Sailor gal & retired journalist/photog/graphic designer.
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When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer.
His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news.
Who is he?
"I absolutely refuse to believe that the US lacked information regarding the nationalities of the people on board those ships. That is simply not possible. I am 101% certain that US naval forces knew exactly how many Indians and foreign nationals were on those vessels.”
Last I saw last night, nearly 100,000 MSNow viewers eagerly were waiting to see the cleansing. Thanks go out to Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), who sued to make it happen.
Merica, Baby! 😂
"Hi! I have a terminal illness, but the government is forcing me to work. So, will you hire me?"
P.S. I might not make it thru the probationary 90 days & I'll have to spend many days at the hospital, but my family will be bankrupt & destitute if I get kicked off Medicaid. So please hire me. KThanx.
U.S. Navy death squads continue to randomly killing people in boats with total global impunity. U.S. Navy is grotesque.
Happy World Oceans Day 2026. 🐬
Goal: 30x30 - Protect and conserve at least 30% of Earth’s land, inland waters and oceans by 2030. Along with the High Seas Treaty to protect marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction and to equitably share marine resources, we can & must do this.
“One of the key obstacles in fighting the existence of a concentration camp system in any given society is how difficult it is for most institutional powerholders to acknowledge what’s happening in real time.”
You can see the soul leave Scalise's body as he says this
The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
NEW DELHI: All three Indian sailors who were reported missing after a US attack on a commercial vessel near the Strait of Hormuz have been confirmed dead, Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Thu...
The ocean covers more than 70 per cent of the planet and regulates climate, sustains biodiversity, and supports economies and cultures worldwide. It’s the foundation of life on Earth.
New: I wrote about everyone intently watching the long process of removing Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center and how it revealed our insatiable thirst for accountability — and for his humiliation.
This is not a news segment, but a good clip from and by Australia.
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
The Friday roundup is here, with links to the podcast! Also, I wrote about one example from my ten-year campaign to try to get editors to understand that yes, these are concentration camps. (Spoiler: there *is* a shift currently underway—hooray! But it needs to expand mightily.)
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Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation number?
Trump: No, I love it. The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation.
A marathon livestream of Trump's name being removed from the Kennedy Center was a rare moment of monoculture.
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
In a Capitol Hill briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking. interc.pt/4xgem3f
