✨Evelyn, EMSL✨ Ravelyn🌈 (find me on Bsky)

Passionate abt sustainability education & behavior change. #ASUEMSL Plays & announces AZRD roller derby.

[DuckDuckGo @DuckDuckGo]

Even Google recommends DuckDuckGo if you don't want AI in your search experience.

Let 👏 people 👏 choose 👏

[City of Tempe, AZ @Tempegov]

Now’s your chance to tell the City of Tempe what you think about transportation, parks, safety and city services and programs. The 2026 Community Survey is now open! Take the survey: https://t.co/PnN2Uv1Ouo

Your feedback makes a real difference. The results help the city determine community priorities and identify ways to better serve you. The survey closes July 30.

[adrienne @barelytolerabIe]

Imagine blowing 30 years of search engine dominance—so much so that your website became a verb—only to kill your search engine in favor of a inferior product only tech bros and their sycophants like.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[aria 🍓 @ariadotwav]

oh my fucking god bruh

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

[JD Vans @JDVans]

#smokerises

[The Mona Show @themonashow_]

I need to see people supporting Trans people right now. Retweet this if you do. Trans Rights are Human Rights.

[Hayduke ⏹️ @GWHayduke97]

Using the internet in 2026, a vignette:

> go to website, enter username and password

"Please confirm your phone number so we can send it a verification code".

> enter phone number
> receive code
> enter code

"We've sent a code to your account's email address. Please enter that code to continue."

> go to email
> get code
> enter code

"Welcome to SomeWebsite! Our experience is better on the app. Would you like to download the app?"

> X out
> scroll down a ways to the thing you are looking for

"SomeWebsite is better on the app. Please download the app to continue."

> press X

The website scrolls you back to the top

> scroll down again

Same message. You realize that accessing this, and most other functionality, is gated behind the app for you even though the website itself has this functionality too.

> go to app store
> search SomeWebsite
> download app
> open app

"Welcome to SomeWebsite's app! To properly operate, this app needs permissions for your location, contacts, bodily fluids, and firstborn son. Please click below to go to settings and enable these permissions."

> click button, go to settings
> enable all sorts of permissions
> go back to app
> enter username and password

"We've sent a code to your account's phone number. Please enter that code to continue."

> get code
> enter code

"Thank you for logging in! Would you like to use passkeys instead? You can use Touch ID, facial recognition, or a retina scan."

> no, I'm not gonna do biometrics

"SomeWebsite would like to send you push notifications. Do you accept?"

> no

And now you can FINALLY do the thing you wanted to do.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[City of Tempe, AZ @Tempegov]

🦋Together, we can all play a part in supporting our monarch butterfly friends 🦋

Tempe has taken the Mayor's Monarch pledge, which means we are committing to planting milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.

We are also engaging with Homeowners Associations (HOAs), Community Associations or neighborhood organizations to identify opportunities to plant monarch gardens and revise maintenance and mowing programs.

You can learn more about what you can do at https://t.co/XaMlUSurdf

[Zito @_Zeets]

They’re not even giving kids a chance to develop their brains or their social world. Hooking them as customers as early as possible.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

👀

[Isa // Lord of Crows @Secondlina]

New comic is up!!

https://t.co/Ki9jkc7YvY

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

[City of Tempe, AZ @Tempegov]

Happy Arbor Day, Tempe! 🌳 Tempe City Council proclaimed April as Arbor Month, and our staff and volunteers have been busy planting 75 brand new trees in our parks all month long!

Tempe has also been recognized for our efforts to increase our shade canopy as a Tree City USA Community by the Arbor Day Foundation, and we have received the Tree Cities of the World designation from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN and the Arbor Day Foundation.

Thank you to all the volunteers who have come together to plant new trees as we continue to recover from last fall's storms. Learn more about our tree programs, including how to increase shade in your yard, at https://t.co/xbLjy8kbbp.

[Leanne Yau @polyphiliablog]

A lot of polyamorous people will NOT like what I have to say about this, but…your partner is unfortunately allowed to make the choice to be in shitty, toxic, and even abusive relationships.

[Elai @elaifresh]

“Can you name these flags?”

“I don’t think you’re allowed to call them that”

[Mark Burgess @markburgess_osl]

Only a small exaggeration