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jon mothman

@jonchristian.net

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Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · Jun 10

NEW: we talked to a bunch of people who say their family and loved ones became obsessed with ChatGPT and spiraled into severe delusions, convinced that they'd unlocked omniscient entities in the AI that were revealing prophecies, human trafficking rings, and much more

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People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions

A startling number of ChatGPT uses are developing intense, reality-bending AI delusions. The impacts on their real lives are often disastrous.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 8h

me: [trying to sleep]
my leaf paralysis demon:

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12h

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 9h

norman rockwell meme of guy standing up in town hall

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

i mean relatively speaking i'll take it!!

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

no shade to zohran but i feel like this week's socialist champ in new york has to be kathy hochul, for jacking unemployment payments up by *72 percent*

Governor Kathy Hochul and labor leaders today announced the maximum weekly unemployment insurance (UI) benefit increase for unemployed workers across the state. As part of the Governor’s FY26 Enacted Budget, the State invested nearly $7 billion to pay off the federal UI Trust Fund loan, and bring the fund to solvency and increase the maximum weekly benefit from $504 to $869. The increase in UI benefits comes at the same time as the GOP federal shutdown impacts 115,000 federal employees in New York, leaving them without paychecks.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 4d

Genuine question - what are OpenAI’s Sora and other video generation tools good for?

I am honestly trying to understand what is so important that it’s worth the cost. If you have examples, I would be interested to hear them.

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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

There are now one or two of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day.

According to Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that figure is only going to keep climbing.

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Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 2d

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

i feel like legally microsoft should be required to provide an operating system that's graphically identical to windows 98 but has modern security updates that make it safe to use

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

shaking and crying and throwing up as i'm forced to upgrade to windows 11

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

shaking and crying and throwing up as i'm forced to upgrade to windows 11

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 1d

similar, NYC to upstate

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

the price of train tickets in the united states is nauseating after experiencing a country with good rail infrastructure

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

except in the case of Pusha T, when the public naturally has sky-high expectations

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

"The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content."

The forum here is a music recording, in particular a rap “diss track,” with accompanying video and album art. Diss tracks are much more akin to forums like YouTube and X, which “encourag[e] a freewheeling, anything-goes writing style,” than journalistic reporting. Sandals Resorts, 86 A.D.3d at 43 (quotation marks omitted). The average listener is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation, conveying to the public factchecked verifiable content.

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 2d

even without getting into the genocide stuff, columbus was a grubby little buffoon who got amazingly lucky and had no moral center even by the standards of the day

Columbus would never have made it to Asia, which was thousands of miles farther away than he had calculated, imagining a smaller world. He would have been doomed by that great expanse of sea. But he was lucky. One-fourth of the way there he came upon an unknown, uncharted land that lay between Europe and Asia-the Americas. It was early October 1492, and thirty-three days since he and his crew had left the Canary Islands, off the Atlantic coast of Africa. Now they saw branches and sticks floating in the water. They saw flocks of birds.

These were signs of land. Then, on October 12, a sailor called Rodrigo saw the early morning moon shining on white sands, and cried out. It was an island in the Bahamas, the Caribbean sea. The first man to sight land was supposed to get a yearly pension of 10,000 maravedis for life, but Rodrigo never got it. Columbus claimed he had seen a light the evening before. He got the reward.

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Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.social · 3d

A shower curtain that is a screenshot of Ocarina of Time where the text “Water Temple” is on the screen, hung up over a shower.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 3d

who up grinding their stump

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3d

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 3d

Also maybe I'm confused but isn't the median income in the US way higher than that?

www.bls.gov/news.release...

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 3d

i feel like we're living through era of "gas leak politics"

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 3d

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Gay Virginia Republican plagued by Nazi porn scandal brags running mate is ‘100% against’ marriage equality

It's a statewide political ticket of extremes.

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 4d

NEW: People are generating Sora 2 videos of famed physicist Stephen Hawking being horribly brutalized in terrible ways -- no matter how bad you thought OpenAI's guardrails were, I guarantee they're worse

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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming! @darkandwondrous.bsky.social · 10d

As October begins, we contemplate how the sea wind had its way with this now-fungal saint.

scary sea-weathered saint on the church near Hartlepool headland (body of saint is heavily eroded down to a veined or boxwork-like underlying structure of the stone, which looks like weird branching fungus).

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jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 4d

surely they'd flip it around in some unexpected way for the sake of comedy? but who knows

jon mothman @jonchristian.net · 4d

i feel like even family guy (which i despise) probably wouldn't do a bit where a guy in a wheelchair just gets horribly beaten

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