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[Slightly Rational Knicks Fan @RationalKnickFn]

Orange and Blue from the skies #NewYorkKnicks

[Uzi @UziCryptoo]

In Denmark, McDonalds workers make $25 an hour and, if they are over twenty, the company starts paying into a pension plan for them, and in addition they have a full 6 weeks of paid vacation.

Now how much do you think this costs customers? The Economist looked into this and found out that the Big Mac costs 76 cents less than it does here.

Don't believe the lies that raising the minimum wage would force prices to go up.

[Jake Kring-Schreifels @jakeks19]

Last year, on a visit to Citi Field, I noticed how much louder and more frequent the music and effects between pitches and innings had gotten.

It got me wondering…why are ballparks trying to turn baseball into an arena sport?

I investigated for @FOS:

[Mahir 🇹🇷🇬🇧 @ScrewderiaF1]

The reason behind Hamilton’s pace this weekend

[Steve Futterman @sfutterman]

CBS RADIO'S FINALE - 1927-2026 - The final CBS News Radio broadcast. This was the 11.31pm eastern time broadcast. The anchor is Christopher Cruise. From the Broadcast Center on West 57th. It was a pretty good 99 year run. @CBSNews @CBSRadio

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts.

So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world.

What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations.

The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead.

Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described.

The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding.

The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months.
Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight.

Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now.

She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

[Dr Tom Tilley @DrTomTilley]

I recently inherited my grandfather's old manual drill press so on the weekend I hooked it up to play Puzzle Bobble/Bust-A-Move. I'll share a gameplay video that contains another twist soon.😉

Music Credit: Let's Go to Pao Pao Island! by Kazuko Umino

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years

“The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint.

“When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Mikala Sposito, a 21-year-old student from Dexter, Michigan, will be the first woman to represent the U.S. in welding at the WorldSkills Competition in China, an event described as the Olympics of the skilled trades. Read more: https://t.co/g0PlAb18wj

[ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring @24hNBR]

Me telling my grandchildren’s in 2070 how peak the Dacia in the 2026 24h race was 🥲
#24hNBR
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#nürburgring #nordschleife #racing #motorsport

[Zero Fox Given @zerofoxgiven21]

Everyone seems to be missing the other story here.

A non-US citizen with unlimited resources has his "guys" do a deep dig on two normie American women.

[Alex Weprin @alexweprin]

Here it is, the guest list for the final week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

[MAGIKARP🦈💦 @UniteVids]

Me and my girlfriend combining our one shared brain cell to figure out what we want to eat today

[Brooks Otterlake @i_zzzzzz]

Oh so it’s wrong for cars to invent religion??

[Indianapolis Colts @Colts]

D’OH! another schedule release video! @TheSimpsons

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

should we REALLY make our schedule release video in halo?

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[Cleveland Browns @Browns]

Introducing Street Fighter: CLE!

🕹️ 2026 Schedule Release

[R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus]

People have no idea that all of this is available on archive dot org for free, like every other old children’s show which isn’t a funnel for developing a gambling addiction. You can just watch all of these 90s Beatrix Potter adaptations right here: https://t.co/OklEKfHHNo

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

The MiLB's Louisville Bats are hosting a 'Nothing Night' tonight to have a baseball game "in its purest form:"

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