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[Warren @swd2]

They shot him, dragged his lifeless body onto the pavement, and handcuffed his corpse while his 3-year old daughter wearing Bluey pajamas watched in horror. If you say you voted for this you are an empty soulless vessel.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨This is exactly how ICE agents create the very situations they later use to justify murdering citizens.

In the video, they box in the vehicle of a U.S. citizen. They approach with guns already drawn, and try to open her car door… while repeatedly ordering her to unlock it, and ignoring anything she says.

And notice how they don’t identify themselves. They don’t explain why she’s being detained. They don’t tell her what crime they suspect her of committing.

To the person inside the car, it’s just a group of masked, armed men surrounding her vehicle and trying to force their way in.

That’s how panic starts.

And when people panic, move their car, or try to get away from what they reasonably perceive as a violent threat, ICE agents open fire, and later claim the vehicle was “used as a weapon.”

Law enforcement cannot detain people without legal justification. The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures, and officers are expected to clearly communicate their authority, and the basis for their actions.

They are supposed to de-escalate situations.

Instead, they use tactics to create fear and confusion… making it more likely someone will panic, and easier for agents to claim deadly force was necessary, while they violate the person’s constitutional rights.

When these tactics become standard practice, accountability becomes nonexistent.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The Senate voted to move forward legislation to end the Iran War this week, 50-47. It's just a first step, but it's a big, big deal. I want to tell you the story of how it happened.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The separation from reality in the Republican Party today - vaccines are poison; Iran can be conquered; January 6th was staged by Democrats - should really really worry people. These folks just aren’t fit to govern anymore.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

One of the sleazier media tropes is when the US menaces a much smaller country that’s done nothing to the US and it’s framed as “heightened tensions” between the two countries. Cuba is being unilaterally starved and threatened by the US. That’s not “tensions,” it’s US aggression.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked Donald Trump from moving ahead with construction of the new WH ballroom.

District Court Judge Richard Leon, in his order, barred Trump administration officials “from taking any action in furtherance of the physical development of the proposed ballroom at the former site of the East Wing of the White House.”

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

We spoke to diplomats, advisers, scholars, experts and current and former officials in China. Almost all of them see the war in Iran as a grave American error. Register for free to read why: https://t.co/0CDHuDCMDW

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

UPDATE—Father protests after ICE raid elementary bus stop.

"I've never protested before in my entire life," he says emotional.

"But then I watched 4th and 5th grade kids run away from their own government."

"I never want to see a child run away from our own government again."

[State of Palestine @Palestine_UN]

Kyrie honoring our heroes 🇵🇸🎤

[🥑 @MeFanGirlOutlet]

Wait hes wearing what the Palestinian journalists would wear to label them as "press" on hist shirt... which hundreds of journalists wearing that logo got killed and blown up. The press was targeted.

A moral backbone 👏🏻

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Spike Lee courtside at the All-Star Game wearing Palestine flag

[Movie Stans Unite @BeyondersT]

@WhiteHouse @PressSec E-p-s-t-e-i-n*

[B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny]

Scotty has mostly walked a razors edge on politics….

Not anymore

[Common Sense Investor (CSI) @commonsenseplay]

@NoLieWithBTC We need an independent FED
https://t.co/lQjp0EMXAu

[BMcArthur @bmcarthur20]

Detailed analysis of the behavior of Renee Good and Jonathan Ross prior to her death.

WATCH:

#DemsUnited

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

They're recruiting.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

Former Trump administration employee:

"Engaging with the man, you realize,... He's an IDIOT."

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This MAGA Trump supporter was surprised when she received the health care she voted for. Go figure. 😳👇