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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/04/2026

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I spent a year talking to teens about why they were using role-playing chatbots, and something surprising happened: By the end of the year, the teens stopped using the chatbots. Observer effect? Or that chatbots fall into patterns that eventually get boring? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/t...

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What Teens Are Doing With Those Role-Playing Chatbots

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

To register for our free monthly Grief Catharsis Theater event this Sunday, March 29, from 1–4 PM in Los Angeles (downtown Culver City), please use the Eventbrite link below: www.eventbrite.com/e/grief-cath...

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Grief Catharsis Theater for Loss and Healing (March)

A free, monthly space where unfinished grief finds witness, catharsis, and relief. All are welcome. Established in 2023, continuing today.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In 2022, I did a story about life in "the metaverse," spending 24 hours as an avatar with no legs meeting the people using Facebook's VR-based social network, Horizon Worlds. www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/t... Met interesting people who seemed enthused about it but this was my conclusion:

Screenshot of text that reads "For now, though, the company is still constrained by the physical world, and by the fact that most people, apart from those currently in the metaverse, aren’t keen to spend hours and hours of their day “in the plastic.”"

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Katie on Katie. @katierobertson.bsky.social profiles Wired editor, @katie-drummond.bsky.social, who has been making the tech optimists very mad lately. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

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Wired’s New Editor Doesn’t Care if the Tech Bros Are Mad

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...

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They Don’t Want Their Company’s Surveillance Tool Used by ICE

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

How the rich have gotten richer since the 2017 tax cuts, and how it's affecting everyone else. A case study in Wyoming: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

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Welcome to Wyoming, the Frontier of America’s New Gilded Age

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

People are revealing sensitive personal information to A.I. chatbots — including plans to commit violent acts. What should the companies do when it happens? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

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When Chatbots Are Used to Plan Violence, Is There a Duty to Warn?

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Took the FTC's remaining two commissioners a year to vote to finalize the agency's settlement with GM over the automaker's selling data about how and where people were driving their cars. www.ftc.gov/news-events/... (I broke the news back in 2024 that GM was doing this.)

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FTC Finalizes Order Settling Allegations that GM and OnStar Collected and Sold Geolocation Data Without Consumers’ Informed Consent

The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order with General Motors and OnStar settling allegations that they collected, used, and sold consumers’ precise geolocation data and driving behavior data

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make it viral.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Putting the brand on every possible thing

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

For some positive news: the effects of congestion pricing in New York City. It has significantly decreased how much time my own commute takes so I'm a big fan. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed.

How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(8/8) This is the work I keep returning to: making space for stories like this to be spoken, witnessed, and held. In January, we resume Catharsis Theater in Los Angeles and beyond. A space for anyone who has lost something. You don’t have to grieve alone. www.caligrief.com caligrief.substack.com

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(7/8) People say you’re strong. Which is deeply unhelpful. Strength implies intention. Most days you are simply upright. Still noticing light on buildings. Still here.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(6/8) Grief turns out to be mostly administrative. Passwords. Forms. Bins labeled “miscellaneous.” At Trader Joe’s you stare too long at cereal. Someone clears their throat. You want to explain: I’m not rude. I’m recently bereaved in several directions.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(5/8) There was also the relationship you hesitate to count as a loss, except you still reach for your phone when something almost funny happens. You box up his books. You forget to mail them. This feels symbolic but probably isn’t.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(4/8) Then the job disappears in a 6:12 a.m. email. You read it while brushing your teeth, foam on your chin, nodding like someone explaining the weather. “Just business,” people say. That’s what bleeding tries to sound like.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(3/8) You lost your mother first, though you hate the word first. Hospitals smell like disinfectant and burnt coffee. The hallway art is aggressively cheerful. You feel oddly polite. As if grief is a party you don’t want to disrupt.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

(2/8) You are thirty-seven, which sounds older when you say it out loud on the 10 freeway. Los Angeles is good at making age feel both irrelevant and humiliating. The sun keeps shining. Which feels rude, frankly.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The Grief Wave 🌀 recently bereaved in several directions (1/8) As we move into year two of The Grief Wave, I keep returning to a line by Muriel Rukeyser: “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” Grief rearranges the story before we’re ready.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"The advent of realistic videos has been a boon for disinformation, fraud and foreign influence operations" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b... What is the positive use case for an easy-to-use fake video tool?

