A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women (Anna Tong/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/05/07…
This would seem to point to a problem with the police and access to these readers more than the systems. Though some of these systems have also been cited for insecurity.
Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 18 Times in Recent Years https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/
Mitch McConnell has remained in the hospital for nearly a month.
Multiple media outlets have reported that police scanner traffic from the day of McConnell’s hospitalization revealed paramedics responded to a cardiac arrest
and performed CPR on an individual at an address connected to McConnell.
His office has not commented on the recording.
The lack of concrete information has led to a spate of unverified theories about McConnell’s health
— including claims b…
Dogs are a constant reminder that it's possible for one to be noble without being dignified.
Periodic reminder that “rate your pain on a scale from 1 to 10" is bullshit without reference points. People with chronic pain, tough guys, people with intense periods, and people who struggle with interoception all struggle when the endpoints are nebulous.
Let me introduce you to the DVPRS: https://www.va.gov/WHOLEHEALTHLIBRARY/docs/Defense-and-Veterans-Pain-Rating-Scale.pdf
It even works if you substitute pain for general impact. If you're asked to rate a symptom on a scale from 1 to 10, this works too.
0 = No pain
1 = Hardly notice pain
2 = Notice pain, does not interfere with activities
3 = Sometimes distracts me
4 = Distracts me, can do usual activities
5 = Interrupts some activities
6 = Hardto ignore, avoid usual activities
7 = Focus of attention, prevents doing daily activities
8 = Awful, hard to do anything
9 = Can’t bear the pain, unable to do anything
10 = As bad as it could be, nothing else matters
10 is still pretty subjective there, but "nothing else matters" is clear enough, and really 9 or 10 isn't really a big difference in how much it matters clinically. (It tells the clinician if an intervention helps though)
In this era of AI-juiced unilateral decision-making, I'm reminded of the saying, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.”
I swear, someone forgot to remind the fascist gen AI boosters that they already ran the chatbot human interface paradigm into the ground c. 2015
After civil unrest in Belfast, Ofcom reminds social platforms to heed the Online Safety Act, including by mitigating risks of content that provokes violence (William James/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel