SUBSTACK

THEY WOULD HAVE LESS $$ FFS

a lot of us already made the leap because we believe that fighting fascism is more important than doing the easy thing and complaining about it

hey support NAZI-FREE liberatory writing:

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):

rare bad take from you

useful when the dumbasses self-identify

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

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The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

This moment demands a reset. J Street is calling for the U.S. to end unconditional financial military subsidies to Israel and to move towards a relationship where we treat Israel like any other ally. 🧵 1/6

He Warned About the Dangers of A.I. If Only His Father Had Listened.

I am grateful to the New York Times and reporter @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social for sharing the sad story of my father’s reliance on AI for medical guidance, and how it caused him so much pain, and likely hastened his death.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

hey man that guy can kill you with a tv remote

Christians: I never thought he'd grab *my* pussy

F-ing depraved. The IDF edited a photo of the journalist they assassinated and made it look like he was wearing a Hezbollah uniform. They explicitly state that it is legal in Israel to murder journalists. The entire Israeli state is a criminal enterprise.

very correct

if the leadership of our society won't engage in accountability or consequences for wrongdoing in their ranks, we have to show them what it looks like when we do it for them

pope punch is fatal, there is no counterpunch

you know I do think there is a legitimate public value to having a discussion about how having so many obviously unhappy billionaires is affecting our society

but not this one

it was a compilation

this was one of the pictures used for the cover for her album Changeshepburn

I can't tell you how much I would like it if progressive accounts would stop posting AI slop

AI slop is the tool of fascism, we should not use it

jesus is also weak on crime, let's just get it all out there while we're talking about it

finally damn I asked for this years ago

apparently they lost the moderating influence of Charlie Kirk

we should anticipate the moment when Trump's media fluffers begin to abandon him and start fluffing Vance as the new anointed one

they are both representatives of the same failure but that's not important to elite class media, they merely seek another of their own who will maintain the status quo