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A Prominent OpenAI Investor May Be Suffering an ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT.

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Ben Collins and Parker Molloy

A Chicago dog

At the Cubs/Red Sox game with @bencollins.bsky.social

This is truly wild, good piece.

The four most recent Trump approval polls showing his approval rating between -13 and -18.

I ain't no math genius but it sure looks like most people are once again sick of this guy's shit.

Outkick’s Clay Travis suggests “Jeffrey Epstein’s behavior would’ve actually been legal” in some jurisdictions because his victims were teenagers, “not 9 and 10-year old girls”

They've already been testing the waters on this in the last few weeks. There's a real constituency for this in the libertarian right, the RETVRN fascist purity right, and even the gross ogling right that worships the '90s. See below.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Different time, imo, and I think they're more aware of how hard it'd be. But I wouldn't write him off.

i never wrote a picture in my life

actually a lot of innocent people write birthday letters to child sex traffickers in which they repeatedly reference the secrets they share

Trump knows SDNY prosecutors seeking to indict Epstein and Maxwell didn’t ask questions about him in their grand jury presentations while he was POTUS. It’s a red herring to distract from the evidence that matters: witness interview notes, videos, photos, etc.

Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner - Wikipedia

It may not seem so amazing now, but in the context of 2006, Colbert's absolutely searing routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner was a bright spot and a brave moment during the Bush years. He's gonna blow the doors off on his way out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

Investigate them.

I will admit it is vaguely darkly funny to make your whole thing "comedy is legal again" and then use the weight of the federal government to shut down comedians in unprecedented ways. like if they somehow outlawed saying "merry christmas" this year

Fuck it, run for the big one.

Rupert Murdoch, welcome to The Resistance.

One last thing on this for the moment: Scorched Earth Conan was incredible TV for a few weeks, and Scorched Earth Conan's enemy was fucking Jay Leno. Scorched Earth Colbert should be really good TV.

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia WASHINGTON—Facing mounting backlash from his MAGA base over his perceived ties to the Jeffrey Epstein case, President Donald Trump reportedly encouraged his supporters Monday to simply move on from so...

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

@chrislhayes.bsky.social's close reading of Trump's reported note to Epstein: "They share some secret that they both know about each other. That is a secret that has to do with sex, hence the drawing of the naked woman. And is the one thing that you have if you have everything."

We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through.

Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.

Is there a third thing?

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

There we go.

oh so it's illegal to have friends now, is it? it's cancellable to send your friend nice little birthday notes? the woke mob has come for poetry? for nice little drawings to your buds?

The same company that's buying CBS (and needs Trump's approval to do so) is also trying to buy Bari Weiss' website. It's a political decision.

Colbert is individually more expensive than our whole company but, like, look I would love to. I'm open to ideas.

Stephen Colbert: "Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the Late Show in May."

[boos]

"And yeah, I share your feelings."

www.instagram.com/reel/DMOhWKs...

This is bad for a million reasons, mostly the unemployed comedy writers, but it's also hard not to read this as a political casualty of this merger. Trump has wanted this dude off the air.