Imran Khan is a former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Denying him access to his family and lawyers is a denial of basic rights that should be guaranteed to every citizen.
It has been over seven months since he was allowed to meet his sisters. No civilised legal system should permit such prolonged isolation. He must be shifted to Shifa International Hospital as per the wishes of his family.
Today is a test for the Supreme Court.
Will it uphold the Constitution, or bow to pressure, like it has been doing for the past few years?
#ReleaseImranKhan
A first-year student was abducted on her way to collect her roll number slip in Jhang. She was gang-raped for three days. Her attackers dumped her at a hospital and fled.
This is a national emergency.
Every single day brings new reports of sexual violence - against women, children, and khwaja siras. Every single day. And every single day, the response is the same - outrage, silence, repeat. Extra-judicial killings are not a solution. They are a performance. They do not dismantle patriarchal violence, they sidestep accountability while handing unchecked power to a police force that is itself implicated in cases of sexual violence. You cannot end a systemic crisis with tools that are part of the system causing it.
What we need is a National Assembly emergency session dedicated to developing a serious, funded, medium-to-long-term national plan to end patriarchal violence. One that addresses root causes: impunity, institutional failure, the normalisation of violence against women and gender minorities. These are not isolated incidents. This is a pattern which is widespread, it is structural, and it demands a structural response. The women of this country deserve dignified lives. That is not a demand, it is literally the bare minimum.
No, no puedes trabajar de 9 a 5 y caminar 10,000 pasos al día, leer 2 libros a la semana, cocinar todas las noches, limpiar a diario, mantener amistades, cuidar de tu familia, cuidarte a ti mismo, dormir 8 horas, cultivar hobbies y ser completamente productivo en el trabajo todos los días.
Eso no es motivación, es una tontería irreal.
Libérate de eso.
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.
جنید حفیظ کی آج پھر سماعت تھی۔ اُن کے بزرگ والد گھنٹوں کا سفر کر کے لاہور ہائی کورٹ پہنچے لیکن دونوں معزز جج صاحبان نے آج پھر مقدمے کی سماعت سے انکار کر دیا۔ عدالتیں یا وکلاء تنظیمیں ان جج صاحبان کو کن قوانین کے تحت پابند کریں کہ وہ مقدمہ سُننے کی ہمت کریں۔ جنید حفیظ گزشتہ سترہ سال سے عدالتوں کے رحم و کرم پر ہے، انسانی حقوق کی تنظیمیں خاموش اور ادارے بے بس ۔۔۔ انصاف کہاں ملے گا؟ #JusticeForJunaidHafeez
Some of us met Junaid’s father outside the courtroom today. Everything we could say felt hollow in the face of injustice that’s allowed to fester indefinitely.
Scared to open my instagram now because I follow 2 animal shelter pages. Every time they post something, it haunts me. The barbarity, the indifference, the inhumanity. I’m unable to scroll past it. Allah reham kar de aur humain maaf kar de.
Life truly tested me when I only got fridge magnets as souvenirs wherever I went and then I moved into an apartment with a concealed wooden fridge cabinet 🫠
the fact that women could have their nudes leaked and their whole career could potentially be destroyed but men could have a whole ass R@PE ALLEGATION but still be the president of the US... i never wanna hear y'all argue that gender inequality doesn't exist