Robert Weller

NAB spectrum policy dog. Tweets are my own. Will work for spectrum. Trying to be green. Also available at: @[email protected] and @fcctech.bsky.social

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@FrankLuntz Reportedly, “Bomb” was the default name assigned by the manufacturer.

[Craft Gallery @5min__crafts]

This is the creativity that restores passion to the soul 😍💙👌!

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@mdaneman Cue “Smells Like Nirvana”

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@TheStingisBack @brianweeden In scope??

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

The unaltered 1977 Star Wars returns to the big screen February 19, 2027, for a limited 50th anniversary run.
For a taster, here’s the original 12-minute Battle of Yavin exactly as it played in ’77, for the true Star Wars diehards.
Legendary cinema.

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My mind works like lightning. One brilliant flash and it is gone.

[Ten Thutty @thenotoryousone]

The last survivor from the famous A Great Day in Harlem picture 🙏🏾

[Lázaro  @Eurolazaro]

El ingenio de algunos para que el Teams no se ponga en amarillo ausente

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@mattadler81 Chilaquiles for breakfast.

[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.

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RIP, Ike Willis. My favorite of Frank Zappa’s vocalists. Met him several times. Smart man and a talented musician. Does humor belong in music? He thought so.

[RABC-CCCR @RABC_CCCR]

La Bourse d’études en RadiocommunicatIons de CCCR William Taylor accepte les candidatures jusqu'au 12 juin : https://t.co/sdhuZn9L1k

[Sweet Meteor O'Death @smod4real]

He’s approaching the rental car desk. Send all employees home except for one, who is locked in a battle with another customer for the dumbest reasons imaginable. Make sure the only employee at the desk types out an entire novel before she acknowledges him.

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The deadline to complete applications for AFCCE Scholarships - Fall 2026 - is May 31. Apply now! https://t.co/t4JJV3bXJj

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@tripinva @Metrorailinfo Needs BPS

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White Space continues its downward spiral. 28 devices. SMH. https://t.co/iuNgJXfwbh

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Great presentation by Henry Cohen of CP Communications on the vast use of spectrum at major broadcast events. #NSMA @IEEEDySPAN @WInnForum

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The long-awaited new version of #TVStudy is out. @FCC https://t.co/On7liofyWO

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.@NTIAgov’s @1Overlambda keynotes the NSMA #Spectrum Management conference. @IEEEDySPAN @WInnForum

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.@FCC CoS Arpan Sura opens the NSMA #Spectrum Management conference. @IEEEDySPAN @WInnForum