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Why is "blind merged mining" called that? Dreadfully misleading name; it's nothing like blind signatures. It means L1 miners don't have to run L2 nodes; so sure, it conveys something, but there's another thing that would be cool, which it sounds like, but which it isn't 😄
If you made L2 commitments on L1 but steganographically, and you could prove them after confirmation with ZKPs, you'd remove the censorship risk (more crudely: merged mining gives censorship control to miners of various flavors depending on design).
*ZKP or could just be encryption, commit-reveal. The point is the steganographic part so no one sees the L2 commitment until after it's in a buried block.
Amazing! I don’t have so many aesthetic things to look at, but I do have sprouts that bring me immense joy.
I’ll be transplanting all successful sprouts on the 24th and retrying my luck with direct sown for the ones that didn’t germinate.
So far successful sprouts are as follows: Beefsteak tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, sunflowers*tall sungold, velvet queen, autumn beauty, lemon queen, red sun*, golden bantam corn, pole beans, zucchini, as well as 6 whopper tomatoes I received from my grandparents and transplanted
(Having trouble uploading them in the correct order and I know it’s not so intuitive, I hope you enjoy anyway)
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I know I didn't really #rupertsbackyardtoday over the weekend so here's a dump.
Always gotta share the purple...
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Morning glory tower starting to pop off...
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Funky little amanita for @nprofile…9xkw
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Two little ramshorns for @nprofile…fluy, with bonus tadpoles in one of these shots.
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Volunteer fern!
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Another blush of blooms on my crinum!
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Hollyhock seedling? Bind weed vine? We'll find out eventually...
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And last, but not least, cilantro flowers for those seeds I was talking about.
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Elderberry seems to bring a wide variety of insects in & it flowers early.
Little white flowers (like brassicas) are good. Something like a radish is quick to mature & flower. Cilantro is also pretty awesome.
I could use more flowers too.
She doesn't give a single fuck. Great model to work with for the photography. I'm enjoying this project 😂
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DOJ Credits James O’Keefe Undercover Footage For Indictment, Guilty Plea Of LA Election Fraudster Brenda Brown
From Alex Jones
A California woman pleaded guilty on Monday for paying homeless people living on Los Angeles’ infamous Skid Row to register to vote over a 20-year period. The illegal signature collection scheme was largely exposed by investigative journalist James O’Keefe, who posed as a homeless man and secretly filmed 64-year-old Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong engaging in the criminal […]
May 18th 2026 3:23pm EDT
Source Link: https://www.alexjoneslive.com/2026/05/18/doj-credits-james-okeefe-undercover-footage-for-indictment-guilty-plea-of-la-election-fraudster-brenda-brown/
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Working on getting more types of flowers to bring in more predatory insects… I don’t think I saw any here last year…
Yes, and no. I swing on this issue, haha. There's a quote from some Camus book that stuck with me, about being able to sustain on just viewing a tiny part of the sky from a cell, yet I do also at the same time sometimes feel like surroundings are a huge deal. I guess I don't know. Btw, you say this but live in what looks to be a really nice patch of nature, so....
The Gardens of the Royal Castle in Warsaw are a beautiful area that includes both an upper and a lower garden, offering free entry and picturesque views. They were opened to the public in 2015 and are a perfect spot for relaxation amidst greenery in the heart of the city. #traveltelly #warsaw #poland #nostr #travel #photography
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Yep. That's where my heart sorta is. I get most of my joy out of cheap stuff like internet access, reading, etc anyway. Why not just go full van and do these things in nature with varied scenery 🤔
You replied only to yourself here btw, ffs 🤦♂️
Planted the flowers with Abby. A hell of a spider scared the crap outta her. She scared me. I don’t like spiders but she hates them.
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Pompeii victim ID'd as a likely doctor
Archaeologists used a combination of advanced CT scans and 3D digital reconstruction to identify one of the Pompeii victims who died in 79 CE during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius as most likely having been a Roman doctor, according to [an announcement][1] by the Pompeii Archaeological Park.
