Craig Parshall

Its coming, better be ready. Therapists in northern California just walked off the job, saying cheaper AI-driven systems are starting to replace trained mental health workers at the front door of care. The dispute is not only about layoffs, because therapists say Kaiser (the company they work for) is shifting early screening work away from licensed clinicians and toward scripted operators, apps, and e-visits. Workers also say AI is being used to speed up charting so management can pack in more appointments, which turns mental health care into a volume business where clinicians get less time, patients get less attention, and mistakes become easier. --- futurism .com/health-medicine/mental-health-workers-ai-strike

One of the most damning images in American history—captured in a Dallas backyard 63 years ago today. Lee Harvey Oswald asked his wife, Marina, to take several photos of him. The rifle he held would later be ballistically proven to be the weapon that assassinated President Kennedy. The revolver on his hip is the one used to kill Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit 45 minutes after the President was shot. In front of his chest, Lee holds copies of The Militant, a Trotskyist weekly newspaper published by the Socialist Workers Party, and The Worker, the weekly newspaper of the Communist Party USA. From my book, Case Closed: “On Sunday afternoon, March 31, Marina was in the small fenced-in backyard hanging up diapers when Lee asked her to take a picture. She protested that she had never taken a photo in her life, but he assured her it was simple. He returned to the apartment and in a few minutes emerged dressed all in black, a revolver tucked into the waist of his pants, a rifle held in one hand, and a camera and some newspapers in the other hand. Marina broke into laughter: ‘I asked him then why he had dressed himself up like that … I thought he had gone crazy, and he said he wanted to send that to a newspaper. I thought that Lee [was] … just playing around.’ But he was absolutely serious, and angry that she thought it was funny. Marina became a ‘little scared’ as she worried about taking the pictures correctly and whether anyone in the neighborhood could see him. ‘It was quite embarrassing the way he was dressed,’ she recalled. He posed and she snapped the shutter. Then he walked over and reset the shutter and she did it again, and again. Oswald developed the photos himself, probably the next day when he returned to work. He brought one back to Marina and inscribed on the back: ‘For Junie from Papa.’ Marina was flabbergasted and asked why June would want a picture of him holding guns. ‘To remember Papa by sometime,’ Oswald said.” The photographs of the man accused of assassinating the President, posing with the murder weapon, were so incriminating that many conspiracy theorists reflexively insisted they had to be fake. Some made a small business out of producing videos, booklets, and lecture series arguing the images were composites. They cited alleged shadow inconsistencies, body proportions, facial variations, even supposed grafting lines. The Warren Commission’s FBI experts found no evidence of retouching. By the late 1970s, advances in forensic photography allowed the House Select Committee on Assassinations to settle the matter definitively. Twenty-two leading experts determined the negatives were taken by Oswald’s Imperial Reflex camera, to the exclusion of any other camera ever made. They found no evidence whatsoever of faking. They also matched the rifle in the photograph to the rifle recovered on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The science was conclusive. The mythology persists.

When will the state of Colorado understand what the First Amendment means? Great ruling.

🚨 In an 8-1 vote, the Supreme Court holds that Colorado’s ban on “conversion therapy,” as applied to petitioner's talk therapy, violates the First Amendment because it constitutes viewpoint discrimination

Permissionless Innovation: 10 Questions on its 10th Anniversary This week marks the 10th anniversary of the release of my 2016 book, "Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom.” In the book, I argued that the freedom to innovate was a foundational building block of human flourishing and deserved a greater defense as such. Here are 10 questions asked and answered about the book and the concept of permissionless innovation more generally.

Congress needs to pass my legislation empowering victims and parents to sue Big Tech

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

Finally. Those of us who joined you at the Supreme Court in this, applaud you!

🚨BREAKING WIN: Government Agencies BANNED From Pressuring Big Tech to Censor Americans for 10 YEARS A Consent Decree in Missouri v. Biden now bars the CDC, CISA, and the U.S. Surgeon General from coercing social media platforms to suppress protected speech for the next DECADE.