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[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

LOVE

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Costco is using some of its $184 million in tariff refunds to cut prices on everyday goods

The cuts include produce, meat, beverages, furniture and hardware

[MAGA Nation ™ @MAGANationn]

Ed Sheeran’s band cancelled on him.

So he walked out anyway and delivered in front of thousands.

No excuses. No delay. Just a superstar doing the job.

That’s how you handle a problem in front of a live crowd.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

This should be a federal law tbh

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@didem5654 I think it’s 110

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@butchbatnix @lieumle She was probably reminding you as a courtesy b/c she knows you’d have to replace it once she moved out.

i mean, do you not take all the stuff that belongs to you when you move?

Nuts to think b/c you used something SHE BOUGHT, she should have just generously gifted it to you lol

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

We’re cooked. WOW.

[chisom @chisomvs]

someone will say “I make six figures” and it’s 350k

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

The line between reality & what it fake is just getting thinner & thinner. Hate it.

The internet I think is a net positive. If we don’t get ahead of it, AI is going to be such a net negative it’ll ruin us.

Soap box over lol

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

Scary stuff

[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.

[Tarandfeatherstime @nowwhatffs]

@TheModerateCase

[Maggie Howell LaForge @Mar__G_3]

Common courtesy and respect to strangers has all but vanished.

I was on a plane recently when the Captain landed and announced: "Stay seated for folks with tight connections." The majority of the cabin stood up anyway.

A couple by me in the back told us they only had 10-15 min to make their flight, but were trapped in by the wall of passengers in the aisle.

I stood up and called out for people to sit down. Most ignored me, some made eye contact and claimed they had a connection.

I later watched one of them stroll out of the airport into an Uber. Courtesy and being a decent human is dead. Everyone is out for themselves. It's depressing.

[Zack @zackomondijr]

Hopefully this isn’t controversial, but if I’m paying for a streaming service, there shouldn’t be ads period. Not on Disney+, Amazon, Hulu, none of it.
Ads belong on free versions of these platforms. If advertisers are already paying to run their ads, why am I also paying to watch them?

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

If you aren't legally divorced, aka papers are signed/court FINISHED... you shouldn't be dating ANYONE.

You made a commitment to forever to your partner, God, government & whatever else you believe in. The LEAST you can do is honor them/your past self with a proper ending 1st.

[♧ @Terrence_Y_]

unpopular opinion that will put you in this position.

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@allie__voss Correct… tho I will say exception if I’m paying for someone’s birthday. Please order whatever you’d like!

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@GVStudios_TV Amazing!

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@MikhailaFuller Will continue praying for a full recovery. Thank you for the update. Sending your family all my love 🤍

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@sircalebhammer thank you for your sarcastic humor & lovely financial education. Not sure which I appreciate more tbh.

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@Naam_kafi_hai Toastie

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@MmisterNobody Yes

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@modernhistory

[mitsna @mitsnamusic]

@Matt_Pinner Meredith