Shaleen Title
@shaleen.bsky.social
Lawyer, activist, former marijuana regulator, AI skeptic. Regulation is actually very punk rock
This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is our community's letter!! It was written by Josie Morway, a local artist and parent. After we started asking questions, the district slowed way down and starting holding forums, creating workgroups, and taking student privacy more seriously. Talk to us if you want to do the same!
This book is amazing and this event was so good I'm looking up everyone I used to love on Twitter and committing to re-addict myself to screens as soon as possible
Packed house at @thesinclair.bsky.social for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social “We Had it Coming” book 📕 release 😍 I’m playing folk punk songs in between the readers and it’s a good time
November 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This book is amazing and this event was so good I'm looking up everyone I used to love on Twitter and committing to re-addict myself to screens as soon as possible
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TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!
Knowing how despondent I felt about young people, especially young men, a year ago, what an amazing thing to see that Mamdani won men age 18-29 by FORTY POINTS.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Knowing how despondent I felt about young people, especially young men, a year ago, what an amazing thing to see that Mamdani won men age 18-29 by FORTY POINTS.
“'The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me,' Allen told WBAL, saying about eight cop cars' pulled up to the school. 'I was just holding a Doritos bag...'"
Student handcuffed after Doritos bag mistaken for a gun by school’s AI security system | CNN
Armed police handcuffed and searched a student at a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland, this week after an AI-driven security system flagged the teen’s empty bag of chips as a possible firearm.
www.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“'The first thing I was wondering was, was I about to die? Because they had a gun pointed at me,' Allen told WBAL, saying about eight cop cars' pulled up to the school. 'I was just holding a Doritos bag...'"
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consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them
by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
consider that the psychotic loop of chatgpt mostly seems to be 'the chatbot repeating your own ideas back to you and telling you they're brilliant' and then consider billionaires and the people around them
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
COVID vaccines are now available to everyone, no prescription needed, and insurance will cover them. IMO between now and Nov 1 is the best time of year to get one.
(Source, John Hopkins newsletter: mailchi.mp/217244f2e75e...)
(Source, John Hopkins newsletter: mailchi.mp/217244f2e75e...)
Expert Insights 10.15.25
How to get a COVID vaccine: Cutting through the confusion on COVID shots
mailchi.mp
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
COVID vaccines are now available to everyone, no prescription needed, and insurance will cover them. IMO between now and Nov 1 is the best time of year to get one.
(Source, John Hopkins newsletter: mailchi.mp/217244f2e75e...)
(Source, John Hopkins newsletter: mailchi.mp/217244f2e75e...)
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Big Tech's A.I. data centers are turning into a political flashpoint in VA & NJ.
Voters are pushing back as Amazon, Google, and Meta server farms drive up power costs and eat up local grids — a “sleeper issue” that's exploding in gubernatorial elections.
Voters are pushing back as Amazon, Google, and Meta server farms drive up power costs and eat up local grids — a “sleeper issue” that's exploding in gubernatorial elections.
The sleeper issue that could play a huge role in Virginia and New Jersey — and the midterms
Data centers are spreading across the country and contributing to rising electricity bills. It’s becoming a political issue as lawmakers are still workshopping their response.
www.nbcnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Big Tech's A.I. data centers are turning into a political flashpoint in VA & NJ.
Voters are pushing back as Amazon, Google, and Meta server farms drive up power costs and eat up local grids — a “sleeper issue” that's exploding in gubernatorial elections.
Voters are pushing back as Amazon, Google, and Meta server farms drive up power costs and eat up local grids — a “sleeper issue” that's exploding in gubernatorial elections.
If you wondered what was going on with that psychedelics ballot question in Massachusetts, here are some thoughtful and well reported answers www.lucid.news/how-not-to-w...
How (Not) To Win A Campaign: Lessons From Question 4
As new psychedelic reform bills and ballot initiatives sweep the nation, the failure of the Question 4 ballot initiative in Massachusetts last year offers an instructive case study.
www.lucid.news
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If you wondered what was going on with that psychedelics ballot question in Massachusetts, here are some thoughtful and well reported answers www.lucid.news/how-not-to-w...
