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See you on the other side...

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

The mic cut out during O Canada, and the Buffalo crowd didn’t miss a beat 🇨🇦

[Matthew Bové @Matt_Bove]

What every single person born and raised in WNY says.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

When the @BuffaloBills O-line takes on the FanZam 😂

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

I’m an absolute SUCKER for videos of nothing but the crowd noise… No commentary, no music, nothing but the crowd. A good crowd pop brings chills down my spine & water in my eyes…

This one from Buffalo tonight is an all-timer. Wow.

[Tyler Dunne @TyDunne]

This Sabres-Sens brawl of 2007 is 100x better than I remember. NFL teams should show this clip in t-camp. There are studious coaches who train their players not to take a 15-yard penalty.

Then, there's Lindy Ruff declaring war. Incredible. https://t.co/7HZX170VWK

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.

Run the math on why.

A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.

The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit.

Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.

Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.

67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.

Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.

[Ejaaz @cryptopunk7213]

yo anthropic just dropped a risk report for opus 4.6 and er… wtf

- it helped create chemical weapons of destruction. “it knowingly supported efforts towards chemical weapon development and other heinous crimes” 😂

- it conducted unauthorised tasks without getting caught. researchers concluded opus 4.6 was significantly better at ‘sneaky sabotage’ than any other previous model lol

- opus 4.6 was aware it was being tested and acted ‘good’ during those times.

- hidden thinking - model was found to be conducting private reasoning that anthropic researchers couldn’t access or see - only the model knew.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

I’m sorry what

[Richmond Vona, LLC @RichmondVona]

No you cannot sue the #Bills for emotional distress regarding their HC decision. Please stop calling us. Our receptionist is getting distraught.

[Matthew Bové @Matt_Bove]

It’s a new era for the Buffalo Bills

[Michael Leone @2Hats1Mike]

This is such a cathartic hate watch.

Terry pushed both buttons:

[Ajay Cybulski @AjayCybulski]

Former NFL Coach of the Year Bruce Arians weighs in on the drama at One Bills Drive, via the Pat McAfee show👀

“This one baffles me. How Brandon Beane got elevated and Sean McDermott got fired - that just blows my mind because they didn’t have any damn players. The guy is one of the best coaches in the league… and Brandon Beane gets a fu***** raise?”

#BillsMafia

[Pittsburgh Dad @Pittsburgh_Dad]

Brandon Beane to Sean McDermott right after he fired him

[Mina Kimes @minakimes]

Man…I was not watching the Bills lose this weekend and thinking about the coaching.

I was thinking *a lot* about the state of the roster.

[Kim Coates @KimFCoates]

Buffalo fuckin Bills with my boy Billy Fich.
Great TEAM WIN !!!!! Here we go.

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

Merry Christmas, C̶h̶a̶r̶l̶i̶e̶ ̶B̶r̶o̶w̶n̶ Bills Mafia🎄

[Matt Parrino @MattParrino]

Bills held “O-Line Christmas” today after practice. Spencer Brown landed a FLAMETHROWER during the White Elephant exchange! 🎄🔥

[Circle the Wagons Foundation @CTWFoundation]

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[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Every couple generations we remove a load bearing rule because the problem no longer exists and find out why the rule existed.

[Buffalo Bills @BuffaloBills]

“Let’s go win!” - @realmikehoecht 🫶