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virgo, ACAB

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

The entire Criterion Closet is now available as a website, where you can browse all 1,247 films by walking the shelves, thanks to redditor olievans.

https://t.co/O2b7MwzCZj

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder in ‘TEENAGE SEX & DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA’

[Katya @katya_zamo]

What you don’t see is the suffering I endure everyday trying my very best to stay positive and not post anything mean or evil on here but I need to break my silence and let you know that I thought Disclosure Day was one of the biggest piles of shit I’ve ever seen. Horrible, stupid, absurd but not in an entertaining way, so poorly written it borders on abusive, ridiculous but also deeply boring, just complete and total shit ass.

[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.

[mo •᷄⌓•᷅꧞ @fruitpibble]

milf (movie i'd like to finish)

[shay᭡.ִֶָ𓂃 @yappingbambix]

at the end of the day a golden retriever is still a DOG.

[Lena Dunham @lenadunham]

All adventurous women do.

[siren crave @sirencrave]

victoria pedretti for v magazine

[Pigeons & Planes @PigsAndPlans]

14 years ago today, Odd Future (@ofwgkta) dropped "Oldie"—one of their most iconic videos that almost didn't happen. It only did because @tylerthecreator refused to let anyone turn the camera off.⁠
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The members of the group told the story of that day in an oral history published by The Ringer in 2022. When Odd Future descended on Milk Studios in Chelsea, the session unraveled fast. The XXL staff "were understandably trying to contain a group of rowdy kids," Mike G recalled, "but we weren't having it."⁠
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Someone plugged in an iPhone, "Oldie" came through the speakers, and director Lance Bangs kept his camera rolling over objections from the room. The moment Tyler realized what was happening, he called the shots: "No, f*ck that, Lance, keep shooting this sh*t.” What followed was a single, unedited take of the entire 10-minute posse cut performed live.⁠
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For @earlxsweat, freshly back from Samoa and still finding his footing, the whole day had a surreal quality: "It just felt like a cartoon, in the sense that n****s just was doin' whatever they wanted to do." For Tyler, zooming out in real time, the stakes were clearer: “I’ve seen music documentaries, this might be the last time everyone's together so we need to document this."⁠
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He was right. "A f*ckin' balloon popped that night, and we all went in our own directions. That was the last time we was all together like that. Still,” Tyler explained. Frank, looking back, arrived at the same place: "The atmosphere reminds me of how it feels to be in a room full of musicians where everyone is improvising and for a brief period it's pure magic. It's the same rush."⁠
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Bangs edited the footage on a laptop during a red-eye to Portland. It now sits at over 56 million views. It cost nothing.⁠

[retrocvnt @retrocvnty]

Brittany Murphy and Michelle Trachtenberg, 2004

[pey @peytonnnrosee]

EVERYTHING IS EMBARRASSING

[tumblr @tumblr]

19 years of tumblr 💝🎉

[lungs @pleadedguilt]

when a man and a woman love each other very much, they watch a movie together...

[eli @rpfscholar]

‘twas the night before 9/11

[Sydney Urbanek @sydurbanek]

I’ve never met a medical receptionist that I believed wanted me to live

[pop culture gal @allurequinn]

CHAPPELL ROAN.

[Louis Allday @Louis_Allday]

"654 of 654 surveyed"

[Maram Ali @Mramalie91]

مع السلامة يا أنس الشريف ويا محمد قريقع.. مع السلامة يا أبطال ..