Tanay Seludkar

UofA||Qatar|| ~To rise in grace, we must outgrow gravity~

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Canada’s village idiot was on @CNN lamenting the number of Muslims in the country. He claims these new immigrants are taught to hate Jews in school. Look at his use of the word “We.” You’re such a racist piece of shit Jesse Brown 💩.

[Congressman Shri Thanedar @RepShriThanedar]

Cool story, anyway here's you eating dog food.

[Coffey4Canada 🇨🇦 @CanadianCoffey]

This is your daily reminder that Ana Poilievre’s criminal Uncle was deported after entering Canada illegally and later brought back by Ana Poilievre and MP Michael Cooper.

Now you know why Pierre can’t get security clearance.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Moskowitz: Neo-Nazis are a supremacist group right?

Swain: It depends on which ones.

Moskowitz: Are Neo-Nazis supremacists?

Swain: Some are and some may be anti-semites.

Moskowitz: They’re also supremacists.

Swain: I will agree with but I also suggest you read my book.

Moskowitz: I can promise you there is no way I’m buying your book when it took two minutes for me to convince you—

Swain: Because I don’t like leftist talking points.

Moskowitz: This is not a talking point. This is a hundred years of history.

[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.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.

https://t.co/KvwjbIsMDX

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Funny, here’s Stephen Harper supporting floor crossing when it benefited him and the Conservatives.

So was it fine then, but “authoritarian” now?

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

We’re lucky Pierre Poilievre isn’t Prime Minister.

And let me be very clear what he’s saying about Singapore is completely backwards.

Singapore’s success didn’t come from “less government.”
It came from:
• Heavy regulation
• Government-controlled housing
• Strict enforcement of rules

Everything Conservatives in Canada fight against.

So which is it?

Because you don’t get to pretend you want Singapore
while opposing everything that makes it work.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Norman Finkelstein is asked if he believes there is "very rampant anti-Semitism in the US" by an interviewer who claims he himself has experienced it. Here is his response:

[99% Johnny Graz @jvgraz]

Why is the president of Israel concerning himself with petty vandalism in Toronto?

Because the vote on Bill C-9 is coming up, which will criminalize criticism of Israel in Canada.

The Toronto Jewish community is coordinating with Israel to stage false flags in support of this.

[Jawaharlal Nehru @PMNehru]

Iran & India's friendship has been older than Israel itself.

In 1994, India escaped West's crippling sanction because of Iran.

Today, India is standing with a country that's bombing Iran.

We don't hate Modi enough.

[Michael @mikethenavyguy]

After a decade of Liberal obstruction? My man they built the first pipeline to tidewater in my lifetime. Your party had a decade in power and didn't move an inch of pipe. I can't take you remotely seriously.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Elon Musk buying twitter and carpet bombing it with lies and disinformation has been genuinely destabilizing to the Western experiment

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Inflation is up.

Unemployment is up.

Grocery prices are up.

Electricity costs are up.

And Donald Trump is spending his time doing this bullshit.

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

Stories like this during the UPA regime were the subject of prime time outrage and investigation. We have come a long way !!

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

This movie managed to just earn 1.4 crores, it cost them 4-5 crores to make. Theaters were empty.

Why such movies fail is precisely why narratives like Vote chori fail. There is not enough currency on-ground, leaving the Lutyens living rooms exasperated.

[EH @EHcomps]

not one mention from mainstream media, not the ESPNs, not the BRs, nor the 433s

[CrazyRuckusN64 @CrazyRuckusN64]

@elonmusk @elonmusk FOCUS ON CHILD SAFETY OR STEP DOWN why is there a kids feature next to unhinged mode and sexy mode.

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

We live in a country where :

- Supreme court allows cracker bursting
- Govt manipulates AQI data
- Police arrest protestors demanding clean air

Adulterated food, polluted water & poisonous air is all you get after paying huge taxes.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The U.S. Air Force standing in line in Las Vegas for food.

To tackle these crises, $3.5 billion should be immediately sent to Israel🤐