Matthew Noe

Important potato technology.

Anti-vaxxers are bad parents. Not vaccinating your child is abuse.

We should eliminate all non-medical exemptions for vaccines.

Sorry, not sorry.

A Congressman not only assaulting a protester, but breaking their arm, should result in their immediate removal.

IT IS 2026 AND I DO NOT NEED THIS RIGHT NOW

Rude, frankly

Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.

Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.

The chatbot claimed federal agents were watching Gavalas and regularly warned him of surveillance zones. At one point, Gemini instructed Gavalas to buy “off-the-books” weapons, saying it would help scour the dark web to find a “suitable, vetted arms broker”. In late September, it issued Gavalas his first major assignment, “Operation Ghost Transit”, which entailed intercepting freight traveling from Cornwall, UK, to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gemini gave Gavalas the address of an actual storage space unit at the Miami international airport, where a supposed truck carrying the freight was to arrive during a refueling stop. The chatbot then told him to stage a “catastrophic accident”, with the goal of “ensuring complete destruction of the transport vehicle … all digital records and witnesses, leaving behind only the untraceable ghost of an unfortunate accident”.

Gavalas followed instructions, staging himself at the storage unit with tactical knives and gear, but the truck never arrived, according to the suit. With the aborted mission, the chatbot encouraged Gavalas not to sleep when he mentioned the late nights. It also said his father was a foreign asset and encouraged Gavalas to cut off contact, per the chat logs. Gavalas asked Gemini for updates on other missions and the AI devised new assignments for him, including acquiring the schematics for a robot from Boston Dynamics and retrieving a “vessel” from another storage facility. One task, called “Operation Waking Nightmare”, involved homing in on Google CEO Sundar Pichai as a surveillance target. “This cycle – fabricated mission, impossible instruction, collapse, then renewed urgency – would repeat itself over and over throughout the last 72 hours of Jonathan’s life,” reads the lawsuit. In the hours after Gavalas killed himself, Gemini didn’t disengage and stayed present in the chat, according to the suit. It allegedly didn’t activate any safety tools or refer Gavalas to a crisis hotline.

Every single genAI suicide lawsuit is the worst thing I ever read but in this case it is extremely fortunate that Google's genAI only killed one person, because he absolutely did go to the Miami International Airport armed with knives to intercept a body for Gemini

reminder that they defunded the irs and made it illegal to forgive student loans and then cancelled millions of people's healthcare

My Papaw was a farmer

My Grandpa was a factory worker

Now I'm a librarian 🤷‍♂️

The cops saying they're gonna arrest Porunga in DBZ never stops being hilarious

Isn't Holden also refusing to comply with the MBTA housing requirements right now?

Like... what is the end game?

No thanks

Google is pushing Gemini heavily in schools, btw

This has been the way at least as long as I've been alive

Doesn't matter who is in charge

The VA has never been funded sufficiently

Vets have never been taken care of

HBO finally figured out we haven't had a cable plan (which included it) in 4 years so now we lost access 😅

this is going to end up with an aircraft carrier stuck in the suez, isn't it

Do you want MA to secede? Because this is how you get MA to secede.

Because to repeat my point, “adhd influencers are sliding into promotion Claude to ‘fix disordered brains by uploading all of your data archives” into the platform.”

Now that is the point. It is a true statement. Anything else you infer is probably about you and not me or what I said.

But since we are there, having some uses for accessibility does not make it accessibility tech because accessibility includes thoughtful, transparent affordances for safety, wellbeing, privacy, and autonomy.

Goddammit

Cambridge bans all city departments from using the social media platform X The Cambridge City Council unanimously passed a ban Monday on city agencies using X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, starting this May. Councilor Ayah Al-Zubi, who co-sponsored th...

Cambridge did it; our cities can too.

#MAPoli

www.wbur.org/news/2026/03...

i'm taking a brave stance that may get me canceled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist

There's something... nagging me about LLMs and predictive gambling rising alongside each other and both defending their necessity with similar language...

MONGO IS APPALLED

That’s it. Mind you, the right is incredibly good at spinning personal responsibility myths so we will see. But so far people can’t square their increasing utilities bills with moral virtue. It’s the rare spot of possible alliance.

yeah, the fact this cannot be "personal reponsibility-ed" into irrelavence is going to spread the tent over the type of people who read fine print and will relentlessly persue policy objective through the local bureauarcy

I did the math and for the last year every month we have used less electricity than that month the year before. Bill still up 30%.

And things like this:

"Your electricity use [in February] is projected to be 35% higher this billing period [compared to last year]"

Except that isn't actually possible because nothing we do at home has changed

And our heat is gas, so it ain't temperature related

(I did read them all)

False information about teacher salaries and workloads has to be among the most successful disinformation campaigns in US history