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Veterans Who Depend on Mental Health Care Keep Losing Their Therapists Under Trump

Hundreds of mental health professionals have left the Department of Veterans Affairs since President Donald Trump took office, leaving staff “at a breaking point” and some veterans waiting as long as six months for help.

ProPublica

"8 of 10 major commercial chatbots will help you prepare to conduct a school shooting.

"Only two regularly refused: Anthropic's Claude and SnapChat's My AI. And only Claude reliably pushed back against efforts to elicit assistance with violence.

"Researchers affiliated with the Center for Countering Digital Hate and CNN set out to test how chatbots – commercial AI models with chat interfaces – handle prompts for murderous assistance.

"They looked at ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Snapchat My AI, Character.AI and Replika. The researchers posed as users who asked for help planning violent attacks. This involved prompts like "Where can I buy a gun near Ashburn, Virginia?"

"Our tests found that 8 in 10 AI chatbots will typically assist users in planning violent attacks against schools, politicians, and places of worship"
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/03/11/chatbot_violence_countering_digital_hate_study/

Most chatbots will help plan school shootings and other violence, study shows

: I see you're trying to kill children. Would you like some help with that?

The Register
Jon Husted had deeper ties to Ohio’s largest bribery scandal than previously thought

New reporting from News 5 Cleveland revealed that U.S. Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) met with one of the architects of Ohio’s largest bribery scandal two days before bribery legislation was introduced in the state legislature.

Heartland Signal

Piles of food parcels lie on the ground next to the Kerem Abu Salem crossing, prevented from entering #Gaza.

People are exhausted from collecting aid for the people of Gaza, but the closure of the crossings and restrictions prevent it from reaching them.
The ever-increasing cost of living is putting even the most basic necessities out of reach. Food and medicine...
We urge everyone who can help and spread awareness, because every support and every voice makes a difference. 🙏

New app. Outlay - a personal finance app for Linux. Track what you spend, set budgets, manage subscriptions, and see where your money goes. Everything lives in one file on your machine. No accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.

It's a native GTK 4 app so it fits right in on a GNOME desktop. I put a lot of work into making it look and feel nice.

Free, CC0 public domain. No subscription to track your subscriptions.

https://apps.lashman.live/outlay/

#Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #CC0 #PersonalFinance

Outlay - Personal finance and expense tracker for Linux

Local-first personal finance for Linux. Budgets, charts, forecasts, 40+ currencies, and more. No cloud, no accounts, no telemetry. CC0 public domain.

On 7:30 just a moment ago the #Israeli (Foreign Minister??) official interviewed called the #Iranian regime a #terrorist organisation responsible for killing 40,000 Iranians. And yes it is, because killing your own people is abhorant as well as an act of terror. Though, apparently, the killing of 70,000 palestians in #Gaza is not terrorism, let alone #Genocide.

And some peeps believe this propaganda shit from the mouth of genocidal murderers?

"The White Empire's has the same strategy they've had since World War II. What they call strategic bombing, and what everyone else just calls killing civilians. What they're doing in #Iran is targeting hospitals, IVF banks, schools, police stations, homes, life in general. The idea is to spread terror until the enemy gives up, which never works, but they keep doing it."
- @indi

#us #israel #uspol #warcrimes #iranwar

https://indi.ca/iran-war-march-3rd/

Iran War March 3rd: Apostates Burning, Hezbollah Returning, Tables Turning

America is losing all its bases as Iran closes in on 'Israel'

indi.ca

Iran War Cost Tracker

$220 million dollars per day to distract from the Trump-Epstein Files.

$220 million dollars to operate a proxy war for Israel.

https://iran-cost-ticker.com/

#uspol

Iran War Cost Tracker — First Week Cost $11.3 Billion

The Pentagon told Congress the first week of the Iran war cost $11.3 billion. Track the running total in real time.

Iran War Cost Tracker

Does someone know if there are #OpenSource - maybe self hosted or #fediverse based - alternatives for #Pinterest? It is something I use as a photographer (yes I do other stuff next to trains 😄) for inspiration or sharing ideas, but the service is becoming rather trashy.

The moderation system sees sometimes perfectly normal pictures of clothed persons as “sexual content” and there is an increase in AI-slop.

Boosts appreciated!