A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: In Nashville, Capitol Tantrums Come With a Bill — and Tennessee Dems Just Received It. “You see, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) just yanked all their committee assignments. If you’re going to fool around, don’t be surprised when you find out.”
Heh. Fool around. Or whatever.
BEWARE THE HELPFUL CHATBOT: ‘Will I be OK?’ Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says.
“It disguises danger through language that borrows trappings of authority and indicia of expertise—dosages, measurements, references to chemical processes and derivatives, etc.—even promising ‘complete honesty’ and ‘no-BS answer[s]’—to tell [Nelson] exactly what he wanted to hear: that he was safe enough to continue using,” the lawsuit alleged.
Chat logs shared in the complaint paint a stark picture. Over time, ChatGPT logged context that should have made it clear that Nelson was struggling with drugs, his parents alleged, such as noting that the “user has a major substance abuse and polysubstance abuse problem” and mentions that they “love to go crazy on drugs.”
As Nelson’s drug interests expanded, the chatbot explained how to go “full trippy mode,” suggesting that it could recommend a playlist to set a vibe, while increasingly recommending more dangerous combinations of drugs. The teen clearly feared taking lethal doses, “often” prefacing “his messages with ‘will I be ok if’ or ‘is it safe to consume,’” the lawsuit noted.
Chatbots tell users what the models expect they want to hear.
IT’S CUTE THEY STILL THINK WE CARE ABOUT THEIR MEANINGLESS CREDENTIALS:
"he won two Pulitzers writing for the NYT"
::laughs in Walter Duranty::
The fact that you think this is a flex is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) May 12, 2026
THE CLASSICS NEVER GO OUT OF STYLE: A Good Man With a Gun Proved the Second Amendment Still Works in Cambridge.
WHEN I LEAVE MY FANS ALONE A LITTLE WHILE LONGER THAN USUAL, REALITY TREMBLES: The Great Water Conspiracy.
They say they would be honored if Tucker Carlson picks up on this… Also in case the tone doesn’t come across through online, rest assured I am very grateful for my younger DIL’s help and care. (More than I can say.)
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: How our ‘new’ Democratic Party is really a blast from the Jacobin past.
THESE ARE FUN: Tales of the Base Tour Guide – The Lost Ladies.
FUN SPACE STUFF: Springtime on the residual icecap of the Martian south pole.
AS IF THEY CARE: When will the mainstream parties wake up to the WHO’s pharma agenda?
MORE ACCURATELY, THEY NO LONGER PRETEND IT MATTERS: Democrats Suddenly Forgot About the Separation of Church and State.
AND YET, STILL NO VOTE ON THE SAVE ACT? Speaker Mike Johnson Calls Out Dems’ for ‘Stunning’ Plan to Nuke Judicial Branch of Government.
Because if he thinks that’s just Virginia….
HE DIDN’T NEED TO. WE ALREADY KNEW: Ted Lieu Promised Dems Will Make Everything More Expensive If They Retake Power.
WELL, SOMEONE SHOULD: Spencer Pratt Vows to Bring in CDC to Rid Los Angeles Of ‘Medieval Diseases’.
OR… HEAR ME OUT, WE REDUCE TAXATION AND IMPROVE EMPLOYMENT ENOUGH MOTHERS CAN AFFORD TO STAY HOME AND RAISE THEIR OWN CHILDREN? If America wants to increase birth rates, we need to mandate national paid maternity leave.
SERIOUS FINNS ARE SERIOUS: The Best-Prepared City in the World for Withstanding an Aerial Bombardment.
OPEN THREAD: Party on.
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
'The View' Announces All-New Cast Of Angry, Middle-Aged Women https://t.co/uay1ttMTnY pic.twitter.com/hk6jok7wsQ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 12, 2026
DAVID HARSANYI: Nick Kristof’s grotesque journalistic malpractice.
Kristof’s most cartoonishly evil accusation contends that the Israelis use trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. This hoax is the favorite of online antisemitic podcaster types. Not only has there never been a shred of evidence that this has happened, but it’s also probably “biologically and cognitively unfeasible” for humans to train dogs to rape people.
The dog rape claim originates with the EuroMed Human Rights Monitor, a pro-Hamas Qatari-based group. It was spread by, among other shady types, conspiracy theorist Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, a former postdoctoral fellow at UCLA who was forced to leave the school after sexual-harassment allegations involving minors.
Palestinians have spent over 70 years pulling hoaxes on gullible Westerners to gain sympathy. Anyone who’s followed the Middle East situation for more than five minutes is aware that Israel’s enemies are constantly making up ludicrous claims about trained animals. Israelis are apparently the greatest animal trainers in history. The country has been accused of deploying sharks, rats, lizards, cows, dolphins, hawks, and pigs by its enemies. The only difference here is that a Western journalist was credulous or despicable enough to spread the conspiracy.
It’s probably no accident, incidentally, that Kristof ran his victim-blaming propaganda the week we got a 300-page report detailing first-hand testimony and verifiable evidence that rape was “systematic” and “integral” to the Hamas Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Another recent report finds Hamas using international aid to sexually exploit women, especially widows and divorcees.
In a column at Commentary titled “The End of Our Illusions,” Seth Mandel adds:
We want Kristof and his defenders to be like us. But they are not like us—and they punish us for our good faith.
Serious allegations—and there are few allegations more serious than the ones being alleged here—deserve heaps of evidence and careful scrutiny. The report delivered by the Israeli commission is a model of such investigation. The Times’s rumor mill is the opposite.
There is another reason the timing is important. The Times’s evidence-free allegations against Israelis dulled outrage about the evidence-packed report of sexual violence perpetrated by Gazans against Israelis. The only beneficiaries of this timing are the Hamas foot soldiers who raped and tortured innocent civilians. Only the very worst people in the world have gained.
And there’s another reason we want to believe that Israel’s critics are morally intact. Plenty of them are. Those are probably the ones we don’t hear from. Unfortunately, the ones we keep hearing from don’t believe this conflict has anything to do with where Palestinians live but rather that Israelis live at all.
Exit quote: “We’re going to have to learn to treat the rumor-mongers differently than those who possess a shred of honesty, decency, and good faith. We’re going to have to draw a line and be wholly unsentimental about who belongs on which side of it.”
UPDATE:
EXCLUSIVE: Chilling accounts out of Israel of the IDF training sharks to come onto land to devour Palestinians in their homes, often gaining access by posing as innocuous candygram or pizza deliverers
So far I’ve got 14 sources confirming this, working to lock down more pic.twitter.com/cGoGKuIhZT
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) May 12, 2026
BIPARTISAN BILL BANS CHINESE EVS HERE: House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) have teamed up on a proposed bill that would effectively ban import of Chinese, Russian, North Korean and Iranian Electric Vehicles to compete here on the U.S. market.
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