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A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

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Lawsuits Blame ChatGPT for Suicides and Harmful Delusions

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

(5/5) When grief gets dark, what saves us isn’t strength—it’s company. A voice that listens. A hand that stays. A moment when someone says, “I see you,” and means it. 💛 Read the full editions of The Grief Wave: 👉 caligrief.substack.com #GriefWave #HealingTogether #CommunityCare #GriefTherapy

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

(4/5) You don’t have to face it alone. Grief counseling is available throughout California and nationwide (virtually). We meet you where you are—with empathy, safety, and real conversation. 🕊️ Consultations are always free. Explore support → caligrief.com

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At California Grief Center, we offer a range of personalized mental health services to support individuals and families dealing with grief, trauma, and loss. Our team of licensed grief therapists, cou...

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

(3/5) At the California Grief Center, we help people move through what feels heaviest— whether you’ve lost someone, lost your way, or simply long to feel alive again. 💬 Individual & group therapy 🎭 Catharsis Theater (psychodrama for healing) 🌊 Grief education & community workshops 👉 caligrief.com

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

(2/5) 🌿 From caregivers tending 104-year-old elders with devotion, 🕊️ to new research showing that family acceptance saves LGBTQ+ lives, 🎨 to rituals of clay, song, and story that help us face mortality— Each reminds us: grief is not weakness. It’s love, persisting. #HealingTogether

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

(1/5) 🕯️ When grief gets dark, companionship brings light. This week’s Grief Wave explores what sustains us when loss feels endless — connection, courage, and care. Read: The Grief Wave – When Grief Gets Dark 👉 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-... #Grief #Healing #Help #Bluesky #Love #Loss

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The Grief Wave – November 4, 2025 | When Grief Gets Dark

How we find light, connection, and courage when loss feels endless

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

(4/5) At the California Grief Center, we help people move through what feels frozen — whether you’ve lost someone, lost your way, or carry unspoken sorrow. 💬 Therapy • 💞 Support Groups • 🎭 Catharsis Theater Now seeing clients across California and nationwide (virtually). www.caligrief.com #Therapy

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

(3/5) If you’re feeling stuck in your grief, take heart. Stillness is not failure — it’s part of movement. Grief asks for patience, honesty, and presence with what is. Over time, connection brings clarity. 🌊 Read the issue: caligrief.substack.com #MentalHealth #GriefAwareness #HealingJourney

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The Grief Wave | Brian Stefan | Substack

✍️ Exploring grief, healing, and humanity in all its tangled beauty. Click to read The Grief Wave, by Brian Stefan, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

(2/5) From Japan’s first female prime minister breaking barriers 🇯🇵 to a Caribbean nation rebuilding after disaster 🌪️ this week’s stories show how resilience takes root — not in comfort, but in endurance. 📰 The Grief Wave – When Grief Gets Hard #Resilience #GriefSupport #CommunityHealing

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

(1/5) When grief gets hard, what we often need isn’t strength — it’s steadiness. This week’s Grief Wave looks at how we find clarity and connection when everything feels heavy. 💜 Read the full issue: caligrief.substack.com #Grief #HealingTogether #TheGriefWave

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The Grief Wave | Brian Stefan | Substack

✍️ Exploring grief, healing, and humanity in all its tangled beauty. Click to read The Grief Wave, by Brian Stefan, a Substack publication. Launched 4 months ago.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

5️⃣ Grief isn’t a problem to fix. It’s a passage to be witnessed. If your grief feels lodged somewhere deep, motion can return — through connection, story, and care. 🌊 📬 Read The Grief Wave + explore support: caligrief.com #CaliforniaGriefCenter #GriefHealing #Community

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

4️⃣ At the California Grief Center, we help people move through what feels unmoving — whether you’ve lost someone, lost your way, or carry unspoken sorrow. Now seeing clients virtually throughout California and nationwide. 💛 🌊 caligrief.com #GriefCare #Therapy #HealingTogether

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

3️⃣ This week’s issue honors: 💜 Amanda Nguyen — turning trauma into justice 💀 Día de los Muertos — where remembrance becomes reunion 🪦 Recipes for Remembrance — love carved in stone (literally) #Grief #Love #Remembrance #TheGriefWave

