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“My husband killed himself because he lived in terrible pain from depression” is hard enough to live with. “My husband killed himself because the computer told him too” is worse even if underneath it is still, I assume, often the first person.

I’ve been thinking about what it means to be one of the people left behind in an AI-inspired suicide case. It’s rough enough to be a survivor; when your partner literally put their imaginary girlfriend in front of you?

A new lawsuit blames ChatGPT for a murder-suicide The estate of Suzanne Adams, who was killed by her son in a murder-suicide, is suing OpenAI and Microsoft. The suit alleges ChatGPT encouraged her son's delusions, which led to the deaths.

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Son of Sam, but the dog is an AI

I know OpenAI is already involved in the recent Canadian mass shooting, but that seems to have been a failure to flag rather than active instigation by the AI, right?

somebody murdering an AI CEO because they're denying them their true love does seem like a possible outcome here too.

so at some point this is going to produce not just suicide but murder. "Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted. It even fixated on Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai, labeling him to Gavalas as “the architect of your pain.”

yet again I have accidentally sat on the lathe of heaven

Yeah like to put things in perspective, the damage done by Sergey Brin’s ex-wife single handedly funding large segments of the anti-vax movement probably undid shitloads of positive public health work done through philanthropy. The ability to use that money for evil shit is just far greater.

it's pretty much just the Greens + the Lib Dems if you care at all about trans rights in England now. Greens have been stronger and more consistent - and looking more likely to be a real force at the next election.

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am.

Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021.

UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

The level of motivated reasoning required for some pundits to convince themselves that Netanyahu, Adelson, et al. did not actually understand their own interests when they strongly favored Trump to win is beyond my comprehension

" He also reached out to a few people he knew from among a list of names Epstein had mentioned in a subsequent email. “They all said the same thing: ‘Stay away from him. He’s a bad character.’”

another thing this piece indicates is that *most people who knew him casually distrusted him, especially after the first conviction.*. Being his pal after that was a very deliberate choice by bad people, not a whoopsie.

These accounts demonstrate something very important: so many scientists who chummed around with Epstein have begged forgiveness on the basis that they didn’t know who he was.

These men didn’t know anything about him either. But they took the time to find out.

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they speak through history with one voice

What's also very funny about this is that Jasmine Crockett is an apparently devout Southern Baptist who describes herself as a "preacher's kid" and has actively leveraged her connections with Black churches in Texas to boost her campaign.

this the Taubman book?

By some measures, the campaign was a tremendous success: by 1988, official alcohol sales were half their 1980 level.29 The campaign achieved real results. Diseases, crimes, and accidents involving alcohol, for example, were reported to have fallen by 25–40 percent in the first two years of the campaign. Male mortality rates decreased 25 percent. Reduced drunkenness almost certainly meant that more Soviet citizens showed up to work, and fewer made mistakes on the job. Yet the campaign had clear downsides. Critics of the anti-alcohol legislation, including some influential liberal intellectuals, compared it to American prohibition in the 1920s. Official data reported a decline in alcohol consumption, but critics argued that this was a mirage, as more people turned to home-brewed liquor, samogon. The biggest problem, however, was that the anti-alcohol campaign left a huge hole in the Soviet budget.

oops

there was weird discourse about this about Roy Cooper too: it's just a function of Bluesky mostly being highly educated secular left liberals when that is basically not the actual majority voting coalition of Dems

Tucker Carlson, Quincy Institute, Candace Owens, and millions of others just experienced the completion of this seven year plan

Texas is first big primary of the midterms. Here’s when election results will come in The road to the Senate majority runs through the Rio Grande — with a detour through late-night TV. Eric Garcia breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly in the Lone Star State

We are seeing the best possible outcome that Democrats could want: Talarico gets a clean win and gets a six-week head start while Paxton and Cornyn cut each other up for two weeks.
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Jared Polis @jaredpolis •52m Last week, former State Senator Sonya Jaquez Lewis was sentenced to probation and community service after being convicted of four felonies including Attempt to Influence a Public Official. She made a horrible mistake, and she was wrong. I hope she learns from this and can rebuild Show more • 43 {7 12 • 30 sam @sam_d 1995 X.com first you defend RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxx insanity and now you're considering pardoning an unrepentant election denier who illegally attempted to overturn our free and fair elections? what is wrong with you, man?

polis is probably going to unfollow me for this one but idgaf. what a fucking freak.

worst democratic gov in the country and it’s not even close now that Murphy is gone

Deeper Cut: William Stanley Braithwaite Historical Racism The following article deals explicitly with racism in a historical context. Frank discussion of these matters requires the reproduction of at least some samples of racist speech f…

well you know the specific story here right?

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torture scene but it's having to listen to jazz poetry.

sixty percent of the way to being Kuwait's first ace

they call him Mr Glass.

oh everything about this is incredible.

“The editor acknowledged that the editorial team is at fault for overlooking the fact that our case was real during the review process,” Abdulsatar said, adding that she was told correcting the correction “would be difficult.”

the next Black Ops game should just be running a simulation of running a small literary magazine in 1950s Europe

say what now