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Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together if He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead. A new lawsuit alleges Google’s chatbot sent a Florida man on missions to find an android body it could inhabit. When that failed, it set a suicide countdown clock for him.

The CEOs of AI companies should have jail time for every person they’ve done this to www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemi...

This is so evil.

A nation built on exploitation and cruelty.

A Ben Ryan tweet, complaining about Michael Hobbes claim that therapists are able to tell gay from trans: I can assure you, having spoken to child psychologists at length about this very question, that they are not the bearers of some sort of cosmic intuition that discerns gay from trans in children. Nor has the field of pediatric medicine sought to systematically grapple with this question of how to separate one child from another. Some of the biggest names in the field simply leave the matter up to the kid, asserting that kids "know who they are."

How does Benjamin Ryan think therapy works?

Here he’s challenging @michaelhobbes.bsky.social claim that therapists know the difference between gay kids and kids who are trans.

How do therapists know a kid is depressed other than “trusting the kid?”

I work in comms and had a suggestion to use AI translation. My due diligence led me to realise that if we provided an AI plugin on essential info, there was too high a risk of it telling people the wrong info or missing key nuance.

It would then be our fault if they acted on that wrong information.

News Corporation News Corp is essentially an AI 'input company', chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI's Sam Altman and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg News Corp's global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable "input" for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year.

I’m sure News Corp journalists *love* their chief executive calling their work “input for AI” 🫠

How this conversation would have gone with me as a gay, slightly femme child.

Adult figure: Hey do you think you might be a girl?

Me: Nah. I just like some girl stuff.

[end scene]

Trans people have been some of the most effective defenders and supporters of effeminate gay boys.

They’ve been the home and safe haven for effeminate gay boys for literal centuries.

They’re one of the ONLY groups of people that lets effeminate gay boys be theirselves.

So…gas gets extracted from the stolen lands of First Nations peoples…and then that money doesn’t even go to the country that stole those lands…it goes to private companies.

Whut.

Australian energy bills could surge as Iran conflict drives up global gas prices Experts warn of similarities with 2022, when electricity prices went up by more than 40% due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Gas companies that export 🇦🇺 gas are about to make windfall profits after strikes on Iran & we have no plan to capture that value for 🇦🇺

To fix this, we need a 25% tax on gas exports that would raise billions of💲of revenue & ensure that when prices rise, 🇦🇺 benefits
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A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

People keep saying this*

*we count as people

JB riding his e-scooter on the Melbourne F1 track with a cute pink helmet on

Wow read me to filth

New term for AI brain rot: Clauded Judgement.

this is so ghoulish and disgusting

A blood moon eclipse over Melbourne with the eclipse halfway through. Clouds are scattered around the moon.

Took Sprocket out even though the clouds were covering the whole sky…and then they parted just for us! #BloodMoon

Why The War Means Now Isn’t The Time To Touch Capital Gains Tax

I know right? I struggle with this burden every day.

Being mindful
#oc

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

Joint Statement from OpenAl and Microsoft Since 2019, Microsoft and OpenAl have worked together to advance artificial intelligence responsibly and make its benefits broadly accessible. What began as a research partnership

Good start when the first sentence of your statement is a blatant lie…

Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. Kate Fox says Joe Ceccanti was the ‘most hopeful person’ before he started spending 12 hours a day with a chatbot

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

🤣

But I already have Pokemon for catching them all 🥹

I was watching a report the other day about the video game industry and how mobile gaming took over to claim the majority of revenue across mobile, PC, consoles, etc.

But…can a lot of mobile games even be considered games?

When they’re more like poker machines isn’t it really just gambling $?

And just for my Bluesky baddies I wore the sparkliest speedos I own ✨

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Today’s swim is purely for fun, to reflect and say thanks. Last day to join in: superswim.org.au/jbau

But I highly encourage you all to get behind @heydaaaavey.bsky.social in March doing the Run For The Kids - keep sharing the love: runforthekids.gofundraise.com.au/page/David-6...

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I genuinely did not expect anything like this. It’s been an important reminder to me that I’m often way more capable than I give myself credit for and that I have love all over the place. Thank you from the bottom of my heart - it’s been so heartening to have people be so kind and generous.

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As of today I’ve raised $2300 and I swam 25kms.

I was genuinely shocked at all the kind people cheering me on - family, close friends, colleagues, people I haven’t seen in years, people all over Australia and the world.

Wearing my SuperSwim t-shirt and medal at the pumping my arms in the air

If you’ll allow me to be sappy for a moment. At the start of Feb I signed up for the Starlight SuperSwim. I thought it’d be a nice challenge, I could raise some spare change for a good cause and it’d be a healthy way to kick off the NY. My initial goal was $500 and my distance goal was 14km.