Jessica Kant

Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland

The United States killed all these children last Saturday.

170 of them.

Every. Single. One.

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.”

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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:

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TRAVEL United Airlines can now ban passengers who don't wear headphones Under new policy changes, United Airlines can refuse transport to passengers who play media without headphones.

This is the way.

There's another dynamic going on, which no one in the mainstream press I've seen has touched (though @polgreen.bsky.social got closest), and that's the fact that it is unprecedented to ban or heavily restrict a treatment on the basis that the evidence isn't high quality enough.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

somehow it will be biden's fault

FDA to offer bonus payments to staffers who complete speedy drug reviews The head of the Food and Drug Administration plans to start offering bonus payments to agency drug reviewers who complete their work ahead of the schedule.

The very same people whose platforms were built on the assertion that vaccines with decades of research behind them are "too experimental" now want to create a "one-month drug assessment" pathway and offer bonuses to employees for faster approval.

CBS News exclusively obtained audio of Amodei's remarks at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco. He told the audience that Anthropic and the Department of Defense "have much more in common than we have differences." After expressing his belief in "defending America," Amodei added "we've never questioned specific military operations. We don't see ourselves as having an operational role."

everyone who switched to Claude as if there's an ethical option in all this can feel assured they too are about to help fund World War III.

I would like to say with a straight face that’s what I saw first instead of two monsters and a penis