Daily reminder to Americans on this website that American war on Iran is bad because Iranians are getting killed not because you can no longer afford going to the movies in the weekends or refill your car 😒
A whistleblower is dead, and it is making heads turn to look at top tech bros.Sam Altman, the new pal of President Donald Trump, is facing a
A whistleblower is dead, and it is making heads turn to look at top tech bros.
Sam Altman, the new pal of President Donald Trump, is facing a campaign from the mother of former employee Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment after his New York Times interview on OpenAI using copyrighted data.
RadarOnline.com reported an exclusive piece, Balaji's mother, Poornima Ramararo, suggested the evidence they have shows a different story.
She characterized her son as a "happy-go-lucky engineer."
Renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Ronald Graeser saw two major indicators that flagged the likelihood of foul play. First, there were massive levels of GHB in his system. GHB is known as the date-rape drug because it significantly incapacitates the individual. Incapacitated people don't generally shoot themselves. They're incapacitated. Still, the medical examiner brushed it off as "self-induced."
There's one main forensic inconsistency: the blood-splatter pattern is an angle consistent with a shooter standing over the victim. The family also pointed out other concerns about minor injuries that weren't included in the medical examiner's conclusions.
"I don't think it's a suicide – and that leaves deliberate homicide or murder," Graeser said.
Then there's the scene itself. The wires to his security camera were cut. There was blood in two rooms, a random wig left in the room, and Balaji ordered DoorDash before allegedly committing suicide, which seems inconsistent with those who are distraught.
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.
"Balaji’s death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence program that has become a moneymaking sensation used by hundreds of millions of people across the world.
Its public release in late 2022 spurred a torrent of lawsuits against OpenAI from authors, computer programmers and journalists, who say the company illegally stole their copyrighted material to train its program and elevate its value past $150 billion.
The Mercury News and seven sister news outlets are among several newspapers, including the New York Times, to sue OpenAI in the past year.
In an interview with the New York Times published Oct. 23, Balaji argued OpenAI was harming businesses and entrepreneurs whose data were used to train ChatGPT.
“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he told the outlet, adding that “this is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole.”
Balaji grew up in Cupertino before attending UC Berkeley to study computer science. It was then he became a believer in the potential benefits that artificial intelligence could offer society, including its ability to cure diseases and stop aging, the Times reported. “I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them,” he told the newspaper.
But his outlook began to sour in 2022, two years after joining OpenAI as a researcher. He grew particularly concerned about his assignment of gathering data from the internet for the company’s GPT-4 program, which analyzed text from nearly the entire internet to train its artificial intelligence program, the news outlet reported.
The practice, he told the Times, ran afoul of the country’s “fair use” laws governing how people can use previously published work. In late October, he posted an analysis on his personal website arguing that point.
No known factors “seem to weigh in favor of ChatGPT being a fair use of its training data,” Balaji wrote. “That being said, none of the arguments here are fundamentally specific to ChatGPT either, and similar arguments could be made for many generative AI products in a wide variety of domains.”
Reached by this news agency, Balaji’s mother requested privacy while grieving the death of her son.
In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions."
i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness
I wanted to share some more of these, specifically trans women of color. The images I'm posting are from a project called To Survive On This Shore and it's an interview project. I am only posting a handful so it's so worth checking out!
This is Linda, 60
Alexis, 64
Helena, 63
Kendrah, 72 (!!)
Tasha, 65
It was deeply healing to me to discover this project. The site has selected photos and attached interviews and it's definitely worth your time. I didn't include any because the focus of this post imo is transfems but there are a lot of beautiful interviews with transmasc people too if you're interested! But that'll have to be another post 💖
Lebanon is currently being bombed with thousands displaced and hundreds martyred. The Israeli strikes are intensifying and nearly one million people are displaced as of 3/12/2026.
Below are a few sources accepting donations to provide food, aide, and more to those affected. If you have any means to donate please do so.
The Lebanese Red Cross - provides life saving medical services across the country
Lebanese Food Bank - distributing food and essential supplies to those who are directly affected and displaced
Egna Legna Besidet - a women migrant domestic worker run humanitarian and advocacy organization providing humanitarian assistance and emergency aide for migrant domestic workers
If anyone has any other places to donate, please share.
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