osmosis zeta-jones @bigfrogandy

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

This kind of person only exists online

Rory Sherrard @SherrardRory

a week ago

My most hated directors: Noah Baumbach Steven Spielberg Rob Reiner 🔥 Paul Feig Boots Riley Wes Craven 🔥 Jane Schoenbrun Wes Anderson Martin Scorsese Greta Gerwig Christopher Nolan Rian Johnson Charlie Kaufman Curry Barker Chris Stuckmann Kane Parsons x.com/fender_belly/s…

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I ride the subway read the signs I let the seasons change my mind

@sampomerantz Happy birthday!! :)

big fat greek wedding crashers

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outting someone to the world just for your 15 minutes of fame is the epitome of rotted

Decaprio @bigdecaprio

2 weeks ago

An unknown gay model claims he hooked up with Love Island’s Gabriel 😳👀 Do y'all think this changes anything or is it nobody's business ??

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realized i genuinely haven’t used siri in years, i’m not talking to my damn phone

the internet can get better. if we own it, we can make it better

Last.fm @lastfm

3 weeks ago

So this happened.

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She is unbelievable music.apple.com/us/album/be-th…

yall didnt exepct a nyc clubkid to serve fashion…?

joe ☁️ @stanmidnightsx

4 weeks ago

Vivacious serving fashion on the runway was not something I expected. #DragRace #AllStars11

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A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

I’m so sat like y’all don’t get it

i love the dissonance in the og “die with a smile,” earnest, tender and also deeply grim. but the requiem version amplifying the apocalyptic doom into electro-futuristic sonic texture to close the era’s circle is a perfect example of gaga’s artistic ethos.

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-ir…

better catalogue than her brother lowkey

𝕶𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖎𝖉𝖔𝖘𝖈𝖔𝖕𝖊 𝕰𝖞𝖊𝖉 𝕲𝖎𝖗𝖑 @thejunebugfreak

a month ago

in honor of Janet Jackson's birthday, what's your favorite album and song of hers?

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Yeah everything on here is faker and more manufactured than ever like it's pretty insane. I think that the death of chronological feeds and being spoonfed an addictive algorithm that tries to pull you to the depths definitely has taken a toll on us too.

New York Magazine @NYMag

a month ago

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying

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Today marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe), during which more than 750,000 Palestinians were expelled and over 400 villages were destroyed to establish the State of Israel.

grad weekend actually a dream come true -- I LOVE MY LIFE !!

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