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[Sally Dee @DeeDee733]

@fivestarmichael It's totally rigged to keep it between the Republican and Democrat party's chosen candidates - in other words, the Uniparty wins no matter what.

[dav0id @dav0idz]

@A_refusenik The concept of things being disposable is the only thing manufactured in our world. It was invented by capitalists and corporations to create artificial scarcity, driving up profits.

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@FightWithMemes 8/10 Would’ve gone with a classic bayonet. The axe is cool but then you can’t put a grenade launcher underneath

[katexbt.hl @katexbt]

Wow, LinkedIn just got caught in a huge scandal.

Here's what's going on:

> Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions.
> The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers.

It gets worse:

> The scan doesn’t just look for LinkedIn-related tools.

> It identifies whether you use an Islamic content filter (PordaAI — “Blur Haram objects, real-time AI for Islamic values”)

> whether you’ve installed an anti-Zionist political tagger (Anti-Zionist Tag), or a tool designed for neurodivergent users

Huge L after L

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Tweet “Epstein files” once a day to put the pedos away

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@mikegalsworthy @march4progress This will just continue until the US overthrows its illegitimate government. It’s a runaway train and no amount of voting can put it back on track

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Rap Game Edward Bernays @edward_bernayz]

Friendly Reminder: #AOCIA is not just a “Latinx bartender from the Bronx with no political experience” but actually an establishment opp with a spooky past who was put in place to gatekeep & subvert the American Left. THREAD 🧵⬇️🕵🏻‍♀️

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PLEASE. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR

[The General @GeneralMCNews]

BREAKING: Iran says it will bomb Palantir, Oracle, and other major Western firms, declaring them “legitimate targets.”

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@realtimsharp Are you telling me folks that believe in blind, raw individualism can’t find a way to cooperate?

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@catturd2 Just change your handle to Copeturd

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@SweatpantJesus 🙌

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@allenanalysis Instead of organizing a revolt they organized a dance routine 👏👏👏

[Anam Karen @InsightTweeting]

Makes you wonder why the French used guillotines when they just coulda done this instead.

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@ennui365 Democrats are bad too. The corruption is universal! Get over the Red vs Blue BS already. Demand a socialist party that isn’t afraid to call itself a socialist party (and actually implements socialist principles!)

[Solidarity @1WhiteRabbitt]

If your PROTEST has a permit then it’s really just a PARADE.

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

What if indeed, Trevor... What if indeed....

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@KimDotcom Imagine if they were willing to do something besides participate in a shitlib convention Mardi Gras parade.