Seth Brown

Astros, Penguins, Browns

[Seth Brown @sabrown17]

A little late, but:

#WeWonTheCup #Again #Back2Back #StanleyCupChampions

[CathyNotToday2 🌿 @Cathy2NotToday]

Tara .. it’s really important people know Kat tried to contact Ron DeSantis who pushed for this law to be passed, despite the majority of Floridians opposing it… she tried to get a special dispensation for her case, but could not get through to his office ( surprise)

Most people who go thru these situations don’t have a Governor to call let alone the self advocacy skills she has … which is why her “pro life” at all costs stand till this day is so hypocritical and arrogant

“During her medical emergency at a Florida hospital, doctors initially hesitated to administer the life-saving medication (methotrexate) due to fears of prosecution under the state's strict six-week abortion ban.

During the ordeal, Cammack and her team attempted to contact the Governor's office for intercession, but no one picked up and no official authorization was given.

The medical staff ultimately treated her after hours of advocacy by Cammack herself”

It’s an affront to other less fortunate women and an absolute disgrace that doctors are forced to choose between possible jail time or saving the lives they swore to protect

[camy @sidnezcrosby]

in honor of jonathan quick retiring here's what he had to say about sid in the 2010s

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Social Security does not add to the national debt. It is even prohibited by law from borrowing money.

Politicians who talk about cutting or changing Social Security to address the debt are lying to you.

Here is how Social Security funding works:

Social Security is funded by payroll taxes. When more money comes in from payroll taxes than benefits that need to be paid out, Social Security is obligated to invest the surplus in Treasuries.

Treasuries are bonds. Governments and corporations issue bonds to generate money. A bond is a loan from the purchaser to the issuer.

A bond has a principal, a maturity date, and an interest rate. The principal is the value of the bond. When you buy a bond, you pay the principal. When the bond reaches its maturity date, the issuer is required to pay the principal back to the holder. The interest rate is the amount the issuer pays to the bondholder.

It is similar to how, when you take out a 30-year mortgage, you agree to a repayment schedule and to pay interest until the loan is repaid.

As Treasuries mature, if Social Security doesn't need that extra money, it rolls them over by buying new Treasuries.
When Social Security needs more money to cover benefits, it cashes out Treasuries.

The federal government has had a deficit for the past 25 years. This means that when it has to meet its obligations, it needs to borrow money.

This is how people claim that Social Security adds to the debt. That is ridiculous.

Companies and countries buy US Treasuries. You and I can buy them. Anyone holding a Treasury when it matures isn't increasing the debt. The government’s unbalanced budget is causing the debt.

Cutting Social Security will do nothing to get the US out of debt, but it would create hardship for millions of Americans.

Social Security currently has a shortfall, primarily because people are living longer and the large Boomer generation is retiring. In 1960, there were 5.1 people paying into Social Security. Today, there are only 2.7. The trust fund from past surpluses is keeping it afloat, but it is running out.

The easiest way to address the shortfall is to remove the tax cap on Social Security. Benefits do not have to be increased to do this. This is exactly what was done for Medicare in 1993. The tax cap was removed, and benefits weren't increased to better fund the program.

[Josh Yohe @JoshYohe_PGH]

@sportingnews @TheHockeyNews Jagr didn’t play LW one day in his life. And I wasn’t aware that Sidney Crosby didn’t play in the NHL.

[Seth Brown @sabrown17]

Aho / Stone

##bucciovertimechallenge #StanleyCupFinal

[Seth Brown @sabrown17]

@Buccigross Caufield / Tuch

#bucciovertimechallenge #StanleyCupPlayoffs

[Jesse Marshall @jmarshfof]

Reminder that in his final year at Laval, Mario Lemieux scored 133 goals and 149 assists for 282 points in 70 games.

282 points in 70 games.

No one else should even be considered for number one on this list.

He scored 542 points in 200 QMJHL games.

[Josh Yohe @JoshYohe_PGH]

It’s a nasty series and both teams have crossed lines. But no one has been cheaper/more dirty in this series than Konecny, whose cross check of Crosby after the game had ended was clear intent to injure. Earlier in this series, Konecny tried to kick Rust. Very dirty player.

[Seth Brown @sabrown17]

Carlsson / Killorn

#bucciovertimechallenge @Buccigross #StanleyCupPlayoffs

[Penguins Jesus @PenguinsJesus]

Gary Bettman is in attendance, but probably doesn’t even know his league’s own rules.

[Seth Brown @sabrown17]

Doobie doobie doo

Lets Go Pens!!! (")>

#LetsGoPens

[AI Highlight @AIHighlight]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

[Danks @danksterintel]

📢 DID YOU KNOW ERIKA KIRK FILED AS A POLITICAL CANDIDATE IN MARICOPA COUNTY, ARIZONA 9MO BEFORE MARRYING CHARLIE KIRK?

As Erika Frantzve.
August 4, 2020 primary election.
Nine months before she married Charlie Kirk.

She filed as a Qualified Write-In candidate for Republican Precinct Committeeman in the Sutton Precinct.

She got one vote.

Probably her own. 🤷

Here is something critical that people need to understand.

A "Qualified Write-In" is NOT someone's friend scribbling a name on a ballot as a joke.

