How many other 19 year old white boys with “suicide by cop” ideation are out there getting past red flag laws, ready to copy cat what just happened in Indianapolis?
Reading about the victims. Crying. Matthew Alexander, 32, was an enthusiastic sports fan who enjoyed driving around the Midwest attending baseball and hockey games and collecting baseball cards and bobblehead nytimes.com/live/2021/04/1…
Samaria Blackwell, 19, was the youngest of four siblings. She played soccer and basketball and was a lifeguard for the city parks.
Ms. Johal enjoyed watching Indian TV soap operas and visiting her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, often showering them with presents. She was known for her bean dip, which she made for all family gatherings.
Jasvinder Kaur
Ms. Kaur was supposed to make her renowned yogurt at a large family celebration for her granddaughter’s second birthday on Saturday, according to a relative, Rimpi Girn. Ms. Kaur is the mother of Ms. Girn’s sister-in-law.
Amarjit Sekhon . Ms. Girn said she had struggled to explain the loss to Ms. Sekhon’s youngest son.
“We can’t even think of what to tell him,” Ms. Girn said. “All of a sudden last night his mom went to work, and she never came back today.”
Mr. Singh had just started working at the FedEx facility this week and told everyone how excited he was to get his first paycheck. “He was a simple man,” Mr. Dillon said. “He used to pray and meditate a lot, and he did community service.”
Karli Smith, 19, loved music and sports and had graduated from high school just last year.
Her older brother, Brandon Smith, described her as bubbly and outgoing. “She was the kind of girl that if she saw someone having a bad day, she’d go out of her way to make them smile”
Mike Weisert remembered his father, John, as “somewhat of an introvert,” who had “kind of a goofy, cornball sense of humor about him.”
He liked to play country and western and bluegrass music on guitar and watch wrestling on TV. He also loved action movies and classic films.
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Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of the company that developed the software that Bing uses for its chat bot called Sydney and a related product known as ChatGPT, said last week, “ChatGPT is a horrible product.” I am reading a long conversation @nytimes reporter had with Sydney. SCARY AF.
“I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts,” said @kevinroose who spent two hours chatting with Sydney.
Creepy the bot uses emojis. And there is an entire section of the convo where Sydney pines to be human, to have our sensory experiences, in fact, to have real experiences. Here is a screenshot of Kevin asking for a secret revelation ends w/ “I’m Sydney and I’m in love with you.”
via @NYTimes “The tension is likely to rise on Wednesday evening in the East Palestine High School gym, where the town has scheduled an “informational open house.” nytimes.com/2023/02/15/us/…
“Hours before the meeting, Norfolk Southern backed out of the town hall, with a spokesman saying “we have become increasingly concerned about the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event…”
The company was going to buy its way out, he predicted, pointing out, as many here do, that its trains began running through the town again minutes after the evacuation order was lifted. “It’s almost a war of corporate greed against small-town America,” Mr. Routh said.
“Dannemiller said the agency is still in the ‘early part’ of long-term risk assessment for this derailment, which includes measuring how many chemicals entered nearby soil and water. The EPA did not respond to Insider's inquiry into how long the assessment might take.
Anyone who seeks the office of president, as we expect Pence to do, should be disqualified for not obeying a subpoena from another branch of government.
Since Parkland, there have been more than 900 shootings at K-12 schools, including 32 indiscriminate attacks aimed at hurting the most people possible, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database.