Screenshot of the Coin Collecting secret mission in the most recent PTCGP set featuring RR Gholdengo EX standing about the 1⭐️ Gimmighoul
Finally got the RR Gholdengo EX! It’s so good when they do this stuff with their artwork. Don’t talk to my mozzarella-stick-ass or my son, ever again
A screenshot with Google's AI overview is not *research*. Click through the links before sharing something you didn't intend.
"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages
A version of Baianá with electric guitar? Okay , hell yeah sign me up youtu.be/neRfBs40oZA
Illustration of a lion holding a blue triangle that says “.5% PROMISED.” Text around the lion reads: “Budget Rally for NYC Libraries, March 18, City Hall, 9 AM,” with a pink and orange sunburst background.
Come out to support our NYC Public Libraries before the City Council preliminary budget hearing on March 18 at 9 am at City Hall Park. Details: actionnetwork.org/events/budge...
Must read from @janus.bsky.social about how “age verification” laws are paving the way for the online version of what just happened to trans people in Kansas (gift link!) www.theverge.com/policy/89207...
A Cornell study: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy , the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolated media reports of severe consequences, like rein- forcing delusions, little is known about the extent of sycophancy or how it affects people who use AI. Here we show the pervasiveness and harmful impacts of sycophancy when people seek advice from AI. First, across 11 state-of-the-art AI models, we find that models are highly sycophantic: they affirm users’ actions 50% more than humans do, and they do so even in cases where user queries mention manipulation, decep- tion, or other relational harms. Second, in two preregistered experiments (N = 1604), including a live-interaction study where participants discuss a real interpersonal conflict from their life, we find that interaction with sycophantic AI models significantly
reduced participants’ willingness to take actions to repair interpersonal conflict, while increasing their conviction of being in the right. However, participants rated sycophan- tic responses as higher quality, trusted the sycophantic AI model more, and were more willing to use it again. This suggests that people are drawn to AI that unquestioningly validate, even as that validation risks eroding their judgment and reducing their incli- nation toward prosocial behavior. These preferences create perverse incentives both for people to increasingly rely on sycophantic AI models and for AI model training to favor sycophancy. Our findings highlight the necessity of explicitly addressing this incentive structure to mitigate the widespread risks of AI sycophancy.
*taps the “chatbots are making you dumber and meaner” sign*
As others have said, releasing this info publicly is rare. And those numbers are VERY good. Everything past break-even means only a 15% publisher cut!
May the house that Sus built stand for many years.
“We can’t possibly imagine a different social order—we just can’t! God decreed that George should be king and the power loom should replace handicraft, and anyone who says otherwise is just wasting their time.”
welp www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...
picture of a frying page with several hot dogs cut to make them look like octopi with little faces, usually used for kid's bento boxes
it's giving
Hey do you wanna go on the Guadalajara Techno Bus? Me too www.tiktok.com/@pulsewheels...
“Ai is killing and polluting black and brown cities,” SZA wrote on Instagram on Tuesday, July 15. “None of you care cause your codependent on a machine. Have a great life.”
SZA via Rolling Stone. This is the energy we need.
We have turned Tehran into hell.
It will consume us too, soon enough.
There is no punk rock AI. To be into AI is to wed yourself to the worst billionaires in the world. And I think this makes the AI people crazy. You just can’t be into it and not be a shill for a corporation. You can’t be into AI and be cool. And it makes them all bitter weirdos.
“This rock is displaying signs of anxiety” bitch so what? Get in line
a LinkedIn post that says, “absolutely insane the way AI has eaten all of your brains, what the fuck is wrong with you people”
just snapped and posted this on LinkedIn, I couldn’t take it anymore
If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.
It's bad that I want to download one episode of Ted to the Plex simply because Brennan Lee Mulligan DMs a game of D&D in it
Representation isn’t just that you see somebody that looks like you present in a situation but somebody who creates the image for you of the possibility of something even if you share absolutely no characteristics with them at the time that you perceive them
I've been asked a lot in the last couple of years if I feel like I could ever see myself living in Peru and the first couple of times I didn't know how to answer but then I realized that I never knew anybody in Peru who was disabled and independent
I think the reason that motivates me the most to get out into the world as a disabled person to live a full life is that hopefully it creates this perception that it's possible, that you can be visibly disabled and have a life
Bob the builder ass
I think the best compromise is one of those rerollable contracts and one primary contract at the same time
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
www.wsj.com/business/med...
lmao it’s fine, I think I wish there was a duo queue or that there was the balance for it because sometimes I can’t get two homies together and it’s clear that’s where the game is balanced for
my aunt Edna just got the kind of medical news no one ever hopes to hear. If you've ever been to Bar Harbor, you might have taken your kids on their boat: Diver Ed's Dive-In Theater. For a good chunk of my early life Edna was my 3rd parent. Love her and Eddie to bits www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-s...