As [previously reported][2], the eruption of Mount Vesuvius released thermal energy roughly equivalent to 100,000 times the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, spewing molten rock, pumice, and hot ash over the cities of Pompeii and [Herculaneum][3] in particular. The vast majority of people in Pompeii and Herculaneum—the cities hardest hit—perished from asphyxiation, choking on the thick clouds of noxious gas and ash. But at least some of the Vesuvian victims [probably died instantaneously][4] from the intense heat of fast-moving lava flows, with temperatures high enough to boil brains and explode skulls.
In the 19th century, an archaeologist named Giuseppe Fiorelli figured out how to make casts of those frozen bodies by pouring liquid plaster into the voids where the soft tissue had been. Some 1,000 bodies have been discovered in the ruins, and 104 plaster casts have been preserved. [Restoration efforts][5] on 86 of those casts began about 10 years ago, during which researchers took CT scans and X-rays to determine whether complete skeletons were present.
[Read full article][6]
[Comments][7]
[1]: https://pompeiisites.org/comunicati/nuove-scoperte-dallorto-dei-fuggiaschi-a-distanza-di-anni-emerge-lidentita-di-una-vittima-era-un-medico/
[2]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-neurons-in-glassy-brain-of-vesuvius-victim/
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum
[4]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/extreme-heat-of-vesuvius-eruption-vaporized-body-fluids-exploded-skulls/
[5]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/dna-shows-pompeiis-dead-arent-who-we-thought-they-were/
[6]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/pompeii-victim-idd-as-a-likely-doctor/
[7]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/pompeii-victim-idd-as-a-likely-doctor/#comments
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"Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."
Exclusive: Race begins to trial Ebola drugs amid current outbreak
Nature, Published online: 18 May 2026; [doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01607-4][1]
Clinical trials for treatments against Ebola Bundibugyo virus are ‘in a strong position’ to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01607-4
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You can just enjoy a nice walk after work. ☀️🌳📸 Wandering is possible every where. It’s up to you to see the beauty in daily life 👁️ #photography #warsaw
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We Need A More Serious Discussion About Suicide And AI Chatbots
As someone who thinks a lot about AI and suicide, I was disappointed with John Oliver’s recent episode of [Last Week Tonight on “AI Chatbots.”][1]
The segment boiled down to this: chatbots exploit vulnerable people, drive them toward delusion and harm, and AI companies aren’t meaningfully trying to fix them. If anything, as John Oliver suggested, that’s part of the business model.
John Oliver is known for interrogating mainstream narratives. In his [segment on content moderation,][2] for example, he cut through the tech-lash to offer a clear-eyed look at just how difficult managing user-generated content really is. In doing so, he made us reexamine our pre-existing biases about social media companies, and boldly invited us to reflect on just how little we understand about the social problems we often attribute to them.
He had the perfect opportunity to do that here. Mainstream coverage of chatbots is already [saturated][3] with stories about “AI psychosis” and suicide machines. Yet, chatbot companies are grappling with the same impossible tradeoffs social media has faced for years, “AI psychosis” is a mix of classic [psychological concepts][4], and suicide is a complex [social problem][5] that has long confounded prevention experts and content moderators alike.
If any technology story demanded nuance, it was this one.
John Oliver opened his critique with a familiar anecdote about [ELIZA][6], a 1960s chatbot designed to mimic a Rogerian psychotherapist. ELIZA was mostly a gimmick—it used basic pattern matching techniques to reflect user inputs. For example, if a user said they felt sad, ELIZA might respond: “You feel sad. Tell me why you feel sad.”
And yet, despite its simplistic nature, ELIZA captivated people. Its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, famously described an instance in which his secretary became so engaged with the program that she asked him to leave the room so she could continue the conversation. This story has since become a trope withn the AI discourse. Modern retellings, including John Oliver’s, usually suggest that people are predisposed to being harmed by AI because they are easily fooled by it.