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

2️⃣ Sometimes grief doesn’t move because the love underneath it hasn’t found a path forward. 💜 In stillness, something sacred stirs — waiting to be spoken, seen, or shared. #GriefSupport #MentalHealth #TraumaHealing

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

1️⃣ When grief gets stuck, love is still moving. 💔 This week’s Grief Wave explores what happens when sorrow feels frozen — and how love, memory, and movement help us find our way through. 🌊 Read: When Grief Gets Stuck 🔗 caligrief.substack.com/p/the-grief-... #Grief #Healing #TheGriefWave

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"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 24, 2025 | When Grief Gets Stuck

How love, memory, and movement help us find our way through what feels unmoving.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

🌊 The California Grief Center offers: • Virtual grief counseling (CA + nationwide) • Catharsis Theater gatherings • Support for traumatic, anticipatory, and hidden grief You don’t have to grieve alone. We don’t treat grief as a problem — we treat it as a passage. 💛 Learn more → caligrief.com

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

(4/5) 🌸 Catharsis Theater for Loss & Healing — Tomorrow, Oct 18 | 1–4:30pm | Culver City Free community gathering. Not performance. Not therapy. Just presence, story, and shared humanity. 40+ sessions since 2023. All are welcome. #CatharsisTheater #HealingTogether #LosAngeles

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

(3/5) 🏚️ A writer wanders through America’s ghost towns, searching for the line between memory and ruin. What she finds isn’t emptiness — it’s persistence. Even the quietest towns keep finding reasons to live. Grief can feel the same way. #Resilience #GriefWave #Community

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

(2/5) 📻 The Voice That Built NPR — Susan Stamberg reminded us that stories connect more than facts ever could. Even after decades on the air, her warmth taught millions that listening is love. In grief, as in journalism, presence is everything. #Storytelling #Connection #Loss

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

(1/5) 🕯️ Where What Hurts Meets What Heals Grief isn’t an ending — it’s an opening. A moment to face pain, hold meaning, and rediscover connection. This week’s Grief Wave explores how memory and community help heal what remains. 🌊 Read: open.substack.com/pub/caligrie... #TheGriefWave #Grief #Healing

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"The Grief Wave" Newsletter – October 17, 2025 | Where What Hurts Meets What Heals + Catharsis Theater for Loss (10/18)

From loss to renewal, this week’s stories trace how memory, language, and community help us heal what still aches.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

5/5 We honor grief by acting. We honor life by remembering. Thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, and all who keep truth alive in an age of forgetting. #Bluesky #Grief #CaliforniaGriefCenter #Equality #AmericanHistory #Community #Adversity #Transition

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

4/5 A shutdown is not stillness — it’s suffocation. Services cut, people unpaid, hope deferred. But every collapse carries the seed of renewal. Grief is where the next chapter begins. 🌱

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

3/5 Grief is not only personal — it’s political. When health care stalls, when education erodes, when leaders choose cruelty over care — we all feel the ache. History reminds us: community is how democracy breathes again. 🤍

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

2/5 Picture a house on shifting sands. Each budget cut, each act of cruelty — another tremor. This isn’t just dysfunction. It’s grief at a national scale: the loss of trust, stability, belonging. We can name it. Feel it. And rebuild. 🕊️

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

1/5 HCR’s latest piece is a storm warning for democracy 🌩️ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... The shutdown isn’t just politics — it’s a slow bleed of trust and care. Historians like Richardson hold the light, reminding us where we fell — and how to rise again. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

(5/5) History is a living body. When we destroy its heart—the art, the memory, the grief that made us humane—we risk embalming democracy itself. Thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for keeping the pulse. #Bluesky #Grief #Democracy #History #HeatherCoxRichardson #PoliticalGrief #AmericanMemory

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

(4/5) The 1930s vision of Frances Perkins said: “The people are what matter to government.” Today’s leaders sell that vision’s home and build an idol to self. It’s the old struggle—community versus cruelty, shared safety versus the myth of the lone man.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

(3/5) While plans rise for a monument to power, another building—the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building, once home to the murals of Social Security’s birth—faces demolition. Ben Shahn’s painted faces of miners, mothers, and children may soon be rubble.

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California Grief Center (CGC) @caligrief.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

(2/5) One arch looks forward to conquest. Another—Lincoln’s—looks back in mourning. Between them lies the bridge to Arlington, where those who died to preserve the Union rest. To disrupt that line is to sever grief from its meaning.

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