Chris D. Cotton

Flawed Christ-follower / Insurance agent / Founder LITE / Original 201 to Original 219 to 512 to 574 / Wabash College Sigma Chi

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

@nut_history Strawberry or maybe Eric Davis

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

@JamieBonkiewicz That's a follow.

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

@LGMicahBeckwith @GovBraun You mean like a nuclear family where the son enjoys child porn and videos of his parents having sex? And their church covers it up? Like that kind of wholesome stuff?

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

Quick, without a search engine, do you know who the hell this is?
No?
Neither do I. https://t.co/16IrpA5aIx

[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

Notice how simply quoting the Founding Fathers comes off as a swipe at Trump...

Almost like he's everything they warned us against.

[Abdul-Hakim Shabazz @AttyAbdul]

I was accused of "hating" the Lt. Governor. I told that person that I don't hate @MicahBeckwith , he is not worth the energy, and when it comes to reporting his "controversies", it's not personal, it's just business.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It's fascinating to think that they just published a list of people and thought "sure, they'll do it."

[Jackie Chea ⚖️ @Fair_and_Biased]

Marco Rubio realizing he has to become a popstar to perform at the nation’s 250th.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Some executive at ABC: “We need a nice little theme song for our new cop sitcom.”

Some guy: “Yeah, ok, think I’ll just throw down one of the funkiest grooves in the history of music then.” https://t.co/SvEzGbR0lb

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

My dog when he hears the crinkle of a food wrapper

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

“Dad, what was 1984 like?”

“Take a look at this.” https://t.co/yvW8Z87Bz2

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

He is absolutely full of shit.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We've taken people that were dead. We had a person given the last rites -- gone, the kids are crying and everything -- and started them on this drug. And the person became better. It works."

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

Five months ago, I argued against the President's $4 trillion tariffs at the Supreme Court.

In 237 years, the Court had never struck down a sitting President's signature initiative. Legal scholars said it was impossible. Some of my own colleagues said it was impossible.

We won. 6-3.

But the real story isn't what happened in that courtroom. It's what happened in the months before. And its the subject of my TED talk, coming out tomorrow.

I had the best legal team in the nation, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak, the most outstanding legal strategist I know. Huge thanks, too, go to the Liberty Justice Center (and in particular its fearless and hyper-intelligent leader Sara Albrecht), who organized the client small businesses, as well as to the brave small businesses themselves.

I also had four teachers preparing me.
A mindset coach who'd worked with Andre Agassi.
An improv coach who taught me that "Yes, and" works in Supreme Court arguments the same way it works everywhere else.
A meditation coach who taught me stillness.
And Harvey.

Harvey predicted many of the questions the Justices asked — sometimes almost word for word. Brilliant. Tireless. Occasionally insufferable.

Here's the catch: Harvey isn't a person.

Harvey is a bespoke AI I built over the last year with a legal AI company, trained on every question every Justice has asked in oral argument for 25 years, and everything they've ever written.

Tomorrow, TED releases my talk about what really happened — and what I learned standing at that podium.

AI can predict. AI can analyze. What AI cannot do is the one thing that actually won the argument.

Connect. Read the room. Hear not just a Justice's words, but her worry — and answer the worry.

That is the irreducibly human skill.
Find yours. Go deeper. In this age of AI, that's where your edge lives.

The talk goes live Thursday, May 7 at 11am ET: https://t.co/wLxKtBsHpF

What's the irreducibly human skill in your work — the thing AI can't touch?

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Kurt Loder turned 81 today. According to my sources, you’re not exactly a spring chicken anymore either.

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

Oh my god...

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers at EPFL proved your AI is lying to you.

Not sometimes. Most of the time.

They built one of the hardest hallucination tests ever made with Max Planck Institute. 950 questions. Four domains where being wrong actually hurts. Legal. Medical. Research. Coding.

Then they ran every top model on it.

The results.

GPT-5. Wrong 71.8% of the time.

Claude Opus 4.5. Wrong 60% of the time.

Gemini 3 Pro. Wrong 61.9% of the time.

DeepSeek Reasoner. Wrong 76.8% of the time.

These are the smartest AI models on Earth. The ones you trust with your career. Your health. Your money.

You think turning on web search fixes it.

It doesn't.

Claude Opus 4.5 with web search. Still wrong 30.2% of the time.

GPT-5.2 thinking with web search. Still wrong 38.2% of the time.

The internet attached. Still lying to you in 1 out of every 3 answers.

Now the part that should scare you.

Medical questions. The one place being wrong can kill you.

GPT-5 hallucinated 92.8% of the time on medical guidelines.

Claude Haiku 4.5 hallucinated 95.7% of the time.

Gemini 3 Flash hallucinated 89% of the time.

Nine out of ten medical answers from popular AI models. Wrong.

It gets worse.

The longer you talk to it, the more it lies.

Early mistakes cascade. The model starts citing its own earlier hallucinations as facts. Your third message is more wrong than your first.

The paper, in its own words: "hallucinations remain substantial even with web search."

This is what hundreds of millions of people are doing right now. Asking software that lies in the majority of its answers. About their health. About their job. About their legal case. About their code.

Most are not checking.

Most never will.

But please. Keep using ChatGPT for medical advice.

The doctors need a break.

https://t.co/dHBP5CDpTM

[ClamFan @Clam_Fan]

A guy goes to see his Doc for an annual physical. The Doc asks about his physical activity level. The guy asks, what do you mean?

The doctor says, "Well, for example, what did you do yesterday?"

The guy says, "Yesterday afternoon, I;

- took a five hour walk about seven miles through some pretty rough terrain,

- waded along the edge of a lake,

- pushed my way through brambles,

- got sand in my shoes and in my eyes,

- jumped three feet in the air when I almost stepped on a snake,

- climbed several rocky hills, and

- hacked my way through some tall grass.

After all of that I was so exhausted and dehydrated, I drank eight beers."

The doctor says, "WOW, you are one hell of an outdoorsman!"

The guy responds, "Actually, I'm just a really shitty golfer."

[Edward Hinchcliffe @No84ever]

@RepJackKimble Seashells are the weapon of choice of the liberal, lunatic left-wing, east coast elites. Delaware (home of Sleepy Joe) has beaches littered with the stuff. We don’t have these problems in the heartland. “No Kings?” Wrong / I say “No Mollusks!!!” The libs don’t get this

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

In the federal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the coastal authorities, who investigate seashell-related crimes; and the Department of Justice, who prosecute the offenders.

[Chris D. Cotton @cdcotton]

Terrifying.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.

My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/8Kg8FOrgHW