GrumpyBen

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

ACAB includes ChatGPT

quitgpt.org

They're all acting as if the tech were real and worth something, is what's confusing me.

...Something something milkshake duck, sorry was not aware.

Oh, did NOT know about that! Eep!

So... Richard Garriott but Scottish?

I love how this administration is like "we've created the greatest economy in world history! also we have to cut all medical funding, and remember, if you can't afford beef, cartilage is cheap and nutritious!"

Man alive, was that cartoon prescient, it's only missing the words "bitcoin wallet".

Still true and still works in my corner of the world.

I see a need for a freezer stable emergency hearty breakfast, to be cooked in healthy times then frozen.

It’s genuinely heartbreaking that Bari is too stupid to understand that she was brought in to kill CBS News by sheer force of how unlikeable she is. “Fredo, let’s go fishing” stuff. Lennie and George at the secret meeting place stuff. Giving the dog a Big Mac before its final trip to the vet stuff.

I've always seen half of Australia as a dog's head but only today did I realise WHICH dog and what the other half resembled. You might say it was a "Woah" moment

#australiaisanelaboratehoax #tintin

This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Mieux redistribuer la richesse contribuerait à stabiliser l’économie Réduire le revenu disponible des mieux nantis pour augmenter celui des plus pauvres réduirait significativement la dette des ménages et contribuerait ainsi à la renforcer l’économie selon une nouvelle...

INFO | Réduire le revenu disponible des mieux nantis pour augmenter celui des plus pauvres réduirait significativement la dette des ménages et contribuerait ainsi à la renforcer l’économie selon une nouvelle analyse.

Par notre journaliste Francis Hébert-Bernier ➡️ pivot.quebec/2026/02/26/m...

Hopefully that's short for Sing-Praises-to-Drown-the-Lies-of-Satan or some such.

In less than a year, Trump erased 12 years of solvency for the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A | Fortune The CBO estimates that benefit reductions would start at 8% in 2040 and steadily climb to a 10% cut by 2056.

Why isn't this a WAY bigger story? Planning to be retired in 2040? Or still alive and on Medicare any time after that? Good luck with your healthcare.

Just in general, there is a real lack of knowledge (and perhaps interest?) about what DC's status actually means. I work a remote job and when I meet a new hire I routinely hear, "Oh wow, I didn't think anyone actually LIVED in DC..."

More people live in DC than in Wyoming or Vermont!

Canadian man in ICE custody says he thought agents were only focusing on ‘criminals and murderers’ A Canadian man being held inside a U.S. immigration detention facility is speaking out about what he calls abysmal conditions and prolonged separation from his family, as his loved ones launch a legal...

These are the kinds of stories that need to get to the people who think ICE is simply being too aggressive right now, but is generally fine

In the first of two panels, a person sitting at their PC in an office says to their colleague, “AI turns this single bullet point into a long email I can pretend I wrote.” In the second panel, another person sitting at their PC says to their colleague, “AI makes a single bullet point out of this long email I can pretend I read.“ Cartoon by Tom Fishburne ©️ marketoonist.com

That first item in this post reminds of a cartoon which amused me.

Every New York Times column & Atlantic thinkpiece, every Guardian broadside led us here. Jesse Singal and Ben Ryan and all the others "just asking questions" led us here.

Every bit of coverage that's treated us as suspicious outsiders and punching bags helped speed this day.

You are responsible.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

As Ukraine marks Crimea Day, the lesson stands: Crimea was the warning.

The world didn’t listen—and paid the price.

Next step down the rabbit hole is to question why we have a separate kind of doctor just for teeth.

Kat Abughazaleh: "We need to, first off abolish and prosecute ICE and DHS and we return DHS' responsibilities to Departments of Justice, State, of Treasury, of Transportation. All of these responsibilities that were taken from those departments... We need to repeal the Patriot Act."

Slightly weird request, but if you've exhibited at a gaming expo (specifically like PAX) in the past, and have made handouts or flyers to give away, would you mind sharing them? Client is looking for some ideas

a barnes and noble display of emerald fennel movie branded copies of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. the sign over them reads: "It's Wutherin' Time!" -- Heathcliff

thought you probably needed to see this

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

It's wrong for journalists to ask Zelensky whether Trump can end the war. You know Zelensky has to avoid insulting the thin-skinned Trump. You know Trump could help Ukraine if he wanted to but is helping Ru instead. Don't use Zelensky for your edgy "Trump is failing" commentary; it's cowardly.

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.