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[Superman @thesupermanmx]

Researchers proved every major LLM is secretly obsessed with Japan.

And they finally figured out why.

For years, we’ve been told that AI is entirely Western-centric, that it just reflects Silicon Valley and American values.

A landmark paper by Cardiff and Basque researchers tested 31,680 cultural prompts across 24 languages on frontier models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

The results shattered that assumption.

In six out of eight frontier models, Japan was the single most frequently referenced country when asked open-ended cultural questions.

Ask about traditional dances, festivals, or everyday practices in an open context, and the AI defaults to Japan.

Over and over again.

Here is the twist nobody expected.

This bias doesn't come from raw pre-training internet data.

The researchers tracked where the obsession forms. It emerges after pre-training, during the supervised fine-tuning and alignment phase when humans teach the AI how to behave.

Why Japan?

Because decades of global soft power, rich cultural export, and clean, universally admired digital archives make Japanese culture uniquely "safe" for AI safety filters to lean on.

When labs train models to be harmless and universally pleasing, the AI defaults to the cultural equivalent of comfort food.

It avoids controversy by talking about anime, sushi, and tradition.

[Sebastian Raschka @rasbt]

How can an LLM switch between low-, medium-, and high-effort reasoning? And how does an LLM learn to reason more or less?

I put together a “little” article explaining how these effort levels are implemented at inference time and during training.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This guy created the perfect looping video

[📹 Daniele Belardinelli / danielecomposer]

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week.

Bookmark it for later!

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

In the middle of a war, the Islamic Republic still finds time to flog this young women for music.

Anita Papist, a young Iranian singer, has been sentenced to 74 lashes.

Her crime? Singing and uploading her video on Instagram.

The regime confiscated her passport. Blocked her phone. Now they want to silence her voice.

This is called gender apartheid. A total apartheid against women.

Be her voice

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Bahrain shows the extensive damage caused by Iranian ballistic missiles in its capital.

This is completely a civilian area, with zero military assets even nearby.

[Skully @No_Cap_No_Lie]

@RotmanErick @LTheos11169 @DD_Geopolitics Looks like AI

[Skully @No_Cap_No_Lie]

@RealJamesAntoin @visegrad24 I'm sure you can show the rest of the video, correct?

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

🔥 A passenger plane passes directly over the burning Wildberries warehouse in Elektrostal, Moscow region, showing the scale of the aftermath after the overnight drone attack.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Putin

Last night Donald Trump released a declassified document that says his own intelligence community identified Putin as personally running an operation to defeat my father in 2020, built around a fake Burisma corruption scandal centered around me and executed through prominent Americans.

Trump tasked his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to fly to Kyiv and meet a known Russian agent.

The Americans who ran, laundered, and legitimized the operation:

Donald Trump. Rudy Giuliani. John Solomon. Joe DiGenova. Victoria Toensing. Lev Parnas. Igor Fruman. Chanel Rion. Sean Hannity. Steve Bannon. Miranda Devine. Ken Vogel. Ron Johnson. Chuck Grassley. James Comer. Jim Jordan.

To name a few.

An operation formally sanctioned by Trump's own Treasury Department on September 10, 2020, and expanded to include more named actors on January 11, 2021.

Oh, and don't forget the Russian-linked FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who later pleaded guilty to making the entire Burisma bribery story up.

The record exists and we have all the receipts, and more.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This speech by @StephenM is so deeply evil it’s hard to fathom it coming from a White House employee. This is pure Nazism.

The in-group is “morally superior,” “ordered,” “beautiful” & “normal.” The out-group is “abnormal,” “scarred” & “deformed.”

The in-group goes to church on Sunday (Miller is Jewish).
The out-group is “violent,” “junkies,” & “predators”

This is precisely how the Nazis spoke about their political opposition. It is a full-throated commitment to eugenics as policy.

In reality, you just need to watch Miller to see everything he claims to be afraid of: hatred, jealousy & violence. He is the most “deformed” man in America.

Finally, when Miller brings up the boogeyman of “Antifa,” it’s important to remember the original “Antifa” were antifascists in Weimar Germany who were the first people sent to Dachau.

There is no left vs. right anymore. There is life vs. death.

—

“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.

The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids who goes to church every Sunday and is filled with the feeling of inadequacy and jealousy and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress and to inflict pain and suffering.

It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who were assembled to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism.

Why is that? Why? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an antifa protest. Why did the people that are violently demonstrating? Why is there not one normal looking person among them? Every one of them through the course of their life and their decisions has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways.

The point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. Trust your instincts to all people and cross all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is. You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junky and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living.

This is so much deeper than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. And the violent leftists for these deep-seated reasons, going back to the earliest wisdom taught to us in the Bible about coveting.

And I'm not talking about rich versus poor. I'm talking about a much deeper kind of coveting. Coveting people who are morally superior. Who are superior in the simple, truthful way they live their lives. People that they look at who are happy and ordered and peaceful and contributing to the communities.

That burns an ember in them and that's how you end up with the horrors we've seen throughout history. Where good families are dragged that into the street and executed.”

[Skully @No_Cap_No_Lie]

@dapper200 @war_noir

[Preston Stewart @prestonstew_]

Internet isn't reality. In a recent poll, 62% of Americans sympathize with Ukraine compared with just 4% for Russia.

[AK @_akhaliq]

paper: https://t.co/eBkFLgxmvu

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

McConnell spent his whole career fighting so American workers won’t have the same rights as him

[Skully @No_Cap_No_Lie]

@OSINTWarfare Nice hit, now let's do it again lol

[ایران اینترنشنال - خبر فوری @IranIntlbrk]

بخشایش اردستانی، عضو کمیسیون امنیت ملی مجلس: عمان تحت نفوذ آمریکاست و در واقع، آمریکا از زبان عمان با ما صحبت می‌کند

[Sam Altman @sama]

homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

MS NOW: Kash Patel called to White House on heels of continued questions over his behavior

The embattled FBI director was set to travel to Chicago in the Bureau's jet to see his girlfriend perform at a music festival when he was called in, sources tell MS NOW.

https://t.co/XpqSg5TkMc

[Clash Report @clashreport]

John Bolton on Trump:

Trump is trolling people. In the first term, I was in his office once. He was dictating a tweet, and he told the person typing the tweet, "Capitalize all the letters in that last sentence."

Then he turned to me and said, "Do you know why I just said that?" I said, "No, why?" And he said, "Because it drives them crazy."

So why does he talk about taking Greenland? Because it drives them crazy.

Source: Euronews