Jesse
@jessemerle.bsky.social
Lawyer in social enterprise and impact investing:
-Director @ Lookout PBC (2024 Pulitzer Winner).
-Counsel @ Kiva Capital.
-Lecturer @ Berkeley Law.
Married to a Dirty Immigration Lawyer.
-Director @ Lookout PBC (2024 Pulitzer Winner).
-Counsel @ Kiva Capital.
-Lecturer @ Berkeley Law.
Married to a Dirty Immigration Lawyer.
“OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week”
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
“OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week”
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Something something about public charities holding their assets in the public trust… but seems like that ship has sailed
November 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Something something about public charities holding their assets in the public trust… but seems like that ship has sailed
Stephen Gillers’s advice to Brad Karp not looking too hot these days
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Stephen Gillers’s advice to Brad Karp not looking too hot these days
Interesting. Looks like they were still citing the task force in June… wonder if anything happened with the other strike forces in this case
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Four Leaders Of Notorious Nuestra Familia Prison Gang Sentenced For Racketeering Conspiracy
OAKLAND – Four top leaders of the Nuestra Familia (NF) prison gang were sentenced today to federal prison terms ranging from 120 months to 175 months following their convictions at trial for racketeer...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Interesting. Looks like they were still citing the task force in June… wonder if anything happened with the other strike forces in this case
www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr...
www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr...
The suicide issue isn’t going away for OpenAI…
This is fucking bone-chilling
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The suicide issue isn’t going away for OpenAI…
Part way through and think it’s quite a good convo. Can you link to the paper she wrote?
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Part way through and think it’s quite a good convo. Can you link to the paper she wrote?
Heard defense counsel really grilled the officers
November 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Heard defense counsel really grilled the officers
Waziema! Use to be my spot when I lived over there. Glad it’s getting love.
Should just tell them to come to Oakland tho :)
Should just tell them to come to Oakland tho :)
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Waziema! Use to be my spot when I lived over there. Glad it’s getting love.
Should just tell them to come to Oakland tho :)
Should just tell them to come to Oakland tho :)
Reports of ICE ads on #Spotify were noted in early October. People began calling for boycotts immediately.
Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.
And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏
#BoycottSpotify
Now, nearly a month later Spotify is seeing major losses.
And we can do ever BETTER. 👏👏👏
#BoycottSpotify
November 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Being a PBC doesn’t guarantee that a company will be a “good” company, but it does mean it has to communicate with and identify and consider the interests of its various stakeholders.
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To be clear being a PBC doesn’t mean that BlueSky *must* do what’s in “the best interests of those materially affected by [it’s] conduct” only that it must balance those interests against the pecuniary interests of its stockholders and its public purpose set forth in its Charter. IOW…
Part of the reason I convinced myself to join this network is bc @jay.bsky.team formed BSKY as a Public Benefit Corporation (initially a PBLLC), which means its directors and officers are legally obligated to consider “the best interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct.”
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Being a PBC doesn’t guarantee that a company will be a “good” company, but it does mean it has to communicate with and identify and consider the interests of its various stakeholders.
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