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Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/tech/openai-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-lawsuit…

Families of Tumbler Ridge shooting victims sue OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman
Seven families of victims in a February school shooting sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday, alleging the company and its ChatGPT chatbot were complicit in the injuries or deaths of their children.

I just found a post-it note from my wife at the breakfast table:
"I'm offline today."
On the sofa lies the first Discworld Witches novel "Equal Rites", with a bookmark a few pages in.
She wrote her first "I aten't dead" note without realizing it yet. 😍
#discworld

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview.

Good morning and happy Monday, lovely people of the internet. 🌤☕🥳
Just remember that today is also a new day to look to the future with hope. (Or something like that.)
#DavidLynch #meme #funny …

Octopussy: felt like it might be classic for the first half hour, then devolved into the same bland mush as the other Moore films. Man, the rewatch of the catalogue is completely changing my relationship to the memories of these films.
And I don't remember them ever actually improving from here...

Based on reports as of March 2026,
the U.S. and Ecuador are collaborating on "Operation Total Extermination"
against, targeting, and destroying "narcotics-related sites" in South America.
While offering further strikes, this strategy faces criticism for failing to reduce urban insecurity and surging homicide rates within Ecuador, despite the military operations
Critics argue this strategy prioritizes
"videos that the Pentagon could shar…

The Holes in Trump’s ‘Shield of the Americas’
Military operations won’t produce real security for Latin America if there is no strategy beyond targeting cartel leaders with lethal force.

I laughed out loud when we came across the car with this license plate. 😄
Then my wife asked me why I was laughing. :loading:
#1337 #licenseplate

Why are we having fewer children?
(Interview with Berkay Ozcan, Professor at LSE)
- Couple formation happens at later age
- Women are choosing "careers" and not just "jobs"
- More people choose not to have kids at all
What else is going on? Short anser: we don't know yet
Even in countries providing a lot of support to parents, fertility rate has still declined
Immigration is no silver bullet. It's part of the solution, not th…

Berkay Ozcan: “Immigration is not a silver bullet for falling birth rates”
Berkay Ozcan discusses falling birth rates, whether immigration might provide the answer and what a smaller global population would mean for the environment.

Looks like studies of hominins in East Asia are this week's goodies. Following on from the study of H. sapiens expansion routes into East Asia, we've now got this remarkable dating of H. erectus suggesting rapid expansion out of Africa 1.9 million years ago.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

AI companies are raising at valuations that require them to grow at rates that are only achievable by chasing the broadest possible market with the most generic possible product.
A company that raises at a $500M valuation needs to show a path to billions in revenue,
which means it can't afford to be a niche tool that does one thing brilliantly for a specific audience.
It has to be a platform, horizontal, aimed at enterprise, built for no one in particular.
Ever…

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and