Adrian Costello

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Trump says a box cutter sliced the Lincoln Memorial pool. First 250 feet. Then 290. Then 300. Then 350. He says six thugs did it — a number he also just made up as he went. There’s a 24/7 camera that would’ve caught it instantly. Funny how that footage never shows up. No photos. No video. Just “you’ll see it in court.” If you’re still buying this, you’re not gullible. You’re just as full of it as he is.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Adrian Costello @flyer_ace]

And I get this kid.

[Deadspin @Deadspin]

This kid just gets it.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

This is pretty great.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump endorses Iran having ballistic missiles: "I'm saying that if other countries have them, it's a little unfair for them not to have some"

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Stood the test of time as peak human performance

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

First step is to require any hospitals that enjoy Non Profit Tax Benefits, to publish monthly all of their actual General Ledger transactions and invoices.

You are non profit. You are being subsidized and often funded by taxpayers. We are your stakeholders, along with patients. There ain't a damn economic thing that you can't show.

And no, Medicare Cost Reports are not comprehensive accounting reports.. They are pretty much useless for this.

Second step is to make all NDAs and Confidentiality Agreements for any financial healthcare agreement, illegal

It's beyond insane that US Senators, and POTUS, can't see what the federal government is paying for medications being provided through TriCare.

With these sources of data, then, and pretty much only then, could proponents of M4A begin to figure out a plan

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Tamie @RealTamie]

I find it interesting that Trump supporters have never seen these videos. They claim there is no footage of that day. 😳 I watched it in real time on TV when it was happening, just like Trump.
1. FYI, the footage is all over the internet.
2. You can CLEARLY see them breaking windows. The law says that’s breaking and entering.
3. I’ve been to the Capitol, you have to go through security to enter. You don’t enter through broken windows. That’s just a fact.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

this seemed and seems real now

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

You are seeing in real time why Trump companies went bankrupt so many times. Set aside your politics. This guy is incapable of making a deal or meaningful decision and it follows the same cycle. Big flashy announcement (Epic Fury). Adversity hits (Hormuz closed). Defraud stakeholders (promise two week solution). Freeze up (endless two week cycle loop). Compound the problem (resource depletion). Final chance to save face rejected (what you’re seeing now). Bankruptcy strikes and blame others during chaos. Rinse repeat.

[Brian Rauf @brauf33]

As a reminder, if the NCAA Tournament was 76 teams this past season, that means the following teams would've been in:

Auburn (17-16, 7-11 in the SEC)
Oklahoma (19-15, 7-11)
San Diego State (22-11, 14-6)
Indiana (18-14, 9-11)

Those were the First Four Out. From there, KenPom suggests these four would've put us at 76:

Cincinnati (18-15, 9-9)
New Mexico (26-11, 13-7)
Baylor (17-17, 6-12)
Seton Hall (21-12, 10-10)

[Adrian Costello @flyer_ace]

@UDPride So dumb.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The Donald Trump administration appointed Robert Mueller who was Bush’s former FBI chief. Marco Rubio chaired the Senate Intel Committee which confirmed Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Don’t miss the significance of this: the administration is announcing the end of the war in effect without having achieved regime change, ending Iran’s nuclear program or eliminating its missile program. And its focus is now on solving a problem which didn’t exist prior to the war: a closed or nearly-closed Strait of Hormuz. The president could of course order new military strikes but the current state of play has not met his sometimes outsized expectations.

[Adrian Costello @flyer_ace]

@KD_MP3 💯

[Adrian Costello @flyer_ace]

@MrChuckD Thank you!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT.

The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time.

A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B.

Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself.

GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won.

Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective.

It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect.

Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance.

99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time.

If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars.

Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.