Beginning in March, ads targeting Black voters compare Virginia’s redistricting referendum to Jim Crow.
The mailers were sent by a little-known group that received $9 million in donations from Peter Thiel, the PayPal and Palantir co-founder who is a longtime mentor of Vice President J.D. Vance.
I thought we already won... like WEEKS ago.
He clearly doesn't remember anything he says.
The Obama quote, where he says gerrymandering creates wider polarization, is from the past.
But he's on record as supporting a "Yes" vote.
youtu.be/lNN48yMLR-g?...
In my part of Virginia, for every "Vote Yes!" sign, there are 40 "Vote No!" signs. There is a similar ratio for TV advertisements.
I hope blue Northern Virginia has enough "Yes" votes to beat a highly motivated "No" vote in Central Virginia.
The outcome is going to be very close.
Read up on the Johnstown Flood and Homestead Steel strike for a more accurate perspective on Carnegie.
Were they living together?
Years ago, my neighbors were in a bitter separation/divorce. Wife and two teenage daughters left him. Wife arranged return with girls to pack. Friend came along for safety.
Husband shot/killed wife, friend, and himself. Also wounded one daughter (the other escaped).
They turn to religion because it reinforces their own misogyny.
Of course my doctors have long hair and a full beard, dress in a Middle Eastern thobe with red draping... And because their hands glow, they have no need for a little pen-light when they check my tonsils or peer into a speculum.
"Raping our daughters" is the same canard fearmongers used against racial integration.
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):
ICYMI, the most definitive account of how President Donald Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election. @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social
It would be perfect if only Trump showed up for the dinner.
He was my congressman.
No. He'll take Cuba. Think of the real estate potential!
Agree. Charities like Wounded Warrior Project should be unnecessary.
One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.
I like how you put "4:20" and "joint" in the same sentence.
Here in East Jesus, VA, the city filled their pools with dirt.
I see a swastika on that wall.
"A carrier strike group is designed for blue-water power projection, not littoral escort through a corridor where a $500 contact mine can cripple a $4 billion destroyer."
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
Man if you all are not listening to @David_J_Bier then you are missing out. Dude has all the receipts
