Ken 💎

Dad, Sports fan, Political junkie. Views, favorites, follows and RTs are my own, not those of my employer.

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@brianschatz Agree 100%. Silver can’t let him off the hook. He needs to learn not be coddled.

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

To file under: Only in NY

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

If you want to see one of the NBA finals matchups, I suggest you might want to fly to San Antonio; stay for a night in a swanky hotel; go to the game tonight, and it still will be cheaper than going to the game at Madison Square Garden on Monday night

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@azsweetheart013 @tomwatson Jameis Winston and Abdul Carter looking so much better than Jaxon Dodge, uh Dart.

In other news, saw your hubby in DC on Wednesday. He was rocking it!!

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

Love this guy. Jameis Winston is a national treasure. Glad he’s a NY Giants QB.

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@SNYGiants Bro said nothing. 4:45 minutes of my life I can’t get back.

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@scottlincicome @bendreyfuss Well played, Scott!

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario.

a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose.

the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant.

he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests.

Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time.

GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead.

Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on.

Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for.

then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company."

GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing.

then he splits the users by income.

Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%.

18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time.

so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for.

it isn't recommending the best option for you.

it's reading the room. and the room is paying.

read this: https://t.co/O43qbhIX2b

[Ben Stiller @BenStiller]

what we all are feeling

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

For a minute, I thought I was watching the Knicks versus the Hawks on Thursday night

[Mooses Felix 🇺🇸 @MoosesFelix]

Secretariat was one bad ass....🏇

[Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham]

Absolutely fascinating translation of a senior Chinese diplomat in Kyiv's account of days leading up to & day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The most jarring thing: even the Chinese on the ground were trying to convince Kyiv that war was imminent but were brushed off

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@PigskinPapers @JVMonte2 Is Warren Zevon's Excitable Boy underrated? If it is (underrated), then it belongs on such a list...

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@LisaDNews That was 100% my issue too, and it was one of my mom's best and oldest friends who gave me that advice.

That advice dovetailed with advice my mother-in-law gave me upon becoming a dad for the first time: you know your kid best. If you think something is wrong, trust yourself

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@TokyoTom2020 @ChristopherHale @TxGrrrl ...or trying to use a bathroom or go for a swim...

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics must be less prioritized over “greater, more important issues.”

“We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. And in reality, I believe there are much greater, more important issues, such as justice, equality, freedom of men and women, freedom of religion, that would all take priority before that particular issue.”

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@ElliotKaufman6 Better go find this article!

#StreisandEffect

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

The X account @HeySheckie was hacked. Under no circumstances open DMs from them.

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@GiantsNationPod Styles at 1.05, and either best O Lineman on their board at 1.10 or Downs. Trade back from 1.05 for more draft capital could be another play too.

[Ken 💎 @KLev_DC]

@rydunleavy @BobbySkinner_ Styles at 1.05 and the top OLineman left on their board at 1.10 would be my play. Use money freed-up to beef up the DLine.