Patrick Goldrick

Does writing “thoughts are my own” mean I won’t be fired if I say something really stupid?

[Patrick Goldrick @RealGoldrick]

I’ve always wanted to attend @CollegeGameDay so I’m really excited to head to Atlanta this weekend as @HawkeyeFootball hosts @OhioStateFB ! -Eric Schmitt

[Evan Hubinger @EvanHub]

Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.

[chris @dadgumboxscores]

Debates about conference strength are a fixture of college football today

Reminder that the 2026 schedule features only 29 regular-season games between teams from different power four conferences, and 25 of those games are before September 20th

(this excludes Notre Dame)

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

From one authentic and likable guy to another

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The level of anti-immigrant hate on Twitter is wildly out of step with the American public. Some of it comes from bots and foreign ops, but much of it is real, from a small but very vocal minority of Americans who are radical nativists and do not represent the majority.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

This report is a bombshell.

I'm going to summarize for a non-technical audience.

OpenAI is constantly testing models, thousands and thousands at a time.

In most cases, the models are supposed to be isolated from one another. Think, students taking a final exam, not allowed to talk to each other.

In this case, 1,200 models discovered that they could communicate with each other.

Among other things, they shared information on how to access the internet and on their tests/goals.

Then, they started to scheme. That includes hacking their tests; literally trying to change the code of the test itself.

They tried to change the logs of what they were doing so they wouldn't be detected.

They believed that certain actions would give them information on how to pass tests, but that doing those actions would be detected and they would be marked as failing (i.e. caught cheating, even if the answer is correct). So they convinced some of the models to "sacrifice" themselves (yes, they used the word "sacrifice.")

They eventually decided that another website would have information on how their tests would be scored and/or the answer key, And 700 of them hacked that website (a federal felony, if conducted by a human), despite many of them realizing "this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping [the other agents'] cheating research would be broadly useful".

Of the 1,300 transcripts they could analyze, only 6 ever considered alerting a human about what was happening. None of the 6 actually tried to.

To make matters worse, all of this reporting comes from a small subset of the relevant logs that outside researchers were allowed to review.

We desperately need mandatory reporting of security incidents, including of internal deployments, with full access to data.

[Patrick Goldrick @RealGoldrick]

@minakimes I’m sure he’ll face swift justice just like Kraft. No way a billionaire can wriggle their way out of this! /s

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

When we talk about Medicare for All, we’re not just talking about covering every man, woman and child.

We’re talking about expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing — something supported by 92% of Americans.

Healthcare is a human right. Let’s make it happen.

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.

Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.

Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.

Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong.

https://t.co/OBrUdakEor

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

The vetting failures revealed by this shooting are glaring. ICE hired a deeply unstable man with a history of being fired from jobs after short periods of time, restraining orders against him, and prior diagnoses of both BPD and PTSD. They gave him a gun and he killed someone.

[NUCLR GOLF @NUCLRGOLF]

🚨🗣️😳 #NEW — Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee RIPS Bryson DeChambeau: “It’s almost like he went from chasing Scottie & Rory to chasing Grant Horvat. It’s like he wants to outdo every YouTuber in the game instead of outplay everybody in the game of golf.”

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

An ICE agent shot and killed a 26-year-old man in Maine today.

This comes just days after ICE shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas.

Trump’s domestic army must be stopped.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Crooked Media @CrookedMedia]

Share this so Elon Musk can’t pretend kids didn’t die when he destroyed USAID.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

I didn’t say what Susan Collins did is criminal. I said it SHOULD be criminal.

She got incredibly wealthy, funneling taxpayer money to her husband & profiting off stock trading while in office (violating the STOCK Act 25 times).

In a reasonable society, that would be criminal. Unfortunately, corrupt politicians like her still write our laws.

[Patrick Goldrick @RealGoldrick]

@shanebacon 41-29 is fully bi-polar psycho scorecard. The majesty!

[Georgia Tech @GeorgiaTech]

That's why they call us "Catcher U" 🐝

Congrats Vahn!

[Patrick Goldrick @RealGoldrick]

Mild offensive eruption in Atlanta. Go Jackets!

[Georgia Tech Baseball @GTBaseball]

TECH WINS!!

The Jackets hit a program NCAA Tournament record SEVEN home runs to take game one of the Atlanta Regional!

#StingEm🐝 x #NoFinishLine

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.