“Jabba-Loompa” is great

First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.

Or we could convince Democratic voters no to listen to them. We could stigmatize their message so more people would be ashamed to say “I hope [the Democratic candidate] loses.”

I agree completely. Also, it’s the sort of message that has to be repeated over and over in order to inoculate against the same arguments being made against our 2028 nominee.

There’s no one who thinks this is stunning

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

The details here are horrific. They arrested her in Tennessee, jailed her for months, and eventually shipped her off to Fargo. She lost her home, her car and her dog. They eventually realized their mistake and put her out on the streets of Fargo on Christmas Eve. Could happen to any of us.

Gov. Bill Lee signed a resolution defining family as a man, a woman, and their children, a move critics say targets LGBTQ+ households.

I am a gay dad and this is FUCKED UP

The Pattern-Seeking Fallacy We humans are terrible at discerning patterns from randomness, and in marketing data we unwittingly find “insights” that are actually noise. Here’s how to fix that.

“The most exciting phrase in science isn’t ‘eureka,’ but rather, ‘that’s funny.’”
--Isaac Asimov

We’re tempted to jump to conclusions after seeing a “funny thing.” Instead, use as a theory that you actually test first:

Two pocket squares?

Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary

And newspapers are dying for lack of advertising revenue

Just one, I think. I was ironically making this syllogism

Major premise: Only liberals think they’re better than anyone
Minor premise: You think you’re better than Charles Manson
Conclusion: You are a liberal

Liberal

Panel from Action Comics #367 Mysteries of the Superman Awards! Superman / comic story / 14 pages Script: Otto Binder (credited) Pencils: Curt Swan (credited) Inks: George Klein (credited) Colors: ? Letters: Joe Letterese ?

Panels from Action Comics #367 Mysteries of the Superman Awards! Superman / comic story / 14 pages Script: Otto Binder (credited) Pencils: Curt Swan (credited) Inks: George Klein (credited) Colors: ? Letters: Joe Letterese ?

Back in the day when you developed a technology that made up false results you called it an "Idiot Computer" rather than "Artificial Intelligence."

ChatGPT has to be the only consumer product that has multiple documented instances of encouraging its customers to plan and execute mass shootings and barely any media talks about it and no politician is doing anything to stop it

We all benefit when people pay their taxes. We all benefit when people feel safe going to the authorities. We all benefit when people feel safe going to court.

this smells *exactly* like what we smelled during the dot com boom and bust from 1999 to 2001 lol

How is TJ Maxx not getting in on "looksmaxxing," riding it hard for a fiscal quarter of advertising campaign, then walking away with the satisfaction of having murdered the trend.

Drugmaxxing

6yo asks me how I got my tattoo

Me: I have a special artist, she has special needles and ink, we made the design and then she uses the needles to put the ink in my skin -

6: Oh yeah! Like in prison!

I just watched a video of Katie Porter saying farm workers getting overtime pay is a regulation that “doesn’t make sense”

I assumed you were replying to this

when the allegations are so false that you resign from congress before the investigation is launched

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):

If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, so can America

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/viktor-orb...

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

you can suspend your participation in congress too, dipshit

CW: sexual harrasment of a minor.

Everyone defending Eric Swalwell today is reminding me of the first time I came forward with my first sexual harrasment claim against an adult teacher. I was 13 years old when this happened.