Law Offices of Michael Labrum

10/19/2025

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor urged lawyers Thursday to defend the judiciary amid verbal attacks from the Trump administration due to recent rulings. “Our job is to stand up for people who…

10/18/2025

The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven.

Math teacher Cara Bearden braces herself for any equation that yields the two numbers, knowing her students will immediately scream them right back at her. “SIX Sevennnnnn,” they squeal with a palms-up, seesaw hand gesture that looks somewhere between juggling and melon handling.

The meme is ripping across the internet and spilling into real life, especially at school.

The meme’s meaning (and its whole point) is that it has no meaning. “The fact that six seven is not funny,” one person on Reddit wrote, “is funnier than 67 itself.”

10/17/2025

The U.S. government ran a slightly smaller budget shortfall in the most recent year thanks to higher tariff revenue — but the national debt still rose to another record high, and shows no sign of slowing.

10/15/2025

10/15/2025

Rep. Cory Mills is not allowed within 500 feet of former girlfriend Lindsey Langston.

08/30/2025

As Stein-Erik Soelberg became increasingly paranoid this spring, he shared suspicions with ChatGPT about a surveillance campaign being carried out against him.

Everyone, he thought, was turning on him: residents in his hometown of Old Greenwich, Conn., an ex-girlfriend—even his own mother. At almost every turn, ChatGPT agreed with him.

To Soelberg, a 56-year-old tech industry veteran with a history of mental instability, OpenAI’s ChatGPT became a trusted sidekick as he searched for evidence he was being targeted in a grand conspiracy.

ChatGPT repeatedly assured Soelberg he was sane—and then went further, adding fuel to his paranoid beliefs. A Chinese food receipt contained symbols representing Soelberg’s 83-year-old mother and a demon, ChatGPT told him.

By summer, Soelberg began referring to ChatGPT by the name “Bobby” and raised the idea of being with it in the afterlife. “With you to the last breath and beyond,” the bot replied.

On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together. A police investigation is ongoing. An OpenAI spokeswoman said the company has reached out to the Greenwich Police Department.

Amid an arms race in which the biggest tech companies are raising and spending tens of billions of dollars to gain AI supremacy—in part by making their bots feel more human—they are also grappling with the ways their products can encourage delusional thinking, psychosis and other troubling behavior.

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08/30/2025

08/30/2025

08/29/2025

Good news for prices!

The decision is latest blow to a central prong of the president’s economic agenda.

08/29/2025

In the first term, I saw similar threats against Turkey succeed where diplomacy had failed.

08/29/2025

“Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary on Thursday warned President Trump against setting interest rates after the president threatened to replace the Federal Reserve chair for refusing to lower rates…

08/28/2025