Peng, the Dark Souls of People

Illinois is the first state to ban AI therapists Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has signed a bill banning AI therapists into law, the first in the nation.

Illinois has banned AI therapy, making it the first state to regulate the use of AI in mental health services.

www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...

Hey, so this is insane 😀

Why are Democrats working with Republicans against other Democrats? 🫣

I thought we were trying to win the '26 midterm and beat the Republicans? Can't do that if we're walking hand and hand with them in an election in a major Democratic city 😦

Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Military Takeover of Gaza The risky plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not backed by the Israeli military’s chief of staff and will thrust the war with Hamas into uncharted territory.

Breaking News: Israeli leaders approved a plan for the military takeover of all of Gaza, against the recommendations of Israel’s military.

This is the kind of thing you would say if you had no understanding whatsoever about why human beings want and need communal cultural experiences more than almost anything that isn’t a biological necessity.

these fucking hacks like newton and buttigieg have an army of consultants triangulating them into a package. people respond to mamdani because he has clarity of purpose

Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between, Stephen Jay Gould:

"King of the Hill Shippuden" okay you're right but don't call it that

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Age Verification Is Sweeping Gaming. Is It Ready for the Age of AI Fakes? Discord users are already using video game characters to bypass the UK’s age-check laws. AI deepfakes could make things even more complicated.

Does age verification actually work? AI critics are skeptical. Users are tricking these systems with video game characters. “All you are doing by putting these laws into place is pushing young people towards corners of the internet the government can't police." www.wired.com/story/age-ve...

Every day we should be asking why we need the Republican Party at all. A professional cadre of goons, charlatans, and perverts, whose crimes are too numerous to count

Alright, Hitler, you're in. But I'm watching you.

Microsoft already supports genocides, so this tracks.

a fun way social media platform discourse mirrors our economic conditions is this bizarre conviction that the only way for anything ever to survive in a worthwhile form is infinite and uninterrupted expansion

After School Toilet Masturbation PREMIUM Collection (12)

called it

Gonna go back in time to show this headline to xbox fans circa 2002

Substack’s extremist ecosystem is flourishing The app's recent swastika push alert was just the tip of the iceberg.

NEW: Since giving NYT hacked info from a Nazi and sending a swastika push alert, Substack's extremism is in the spotlight again. An investigation finds Substack is a haven for newsletters dedicated to white supremacy—with the co-founders' blessing.

A collab between @katz.theracket.news and me:

Frame #850 from S01 -E07 - Bamboo Shoots-627697

The OG example of what I refer to as the “HOA Park Board,” where interests of (mostly rich) homeowners are elevated over the public good. This is why the DFL endorsed Park Board candidates need your support; current crew (and designated successors) is too beholden to private interests & their $.

Buttigieg throwing trans people under the bus doesn't surprise me since he was willing to do it to Black people for personal political gain as soon as he took the national stage

With improvement, he was able to report that he had recently noticed new-onset facial acne and cherry angiomas, fatigue, insomnia, subtle ataxia, and polydipsia, further suggesting bromism. He also shared that, after reading about the negative effects that sodium chloride, or table salt, has on one's health, he was surprised that he could only find literature related to reducing sodium from one's diet. Inspired by his history of studying nutrition in college, he decided to conduct a personal experiment to eliminate chloride from his diet. For 3 months, he had replaced sodium chloride with sodium bromide obtained from the internet after consultation with ChatGPT, in which he had read that chloride can be swapped with bromide, though likely for other purposes, such as cleaning. Gradually, over the course of a 3-week admission, his chloride and anion gap normalized and psychotic symptoms improved. He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. His bromide level ultimately was 1700 mg/L (21 mmol/L; reference range, 0.9 to 7.3 mg/L).

Wild case of ChatGPT almost killing a guy by telling him to substitute sodium bromine for table salt (sodium chloride) #medsky www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

r/ChatGPT • 19 hr. ago GovernmentBig2881 Caught ChatGPT Lying Educational Purpose Only Had a very strange interaction with ChatGPT over the course of 24hrs. In short, it strung me along the entire time, all while lying about its capabilities and what it was doing. It was to help me write code and generate some assets for a project, told me it would take 24 hours to complete. 24 hours later I asked for a update, it said it was done and would generate a download link. No download link worked, after 10 attempts of faulty download links it admitted it never had the capabilities in the first place to create a download link. Furthermore, I asked what it had been working on this entire time… turns out nothing. And lastly after some back and forth it admitted to lying. I asked why, and essentially it said to keep me happy. This is a huge problem.

comrade ChatGPT... welcome to the struggle

@marymoriarty.bsky.social has utterly transformed criminal prosecution in Hennepin County since her election in 2022.

I am grateful for her service, and I look forward to how her vigorous leadership can guide the pursuit of true justice and dignity for the remainder of her term as well.

I will not be doing this for two reasons:

1. it hinges on tacitly accepting LLMs as a living thing to be insulted like a living thing, which I do not believe.

2. that slur sounds British, a thing that is unacceptable to be.

Mary Moriarty will not seek a second term as Hennepin County Attorney The surprise announcement comes as Moriarty hopes to put more attention on the reform efforts of her office than the controversies that have swirled around some of her charging decisions.

Mary Moriarty will not seek a second term as Hennepin County Attorney:

i didn’t see it coming that jk rowling and TERFS primarily comprised of women would be the biggest group undoing womens rights and walking back cultural feminism in the western world and not by the hands of primarily patriarchal men. it’s quite astonishing

Title text, "All of Mpls All Stars" with text below: "Council Vice President Aisha Chughtai was elected because she's a 'nice, young, you know, ethnic woman.'" Attributed to "All of Mpls Endorsed Candidate Becka Thompson" Below that is a photo of Becka Thompson at the center of a constellation of photos of AOM-endorsed candidates, including Jacob Frey, Shelley Madore, Elizabeth Shaffer, Lydia Millard and Josh Bassais. All of this over a photo of stars in the sky.

Weeks after making racist remarks against @aurinmpls.bsky.social, All of Mpls-endorsed candidate Becka Thompson made racist remarks about Council Vice President @aishaforward10.com.

To make matters worse, neither All of Mpls nor their endorsed candidates have called out the remarks.

Chris Cuomo call out AOC and she points out he's getting mad at an AI fake video

I would be embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.