Ben Carpenter

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

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How do we get more political things displayed this clearly so Republicans can’t lie to people about what they’re voting for

I see a lot of "ICE is doing this to even CITIZENS!!" responses, and… who cares if it's citizens. Who cares if it's people undocumented or here The Wrong Way. The lustful violence is incommensurate with any possible justification no matter the targets. They are evil. Fundamentally, biblically evil.

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

random but I actually noticed several hundred people ransacking a prominent Washington DC government building a few years ago, any chance we can get started with them? it was on video so it should be pretty easy to track them down

"We don't believe in erasing American history—we honor it," says the guy working for the government that mandated that the website for the Stonewall National Monument erase all mentions of the word "transgender."

i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.

'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

whenever i see grok screenshots i remember how it's running on methane-gas generators in a black neighborhood in memphis www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

"First responders" needs to be abolished from style guides because its purpose is to smuggle cops into a category that includes EMTs and firefighters.

The phrase is deliberate copaganda that allows abusers to borrow an aura of respectability from other groups.

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Amazing how many people will hear a police official say "If you throw a brick we will execute you" and instead of saying "We should get rid of the system that produces these fascist cops" they will say "Don't throw a brick, that's the lesson here"

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

Homeland Security tweets: It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo.

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

The Pittsburgh Pirates Are a Unique Blend of Bad Wasting Paul Skenes is just the tip of the Pirates’ terrible ownership iceberg

i wrote about the cold war between the pittsburgh pirates and their remaining fans, which has reached shambolic off-field lows lately and now threatens a more than century-old tradition of baseball in pittsburgh.

read + share with friends and members of congress www.theringer.com/2025/04/25/m...

new gender neutral greeting just dropped

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody