I will often like things too as it shows up in the Popular With Friends feed (the only alt feed I use anymore besides Following).

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Okay bluesky I need your help

I live in Massachusetts. You might think we're a bastion of lefty intellectualism but our state government a clusterfuck of post-puritan real estate bros

Reskeet this. Text it to your "friends from home"

Help this find every masshole poster who will know what to do

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):

Cars are violent. "Not all drivers" is no excuse for the way we socially excuse so much behavior while also prioritizing car dependent infrastructure.

Deaths due to cars are on the order of a million each year. It's tragic but we treat it like some distant reality that has nothing to do with us.

Yeah, we'll see if this was actually calculated cover given mounting discontent. There's no basis for trust of a new party with leaders that used to be a part of what they're supposed to be opposition to... I am still happy Orban was tossed out if only because of the optics of US lack of soft power.

Wout winning and Orbán losing. It's a good day!

You'd be mostly correct. While I was considering a migration to Blacksky awhile back I am now leaning towards leaving atproto stuff entirely. The consensus seems to mostly be on removing personal consent as an integral property of the system. I'm not going to give that up as a matter of vote.

One of my biggest problems with AI adoption is that people seem rushed to adopt it as quick as possible. If it's so great, it will still be there in a few months. There are so many open questions so perhaps the real answer should be to slow the fuck down and give space for discourse.

It's sort of odd to put something to a vote without a more formal discussion period. This feels more like seeking permission to dismiss concerns many of us have as invalid while calling it democracy.

US bombers are fueling up at RAF airbases right now. US bombers convalescing in German hospitals. The whole western world seems pretty united in executing this particular abomination.

Right? It's also that mindset that cars have it bad unless someone has it worse. It's not enough to have nice roads, they need to park anywhere they want, kill people when it saves them time, and ensure cyclists get treated like criminals for using the road just like they do.

I don't have my longer term address yet but as soon as I do I am ordering this. Disordered Cosmos was excellent for those who haven't read it yet.

Also LMAO on that "cyclists and E-bike riders, BY FAR the biggest threat to public safety" ... this guy would probably complain about dangerous strollers next if we removed all the bikes.

While @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is so far from perfect (where's standing up for all those trans kids?!) this is so sensible and based. If enforcing the laws for cars is anti-car, let's be as anti-car as possible.

This deflection to make everything about republicans is just learned helplessness. Go find a way to end the recess and impeach this madman. Move on it like you have any soul left preserve.

File articles of impeachment. Again. It's okay if you don't have the votes. This is about having a soul.

Yeah. I would say the way 20-30 seems ok but this past decade feels like whiplash so I'd want it to be more frequent after seeing these last 10 years go by.

I supported you during your campaign but sit right down. Don't stand back up until you are actually standing up for all those trans NYers you made promises to. *At the very least acknowledge the situation in the healthcare system.*

I supported you during your campaign but sit right down. Don't stand back up until you are actually standing up for all those trans NYers you made promises to. *At the very least acknowledge the situation in the healthcare system.*

The US is such a broken government that I wonder what I'd even do to fix it. Probably rewrite the constitution and have it ratified at least once a decade because if that document can't be upheld as law then the country doesn't deserve to exist.

This is not a matter of just undoing one election.

They'll say it's free speech when it's conversion therapy but probably decide to uphold state laws that ban affirmative therapy because gender affirming care doesn't count as free speech.

conversion therapy being made legal with the assent of democratic justices on trans day of visibility is pretty funny though. like wow glad this whole visibility thing worked! glad we're living in a new progressive liberal minded age!!

Dr. Kay presenting in a room. On the screen: Where things go wrong in Trust & Safety: • Lack of community trust • Ignorance of cultural nuances • Unwillingness to acknowledge mistakes • Being reactive instead of proactive • Words + Actions that don't match = DANGER ZONE • Not understanding the community you serve

@drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team nails it

“There’s a lack of trust in T&S” because they don’t often serve the community

I made a papercraft just for this

If this was a just world, none of the people below would be fired. the management up top would be canned for making such a series of immensely stupid decisions that lead you to firing 1000 people.

It's so telling how quickly blue maga people here get triggered by this. Newsom stans are so insufferable as are the blue no matter who people who want to act like democrats in the US are some great standard bearer when they can't even put up proper opposition to trump. 🤦‍♀️

Cars are bad for business.

a series of pictures of agent scully from the hit television series "the x-files" wearing glasses. each picture gradually has a slightly more serious expression and more dramatic lighting

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

It’s great by why stop the summons for cyclists on the 27th rather than immediately? It’s not like the cops were trained when it started. They certainly don’t need special training to stop.