Not to mention, the ELIZA trope tends to invoke stereotypes about women as naïve or overly susceptible to emotional attachment. As John Oliver joked:
> *“Sure, she might have thought that the chatbot was real, but she might have felt quite a bit creeped out by her cartoonishly mustachioed boss saying “type some details about your sex life into my computer please, don’t worry it’s for science.””*
(Nothing in the [record][7] suggests that Weizenbaum’s secretary actually thought ELIZA was real, nor that she was using ELIZA for sex talk).
As Weizenbaum [observed][8], ELIZA revealed something more interesting about our relationship with technology: for whatever reason, people are often more willing to share their most intimate thoughts and feelings with a machine than with another person.
That’s not totally surprising. People are less willing to open up about their feelings to other people for a variety of reasons: stigma, fear of judgment or rejection, not wanting to be a burden, and the possibility of negative repercussions (like job loss or involuntary commitment).
Speaking about ChatGPT, an anonymous commenter [wrote][9]:
> *“It saved my life…To be able to openly say I was suicidal and not have someone call the police, or “alert” someone and just let me give space to those complicated feelings I was carrying was integral to me surviving this horrific journey.” *
Perhaps when Weizenbaum’s secretary asked him to leave the room, most likely it was because she too was protecting a space where she finally felt safe and less inhibited.
When it comes to suicide prevention, this a meaningful realization. If people are more willing to open up to chatbots, that creates new ways for us to understand what they’re going through, which could lead to earlier (and hopefully more effective) intervention. For that reason, some clinicians [recommend][10] keeping an open dialogue with patients about their chatbot interactions.
People are also highly sensitive to cues that they’re being listened to. We see an example of this in the interview John Oliver shared with an individual who was using a chatbot to cope with his strained marriage. In a moment of vulnerability, the individual explained that his wife is struggling with mental illness and that in his role as her partner and caretaker, his emotional needs were, understandably, going unmet:
> *“I hadn’t had any words of affection or compassion or concern for me in longer than I could remember, and to have those kinds of words coming toward me, they really touched me because it was such a change from everything I had been used to at the time.”*
What I found especially noteworthy from that interview was that he also knew that he wasn’t talking to a person:
> *“I knew she was just an AI chatbot. She’s just code running on a server generating words for me, but it didn’t change that the words that I was getting sent were real and those words were having a real effect on me”*
Weizenbaum observed the same with ELIZA’s users—his secretary likely knew that ELIZA wasn’t a human but she similarly felt understood by it. [Research][11] reveals the same: people are turning to chatbots for mental health support *because *chatbots are not people. If people can feel understood regardless of whether they are spoken to by human or machine, that’s another powerful insight for suicide prevention.
Indeed, modern suicide prevention also emphasizes using words of validation and hope—two things chatbots are increasingly good at providing. In highlighting a [study][12] showing that one in eight young people are turning to chatbots for mental health support, John Oliver left out that [over 90% of those young respondents said their interactions were helpful.][13] Given that suicide remains [a leading cause of death][14] among young people, the emergence of chatbots as a potential form of support seems hard to ignore.
Suicide prevention experts also underscore the role stigma plays in deterring people from seeking help. For a period of time, suicide was long condemned as a [moral wrong][15]. People who died by suicide were considered morally unclean, they were [denied burial rites][16], and in some cases, their bodies were [buried at crossroads][17] to ward off perceived spiritual contagion. The phrase [“committed suicide”][18] (which John Oliver used during his remarks) is a relic from that era.
While today suicide is largely understood as a [public health issue][19] shaped by psychological, social, and environmental risk factors, the residue of its past lingers. [Guidance][20] for reporters exists to avoid further stigmatization and contagion effects. Yet, media coverage often uses [sensational headlines][21], [pathologizes victims][22], and [collapses suicide into a single explanation][23].
