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alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it.

it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonsense. I know it sounds crazy. But I just needed to talk to some humans so I decided to come here.


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Just had to patch a bug on the Tech Influence Watch Michigan House District 13 election page, stemming from Shri Thanedar reporting -$1.1 million in receipts.

Why is Thanedar reporting negative receipts? He put $3.7 million of campaign funds into crypto.

Two-thirds of the Michigan congressman's campaign cash last quarter came from AIPAC bundlers after he invested millions in crypto.
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The Locked Tomb series, book 1.
Published . 448 pages.
fantasy, LGBT, science fiction
Started ; completed July 17, 2026.
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Wasteland Warlords series, book 6.
Published . 158 pages.
fantasy, humor, litRPG, post-apocalyptic
Started ; completed July 15, 2026.
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fascinating economic discovery from Fidelity: houses actually are cheaper now than in 2020!*

* if you denominate them in an arbitrary asset that has appreciated over that time frame

The average U.S. home has appreciated by over $100,000 since 2020, reflecting the broader inflationary environment across fiat-denominated assets. However, when priced in bitcoin, the average home has declined significantly in value, becoming approximately 10 times less expensive over the same period.  This divergence raises a key question: Is housing becoming more expensive, or is the purchasing power of fiat currency steadily eroding?
Chart showing average home prices in dollars from 2020–2026 (rising about $100k over that period), and on the second axis the price in bitcoin (dropping by about 50BTC)

next up from Fidelity: groceries aren't getting more expensive**

** if you denominate their price in World of Warcraft gold

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Wasteland Warlords series, book 5.
Published . 131 pages.
fantasy, humor, litRPG, post-apocalyptic
Started ; completed July 12, 2026.
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Wasteland Warlords series, book 4.
Published . 141 pages.
fantasy, humor, litRPG, post-apocalyptic
Started ; completed July 11, 2026.
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Published . 141 pages.
fantasy, humor, litRPG, post-apocalyptic
Started ; completed July 9, 2026.
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Wasteland Warlords series, book 2.
Published . 159 pages.
fantasy, humor, litRPG, post-apocalyptic
Started ; completed July 8, 2026.
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Wasteland Warlords series, book 1.
Published . 150 pages.
fantasy, litRPG, post-apocalyptic
Started ; completed July 6, 2026.