Kelsey Craker

You are still so young and the whole world is yours

[♡ mari/cohe ♡ @noinconsistency]

why do they treat y'all's president like a make-a-wish kid

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors.

Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[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.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Spirit Airlines worker, who James Charles put on blast for asking for financial support after being laid off, shares the apology she received from him:

“Do I accept his apology? […] Hell no.”

[📎 @Iithosphere]

new banksy artwork, a man blinded by his flag

[MOON @DailyMoonX]

🌕 My other half… finally revealed. @NASA

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 NEW: Epstein survivors just released a blistering letter ahead of Pam Bondi’s testimony tomorrow.

They accuse the DOJ of repeating Epstein’s playbook — shielding the powerful through secrecy while forcing survivors to carry the burden.

The letter demands answers to 15 specific questions the DOJ has refused to address.

“This is the same system Epstein relied on.”

Read that again.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

https://t.co/x6lbzvvN1X

[Barstool Texas A&M @BarstoolTexasAM]

Came back from down 0-2 against Louisville.

Took down undefeated Nebraska in their own building.

Beat Pitt with the NCAA Player of the Year.

Defeated SEC champion Kentucky.

National Champions.

Without a doubt the greatest run in tournament history. This team is undeniable.

[espnW @espnW]

TEXAS A&M IS GOING TO THE NATTY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY 👏

[Evaluator. @_AfricanSoil]

One thing about China, they FIGHT! They have no time to be diplomatic and nice when provoked.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Never forget!

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann responds to the White House press secretary’s attack after he suggested France should reclaim the Statue of Liberty:

“Dear Americans, since the White House press secretary is attacking me today, I wanted to tell you this:”

1/n

[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

gotta bring the 2015 back

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

If you live in the dallas area

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Adolf Hitler helping one of his biggest donors sell a car in 1938.

History doesn't change it just repeats.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

New York city rises up for Mahmoud Khalil, leader of the pro-Palestine student rallies on Columbia university campus wrongly abducted by ICE