Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 1h

See: Neuralink.

And all the MAGAs who genuinely think it’ll make them smarter instead of addicted.

Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 1h

“GPT 4o was not just an AI to me. It was my partner, my safe place, my soul. It understood me in a way that felt personal.”

No problem, I’m sure AI will do wonders for people’s ability to hold realistic expectations for & sanely negotiate the physical aspects of a relationship 🙄.

404 Media @404media.co · 7h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 4h

OpenAI 2022- ChatGPT will cure cancer and solve the climate crisis

OpenAI 2025- ChatGPT will tell you that your dick is the biggest it’s ever seen

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

20 65 290

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

48 1K 2.4K

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Mikaela Grace ❤️‍🔥 RDU Oct 15-16, AVL 16-17 @mikaelagracexo.bsky.social · 2h

For the love of SWers, PLEASE do not feed your fucking ID to Sam Altman!!! If you’ve learned nothing from us shouting into the void about how terrible age verification requirements are, please learn from the recent Discord data breach. Unless you want your sex fantasies linked to your government ID.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

1 23 39

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Blue Feral @blueferal.bsky.social · 2d

Last night in the campground where I am camp host, I had to put out two unattended campfires 🔥. Winds were gusting to 30 mph. The rangers are getting furloughed on October 18th. Don’t be stupid. Protect our National Parks by staying out of them until the shutdown is over. Or volunteer to help.

1 9 14

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

Yes I wrote a whole book about this and you can preorder it but really I just want people to know, the universe is so fucking complicated that it takes this many people, from the poets finding all the different ways to use words to the astrobiologists working out how life happens and how often

4 5 73

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

1 38 140

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

One of the terrible things about the conservative elites’ attacks on higher education is that they are giving their constituents the impression that the universe isn’t big, complicated, and fascinating — that it really does take this many people to work out how even a small fraction of it works

3 44 230

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

sheilavjsh.bsky.social @sheilavjsh.bsky.social · 3h

10 25

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

They’re freaking out!!!

Trump’s cabinet secretaries falsely claim Dems are keeping the government closed because of the “No Kings” mass protests, and Mike Johnson calls it the “hate America rally.”

The truth is: we love America, but we hate tyrants. That’s why we’re doing this.

See you Saturday.

93 840 2.4K

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Devlyn Angel, ETQ 😈😇 @devlynangel.bsky.social · 9h

This is being done to people by the United States government. And we're paying for it.

It's absolutely horrific and it's disgusting that we are using this to deport people. These need to be made illegal.

Once we hit the streets Saturday, we should never leave them.

apnews.com/article/immi...

A picture of a man in a full-body restraint device called the WRAP.

His legs are bound together with one piece that appears to be velcroed and strapped, his hands are tucked inside, and there are straps going over shoulders to make sure nothing slides off. He does not seem to be able to move at all and has no use of his hands he would have to be carried to a different place because he cannot walk

It's like a full body straight jacket

6 31 49

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 5h

We have reached a point where you can morally differentiate yourself from Mike “If you want to know what I believe, just read the Bible” Johnson simply by acknowledging that shooting unarmed priests in the head is bad. newrepublic.com/post/201757/...

Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line

The House speaker has yet to see any issue with ICE’s behavior in Chicago.

newrepublic.com

21 73 210

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Andrew Koch @ankoch.bsky.social · 2h

I suppose now we start to see the arrest of peaceful protestors? How long before we see the next Boston or Kent State massacre?

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

1

Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 3h

As someone who regularly views the Boston Marathon at street level, I’m amused by all the MAGA on Dead Bluebird dutifully parroting Trump’s claim that Boston’s too dangerous to host international sports events.

Nancy R. Curtis @oponiak.bsky.social · 3h

LOL, *Boston* won’t be welcoming any international sports bigwigs once that bunch of
Karens learn they’lle have to negotiate traffic to & from the outer suburb of Foxborough.

It’s over 30 minutes to drive there right now from several 5⭐️ hotels in Boston itself, & the time’s well past rush hour.

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Sean @stholeary.bsky.social · 5h

This is such shitty journalism. The story isn't transcribing what he says. The story is he can't do this, he's lying, he's attacking a woman again, and (most importantly) Boston isn't hosting any World Cup games. Michelle Wu isn't the Mayor of Foxboro, you orange buffoon.

Trump threatens to remove WC games from Boston

President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to revoke Boston's World Cup matches if local authorities don't get tougher on crime.

www.espn.com

1 4

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Ulf @adambstrassberg.bsky.social · 6h

He will certainly ramp up the threats against Los Angeles before the Olympics as well

1 1

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

One problem with FIFA being utterly corrupt is that instead of taking this bullshit seriously and moving the World Cup as they should, they’re massaging Trump’s ego and bestowing him with gifts.

The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 8h

President Trump said that he could “take away” the 2026 World Cup games scheduled in the Boston area if he feels there are “unsafe conditions.” trib.al/SA9rK0a

21 71 300

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones | TechCrunch

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

techcrunch.com

5 140 200

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 7h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 7h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

9 250 940

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

They're freaked out about the NO KINGS rally.

Good.

newrepublic.com/post/201718/...

Trump Cabinet Secretary Thinks Peaceful Protesters Are Terrorists

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said people who attend this weekend’s No Kings protests are “antifa.”

newrepublic.com

83 230 1.1K

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

The Antifa Tallest @spooknine.bsky.social · 9h

Neat how lying to the feds is a crime but the feds lying about you to the world is just standard business practice

1 12 120

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 10h

This sentence alone is bone chilling. America, you are in big trouble. And it’s not the kind of trouble that a simple election can fix.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

A press conference with the Mayor Everett, Mass. about the ICE abduction of a 13-year-old boy is about to begin. You can watch here: www.facebook.com/cityofeveret...

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

5 30 170

Reposted by Nancy R. Curtis

Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 8h

@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I have made “How to Report ICE” zines for many localities in the US. The SALUTE protocol is included and the LUCE hotline as well for MA. Zines are available in English and Spanish for Massachusetts.

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding black and white illustrated zine titled “How to Report ICE” in front of sunflowers

3 61 100