https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactance_(psychology)

Six weeks ago, I was elected to Congress. I’m still waiting to be sworn in.

*WIRED obtained notes from a Social Security Administration management meeting, where employees pressed leadership on plans for the agency.*

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transcription: im like “hey lets play magic the gathering” and then ten minutes later my tongue is in the mouth of someones daughter whos parents still call her son

She says a lot more but my eye rolling made me stop reading after the first five sentences

Seven families filed lawsuits against OpenAI on Thursday, claiming that the company’s GPT-4o model was released prematurely and without effective safeguards. Four of the lawsuits address ChatGPT’s alleged role in family members’ suicides, while the other three claim that ChatGPT reinforced harmful delusions that in some cases resulted in inpatient psychiatric care.

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TranscriptionA close-up picture of a fox lying on its side, looking at the camera. Its mouth is slightly open in a friendly expression.

Die Pflegebeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Katrin Staffler, hat sich dafür ausgesprochen, die Leistungen für Haushaltshilfen im Pflegegrad 1 von aktuell 131 Euro im Monat künftig nicht mehr allen Pflegebedürftigen zu zahlen: “Was aus meiner Sicht nicht hilfreich wäre, wenn das Geld dazu verwendet wird, dass jemand anderes die Wohnung putzt, während der Pflegebedürftige, für den Aktivierung möglicherweise hilfreich wäre, nur auf der Couch hockt”, so die CSU-Politikerin. Das berge die Gefahr, noch immobiler zu werden. Gerade Bewegung sei im Alter enorm wichtig, um den Kreislauf zu stärken und dem Muskelabbau entgegenzuwirken, betonte sie.

TranscriptionA picture of a tabby cat standing; his ears looks as if they’d been pinched together at the bottom. The caption reads “This is Hobbes. Hobbes has funny ears and mind control powers. You love Hobbes.”

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I did this artwork during a challenge with my friends. The basis was taken of the street of Lisbon, and the task was to turn it into some kind of post-apocalyptic landscape.

Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that people had bought purely because the company that sold them decided to no longer support them or run backend infrastructure needed play them. While the movement found very little purchase at first, it resurfaced earlier this summer when Scott and a fellow YouTuber got into it over why the campaign failed to launch. That back and forth between them went somewhat viral, which in turn led at least one high-ranking EU politician to express interest in the movement.

A federal judge told the Department of Education to remove “partisan” language blaming “Democrat Senators” for the government shutdown from furloughed federal workers’ out-of-office email messages.

Denmark’s government has announced a plan to ban social media access for anyone under 15. The Ministry of Digitalization has led the move, allowing some parents to consent for children as young as 13 after assessment.

Lai, arrested in 2020, calls the region his ‘Canadian home,’ niece says.

Fun fact: Canada’s largest trading partner in the past was the UK. Let’s replace America’s current place with Mexico and Europe.

Artist: Albino | pixiv | twitter | danbooru

Boris Johnson and figures linked to him are engaging in an effort to undermine the BBC’s leadership, insiders fear, after the leaking of a memo criticising its reporting of Donald Trump, trans rights and Gaza.

This is a change.org petition

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From Harold Wilion

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My spouse wanted music to come on automatically in our bathrooms, so I made the Apollo Light - a light-activated music player. I’m pretty proud of it, and my wife loves it. They’ll end up in every bathroom we have.

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I have quite a few older Android devices, my main device runs 8(O) and I have some on 7(N), 6(M), 5(L). 4.1~4.4 support was already gone with Fenix, but now it seems like they got 5/6/7 as well. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

In the first ten months of 2025, trade between China and Russia dropped by 8.7% year-on-year, totaling $184.7 billion, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs.