The Florida Mass Shooter's Conversations With ChatGPT Are Worse Than You Could Possibly Imagine In the months before he committed a grisly mass shooting, Phoenix Ikner obsessively used Open AI's ChatGPT.

“The liability issue is intimately tied to the question on whether the chatbot encourages acts of violence by concretizing an action plan.”

Why the AI backlash has turned violent And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center.

Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis.

UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.

I suppose it’s worth noting that Toyota made sewing machines, Nintendo was a playing card company, and Shell literally sold shells.

Also, Yamaha is a motorcycle company that also makes musical instruments.

Soaring Gas Prices Forcing More Americans To Drink Less Gas

This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.

It’s a huge problem!

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Sometimes I imagine what post climate apocalypse people would say about our water habits now. Remember how we used to flush toilets with potable water? Remember roller coaster water rides? Remember golf courses?

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act For too long, this law has allowed the government to evade privacy protections and spy on Americans. Reform is overdue.

President Trump is urging Congress to renew Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but lawmakers in both parties oppose extending it without reforms. Congress now has a chance to protect Americans’ privacy. bit.ly/4tASUmW

Lmao

The potential for liability for “critical harms” is an unacceptable stifling of AI* innovation. Apparently.

www.wired.com/story/openai...

Their algorithm really knows you

7 out of 25,000 dentists agree!

Unless you come from Japan, where the toilets wash and dry you and sing classical music to you, you cannot claim bathroom supremacy, sorry

Demystifying the world of the German toilet You’ve just had your first interaction with a German toilet and you’re bemused. From the double flush to the poo shelf, we have all the answers for you.

People are making fun of this as a U.S. problem, but at least we’re not the ones who came up with the poop shelf: www.iamexpat.de/expat-info/g...

You get it

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Colin S. got an award for that one!

You’re welcome

This is a great idea. I will add it to the next version

Hi! I’m the inventor of bathroom stalls. The important thing for me is that everyone walking by a stall is able to make eye contact with the person sitting on the toilet inside. This is a critical design feature.

Yikes!

Mamdani is mayoring like the old-timey mayors in kids’ stories. This is “and then the Mayor gave the hero a key to the city” energy

Watching my Uber driver like a hawk to make sure he doesn’t turn on the self-driving mode in his Tesla and drive us both into the San Francisco Bay

Green Eggs and Ham: How Not to Market and Invade Privacy Dr. Seuss's Book Is a Metaphor for Modern Online Marketing

Green Eggs and Ham: How Not to Market and Invade Privacy open.substack.com/pub/danielso...

Everything I had thought was wrong. Everything I had expected to see was wrong. I had thought that going into space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I had been looking for between all living things-that being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. In the film "Contact," when Jodie Foster's character goes to space and looks out into the heavens, she lets out an astonished whisper, "They should've sent a poet." I had a different experience, because I discovered that the beauty isn't out there, it's down here, with all of us. Leaving that behind made my connection to our tiny planet even more profound. It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna ...things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

He also had some great comments after his space flight variety.com/2022/tv/news...