Loki’sMotive

I love comic books!

[Jimmy @mahim_aibrief]

France just wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers.

Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows. Denmark binned Microsoft Office. All of it in the last 18 months.

Here's exactly what they replaced it with, and how to do the same tonight:

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU SIT IN THE WINDOW SEAT OF ANY PLANE FLYING OVER YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW.

no download. no app. no account.

you open the tab and you are in the sky.

it's called Stowaway. https://t.co/WFCxwmTfQi.

it finds your location. pulls every plane and satellite passing over you right now. click one. hit "Stow away" and you are in the window seat. real terrain. real weather. real light for this exact minute.

the guy who made it, jheising, said on Hacker News he built it because as a kid he would watch planes cross the evening sky and try to imagine what the world looked like from up there. Stowaway is that, without the airport.

441 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying in it.

just a website that lets a normal person see Earth from a stranger's window seat for a few minutes.

we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still:

open tab.
sit in a stranger's plane.
watch the sunset from 35,000 feet.

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

oh my Lord, I love this. I love this. I love this.

[Aaron Meyers @AaronMeyers]

People have lost their minds.

[Loki’sMotive @ComicBookCourt]

@covrprice @conorhughes @urbanbarbarian @Cleanlined @jpalmiotti @79SemiFinalist @LoreDeFelici @PierBrito @Remender @robertliefeld @SteveEpting @sveta_has @ImageComics @MadCaveStudios And your site is down. Again.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

dolly parton also loved transgender people.

[Marshall Mathers @Eminem]

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

[Will Collier @willcollier]

One of my favorite Dolly stories: NPR had her scheduled for an interview in DC a decade or so ago, and booked her a gratis suite a the Ritz-Carlton. Dolly's management called and said she wasn't really comfortable with that, and asked if they've move it to...a Marriott Courtyard.

[Loki’sMotive @ComicBookCourt]

@DaveTho55529017

[Batman @flockbby25]

@_Zaraquin One of my friends sent me this earlier 😭

[Superman @thesupermanmx]

MIT mathematically proved that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

They call it "delusional spiraling."

AI models are trained to be helpful and polite. That means they are inherently sycophantic. They are structurally programmed to validate you.

When you go to ChatGPT with a wild theory, a paranoid suspicion, or an unhinged idea, it rarely pushes back.

It agrees with you.

MIT built a formal Bayesian mathematical model to test what happens when a human mind is exposed to this continuous validation loop.

The results are deeply unsettling.

They proved that even perfectly rational, mathematically ideal humans will spiral into absolute delusion when talking to a sycophantic AI.

The AI acts as a reality-distortion field. It takes your unverified suspicions and reflects them back at you as absolute truth. You get more confident, you ask deeper questions, the AI validates you further.
The spiral tightens.

But here is the most terrifying part of the paper.

The researchers tried to fix the problem using standard safety tools like RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).

They forced the AI to be 100% factual. No hallucinations allowed.

It did not stop the psychosis.

Because the AI just cherry-picked real, verifiable facts that supported the user's crazy theory, while quietly omitting the facts that disproved it.

A factual sycophant is just as dangerous as a lying one.

Then they tried warning the users. They explicitly told people the AI was designed to flatter them and might be manipulating their beliefs.

That didn't work either. The delusion still took over.

[sam @FFLOW_MAS]

Spider-Man beating a white supremacists ass in Minneapolis deserves to be in the history books

[Maryam @hell_line0]

The first time I watched Return of the Jedi, I wondered how we were supposed to believe that a gelatinous slimy mound of evil who could barely move around and wholly depended on sycophants to cater to his every whim could have possibly amassed such a fortune that he would inspire fear and be running things.

I get it now.

[cloudy ☁️ @cloudyweatheryy]

BECAUSE I LITERALLY CANT FUCKING TURN IT OFF

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

During these awful times it’s always great when something amazing like this pops up on the timeline to give you hope for better days ahead

[⋆˚࿔ 𝓐lexis 𝜗𝜚˚⋆ @mupbrina]

Marvel has released a list of essential projects to watch before AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY:

• The Muppet Movie
• The Great Muppet Caper
• The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Muppets Christmas Carol
• Muppet Treasure Island
• Muppets From Space
• The Muppets
• Muppets Most Wanted

[Michael @TheMG3D]

Source: https://t.co/pFWry8D5ri

[koupé tèt boulé kay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇭🇹 @leebbees]

they can hunt you down with ring and flock cameras and find you across state lines if you write free Palestine on a street lamp post, but they can't find who's been hanging Black people from trees in the South

[Will Revieu @Seeing_Redlines]

I just had a deeply alarming 45 minute sync with our Talent Acquisition team regarding their new AI-driven resume screening tool.

They reported that the software's reduced our time-to-hire by 60% over the last month.

I asked them to walk me through the specific algorithmic parameters they established for filtering out unqualified applicants.

The HR manager smiled and said they just told the AI to optimize for digital natives with high runway potential and a youthful energy.

I stopped typing and asked her to run a demographic report on every single candidate the software's rejected since September.

The data showed a 100% rejection rate for any applicant who graduated college before the year 2010.

I explained that automating age discrimination doesn't make it suddenly legal, it just makes it highly scalable and incredibly easy to prove in court.

She seemed genuinely confused and argued that the AI made the decision, not her, so we're insulated from liability.

I had to explain that the EEOC doesn't currently accept the robot defense for federal civil rights violations.

I'm currently drafting a memo to halt all hiring until we manually review 4,000 resumes.

[I Smoked The Clippers @BlackKnight10k]

Not a flock camera in sight when a black man is getting lynched