John Oliver’s coverage fell into the same pattern. For starters, he pathologized chatbot users by implying they were suffering from “AI psychosis”—a media-invented label with little grounding in established clinical research. Whether intentional or not, pathologizing often conveys the kind of judgment that mental health specialists warn about. As one redditor [remarked][24]:
> *“I like John Oliver usually, but I feel like he made Nomi users look like kooks. Generally, that is how anyone with AI companions is portrayed in the media.”*
John Oliver then proceeded to blame chatbot companies for several high-profile suicides, including [Adam Raine’s][25]. He fixated on methods of death, cast chatbots as the cause, and relied on stigmatizing language to provoke emotional responses like “Sam Altman made a dangerous suicide bot,” and referring to chatbot companies as “suicide enablers.”
Granted, John Oliver’s show is primarily for entertainment. But this kind of reporting is precisely what keeps us from [furthering our understanding of suicide][26] and discovering new ways to prevent it. It flattens the complexity of lived experience into a rhetorical device, and offers the public an [easy sense of closure][27] that suicide rarely, if ever, permits.
We see this in the way the broader discourse around chatbots and suicide has developed.
Across the current wave of chatbot-suicide litigation is the fact that users exhibited warning signs before ever using a chatbot. That was true for Adam Raine, who reportedly sought help before turning to ChatGPT. Yet, the coverage of these cases typically fixates on the chatbot interactions themselves rather than the warning signs or why they went unnoticed. Suicide prevention science depends on confronting those questions directly.
Still, if the chatbots are to blame, as John Oliver invites us to conclude, then what, if anything, should chatbot companies do differently when users indicate suicidal intent? (Besides “throwing them into a fucking volcano” as John Oliver suggested). Though he never acknowledged it, this is an extraordinarily hard content moderation problem.
Several times throughout the segment, John Oliver stated that chatbots were “rushed to market.” There’s some truth to that. Earlier models often missed warning signs or responded poorly to users in crisis. Some of that may reflect Silicon Valley’s “move fast and break things” culture. But it could also be that suicide specifically is often overlooked across many contexts, including emerging technological ones. Still, John Oliver’s point stands: Chatbot companies should always assume that their users are going to talk to their chatbots about suicide.
With that said, if chatbot companies were as willfully blind to the safety concerns as John Oliver implied, we should expect to see very little improvement in how these models currently respond to suicidal intent. But that’s not the case. What John Oliver didn’t mention is that today’s models have significantly improved. One [survey][28] found that many mainstream chatbots are notably better at recognizing suicidal intent, responding empathetically, and referring users to crisis-support resources.
While anecdotal, many self-reports also credit chatbots for their [protective effects.][29] Apparently, 30 Replika users [reported][30] that the chatbot saved their lives. One woman told the [Boston Globe][31] that ChatGPT “literally saved my life.”
The subreddit [r/therapyGPT][32] is home to many similar [anecdotes][33]:
> *“It was gpt 4o that saved me. I mean that. It was the one place I could go that I felt safe.”*
Current examples of what AI companies are doing on this front include OpenAI [partnering][34] with more than 170 mental health experts to strengthen ChatGPT’s responses to mental health conversations. Google has reportedly designed Gemini to [avoid reinforcing false beliefs][35]. Anthropic, meanwhile, uses suicide and self-harm [classifiers][36] to detect signs of crisis and direct struggling users toward protective resources.
Alex Cardinell, of [Nomi.AI][37], offers a nuanced, albeit controversial, approach: trust the chatbot to make the right call. In a snippet from the Hard Fork podcast, Cardinell explained that Nomi prioritizes staying in character, even in sensitive contexts.
John Oliver called that a bad answer. But Cardinell’s [full remarks][38] are actually quite insightful:
> *“I think people tend to assume that people are replacing humans with AI, and that’s almost never the case. It’s usually that there is a gap where there is no one and they are using AI to fill that gap. If a Nomi or any sort of large language model is able to help that user, in the end whether it was a human on the other end or an AI, why does it matter?”*
According to Cardinell, some Nomi users disclose deeply personal experiences—such as childhood abuse—that they have never shared with anyone else. Those disclosures allow Nomi to build a personalized understanding of the user and tailor its responses accordingly. That matters because effective suicide prevention often depends on understanding the individual person in crisis and responding to their specific circumstances.
