Adam Sith

MAIN ACCOUNT: @adamsith.bsky.social
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I get suspended here regularly bc Nazis report me
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[Adam Sith @dfunkedtt]

I think its time to transition to Bluesky.

I already have an account there, but spent more time here because it was potentially useful in reaching the undecideds.

But now Musk will never take his hands off this hellsite, and the Nazis keep getting worse without getting banned.

[Richard N. Haass @RichardHaass]

You may not like my pointing out that both Putin and Trump initiated wars of choice (in Ukraine & Iran respectively) where the costs have proven far greater than benefits for them and their country but that doesn't make it less true.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses.

For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view.

Until now.

https://t.co/P4AiwENydr

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

This is a Pulitzer level photo.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He was sentenced to ten years. Republicans let him out after 6 months. Disgusting.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. 
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon declared the terminations unlawful, concluded that the DOGE staffers lacked the authority to make those decisions, and blocked the Trump administration from carrying out the grant terminations. 
“There can be no serious dispute that the review process implemented by DOGE did not conform to, or even resemble, NEH’s ordinary grant-review process,” Judge McMahon wrote.

[Adam Sith @dfunkedtt]

@Team_Harbaugh @SaveAmericaMvm Wtf reason would tRump order this for, except to make Putain happy by destroying NATO solidarity

[ClearingTheFog @clearing_fog]

DHS is using Israeli phone hacking software in the US.

They also use Mobile Fortify & Clearview AI facial recognition.

They feed the info into a Palantir product that claims to provide the location of suspects.

And it looks like they are using this against people who film them

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This video is 19 undocumented immigrants that worked for the Trump Organization for years most of them worked at Maralago and they have a story to tell! 👇👇👇

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, with an incredibly thoughtful answer to the smartest person he's ever met. If you listen closely to the words he uses, including "empathy" and "wisdom," you'll realize a certain group of people he's not describing.

[Matthew Miller @matthewamiller]

Most of their biggest abuses will continue to be checked by the courts, but it’s clear there’s not a line left the Trump DOJ won’t cross. It is operating today more like an internal security force you see in authoritarian regimes than an actual Department of Justice.

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

This beautiful sculpture was built by the Irish people in their own country to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe. They were grateful because in 1847 the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine.

[#StopCopCity @ChuckModi1]

“Remember all that energy for Jimmy Kimmel? I’m gonna need all that same ‘protect the free press’ energy for Mario Guevara, detained for 100 days bc he live-steamed police at a protest”
— Journalist Georgia Fort in Sept.

Today @ByGeorgiaFort was arrested for her journalism. As for Mario Guevara, after 20 yrs as an Emmy-winning journalist in ATL, he was deported to El Salvador despite his bogus charges being dropped. He was punished for filming police. The war on journalism continues

IG: https://t.co/due1VvjHNL

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

ICE didn’t just kill Wael, they ensured his last months were full of suffering.

He knew he would die without his father.

His father was the person who made him feel safe.

Safety is a rare feeling when you’re disabled.

It’s everything.

They didn’t even get to say goodbye.

[Adam Sith @dfunkedtt]

@Logically_JC Its the 31st in Ruzzia

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

This is not worthy of a democracy. Trump has transformed the United States into a country where intolerance and violence are the order of the day.

[John Carpenter @TheHorrorMaster]

As you may have heard, “The Thing” has been added to the Library of Congress. We made the movie to push against the edges of what we could pull off, and it carries that strain in its bones. Seeing it now treated with the same care and reverence we had making it means a great deal to me and everyone who brought it to life.

I especially want to remember TK Carter, who brought heart and humor into that desolate, frozen place and should be standing here with us today sharing in this recognition. 

Thank you to everyone who continues to keep it alive.

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

Two ICE agents reportedly entered a business with their hands on their weapons and ordered, “Let me see your hands.” When questioned, an agent replied, “I’m a federal employee, I don’t have to answer you.”

[Nathan Bernard @nathanTbernard]

Enormous ICE OUT rally happening in Portland, Maine. There is a city-wide service industry worker strike today, shutting down Maine’s largest city to protest ICE and stand in solidarity with Minnesota. Video by @TroyJackson207.

[Mercado Media @MercadoMedia1]

GENERAL STRIKE - ICE OUT (MINNEAPOLIS)

Thousands flood the streets in Minneapolis for a second General Strike demanding ICE leave Minnesota. Amidst the many signs - a massive scroll of the United States constitution.

📸: @andrewmercado