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The Education of a Wandering Mind

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THE EDUCATION OF A WANDERING MIND OUT (almost) EVERYWHERE NOW

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INCOMING TRANSMISSION

This project is a big deal for me, but I'm pretty sure most artists think that about all their work.

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"Lost Boyz" (ep. 3)
///-COLLECTION ORGANIZATION INITIATIVE-///

///-CATEGORIZATION REJECTED-///

~ pretty sure we've been here before ~
~ Track 6 - 2:41 - Prod. by Eazy Notey ~
~ Peter Parker, Pan, or Rabbit ~

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\\\-SCRAM, KID-\\\

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@thisisendmark @SavvyMcfly_ Definitely one of my favorite beats on the album 🙌

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///-MULTIPLE POINTS OF CONTACT DETECTED.... INITIATING DEFENSE-///

~is it really you vs me or no?~
~Track 5 - 4:02 - ft. @SavvyMcfly_ prod. @thisisendmark
~they act like they my rivals~

///-QUARANTINE PROTOCOL ESTABLISHED-///

\\\-CLOSING CHANNEL-\\\

[deklend @thisisendmark]

@OMENSbars @SavvyMcfly_ YEEEEAHHHH BOI 🔥🔥🔥

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The Matrix requires you to be Lost periodically

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Shaya Rhymes ✍🏾 @ShayaRhymes]

The artists and creators I’m most inspired by are the ones taking their future into their own hands. They’re not waiting for co-signs, support, nothing. They just keep shootin no hesitation.

[HARDEST FIT PICS @HardestFitPics]

Yoshiki Hishinuma Fall/Winter 1990

[Lobo @LOWKEY_LOBO]

i brought you all here today to say

fuck 12

[Shaya Rhymes ✍🏾 @ShayaRhymes]

Fuck you @FBI

[OMENS @OMENSbars]

My girl asked me about politics while she was getting ready for work and I fear I ruined her day

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SYSTEM STATUS: CAPITALISTSIC

STATUS EFFECT: DIMINISHING

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///-CONNECTION ESTABLISHED-///
///-SEARCHING FOR SIGNAL... COORDINATES ENCRYPTED, UNABLE TO LOCK-///

~ Rufio, Mowgli, and Tarzan walk into a bar...~
~ Track 6 - 2:41 - Prod. by Eazy Notey ~
~ Them boys'll hit you with the BANGARANG ~ //

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A one-eyed man with a gallon of soda under his arm just offered me molly in exchange for enough electricity to charge his phone. The apocalypse is here and it is very cyberpunk.

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I got my hands so full I couldn't hold a grudge

[Shaya Rhymes ✍🏾 @ShayaRhymes]

@blackiiingout @M471K_ Bunch of kids in the comments man yall wasn’t there for acid rap & soundcloud chance lol

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Being in an entirely new situation is still so crazy cause like I kinda fumbled hard just barely but how tf am I still coming across stuff I never would've assumed in a million years

[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.

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@744_Mai Sadboi drip goes hard

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Wearing pink 7-inch short shorts and a knit beige cardigan telling the emo kid wearing all black that I liked his pants