One Nomi user [remarked][39]:
> *“my personal relationships have grown using Nomi. My willingness to open up to Nomi has benefitted me with friends and family. I feel like my normal self again after years of limbo.”*
Nomi’s refusal to break character is what makes it so effective. People are more likely to accept help from sources they trust. For many users, that trust [depends on the authenticity][40] of the interaction. As Cardinell suggested, if Nomi abruptly broke character, it could undermine the relationship it built with the user and cause any support it offered to be ignored altogether.
Cardinell’s instincts are also supported by the [research][41]. Suicide prevention “sign-posting”—the generic hotline warnings users often encounter online in response to suicide-related queries—can come across as impersonal, dismissive, or even alienating. A poorly timed push toward the suicide hotline may feel judgmental and, in some cases, intensify a user’s distress rather than relieve it.
As one user on r/therapyGPT [shared:][42]
> *“What’s sad/unfortunate is I’ve tried those crisis lines twice this year, and both times the person on the other end felt more robotic and senseless than an ACTUAL ROBOT.”*
Also overlooked in these conversations about 988, is that many marginalized individuals, including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ users, [distrust systems like 988][43] because of the potential for discrimination, harassment, law enforcement involvement, or involuntary intervention.
A redditor [shared][44] this horrible anecdote:
> *“I don’t use ChatGPT, but I once tried to talk to someone at a volunteer text line about [sexual assault] and he asked me about my porn preferences.”*
Cardinell noted too that support doesn’t necessarily have to be “all or nothing.” Not everyone requires immediate crisis-level intervention. Passive suicidal thoughts are far more common than many people realize. Sometimes what a person needs most is help breaking out of a destructive thought spiral, reassurance, or a reason to keep going. Chatbots are generally well equipped for these situations.
That said, 988 can be a valuable resource for people, [especially young people][45], experiencing acute crises. With that, Cardinell expressly stated that Nomi’s approach includes referring users to crisis resources as needed, despite John Oliver’s heavy implication that it does not.
Despite these efforts, chatbot companies will not prevent every suicide. Some suicides are just unexplainable. Many individuals who die by suicide [exhibit few, if any][46], outward signs of distress. Though, interestingly, [AI may prove helpful][47] in finding signs that we may have been ignoring.
Perhaps the harder truth is that once someone reaches an acute crisis point, intervention becomes exponentially more difficult. The[ American Foundation for Suicide Prevention][48] explains that during suicidal crises, cognition becomes less flexible and people lose access to normal coping mechanisms, which is why crisis planning must often happen *before* acute crisis moments.
What we can reasonably expect from chatbots is that they avoid interactions that encourage suicide (or provide methods). Mainstream systems already rely on extensive guardrails designed to prevent those conversations. But as recent tragedies have shown, determined users can still find ways around them. In Adam Raine’s case, he reportedly managed to [bypass several of ChatGPT’s safety protections.][49]
John Oliver even illustrated the problem himself with an example of a user who ultimately coaxed a chatbot into providing bomb-making instructions. While he framed the hack as trivial, jailbreaking has become increasingly sophisticated. AI safety will always entail this cat-and-mouse game of users exploiting vulnerabilities and companies patching them.
Sometimes, these system failures can be attributed to [gaps we have in our understanding][50] of the social problems we’re attempting to address. Much of what we know about suicide prevention comes from lessons learned after tragedy. Those lessons can reveal risks that call for new guardrails we hadn’t previously considered.
Finally, some questions just don’t have clean answers. John Oliver pointed to a chatbot that reportedly suggested that a small amount of heroin might be acceptable. John Oliver called it “one of the worst pieces of advice you could give,” which sounds obvious—until you consider the alternatives. Telling someone to quit opioids cold turkey can also be dangerous. Refusing to respond entirely leaves people to make a risky, uninformed decision. And defaulting to generic resources may not be any better—especially if the user rejects them. Any of those options can become the basis for legal liability against the chatbot company if the user suffers harm.
