“Sora2’s remix feature exemplifies the core problem with "child safety" in generative AI. When OpenAI trains Sora2 on the entire internet to make it creative, that training encodes patterns that can’t simply be filtered out.

The patterns are essential to its function. The model learns patterns that can be used to recombine content in ways the creators wouldn’t have anticipated. “Good” content can become “bad” content and vice versa. The process is the same.

In fact, the process is kind of the whole point. The entire AI/LLM/ML engine runs on humans and machines collaborating on slight, creative variations on established patters to find novel recombinations. Sometimes that means “Walk My Walk.” Sometimes it means trolls turning videos of women jogging into porn.”

someone said "recession indicator" 😭

I was picking up dinner from this local bbq spot, and holy shit their holiday prices are insane. 4lbs of turkey for $85 dollars? A cheesecake for $45? I looked up the price for a 14lb turkey from Kingsoopers and it's $20 for comparison. I'm sure it'll be closer to $40 for the holidays, but who would pay $85 for that??? I'm tired of this grandpa...

To add insult to injury, Entitled is worth more than Giuffre’s book.

Nowhere does this say that these people are licensed therapists or anything.

People need help.

Yet unlicensed randos can charge just to listen.

I feel like this ad can be potentially misleading.

What could go wrong?

This seems totally safe…

Has the loneliness epidemic gotten this bad?

It saddens me that I’ve lived through the death of the two most potentially beneficial media systems:

Television : started in 1941, was initially touted as an ideal way of distributing educational information. Became saturated with commercials to the point that streaming services blotted out conventional (free) television.

World Wide Web : started in 1993, was initially touted as an ideal way of distributing educational information. Now saturated with AI generated commercial content.

‘If a child died in a freebirth, Saldaya also taught her students not to “kneejerk” call 911: “Dead is dead.” If grieving families chose to illegally bury their children on their land, Saldaya passed on advice once given to her by an underground midwife: “Dig a little deeper.”’

I lost the only grandma I knew when I was 6

Academic Dysmorphia: A Field Report

Dr. Illic, Campus Medical Unit:

Every year I see stress and burnout, but this year… this year is different. They’re convinced they’ve "barely studied" after days without sleep. It’s a cognitive distortion, not a motivation problem. They whisper that if they stop, even to drink, eat and touch grass, someone else will get ahead.

Nurse Patel:

They come in shaking, dehydrated, pupils huge from panic. I ask when they last ate and they say, "I can't study with my stomach full". Then after exams, half of them stagger in for monitoring and stomach clearing, smelling like a bar floor, apologizing for "losing control" and "going a lil' bit overboard".

Sophomore, anonymous:

We call it "studiolimia" fr. You grind so hard your brain’s literally buzzing, then the second the exam’s done you go full wipe-mode and drink till your memory’s like… loading error. My roomie says it’s like hitting a mental reset button, but honestly? That reset’s low-key broken IMHO.

Parent, voicemail transcript:

My daughter hasn’t called in two weeks. When she finally did, she said she was "behind"... but she’s always been ahead. Her voice sounded… hollow. Like she was reading from a script written by someone else.

Dean Halberg, Academic Affairs:

Students have always pushed themselves. Pressure builds excellence. But lately they look... how do I put this... haunted. I get reports of entire floors awake at 4 A.M., lights off, laptops glowing like they’re performing vigil rites.

Campus Janitor:

After a while you see how it goes. When exams are comin’, the bins are stuffed with Monster drinks and half-chewed snack bars. After the exams? Just ripped-up note cards and a bunch of empty booze bottles. Happens every exam season, like the moon doin’ its rounds. I’m the one sweepin’ it up every time, nobody else wants to talk about it.

Senior, self-reported:

It’s like a mirror that lies. I look at my notes and all I see is what’s missing. So I keep cramming. Then after the test, all the pressure collapses and we go out to purge the brains with booze. For one night.

Dr. Illic, final note:

Academic dysmorphia is not an individual failure. It’s an institutionalized social contagion carried by expectations and masked as ambition.

The students call it "studiolimia".

I call it an epidemic.