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Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
October 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
I am eager to become farsighted and need reading glasses because I envision it will turn me into one of those very polished middle age women who put on their glasses and look at something and then peer over them and say something brilliant
October 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I am eager to become farsighted and need reading glasses because I envision it will turn me into one of those very polished middle age women who put on their glasses and look at something and then peer over them and say something brilliant
I talked to High Times about why most everything you hear about marijuana reclassification is a scam hightimes.com/activism/its...
It's a Trap! Why Schedule III Could Be Worse Than Standing Still on Cannabis Reform | High Times
Shaleen Title, Chelsea Higgs Wise and Cat Packer explain why Schedule III may deepen cannabis inequities.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I talked to High Times about why most everything you hear about marijuana reclassification is a scam hightimes.com/activism/its...
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For the record, if you pick 1 cause - just 1 - and fight for it, I think that’s cool as hell. No part of me is gonna go “wow, you picked y vs x? Clearly you don’t give a shit about x.” That’s not how human energy works. You can care about many things, but you can’t throw yourself at all of them.
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For the record, if you pick 1 cause - just 1 - and fight for it, I think that’s cool as hell. No part of me is gonna go “wow, you picked y vs x? Clearly you don’t give a shit about x.” That’s not how human energy works. You can care about many things, but you can’t throw yourself at all of them.
And introducing these anthropomorphized, sycophantic, clearly-designed-for-dependency things in schools when kids most NEED to connect and hang out and be with their peers seems like the dumbest idea imaginable
September 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
And introducing these anthropomorphized, sycophantic, clearly-designed-for-dependency things in schools when kids most NEED to connect and hang out and be with their peers seems like the dumbest idea imaginable
I know we joked all this time about our phones ruining our attention span and Twitter breaking our brains but I really am concerned about chatgpt because the pace and ease with which people are entirely replacing their own knowledge and ability to communicate is very frightening to me
September 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I know we joked all this time about our phones ruining our attention span and Twitter breaking our brains but I really am concerned about chatgpt because the pace and ease with which people are entirely replacing their own knowledge and ability to communicate is very frightening to me
I knew it when I was sixteen, turned out the best publications out there really are The Onion, Teen Vogue, and High Times
September 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I knew it when I was sixteen, turned out the best publications out there really are The Onion, Teen Vogue, and High Times
I have a letter to the editor in yesterday's Globe, "Protect users from the harm of chatbots" because these things are bad news
July 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I have a letter to the editor in yesterday's Globe, "Protect users from the harm of chatbots" because these things are bad news
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Thank you and congrats to all the advocates who have been working hard to achieve this outcome for the past few weeks.
US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill reut.rs/4lwP1eu
US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill
The Republican-led U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to remove a 10-year federal moratorium on state regulation of artificial intelligence from President Trump's sweeping tax-cut and spending bill.
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July 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Thank you and congrats to all the advocates who have been working hard to achieve this outcome for the past few weeks.
I can't stop grinning today. He didn't even change his name to "Zo" or anything
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I can't stop grinning today. He didn't even change his name to "Zo" or anything
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
Can't believe I woke up this morning and posted hard for the first time in weeks because I had this uncanny feeling that I have to be where all the posters are today
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Can't believe I woke up this morning and posted hard for the first time in weeks because I had this uncanny feeling that I have to be where all the posters are today
This is a bill to concentrate both political and market power in Massachusetts cannabis and pave the way for it to become a billionaire-controlled industry. It doesn't happen because it's inevitable, it happens slowly and over time because of intentional policy choices like this bill.
Mass. House passes bill overhauling cannabis laws, Cannabis Control Commission | Click on the image to read the full story
Mass. House passes bill overhauling cannabis laws, Cannabis Control Commission
The House approved a significant overhaul of marijuana oversight in Massachusetts on Wednesday, passing a bill that would downsize and reorient the scandal-hounded Cannabis Control Commission that has kept tabs on the legal industry since it launched almost eight years ago.
www.wcvb.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This is a bill to concentrate both political and market power in Massachusetts cannabis and pave the way for it to become a billionaire-controlled industry. It doesn't happen because it's inevitable, it happens slowly and over time because of intentional policy choices like this bill.
This is a beautiful piece of writing that doesn't fix anything but might make you feel seen www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
www.newyorker.com
May 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is a beautiful piece of writing that doesn't fix anything but might make you feel seen www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...