Wow. No one showed up for JD Vance

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

Wildly corrupt—the Trump Organization has tons of business with the Chinese Communist Party and Eric should be nowhere near this trip

Instead of "unapologetically bellicose" you could have used "proven pathological liar" or "adjudicated rapist" or "convicted felon" if you didn't want to sanewash a fascist and mislead your readers.

So...that was a choice that you made.

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak on Crime, Also I’m Dr. Jesus Christ

A+ headline.

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Everything Is Hacked Now Trapped on a Zoom call with fake co-workers when we could just be making donuts.

Mandatory reading for everybody in cybersecurity,

www.todayintabs.com/p/everything...

Their heritage of taking a big fat L continues

Edward R. Murrow Broadcast from Buchenwald, April 15, 1945 A digital tool for studying the Holocaust through unique, original sources.

Just had my office full of students, gathered around to listen to the radio, much like Americans on the home front did, absorbing with stunned silence Edward R. Murrow’s 1945 report from the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp.

Listen here: perspectives.ushmm.org/item/edward-...

Damon Lindelof Reveals Why He Signed Anti-Paramount-WBD Merger Letter "Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town," Damon Lindelof said Monday on why he signed an anti-Paramount-WBD merger letter.

“Hollywood, believe it or not, is a blue-collar town...“It’s thousands and thousands of Grips and Gaffers. Drivers and Decorators. Builders and Boom operators. Camera teams and Caterers... And they’re all about to get f*cked”

Damon Lindelof Reveals Reason He Signed Anti-Paramount-WBD Merger Missive

Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says “When I saw evidence that our products were being used to harm people and undermine the law, I did what anyone should do—I raised the alarm. Thomson Reuters’ response was to fire me.”

New: Thomson Reuters, which runs the CLEAR database ICE uses, fired a longstanding employee for speaking out against ICE, a new lawsuit says. Billie Little led an internal effort raising concerns; was fired. We've shown CLEAR is linked to ICE's Palantir tool

www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel."

From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman.

Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...

Ex-UCLA doctor admits to sexually abusing 5 patients after previous conviction overturned Ex-UCLA doctor pleads guilty to sexually abusing 5 patients, gets 11 years

Ex-UCLA doctor admits to sexually abusing 5 patients after previous conviction overturned

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

Three months later and xAI's flagship chatbot is still putting nonconsensual intimate images out on the public timeline, per NBC's @davidingram.bsky.social

www.nbcnews.com/tech/rcna265...

Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market The UK designated Xinbi Guarantee as an enabler of crypto scammers and human trafficking weeks ago. Telegram is still hosting it in plain sight.

Coming up on 3 weeks since Telegram-based black market Xinbi Guarantee, which has done $21 *billion* in transactions, was sanctioned by the UK gov for enabling crypto scamming and human trafficking. Yet Telegram, which could ban Xinbi at any time, is still hosting it. www.wired.com/story/telegr...

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):

I thought about that.

No longer a useful idiot

Trump, 79, Faces Congressional Bid to Invoke 25th Amendment 50 House Democrats are backing the bill amid concerns about Trump’s “erratic” behavior.

A group of House Democrats introduced a long-shot plan to remove Trump from office by invoking the 25th Amendment.

U.S. solar inverter manufacturers Here's a current list of U.S. solar inverter manufacturing locations.

I know there are US inverter manufacturers, but I don't know about other countries. I would bet that China has the lion's share of the market though. www.solarpowerworldonline.com/u-s-solar-in...

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

I'm currently working on three pieces. I have a book coming out this week. I'm preparing a course based on the book.

Losing a half day's worth of work throws my plans out the window and costs me not only income but also my planned activities.

Please be considerate of us freelancers, please. 3/3

This was an event I was very much looking forward to covering. But after four hours, the only option that was worked out for me is to attend the event on my iPhone, which, for a number of reasons, doesn't fit how I work.

I write for a few publications, including my own. 2/3

If any PR people follow me here, please be considerate when inviting freelance writers to your client's virtual event and check out the logistics first.

I wasted four hours today trying to figure out how to access an event, with no real answers from the PR folks or event organizers. 1/3

Microsoft April 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 167 flaws, 2 zero-days Today is Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 167 flaws, including 2 zero-day vulnerabilities.

Today is Microsoft's April 2026 Patch Tuesday with security updates for 167 flaws, including 2 zero-day vulnerabilities.

Allies warn of cyber divide as US firms gatekeep powerful Mythos AI Goldman Sachs is working closing with Mythos to protect itself, UK's AISI tested Mythos which excelled over other models, Bain & Co. was easily exposed by pentesters, Kraken suffered two insider secur...

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec development you should know, including

--Allies warn of cyber divide as US firms gatekeep powerful Mythos AI, 1/4
www.metacurity.com/allies-warn-...

"It ain't over till the Freddie Mercury sings"

Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store After a fake version of the Ledger cryptocurrency wallet app made it onto the normally highly curated Apple App store, customers lost $9.5 million dollars to the malicious product. Believing it was a genuine Ledger product, people entered their seed phrases into the app, then discovered their wallets were immediately drained. One victim, who said he'd downloaded the app while setting up a new computer, wrote: "I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant." According to him, he lost 5.9 BTC (~$445,000).

Crypto sleuth zachxbt traced some of the stolen funds through Kucoin, a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange that was recently fined and forced to exit US markets over licensing and anti-money laundering failures. "The three largest victims lost seven figures each," he wrote. Apple removed the malicious app from their App Store on April 13, six days after it had been added.

Users lose $9.5 million to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store

April 13, 2026
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=fake-ledger-app

F*ckin' murderers

Tucker Collins, 18, an astronautical engineering student at USC was filming demonstrators at an LA No Kings rally when one of Trump’s thugs shot him in the face
destroying his eyeball and fracturing the bones in his eye socket.

This amazing kid was permanently wounded by #ICELawlessness
🧵