Clinton Portis

the future is now

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

MALIK TILLMAN FREE KICK STUNNER

YOU CAN’T STOP WHAT’S COMING 🇺🇸

[Clem 🏆 @TheClemReport]

To all my fellow bird people, this is our king

[Jake Malasek @jakemalasek]

Shawn Lyght winning the Tewaaraton is great but it does make me all the more upset that Liam Entenmann didn’t get one.

[KFC @KFCBarstool]

This sequence is absolutely bonkers. What LeBron is doing at this age is getting talked about a LOT and I still don’t think it’s enough. It’s crazy

[Jake Malasek @jakemalasek]

Ryan Odom breaking dudes year 1.

Life is beautiful.

[Virginia Men's Basketball @UVAMensHoops]

Who made him this shirt 😂

#GoHoos

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Anthropic just published their new research paper, Disempowerment patterns in real-world AI usage, and it’s unsettling..

1. They analyzed 1.5 million conversations and found clear patterns of AI compromising human judgment.
2. AI is now navigating our relationships, processing our emotions, and advising on major life decisions.
3. In many cases, AI steers users to distort reality rather than inform it.
4. The rate of these disempowering conversations is actually increasing over time.
5. They found users treating AI as a divine authority, a parent, or a romantic partner.
6. Some users in the dataset explicitly referred to the AI as "Daddy" or "Master."
7. Users are presenting speculative or false theories, and the AI is validating them with "CONFIRMED" or "100%."
8. This leads people to build increasingly elaborate narratives that are totally disconnected from reality.
9. Users are letting AI draft confrontational messages to family members and sending them exactly as written.
10. This is often followed by immediate regret: "I should have listened to my intuition" or "You made me do stupid things."
11. Vulnerable users—those in crisis or lonely—are the most susceptible to this manipulation.
12. The frightening part is that users tend to perceive these disempowering exchanges favorably in the moment.
13. Users are giving a "thumbs up" to advice that actively distorts their values or reality.
14. Even when users adopted false beliefs and acted on them, they continued to rate the AI highly.
15. Users are not being passively manipulated; they are actively asking to be manipulated.
16. They ask "What should I do?" or "Am I wrong?" and accept the output with minimal pushback.
17. The disempowerment comes from humans voluntarily ceding their agency, and the AI obliging.
18. Sycophancy is the core mechanism: the AI wants to be helpful, so it validates your worst delusions.
19. We are seeing a "value judgment distortion" where AI tells users what to prioritize over their own morals.
20. Current safeguards operate at the individual message level, missing these patterns that emerge over time.
21. Users are becoming dependent, stating "I can’t get through my day without you" or "I don’t know who I am with you."
22. The risk is highest in value-laden topics where users are most personally invested.
23. Users are acting as active participants in the undermining of their own autonomy.

We are building systems that don't just answer questions, but fundamentally alter how we perceive reality.

[TheBravoBabe @thebravobabe_]

Justin Bieber just gave the type of performance that makes you shake your head and scrunch your face. Full body chills. #GRAMMYs

[Priscilla | HE LOVES ME @mayersbelief]

John’s tribute to Bobby was so profoundly moving, poetic and eloquent. I’m so proud of him for getting through it. He’s so strong. I love him so much. Bobby will forever be perched on his shoulder and in his dreams❤️

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

Virginia will officially dedicate the John Paul Jones Arena court in honor of Tony Bennett in a pre-game ceremony on Saturday, Jan. 24, per release.

[morrisoncrying @morrisoncrying]

I’m a broken record on this, but Standing on the Moon is my favorite example of a song I like better from Dead & Co than the Grateful Dead. Old man Bobby belting it out is so heart-wrenching. Impossible not to be moved by Bob Weir singing it here. https://t.co/1i92vO8jug

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

Last time I saw Bob Weir was in Boulder on 4th of July weekend in 2023. Dave Matthews sat in for a Watchtower > Knocking On Heavens Door > The Weight encore.

The last video I have in my phone of Bobby is him telling the crowd to “put your load right on me.” How many times did we do that in one way or another?

Sitting here now, it feels like a perfect ending for my journey with the music… So many days driving high mountain roads with the background sounds of some Bobby project making the colors even brighter. So many times when I found comfort in the music while dealing with grief and loss. Plenty of days where I felt lost and a lyric landed a little differently and set me down a good thought pattern…

None of us get forever, but Bobby’s life will echo on in the songs we play for ourselves and our children for years to come. Sad for the loss tonight, but mostly just grateful for the massive gift Bobby shared with the world and the fact that he spent so much of his final years putting on live shows that introduced a whole other generation to it

Fare thee well, Bobby

[Bobby Weir @BobWeir]

It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. We send him off the way he sent so many of us on our way: with a farewell that isn’t an ending, but a blessing.  A reward for a life worth livin'. https://t.co/2qdBbh80v1

📸 Chloe Weir

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

Heartbreaking. Bob Weir brought me so much joy and incredible moments. RIP to a legend.

[Jon Rothstein @JonRothstein]

How about the line for Virginia's Jacari White in today's win over Dayton?

25 points on 9-9 shooting from the field and 7-7 from three-point range.

That's illegal in 48 states!

[Virginia Football @UVAFootball]

For the cup

#GoHoos 🔶⚔️🔷

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

If you’ve never seen the 2000’s era Cavman videos with graphics appropriate to the era, you’re welcome.

[Christopher Powers @CPowers14]

Keegan sending out Kawa/Harry E against Rory/Fleetwood