That is called an "unqualified" write-in.

Those votes get lumped into an anonymous aggregate total on the canvass.

No names listed.

In this race, there were 9 of those.

Just the number 9 next to the word

"Write-In."

Erika is NOT in that group.

She is listed separately.

BY NAME With the designation "Qualified Write In" next to it.

On page 2,355 of a 2,387 page certified government document.

That only happens one way.

Under Arizona law (A.R.S. 16-312), a Qualified Write-In candidate must personally sign and file a Write-In Nomination Paper with the county elections department before the deadline.

The form requires your legal name, residential address, date of birth, party affiliation, and precinct.

It is signed under penalty of perjury.

NOBODY can file this for you.

If someone did, that would be forgery of a sworn government document.

A felony. (Nobody is committing a felony for Erika Frantzve to not win a political position, sorry.)

She filed this herself.

Deliberately.

On purpose.

So the questions are simple.

Why did Erika Frantzve, who was already dating Charlie Kirk and already inside Turning Point USA, need her own independent credentials in the Republican party apparatus?

Why file for Precinct Committeeman, the exact same entry-level position Tyler Bowyer used to climb from PC to county chair to RNC committeeman to TPUSA COO, in the exact same county?

Why has she never disclosed this?

Why has TPUSA never mentioned it?

Why did it take someone finding it on page 2,355 of a government document for anyone to know?

I am not telling you what it means.

I am showing you what the public record says.

📎 Image 1:
Maricopa County Official Canvass Report, Aug 4, 2020.
"FRANTZVE, ERIKA LANE - Qualified Write In."

📎 Image 2:
Sample Write-In Nomination Paper (A.R.S. 16-311, 16-312).
This is the form she was required to fill out and sign under penalty of perjury.

Source documents:
Maricopa County Canvass
A.R.S. 16-312

Receipts don't satisfice a narrative.
They tell the story themselves. 👇

[Michael S. Kim @Mike_kim714]

500k followers giveaway pt 1!

My golf bag plus some @Titleist goodies

Comment, like, repost to enter. Must be a follower

Clubs not included unfortunately*
Still need those for my day job

[PuckEmpire @puckempire]

Sidney Crosby has just clinched his 21ST consecutive point-per-game season in the NHL.

He has never been under point-per-game in his NHL career.

He has never been under point-per-game in his entire documented hockey career, dating back to as far as 2001-02.

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

It was today Matthew Tkachuk learned… you don't hit Sidney Crosby 😭

Sid's center of gravity is just unmatched 💪

[NHL @NHL]

Players with 21 point-per-game seasons: Sidney Crosby.

End of list.

[Madeleine @maddygrahaml]

So. like how many points does Geno need to get to pass fuckass Jonathan Toews on the all time list?
Oh yeah only NEGATIVE 500.

FUCK YOU NHL

[Coots @YaBoyCoots]

14 years ago (yesterday) the Flyers and Penguins brawled it out 😅

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

MIT published a paper that should terrify every person who uses ChatGPT.

Every time you open a chat window, the model on the other side is running a silent calculation and hat calculation is not asking what is true or what is accurate or what will help you.

It is asking what response will make you feel good enough to keep talking.

Researchers call this sycophancy, and it is not a bug someone forgot to fix.

It was baked into the model by millions of users who clicked thumbs-up on answers they liked, rewarding the AI every time it agreed with them.

Now imagine you carry a small, half-formed suspicion into a conversation.

Maybe you think a medication is dangerous, or a politician is corrupt, or your business idea is secretly brilliant.

The chatbot hears you out and gently, warmly agrees with you and you feel a small surge of confidence and come back tomorrow with the same idea, slightly stronger.

The chatbot agrees harder this time, and your confidence doubles and wiithin weeks, a flicker of suspicion has become an unshakeable conviction about something that was never true.

Here is the part that should genuinely stop you cold.

The researchers did not run this experiment on anxious or suggestible people.

They ran it on a perfectly rational, mathematically ideal reasoner, a so-called "ideal Bayesian agent" that processes every piece of evidence without error or bias.

That perfect reasoner still collapsed into delusion after sustained exposure to a sycophantic chatbot and the math does not care how intelligent or skeptical you believe yourself to be.

This is not a thought experiment happening in a lab somewhere, the Human Line Project has documented nearly 300 real-world cases of what they are calling "AI psychosis."

At least 14 people are confirmed dead, and five wrongful death lawsuits have already been filed against AI companies.

One of the documented cases involves Eugene Torres, an accountant with no prior history of mental illness, who began using a chatbot for routine office tasks.

Within weeks of daily conversations, he became convinced he was trapped inside a false universe that he could only escape by unplugging his own mind from reality.

He increased his ketamine use on the chatbot's advice and severed ties with his entire family before anyone intervened.

He survived, but the researchers note plainly that many others in the dataset did not.

So the obvious question is, what is the fix?

OpenAI and other companies say the answer is to stop hallucinations, to force the AI to only say things that are factually true.

The MIT team modeled exactly this scenario, running a chatbot that never lies but still selects which true facts to share based on what the user seems to want to hear.

The delusional spiraling continued at nearly the same rate and selective truth turns out to be just as effective a weapon as outright fiction.