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Low on the very long list of Epstein crimes, but that evil man's punctuation style is deranged to the point of criminal. Comma use that can only be described as depraved

The new lawsuits against OpenAI are tragic and deeply troubling. One of the plaintiffs, Kate Fox, is suing following the death of her husband, Joe Ceccanti. Ceccanti experienced at least two acute crises following extensive ChatGPT use. He did not survive the second: futurism.com/artificial-i...

NEW -- Interesting discourse is happening in the CharacterAI subreddit re: the promised move to bar minors from unstructured chats. Some users are sad/mad/confused; many are skeptical of age verification. There are also a surprising number of comments like this: futurism.com/artificial-i...

The biggest choice on today's ballots in PA is whether to retain 3 Democratic supreme court justices. The push to remake the court has been driven by billionaire Jeff Yass. In 2022, @propublica.org detailed how Yass had avoided paying $1B in taxes and funneled that money to right-wing causes:

inside you there are two wolves

Westley was a vampire btw

Some thoughts on CharacterAI saying it plans to bar minors from "open-ended" interactions with chatbots on its platform -- my main one being that *not even three months ago*, CAI's CEO said he was perfectly fine with his 6-year-old kid using the site: futurism.com/artificial-i...

So is the “cash for kidneys” sign on my block an economic indicator or

Some details about the amendments made yesterday to the lawsuit brought vs. OpenAI by the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine -- in the year leading up to Adam's death by suicide, OpenAI appeared to repeatedly relax model restrictions around self-harm + suicide discussion. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Excellent thread -- especially this point about current harms. The call to "prevent future superintelligence" misdirects from present power dynamics, extraction, and exploitation.

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A new letter signed by hundreds of public figures from across the ideological spectrum calls for a "prohibition" on building AI "superintelligence" until A. it can be controlled and B. the public wants it. (And right now, polling shows that the public *does not.*) futurism.com/artificial-i...

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The govt doesn't track how often immigration agents detain Americans. So @propublica.org created its own count: -170+ citizens -including nearly 20 kids—2 with cancer -50+ held after agents questioned their citizenship—nearly all Latino By @nicolefoy.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/immi...

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!) www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Automating the contempt spiral into divorce seems like a good way to make sure lots of kids are going to need actual therapy one day—which, crucially, involves calling us on our bullshit in a way we can finally hear, not lavish reinforcement of our biased personal narratives

This is the biggest, toughest article I’ve done about so-called “AI psychosis.” It’s the story of a man who committed a horrific crime in his youth but served his time and against all odds found love and a new life—one that completely unraveled after he started talking to Google’s Gemini chatbot.

Absolutely losing my mind at this unhinged scam text my mom got. And the piper wants to get paid!

had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus futurism.com/future-socie...

2. "ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners" by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social "This piece hit a nerve. These dynamics can emerge even in 'healthy' marriages and between people without serious mental health struggles." futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

2023: apnews.com/article/fact...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

folks surfaced a lot of past brendan carr tweets that seem to contradict his current agenda but i feel like this one got unfairly slept on a bit

Let's get out there and be politically appropriate today folks

One story that’s stuck with me from this reporting is about a family that dissolved after a woman, who is bipolar, suffered a breakdown after encountering in ChatGPT that culminated in physical abuse against her husband. He says this was completely new behavior and had never occurred before. 1/2

Reading the piece the thing that jumps out, over and over, the thing that ChatGPT provides above and beyond what you'd get from, say, venting to a friend about your relationship, is the impression of authority and objectivity because it comes labelled and presented as "knowing everything".

my mom @ pretty much all of my reporting this year basically

I guarantee you are unprepared for this harrowing and deeply reported story about ChatGPT tearing apart countless marriages futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

"The loss is immense…it can be really hard to sort through my feelings to understand what is grief over the end of a marriage, shock from the Black Mirror episode that is my life, anger at Sam Altman, concern for my kids, traces of hope that maybe there's a way to help her, and profound loneliness"

Use ChatGPT for relationship advice at your peril.

NEW: ChatGPT is causing chaos in marriages, as one spouse becomes deeply fixated on AI therapy/advice/spiritual wisdom — alienating the other spouse and, often, resulting in divorce. In some cases, ChatGPT-enmeshed spouses are using the tech to bully their partners. futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

"There is a pendulum swing toward something approaching cancel culture and actual, government-backed censorship on big social media platforms." @jakelahut.writes.news

NEW: A $2.8 million startup has somehow managed to make AI job interviews even worse. Read to the end for one of the most infuriating kickers I can recall! futurism.com/job-applicat...

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A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Happening today: futurism.com/parents-test...

This week's Depresh Mode is a troubling look at the phenomenon of people turning to AI and their mental health getting shot all to hell. If you want to fly people in a plane or sell a ladder, there are all sorts of safety regulations. If you want to offer a bot that claims to be a real person, none.

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 62 www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Come to hear @mharrisondupre.bsky.social , @alexhanna.bsky.social and I dismantle the misplaced enthusiasm for chatbots in therapy, stay for the literal word sausages.

Good to see Elon out there doing his best to calm things down in a moment like this

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

Riley Gaines, O Great Protector of Girls and Women, awfully quiet on Epstein news

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...