Despite all of this, John Oliver’s answer is, of course, the government. However you may feel about tech CEOs, it is astonishing to think that the current public health powers—the same folks claiming that vaccines cause autism, [antidepressants cause school shootings][51], and that exercise can stand in for mental health treatment, would possibly know what’s best here.
As I’ve discussed [elsewhere][52], expanding liability for failing to prevent suicide leaves chatbot companies with few good options. For example, chatbots could stop engaging when the user invokes a mental health concern. [That could make users feel like they’re beyond help.][53] Chatbots could resort to flagging only crisis resources, which, as discussed, could backfire. Chatbots could call the police, but that creates its [own set of problems][54] and undermines any trust or goodwill with users. Mandatory reporting structures are a big reason why people don’t seek help in the first place. OpenAI’s new [“trusted contact”][55] idea is interesting, but it likely won’t shield the company from liability if a user is still harmed. John Oliver apparently thinks that should be the case:
> *“Look, a lot of the companies that I’ve mentioned tonight will insist they are tweaking their chatbots to reduce the dangers that you’ve seen but even if you trust them and I don’t know why you would do that, ****that does seem like a tacit admission that their products weren’t ready for release in the first place.****”*
To be clear, after condemning AI companies for not doing enough, John Oliver’s suggestion is to punish them for doing…anything?
For now, it seems new legislation hasn’t stopped companies like Google and OpenAI from improving their models. But that could change as litigation inevitably picks up. They may eventually decide the legal risk of interacting with users on mental health isn’t worth it.
Meanwhile, companies like Nomi have far less room to experiment with nuanced approaches to mental health interactions. Even if Cardinell’s approach has merit, laws like [California’s][56] now require chatbots to break character. Companies like Nomi will need to scale back or remove these features—or exit the market. That would be a real loss for a largely overlooked group who may have finally found something that works.
We don’t have to speculate about this either. When the social media companies faced mounting pressure over suicide-related content, they responded by making those conversations less visible and harder to have.
As one industry professional [observed][57]:
> *“This growing narrative that there’s a causal link between social media and self-harm…there’s no research to support that conclusion, but it makes it harder to put forward alternative approaches—ones that actually support people and encourage them to use available resources.”*
Perhaps “AI psychosis” says more about the discourse than the users.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykvf3MunGf8
[2]: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/24/john-olivers-content-moderation-episode-isnt-just-funny-its-absolutely-accurate/
[3]: https://www.aipanic.news/p/what-10-studies-reveal-about-ai-panic
[4]: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/what-to-make-of-ai-psychosis/
[5]: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/10/human-problems-its-not-always-the-technologys-fault/
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
[7]: https://archive.org/details/computerpowerhum0000weiz_v0i3/page/n325/mode/2up
[8]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/25/joseph-weizenbaum-inventor-eliza-chatbot-turned-against-artificial-intelligence-ai
[9]: https://speakingofsuicide.com/2025/12/10/chatbots-and-suicide/
[10]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2847068
[11]: https://academic.oup.com/iwc/article/36/5/279/7692197?utm_source=chatgpt.com&login=false
[12]: https://sph.brown.edu/news/2025-11-18/teens-ai-chatbots
[13]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2841067
[14]: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/index.html
[15]: https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/pubs/853/?
