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I’m Looking at You, Gene

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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis”
Futurism | June 28, 2025 | Maggie Harrison Dupré

As we reported earlier this month, many ChatGPT users are developing all-consuming obsessions with the chatbot, spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia, delusions, and breaks with reality.

The consequences can be dire. As we heard from spouses, friends, children, and parents looking on in alarm, instances of what’s being called “ChatGPT psychosis” have led to the breakup of marriages and families, the loss of jobs, and slides into homelessness.

And that’s not all. As we’ve continued reporting, we’ve heard numerous troubling stories about people’s loved ones being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — or even ending up in jail — after becoming fixated on the bot.

“I was just like, I don’t f*cking know what to do,” one woman told us. “Nobody knows who knows what to do.”

Her husband, she said, had no prior history of mania, delusion, or psychosis. He’d turned to ChatGPT about 12 weeks ago for assistance with a permaculture and construction project; soon, after engaging the bot in probing philosophical chats, he became engulfed in messianic delusions, proclaiming that he had somehow brought forth a sentient AI, and that with it he had “broken” math and physics, embarking on a grandiose mission to save the world. His gentle personality faded as his obsession deepened, and his behavior became so erratic that he was let go from his job. He stopped sleeping and rapidly lost weight.

“He was like, ‘just talk to [ChatGPT]. You’ll see what I’m talking about,'” his wife recalled. “And every time I’m looking at what’s going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t.”

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Straight Line of the Day: A Russian Warship Snuck by the British in the English Channel. How?

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Much like Washington’s Crossing of the Unaware.

Russian naval ship ‘disguised’ itself while passing through English Channel
BBC | 06/24/2025 | Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham & Matt Murphy

{Very glad they assigned Mr. “Cheetham” to this story.}

A Russian warship disguised itself using a fake ID signal while travelling through the English Channel with two sanctioned oil tankers, a BBC Verify investigation has found.

The Boikiy – a corvette armed with guided missiles – broadcast the fake ID code as it passed through the Channel on Saturday.

  • Transmitted: “Would you like to come back to my place, Boikiy Boikiy?”
  • Pretended to be fish looking for chips and greasy capitalist newspapers.
  • Nobody expects the Spanish Borschtmada!
  • Pretended to be zlotysom and nyetsome.
  • Pretended to be battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
  • Endorsed — in the clear, loudly — rum, sodomy, and the lash.
  • Pretended to be filming remake of “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” with Shelley Winters in the role of Jonathan Winters. Who doesn’t want to see that?
  • Told Prince Charles — I mean, King Charles — they were Greta on yet another mission.
  • Signalled “England Expects Every Man Will Pay His Duty.”
  • Pretended to be a flotilla of illegal muslim immigrants from Iraq of Gibralter.
  • Sang “Rus Britannia” in thoroughly vodka-soaked voices.
  • Went at tea-time.
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Happy Fourth!

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I asked the interns to provide some fireworks for today, but this was all I got:

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See ya, England and monarchies. Wouldn’t want to be ya.:

Gen. Charle O’Hara surrendering to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln.
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Dear New York: I’d Like To Get Handed $100k To Work for the “Department of Sustainable Delivery”

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And get $10 million for my kid’s pilot-program child care. Kthx.

NYC’s massive $116B budget cracks down on e-bikes, includes $10M for universal childcare — and millions for immigrant services
ny post | June 27, 2025 | Matthew Fischetti and David Propper

“David, what’s your last name?”

“Propper.”

“I mean your surname.”

“Propper.”

“I mean the name on your paycheck.”

“Propper.”

“That’s what I’m trying to find out!”

Mayor Eric Adams on Friday struck a handshake deal with the City Council on a record-breaking nearly $116 billion budget — which would create a new department to regulate e-bikes, sources said.

The tentative agreement includes $6.1 million for a new “Department of Sustainable Delivery,’’ which would be staffed by 60 people and dedicated to e-bike regulation and enforcement after a recent push by the Adams administration to rein in the two-wheelers. …

The spending plan will also include $10 million for a universal-child-care pilot program — after the issue became a hot topic in the Democratic mayoral primary race.

Democrats: Gotta Go Easy on Drunk Driving Illegal Aliens

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” … Bring me the wretched refuse of your teeming shores… “

160 Dems vote against bill to deport foreigners convicted of drunk driving
Not The Bee | June 27, 2025 | Joel Abbott

The Dems often like to frame bills with titles like “Save The Puppies Act” so they can accuse Republicans of hating puppies when the vote divides along party lines, but Republicans weren’t trying to frame anything here.

160 Democrats simply didn’t like the idea of deporting foreign nationals with DUIs.

The name of the bill is literally the “Protect Our Communities from DUIs Act.”

H.R. 875 is named after three victims of drunk driving. Jeremy and Angel Seay, Alabama; newlyweds who were killed by a drunk illegal alien. Sergeant Brandon Mendoza was likewise killed in Mesa, Arizona, in 2014 by a drunk illegal.

Under the Biden admin, illegals were allowed to drive without valid licenses, insurance, or registration. If they got into an accident while drunk, they were usually released. Those who were deported often returned multiple times and faced no penalties.

H.R. 875 reads:

“To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that aliens who have been convicted of or who have committed an offense for driving while intoxicated or impaired are inadmissible and deportable.”

That’s it. The bill is just over two pages long. All it does is allow foreigners to be deported or denied entry to the U.S. after they have been convicted of or admitted to drunk driving.

160 Democrats voted AGAINST that.

So, Democrats are not against the Corona virus, after all.

They are in favor of you losing your rights after being convicted of drunk driving: don’t get me wrong. But they are not in favor of illegal aliens losing their — well, not exactly rights — after being convicted of drunk driving.

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