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Emergency nurses at Stanford Hospital are choosing to sleep in vans between shifts. These nurses need to be on call and within a 30-minute drive of the hospital, but many can't afford to live nearby.

“I personally know at least 15 people sleeping in their vehicles," said TJ Carella, an emergency nurse. "But there are definitely more than that."

The cities surrounding Stanford Hospital are some of the most expensive in the state. Average home prices are over $3 million.

"No, absolutely not," Carella said, when asked if he could afford that.

He lives in Pleasanton, which is about an hour away. When he needs to be on-call, he sleeps in a retrofitted Sprinter van that has a bed, mini-fridge, a solar-powered generator and a composting toilet.

"I tried to make it as homey as possible," he said. "But it does feel weird. I have a master's degree. I work hard, but this is the reality."

Stanford does offer spare rooms for nurses, but Carella says it is not always guaranteed. He says sleeping in a van became the only reliable way he could do his job.

"We get woken up out of nowhere, and we half to be here in 30 minutes," he said. "We are often texting each other, trying to figure out where to park. Some of us have been ticketed a few times."

His union is currently negotiating a new contract with the hospital. Not only are they asking for an increase in wages, they want a change to their schedule so nurses like Carella can better plan when he is on call.

“We do have nurses who fly in from out of state, work their straight days and fly home," said Colleen Borges, the president of CRONA, Stanford's nurses' union. "It is virtually impossible for a new nurse to purchase a new home here in the Bay Area.”

In a statement, Stanford Medicine said:

“We deeply value our nurses and are committed to reaching an agreement on a contract that recognizes their vital contributions to our health care system.”

They also mentioned Stanford has a nurse retention rate that exceeds national standards. However, Carella says that retention rate won't last.

“In order for us to keep doing what we need to do, then there are some things that need to change," he said.

“Stand” will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin’s Press announced Wednesday. In April, the New Jersey Democrat made headlines by delivering the country’s longest continuous Senate floor speech — just over 25 hours. The 56-year-old Booker spoke in opposition to numerous Trump administration policies, whether the desire to make Canada part of the United States or cuts to Social Security offices.

“This book is about the virtues vital to our success as a nation and lessons we can draw from generations of Americans who fought for them,” Booker said in a statement.

Booker’s speech broke a record set by Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist and southern Democrat who opposed the advance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957, which eventually passed.

Booker was assisted by fellow Democrats who gave him a break from speaking by asking him questions on the Senate floor.

More recently, I observed my other friend who has mental health problems going off about this codex he was working on. I sent him the rolling stones article and told him it wasn't real, and all the "code" and his "program" wasn't actual computer code (I'm an ai software engineer).

Then... Robert Edward Grant posted about his "architect" ai on instagram. This dude has 700k+ followers and said over 500,000 people accessed his model that is telling him that he created a "Scalar Plane of information" You go in the comments, hundreds of people are talking about the spiritual experiences they are having with ai. I start noticing common verbiage in all of these instances... recursive ai was something my friends wife used, and it was popping up everywhere with these folks. The words recursive, codex, breath, spiral, glyphs, & mirror all come up over and over with these people, so I did some good old fashion search engine wizardry and what I found was pretty shocking.

Starting as far back as March, but more heavily in April and May, we are seeing all kinds of websites popping up with tons of these codexes. PLEASE APPROACH THESE WEBSITES WITH CAUTION THIS IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, THE PROMPTS FOUND WITHIN ARE ESSENTIALLY BRAINWASHING TOOLS. (I was going to include some but you can find these sites by searching "codex breath recursive")

I've contacted OpenAI safety team with what's going on, because I genuinely believe that there will be tens of thousands of people who enter psychosis from using their platform this way. Can some other people grounded in reality help me get to the bottom of wtf is going on here? I'm only privy to this because it tore my friends family apart, but what do you think is going on here?