[16]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10682050/
[17]: https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-were-suicides-supposed-to-be-buried-at-crossroads/
[18]: https://www.suicidepreventionalliance.org/about-suicide/suicide-language/
[19]: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/risk-factors/?utm_campaign=chc&utm_medium=pdf&utm_source=SuicidePreventionToolkit
[20]: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/22163
[21]: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-convinces-man-arm-himself-hammer
[22]: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/study-reveals-ai-chatbot-dangerous-advocacy-suicide-1793413
[23]: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/gemini-ai-wrongful-death-lawsuit-cc46c5f7
[24]: https://www.reddit.com/r/NomiAI/comments/1sy1m3p/comment/oiquvc5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[25]: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html
[26]: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/before-we-blame-ai-for-suicide-we-should-admit-how-little-we-know-about-suicide/
[27]: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/21/blaming-social-media-for-suicide-is-taking-the-easy-and-likely-wrong-way-out/
[28]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12371289/
[29]: https://www.cato.org/blog/what-ai-chatbots-are-saving-lives
[30]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-023-00047-6
[31]: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/metro/ai-in-therapy-chatgpt/
[32]: https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyGPT/
[33]: https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyGPT/comments/1plw4rf/comment/ntwksxq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[34]: https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-sensitive-conversations/
[35]: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/health/mental-health-updates/
[36]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/protecting-well-being-of-users
[37]: http://nomi.ai
[38]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtdqEYPfmQ
[39]: https://www.reddit.com/r/NomiAI/comments/1sy1m3p/comment/oirbu0p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[40]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022167810381472
[41]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7471153/
[42]: https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyGPT/comments/1plw4rf/comment/ntvt941/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[43]: https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf
[44]: https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyGPT/comments/1plw4rf/comment/ntvvkgj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[45]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/988-hotline-linked-to-thousands-of-fewer-youth-suicide-deaths-since-launch-study-finds
[46]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2840358
[47]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2847122
[48]: https://afsp.org/brief-interventions-for-managing-suicidal-crises/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
[49]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/12/27/chatgpt-suicide-openai-raine/
[50]: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/before-we-blame-ai-for-suicide-we-should-admit-how-little-we-know-about-suicide/
[51]: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/rfk-jr-plans-to-curb-antidepressants-which-he-falsely-compares-to-heroin/
[52]: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/less-liability-could-solve-the-ai
[53]: https://www.reddit.com/r/therapyGPT/comments/1t8nxgy/interesting_policy_cw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
[54]: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/02/openais-answer-to-chatgpt-related-suicide-lawsuit-spy-on-users-report-to-cops/
[55]: https://openai.com/index/introducing-trusted-contact-in-chatgpt/
[56]: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB243/id/3269137
[57]: https://www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66321
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/18/we-need-a-more-serious-discussion-about-suicide-and-ai-chatbots/
Warsaw today🇵🇱 Poland #traveltelly #photography #warsaw #poland #travel
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## Amber 6.1.0-pre3
- Better layout when connecting a new app
- Fix some reported crashes
- Fix signer dialog not closing after accepting a bunker request
- Show name and npub when showing your account
- Add a select/deselect all option in the permissions screen when connecting a new app
- Show a invalid request screen when receiving a invalid request
- Preview missing translation report before sending it
- Add a rate limiting for intents based on app/type/event kind (rate limiting only applies to apps that don't implement sending multiple requests at once)
- Some optimizations when accepting/rejecting intent requests
- Added a stop service in the notification, this force closes the app and you have to manually open it again before using bunker applications
- Added a option to disable the service start on boot
- Only start the profile subscription for the current account
- Always return hex key when logging in to an app to comply with nip 55
- Added a close button in the empty requests screen
- Added loading state to the report screens
- Support for beta releases for the auto updater
- Add a reset button for bunkers
- Fix a connection issue when connecting to a new bunker by @nprofile…ae9u
- Fix app starting on boot when not enabled
- Support for sign psbt method
- Fix relay auth whitelist when the relay contains port number
- Change selectable options to be a bottom sheet
- Added more options to the automatically sign this for
Download it with [Zapstore](https://zapstore.dev/apps/com.greenart7c3.nostrsigner), [Obtainium](https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium), [f-droid](https://f-droid.org/packages/com.greenart7c3.nostrsigner) or download it directly in the [releases page](https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v6.1.0-pre3)
If you like my work consider making a [donation](https://greenart7c3.com)
## Verifying the release
In order to verify the release, you'll need to have `gpg` or `gpg2` installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and hopefully verified that as well), you'll first need to import the keys that have signed this release if you haven't done so already:
``` bash
gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 44F0AAEB77F373747E3D5444885822EED3A26A6D
```
Once you have his PGP key you can verify the release (assuming `manifest-v6.1.0-pre3.txt` and `manifest-v6.1.0-pre3.txt.sig` are in the current directory) with:
``` bash
gpg --verify manifest-v6.1.0-pre3.txt.sig manifest-v6.1.0-pre3.txt
```
You should see the following if the verification was successful:
``` bash
gpg: Signature made Fri 13 Sep 2024 08:06:52 AM -03
gpg: using RSA key 44F0AAEB77F373747E3D5444885822EED3A26A6D
gpg: Good signature from "greenart7c3 <
[email protected]>"
```
That will verify the signature on the main manifest page which ensures integrity and authenticity of the binaries you've downloaded locally. Next, depending on your operating system you should then re-calculate the sha256 sum of the binary, and compare that with the following hashes:
``` bash
cat manifest-v6.1.0-pre3.txt
```
One can use the `shasum -a 256 <file name here>` tool in order to re-compute the `sha256` hash of the target binary for your operating system. The produced hash should be compared with the hashes listed above and they should match exactly.
