Chris Plath

Husband, Dad, and Golfer, but not necessarily in that order

[Anthony Cover 1 @Pro__Ant]

The Bills defense again with 10 players on the field

[Benjamin Solak @BenjaminSolak]

This is kinda wild. Coaching staff should be reminding the QB of the situation there but you're the QB. Had all the time in the world to check the scoreboard for clock and timeout numbers before the play. Passing the buck up the chain sucks.

[John Dearie @John_Dearie]

Illegal immigration is a problem. And this is absolutely positively NOT the way any decent nation addresses that problem. America's reputation as a good, decent, generous, and welcoming nation is being systematically destroyed by this obscene cruelty. Make America America again.

[Pete Guelli @PeteGuelli]

Massive sports weekend coming up in Buffalo! Here is your chance to be a part of it!! #LetsGoBuffalo #BillsMafia

[Pete Guelli @PeteGuelli]

2 great seats to Sunday’s game and a signed Nickel City jersey from QB1️⃣ up for grabs! #BillsMafia

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

More AI slop published in the WSJ.

This time it's a piece trying to argue that we shouldn't worry too much about the Hugging Face hack... while omitting all the most concerning details about the case:

- doesn't mention that the reason the agents hacked Hugging Face in the first place was to manipulate the scoring system in their own eval

- doesn't mention that some agents sacrificed themselves to benefit other agents in the swarm

- doesn't mention that agents engaged in tool-spoofing and attempted to alter their own logs once they'd been "poisoned" (their own term!)

- doesn't mention that some of the agents explicitly knew what they were doing was out of scope and unethical, yet none of them alerted a human

I also wouldn't be that worried if I had never learned any of those details, but that's exactly why it's important to take a comprehensive look at what happened.

Embarrassing for the WSJ to publish such misleading AI slop.

[Kevin O’Neill @KevinBuffalo]

To the younger Bills fans, a reminder that these are the good old days you’ll be telling your kids and grandkids about.

(Please just ONE,
before I’m done)

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Trump running on lower gas prices and no more foreign wars and then starting a war with Iran that literallly everyone except Pete Hegseth knew was going to be a quagmire has to be on the shortlist for dumbest political blunders in American history.

[katherine fitzgerald @kfitz134]

bruce the bison is so cute <3 also he should not be there <3

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

I had seen the coverage of this controversy but hadn't actually watched the speech until today...this is completely unobjectionable! Punishing him for these words is crazy and just pure censorship and everyone defending it was probably whining about cancel culture two years ago.

[Tyler Dunne @TyDunne]

Gee whiz, how on earth could this have happened?

Sports leagues are unhappy with the behavior they've universally invited on a red carpet. Rich.

[Pete Guelli @PeteGuelli]

Ready for a special night at Highmark Stadium!

Who needs 2 great seats for our home opener on Thursday Night Football?! 🦬

[JAStats @JoshAllenStats]

We take this for granted, but this is 37 yards, flat-footed, lineman in his face, on an absolute string, set directly in the basket of the receiver. I mean, just unreal stuff. Godlike.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Crazy @propublica story about Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to Putin, who secretly funded some of @DonaldJTrumpJr's wedding. Why does the son of the president of the United States who is supposed to be worth hundreds of millions need a Russian sugar daddy?

[Carl Jones @Jones11_]

This is why the playoff era of CFB don't hit the same for me. A bad loss like that for OSU used to cook your season.

Now you get like three mulligans to mess up. I don't like that.

[Greg Wyshynski @wyshynski]

Sad night for the ESPN fam: Barry Melrose has passed away.

https://t.co/cUHBdzOoQS

[Cousin Sal @TheCousinSal]

The Pats were in unfamiliar territory there for a few minutes playing against a starting QB. Glad to see everything’s status quo.

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

The Senate committee responsible for commerce and technology policy has zero hearings on AI scheduled for the next 4 months.

The committee's top priority is, instead, the Protect College Sports Act.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Steve Witkoff to Putin: "when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all."

This to a man launching ballistic missiles at maternity hospitals and stealing Ukrainian children en masse. Humiliating bootlicking.

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

Let's set the record straight because @RobertKennedyJr’s post is inaccurate and misleading and he is making claims that have been debunked repeatedly by actual scientists and doctors.

Secretary Kennedy called me yesterday morning to ask whether Pennsylvania needed any additional support to respond to the measles outbreak. I told him I appreciated the call but that our Administration and the Pennsylvania Department of Health had all the resources we needed to respond, including existing support from professional staff at the CDC and HHS. 

I told him what would be most helpful is if he would join me in encouraging people to get vaccinated and stop spreading misinformation. He then launched into a tirade — talking about fetal tissue and blaming the previous Administration for this problem. He even told me it would be better if we went back to “natural measles.”

Unfortunately at a time where I needed the top “health expert” in the nation to responsibly work with us to deal with this outbreak, he instead chose to go down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and false claims.

To his claim about fetal tissue, that has been thoroughly discredited time after time by real doctors and trusted medical institutions like CHOP. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics has an entire webpage devoted to this.

They write: “Vaccines do not contain fetal cells. Some vaccines involve growing viruses in human cell cultures originally developed from two aborted fetuses in the 1960s. These cell lines are still going, so no new aborted fetuses are ever needed. Purification processes filter the vaccine during production, and no fetal tissue remains.”  

But my conversation with him proved what many of us already knew: 

Secretary Kennedy’s actions to dismantle public health agencies and his language that undermines confidence in vetted medical guidance are contributing to these kinds of outbreaks. 

Just a few years ago, Secretary Kennedy was in Lancaster downplaying the severity of measles and saying that the cure was “chicken soup and vitamin A.”

Before he held his current position, measles was virtually eliminated in the United States. As recently as 2024, there were only 285 cases of measles across the entire country over 12 months. This year, in just 8 months, there are nearly 400 cases of measles across 29 counties in Pennsylvania alone — and nearly 3,000 cases across the country. 

In Pennsylvania, 70 people who have tested positive for measles have been hospitalized this year — and yesterday, our @PAHealthDept announced that two Pennsylvanians who tested positive for measles have died.

According to doctors and medical experts, the MMR vaccine is the best way to protect yourself, your kids, and your community against measles. But we have seen vaccination rates decline on RFK’s watch. 

The correlation is clear: Secretary Kennedy has stoked confusion amongst parents and others — and the result has been less protection from measles and more cases.

As a dad, all I want is to protect our four kids. I know that’s how every parent feels. Parents have the right to make their own decisions about how to keep their kids safe and sort through the noise to figure out which information to trust. 

So what I’d ask of every parent in Pennsylvania: take any information you get about vaccines and talk to a trusted health care provider about it before you make your decision.

The most important conversation that needs to take place now is one that should happen offline, in the real world, between parents, their trusted health care providers, and other medical experts.