there's this guy who works at the convenience store next to my job and every time i come in he tries to upsell me. i'll get a gatorade and he'll say "that's it...? isn't it snacktime?" i'll get a snack and he'll say "just that? don't you want more?"
one time i got a huge pile of stuff and he STILL said it and i said "dude, you would not be satisfied with all the riches of heaven!!" and he said "i don't even get a commission. i just love doing this."
and then i couldnt come in for a while and then i came in again today for just a charger. and i said "that's it today" with a smile. and he looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said "no it isn't. you'll be back later. you'll have to get thirsty eventually, won't you?" with this conniving smile that made me realize i WAS thirsty. i'm out of my depth here. help
Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?
Wow thatās crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one anotherās throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And donāt have any kids yourself.
also while im bitching. i would like to say that, when people are complaining about cloudflare, they're not saying "no one should use CDNs". it's either complaints about cloudflare as a service provider, or cloudflare as yet another single point of failure. fortunately for that last point there are more web apps using CDNs other than cloudflare than there are web apps using cloud providers other than AWS. loathe as i am to say something nice about akamai.
one time i told a group of lesbian and bi women that i have never watched wicked and they were shocked, gagged, gooped, ābut youāre queer. you like pussy. how have you not seen wicked?ā yeah. well. i like pussy, not musicals?
"i don't like rap it's overstimulating" LITERALLY how. What are you even TALKING about. What do you mean "overstimulating" it's effectively just people fucking talking fast to a beat and it's literally fire??? How is that overstimulating?? Rap is such a broad genre and i still can't think of a single rap song i know that could possibly be overstimulating??? It's such a stupid fucking argument
Not an invitation for people to explain how it's overstimulating by the way i don't care. get over yourself just say it's not really your style(???) and move on. You don't need to cry "it's overstimulating!" "it's violent/graphic!" you are not helping your case at all whatsoever. Like you're allowed to just kinda not listen to it that much but the minute you desperately try to justify not liking rap then you are just being racist
It is literally crazy how often people will, without a hint of irony, say shit like "if you are into cnc/intox/somno/incest/etc I'll fucking kill you/kill yourself/you should fucking die" all in a million variations and it's like damn, looks like someone is really thinking about inflicting violence, you could even say perhaps fantasizing about it, quite a lot. But don't worry you're wayyy better than those filthy degenerates because unlike them, you don't ask for consent before telling them to kill themselves, negotiate boundaries prior, keep channels of communication open, and care for them afterwards and strengthen the relationship. No you're sooo much more moral than them cause you actually just want them to die. No further reflection needed š
AI Psychosis and the implications of its existence
Actually as shitty as the existence of AI psychosis is, the implications of it are FUCKING MIND-BOGGLING in actually a really revolutionary way.
("WTF are you talking about?" / "What do we currently know about AI psychosis?": x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x)
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.
Paywall free, via Futurism, June 28, 2025
Like, as someone who works professionally editing mental health books, the existence of AI psychosis almost certainly completely upends our understandings of how mental health disorders work. And their causes.
There's a non-zero chance the discovery/existence of AI psychosis is like. going to be/lead to more or less the mental health equivalent of inventing germ theory.
Like, we went from only sort of beginning to suspect to having actual, literal, indisputable proof that you can go from not having a psychotic disorder to having a psychotic disorder literally just from talking too much to a very aggrandizing source and/or echo chamber
THAT SEVERELY UPENDS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND ORIGINS OF MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS
**Note: I am using "psychotic" and "psychotic disorders" in their technical definition here, which is simply "involves experiencing breaks from reality." Because, contrary to all the stigma and misinformation, that's the literal/actual definition (x, x, x)
And like, obviously, in at least many cases, there would be/often are genetic, environmental, or trauma factors that are putting their thumbs on the scale there. But we know for a fact that a number of people who have developed AI psychosis do not have a previous record of mental health issues.
But the tipping factor for at least dozens of people, we now know for a fact, was talking to an AI chatbot. And we have a complete record of what was said for almost every single one of those cases, because, among other things, OpenAI / ChatGPT is now LEGALLY REQUIRED to preserve ALL CHAT TRANSCRIPTS, even if users delete them, until the court says otherwise (x, x, x).
(Which will be, by the way, years, at a minimum - that may have started with a copyright lawsuit, but there will be so many other AI lawsuits and investigations, including about AI psychosis, in the EU if not the US - this will go on for a while)
Anyway, yeah, good news in the long term for the understanding and treatment of mental health disorders
In the short term, seriously, please don't use chatbots for at least another couple of years, as a safety precaution
At least until they've sorted this shit out and (HOPEFULLY) figured out how to make this shit stop happening (and then, hopefully, actually implemented those changes).
Just call it a basic safety precaution - especially if you have any sort of neurodivergence and/or any history or family history of hallucinations, delusions, schizophrenia / schizo-spectrum, psychotic spectrum disorders, etc.
All of this will, I strongly suspect, be incredibly validating to a great many trauma survivors, abuse survivors, cult survivors, and members of the mad community
And it will hopefully really transform our understanding of how to understand and treat mental health issues, and particularly psychotic disorders, in really, really profound and positive ways. Which would be great, bc we're pretty fucking shit at understanding and treating them right now!
male entitlement in academic spaces is so boring. canāt tell you how many times iāve been in a class and a girl gives a short, insightful analysis, and then a dude raises his hand and saysĀ ājumping off of thatā¦ā then says literally the same thing she said but longer and worse.
I hate to be that guy, but it doesnāt just happen to women. The assholes who do that will do that to anyone whoās analysis isnāt sufficiently complex and long winded for them.Ā
Been done to me by people of both genders.Ā
Also I have been guilty of doing this, so I apologize. Because I was overly excited and just couldnāt wait to talkā¦. yeah.Ā
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