Carlie Monett 🐝🚉

Your vibe attracts your tribe. she/her/hers Forever #TeamPete

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

Good morning #TeamPete! @Colorado4Pete checking in on MST for our #SunriseCelebration ! The first sunrise with a new president, feels pretty great! 🌄

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@Zacktweetburns @billybrizzle420 Have you seen Jack Black's gorgeous wife? Being funny and nice will get you 100x further than being ripped almost without fail.

[maddie @madsssagascar]

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

[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.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@LemonDropLan I feel like a gem like this could come back around in a future work 😂

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@CNj65 @JamieBonkiewicz @DianeFick3 Same! I call it Karen-ing for good. 😂 I'm a white cis straight woman in perimenopause and I figure the more of their time I waste the better.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@LemonDropLan It was just bad timing for me, I was in the midst of kid bed time so I just caught up but I literally squee'd with excitement when I saw it because this is like my fave thread of yours and I have been dying for an update!

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@LemonDropLan I am mostly not into fantasy au but I would read the fuck out of this!

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@garypageau @AdamJSchwarz Those are randos on TikTok, you will always find some crazies there - look at the rhetoric coming from ✨ government officials✨ from MAGA.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

My observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence & calling for calm while MAGA are escalating rhetoric & lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@LizwithanM Aaaah I can't wait!

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@jefevail @BoulderOEM @HumaneBoulder Yes! Registration is included for this clinic - we will do it for you! But it's SO important to keep that registration UTD if your contact info ever changes. It's also good practice to have your vet scan your pet's chip at their annual exam to make sure it's working properly!

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@LizwithanM I feel like every one of your stories has at least one absolutely delicious moment of dawning realization where a character realizes that they have completely misread a situation or made assumptions about a person, and the perspective shift changes absolutely everything for them.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@LizwithanM Aaaah OMG yay!

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@crash8130 @hankgreen Asking "how could this happen with all of these safety measures that should be in place" is normal. But ppl who don't know anything speculating on the cause just contributes to fear and misinformation.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@crash8130 @hankgreen At no point did I get the impression that Hank was yelling at people for asking how this could have happened. The problem is ppl who don't know much speculating and coming up with conspiracy theories based on little to no actual knowledge or experience and then spreading it.

[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

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[Carlie Monett 🐝🚉 @carliemonett]

@chriva404 @hankgreen No one is saying it is?