Tilton

daycare worker • indie game enjoyer • black lives matter • trans rights are human rights • save palestine (he/him)

[s @topboySalman]

the horrible scenes out of gaza today are a grim reminder that the world has moved on but the pain and torment hasn’t stopped for our brothers and sisters

[Gaza Notifications @gazanotice]

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🚨 BREAKING: Children were among the victims after an Israeli airstrike hit a tent sheltering displaced families west of Gaza City.

At least 6 civilians were killed and dozens more injured, including many children, in the strike on the displacement camp.

[Tilton @Tiltonic]

@realJaredGilman Donated but can’t retweet— is that for the censorship algorithm?

[Vincent Alexander @NonsenseIsland]

RIP Marjane Satrapi, the great cartoonist and film director, best known for PERSEPOLIS. She was only 56. A great talent. She will be missed.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BREAKING: Al Jazeera confirms Israel bombed a Lebanese hospital for the THIRD time. The ICU is completely destroyed.

A mother desperately rushed to find her premature baby alive amidst the rubble. Washington is fully complicit in these war crimes!

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

Reporter of China State Television CGTN, broadcasting in front of Gaza Shifa Hospital:

"I saw with my own eyes that there were at least 10 Palestinian children under the age of 5 without heads."

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel planted explosives in a school for disabled children at dawn today in South Lebanon and blew it up.

Not a military target.

A school for disabled children — perhaps the only one in the country.

In what universe is this considered “self-defense”?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.

These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.

[The Saviour @TheSaviour]

🚨🇮🇱🇵🇸BREAKING: Israel committed a massacre on Gaza beach just moments ago.

[Motasem A Dalloul @AbujomaaGaza]

Israeli occupation forces killed 24 Palestinians in Gaza during the days of Eid al Adha, which should be a time of happiness and celebrations..

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The genocide in Gaza continues, and there is no ceasefire. Netanyahu is openly announcing the military takeover of 70 percent, and ultimately all, of Gaza. Four more children in Gaza were killed by U.S.-funded Israeli bombs yesterday. No more excuses: Arms Embargo now.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

An Israeli strike captured on camera has killed three paramedics in Lebanon. Just 12 hours earlier, four other medics were killed.

Sky's @AlexCrawfordSky reports

https://t.co/MTDOQ3T0vB

[Zoom Afrika @zoomafrika1]

Don't stop talking about Sudan
Don't stop talking about Sudan
Don't stop talking about Sudan
Don't stop talking about Sudan

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

تحذير ⛔️ صور صعبة: مشاهد مسربة لعمليات الإعدام التي نفذها الجيش الاسرائيلي بحق المدنيين عند اجتياحه لمخيم الشاطئ للاجئين غرب غزة بتاريخ ١١ نوفمبر ٢٠٢٣.

[Mia “PLAYOFFS BASKETBALL CUNCE!!!!!” Lastname @themiasandrist]

Devastated.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW

A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.

One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.

An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC

Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This has historically been referred to as a "concentration camp."

[S @even_steven8tht]

This is so insane. A evil genocidal country went and illegally kidnapped peaceful protesters on international waters and now they are parading them around like cattle and NOT A SINGLE major news network is covering it.

[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.

[aapayés @aapayes]

El clip más cruel, soldados israelíes matando a una familia entera, la madre abrazando a sus hijos y los niños abrazándose entre sí y el padre parado frente a ellos sosteniendo la bandera blanca.

Opresión y gran dolor, un pasaje de la historia que testimonia la mayor masacre.