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Mother Jones reporter says Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT use worse than previously disclosed

Mother Jones national affairs editor Mark Follman reports he reviewed significant portions of chat logs between Tumbler Ridge shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar and ChatGPT, saying the content is far more disturbing and extensive than the public has known. OpenAI has already confirmed it flagged and shut down one account used by Van Rootselaar, failed to alert Canadian authorities, and missed a second account she created afterward. Van Rootselaar killed her mother, half-brother, five students and an education assistant before taking her own life on Feb. 10.

Opioid settlement funds diverted to buy Flock license-plate cameras, Mother Jones finds

A Mother Jones investigation found 19 police agencies in ten states spent nearly $1 million of opioid settlement money on automatic license plate readers from companies like Flock and Axon. The funds were originally allocated to help communities devastated by the opioid crisis, but state distribution agencies instead routed portions to police departments, which pitched surveillance tech as a crime-fighting tool.