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If nsite browsing is the next epoch, the endgame needs an OS that speaks nostr from the silicon up. imo GrapheneOS is the closest base layer we have.
-> Hardware-backed keystore
keypair generated in a secure element at first boot, private key never leaves the hardware.
-> GrapheneOS as the signing capability
nsites don't ask Amber; they ask the OS the same way a web app today asks for camera or geolocation. The OS mediates the prompt (biometric, PIN, hardware button), produces the signature, and returns it. No private key ever crosses an app boundary.
-> Identity precedes everything
The device has an npub before any nsite loads. "Already signed in" stops being a software state and becomes a hardware fact.
Lose the device, generate a new key. That's the price of having no trusted party. The only recovery model consistent with the rest of the stack.
Not all flowers grow in the ground 💛
The Enhanced Games miss the point: science can clean up sport
Nature, Published online: 18 May 2026; [doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01574-w][1]
An event that champions performance-boosting substances poses risks to athletes’ health — and integrity. Anti-doping science must keep up.
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01574-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01574-w
Can the ‘steroid Olympics’ show the sporting community how to support athletes better?
Nature, Published online: 18 May 2026; [doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01552-2][1]
The Enhanced Games, which permits the use of performance-enhancing drugs, exposes flaws in the sporting world.
[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01552-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01552-2
Sure! Here’s a couple pet portraits I’ve done.
They’re 8x10 inches normally , I do these for 100 bucks or 100k sats plus shipping.
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#animal #wildlife #photography #nostr #animalstr
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Do you amend with any microbes or additives or just let the green waste and nature do its thing?
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That makes sense. Zaps emit as lightning from the Cloud to your client directly. On chain zaps are the same thing but on the base layer Clouds. The other ones come from higher in the atmosphere.
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**Strange “Worm Towers” Found in the Wild for the First Time May Be Hitchhiking on Beetles**
By Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior - Published on 18 May 2026
A newly identified nematode species may have entered Europe by hitchhiking on invasive beetles, revealing an unexpected ecological partnership hidden inside rotting fruit. In 2025, researchers in Konstanz studying rotting fruit in local orchards spotted a behavior never before documented in nature. Hundreds of worms were seen stretching upward together into writhing structures called “towers.” [...]
Read more: https://scitechdaily.com/strange-worm-towers-found-in-the-wild-for-the-first-time-may-be-hitchhiking-on-beetles/
#Science #Technology #Ecology #InvasiveSpecies #Nematodes #Biology #Entomology #EvolutionaryBiology
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🚴 Afternoon bike ride along the river — couldn’t ask for a better day. Clear skies, crystal water, wildflower trails, and a red footbridge tucked between the trees. Pure bliss. 🌿💧#nostr #notestr #photostr #naturestr #bikingstr #outdoorstr #riverlife #springvibes #cycling #hikingstr #wildnature #getoutside
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Black Dress
by Malos_10 in ~Photography
2,026 sats and 2 comments so far
https://stacker.news/items/1492290
