✨ else ✨

approximately 33% of a brain cell / i stream warframe sometimes

[✨ else ✨ @elsephiaTTV]

me as a parent

[W0lfi @W0lfi_2]

Filipino Backrooms

[✨ else ✨ @elsephiaTTV]

this never gets old

[Drewster @ContentDrew]

sorry nuzlockers i dont make the rules

[angel @profesionlangel]

the “looksmaxxing” epidemic was the closest thing males have ever experienced to the beauty standards women are upheld to all their lives and it literally made them all insane

[🫠 @tachycardial]

non-filipinos will never get to experience the joy of just replying "weh" to someone being stupid

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

> be Witcher 3
> made by 250 Polish devs paid less than rent
> $81 million budget, half spent on marketing
> release in 2015 with 16 free DLC packs
> beat Fallout 4 and Metal Gear Solid V for Game of the Year
> collect 250+ GOTY awards, most in gaming history
> Henry Cavill plays you 250 hours and begs Netflix for the role
> Netflix show triggers 554% sales spike in one month
> sell 60 million copies over 11 years
> get a free next-gen upgrade while other studios charge $70
> 2026: get a third expansion announced 11 years after launch

The only game in history to get a major expansion a decade after release, made by a studio whose animators couldn't afford rent.

[Ducky 🇵🇸 @EimikoPosts]

since everyone's talking abt the witcher 3 again here's yennefer being the funniest character ever

[✨ else ✨ @elsephiaTTV]

sweet and spicy pancit canton may have my heart …

[yammspamming ₍^. .^₎⟆ @yammspamming]

the philippines on a random monday:

[✨ else ✨ @elsephiaTTV]

@MannatSinghing like how on EARTH do people have the energy for that 😭

[✨ else ✨ @elsephiaTTV]

how tf does anyone actually start collecting pokemon cards when every booster pack is sold out

[@realWokeism @realWokeism]

Karl Marx failed to consider the Steam Summer Sale

[Brent Pasague @brentpasague]

Tried it myself as well

Metro Manila at 1:1 Scale in Minecraft

Mods used:
- Tellus
- Distant Horizons

[Anime Updates @animeupdates]

Asian Kung-Fu Generation performs "Haruka Kanata" from 'NARUTO' at the Anime Awards 2026!

[Paul Catiang @paulcatiang]

Thanks for nothing, @DENROfficial.

[annie @_annieversary]

how the hell is @TfL allowing ads like this one?... its repugnant, imagine encouraging people to go to heathrow

[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.

[Arion Andronicus @tytosandronikos]

WIP: Filipino Heritage Town with Bahay na Bato style houses #Pokopia #Pokemon

[️️ ️️️️ ִֶָ @rvalinne]

sea countries are so beautiful, so many cultures, languages, delicious food, and pretty girls. but we got nerfed w corrupt leaders

[Jamie Kay @TheRealJamieKay]

London 👏👏👏

[✨ else ✨ @elsephiaTTV]

my favourite thing about this anime is i don’t remember the plot at all but i enjoyed every second of it

[Maki @iShrishtiPandey]

Idk how this anime isn’t more popular! one of the few anime where the ending is more famous than the show 🤧