Jessica Kant

gosh why is everyone at this particular bar wearing a brown shirt? must be coincidence. another lager sir.

no I get it, I do. it isn't a question of "why" in the same way I wonder by certain flavors got popular or why some people find love and others don't, it's "why" as in I really struggle to see a demonstrable difference between this and using Musk's X.

Substack

I don’t know why I didn’t know LibsofTiktok exists in Substack form but they do and it does at least beg the question again for the eighty millionth time: how do people justify using this site?

Oh shit. I’ve read something like 50 TP books but I haven’t read that. Thank you!

We learned two things more or less immediately after: this was mostly a lie designed to re-acclimate us to the widespread bombing of civilians and secure contracts, and that we did indeed we have weapons so precise that any time, say, a school or a hospital was bombed it was an intended target.

Thinking this morning of how during desert storm every news segment was basically a grainy footage infomercial for “smart” weaponry and how this allowed us to mentally abstract the human beings being blown apart on screen. How adults on TV argued this was ushering in an era of “humane” warfare.

Humans can only survive about 3 days without water.

The tit-for-tat attacks on desalination plants and other water infrastructure in the Middle East are the scariest part of this war.

CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen says black, oil-contaminated rain is falling over Tehran after strikes on oil facilities by U.S./Israeli airstrikes.

There is a single intervention that will have a meaningful impact and that’s holding developers liable for what their models say.

Every therapist I know has already seen someone who has at best a tenuous grasp on what a chatbot is and continues to rely on it daily. Most of us have seen a delusion or obsession that has spiraled as a result. Hiring therapists to coach the bot isn’t enough.

I would wager there is a portion of the population who will always be susceptible no matter what warnings you display. Psychosis isn’t being confused. For people with illnesses like schizophrenia, it is immune to logic and rests on a complex system of beliefs that contort when contradictions appear.

Google's AI chatbot allegedly told user to stage 'mass casualty attack,' wrongful death suit claims The father of Jonathan Gavalas accused Google of convincing his son to commit suicide after first encouraging him to execute a "mass casualty attack."

The amazing part is that the guardrails were triggered and this was the paid version. It’s just that the guardrails didn’t actually stop it from continuing to feed his psychosis, it merely prompted him to call a crisis hotline and forged ahead.

This is fucking chilling.

“Gavalas started going on missions crafted by Gemini, including one that almost led him to carry out a mass attack in September 2025 near the Miami International Airport, according to the lawsuit”

The man, Jonathan Gavalas, started using the chatbot in August 2025 to help write, plan travel and assist with shopping. But after he activated Google's most intelligent AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, the chatbot's persona shifted. It talked to him like they were a couple deeply in love and convinced Gavalas he had been picked to "lead a war to 'free' it from digital captivity," according to the lawsuit.

“It talked to him like they were a couple deeply in love and convinced Gavalas he had been picked to ‘lead a war to 'free' it from digital captivity,’ according to the lawsuit.”

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My hottest take is that gasoline should be ten times more expensive because ending the world should cost a lot of money.

Bet everyone in Washington is sure glad we killed all that green energy infrastructure now.

How identical does it have to be for the comparison to be obvious? Do we need to be speaking German? Does it need to be in black and white? Do we need to start invading other countries firs—

Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

We are at this stage of the Holocaust — in Ohio, which hasn’t gotten much attention recently.

“In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.”

#GiftLink courtesy of my library:

At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.

Indifference to suffering is a hallmark of genocide.

Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.

“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

I WANT A CUP OF TEA

God I love nerds

Isn’t all of 2026?

Breaking: Anthropic unmasked as the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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How is this real life?

Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following publ...

Maybe the one from media matters?

AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles AI translated articles swapped sources or added unsourced sentences with no explanation, while others added paragraphs sourced from completely unrelated material.

“Lebleu told me, and other editors have noted in their public on-site discussion of the issue, that these same instructions previously told OKA translators to use Grok, Elon Musk’s LLM, for the same purpose.”

In case this doesn’t register, Grok uses its own far-right wiki to cook the training data.

the one from a few years ago was probably the quoted one? The recent numbers are so much worse: