Doctor J

Oh boy here we go…

I mean, uh I do agree that it's *way too damn hard* to legally immigrate to America, esp if your skin is the wrong color?

Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart” Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001 Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar at city hall Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

They say in times like these, you have to pick a lane or three in the fight against fascism or risk being overwhelmed. One lane I picked was supporting indy and regional media and one outlet I chose was TPM. It's something I can do and it's important.

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate Progressive House candidate Kat Abughazaleh told MS NOW the secretive campaign is “filled with false and defamatory claims.”

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social

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He should do some photo ops of him sailing through the strait himself, just to prove how safe it is

Still looking for my next role - if you know anyone who needs an award winning game designer, narrative designer, or content designer with technical skills and people managing experience who has been at it for 15 years and has made stuff that is taught in schools, hit me up at zoe@unburntwitch.com

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*

Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash

Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do Options for New York Governor, Attorney General, legislature, and city officials in pursuit of accountability for Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

I hope this is one of the most consequential pieces I will have ever written.

Epstein and His Co-Conspirators’ New York Crimes: What NY officials can now do

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Wow

Ahem. "I didn’t realize they had that big of a Navy.”

Yesssssss

“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”

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Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to ​buy Warner Bros Discovery , ac...

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
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I can't compete with this.

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

in the cars universe the matrix was directed by the kachowski sisters

Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung looking impossibly beautiful in In the Mood for Love

Finally watched In the Mood for Love after meaning to for decades. Holy shit it’s utterly gorgeous. Every frame is stunning. Her dresses! Her eyeliner! Oh my god everything is so beautiful.

In my Immigration Law class, I remember physically recoiling in horror at how little ability there is to appeal the rulings of an IJ.

An IJ who works for the exact same people working against the immigrant in question.

U.S. Lost 92,000 Jobs in February The U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February, the Labor Department said Friday, missing expectations.

gyre? not widening.
center? holding.
falcon? listening.
blood-dimmed tide? properly restrained.

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

Okay, but those established protocols exist in a legal framework where humans are barred from giving treatments and advice they're not credentialed to give, so why should GenAI - which is demonstrably worse at it than an untrained human - be an exception?

Dems may worry about not passing a supplemental when we're at war but Trump and this war are unpopular and it'd be easy to say, 'Trump's rubber-stamp Republicans gave him an extra $200b for defense even as they hiked your healthcare costs and he's used it to attack 3 countries that weren't a threat'

In today’s current climate, when every whisper of a misplaced hand brings down a feature length film, anyone who actually thinks the military is purposefully covering up rape to save the career of some god damn [captain], is clearly both an idiot and junior enough in rank or life experience to think it matters.

should be clearer exactly what Platner said re sexual assault. this is the quote:

I think that (a) should be disqualifying in itself, and (b) raises serious questions about possible further ugly revelations which could derail his candidacy and hand Collins a senate seat.

Markwayne Mullin is a very stupid man’s man.

ASK ABOUT HER PLANS FOR THE AGENCY

ASK HER ABOUT HER FAVORITE PART OF THE JOB

technically there is no "evidence" that you are conscious either

Feels like you might want to wait to hit publish until you're confident none of those strikes, say, hit a school and killed 150 kids