Jared Blanton

Bald eagles getting lead poisoning from eating bullets is unfortunately just about the most American thing I've ever heard in my entire life

@bostonradio @Ben_Geman Proto—RATM

37 years ago tonight, April 1, 1989, Corey Glover and Living Colour performed “Cult of Personality”(1988) on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. The song peaked at #13 on Billboard’s Hot 💯.

The Bondi firing will get all the attention but what Hegseth is doing with the upper echelons of the military is much more dangerous over time than Bondi’s tenure as AG. And it won’t get 1% of the coverage. Someday it will get a lot of coverage, and those will be dark days.

You know who else regretted he didn't purge more generals when he was losing a war?

The gently sloping line at the bottom is our world 252 million years ago, when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years killing 90% of all species. It is a period known as The Great Dying. That vertical red line is the world our children live in.

When you’re threatening to reduce civilian living conditions in a foreign country to stone age levels, you need to ask yourself some questions.

I’m far more normie adjacent than a lot of people on this site but I realized today that I’m also too online because the number 1 touring comedian in world history is a clean comic who never talks about sex and was born in the city I currently live in and I never heard of him

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

I just got off a plane. What did I miss? Are we still in NATO?

@TMZ This is not the own you think it is.

👀 EXCLUSIVE: Congressman timekeeper seen at son's basketball game amid the shutdown. tmz.me/TRzzIkL

@LarrySabato @IAPolls2022 Damn Yuppies

@IAPolls2022 Ronald Reagan was in his 70s for almost all of his Presidency. His Gallup job approval with younger voters was often 60-65%—higher than older voters. So age alone is probably not Trump’s problem with young voters. Economy, Iran war instead.

Trump approval (ages 18-34 only) Approve: 20% Disapprove: 80% —— Trend (net) 🟤 Feb. 2025: (-16) 🟤 Jan. 2026: (-39) 🔴 Mar. 2026: (-60) CNN/SSRS | 3/26-30

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

Most Americans still haven't realized how the Trump administration has defunded every aspect of criminal law enforcement -- anti-terrorism, drugs, fraud, organized crime, human trafficking, etc. -- to go after immigrants with no criminal records.

@StevenR03750140 @fentdavison @admcrlsn That’s my point. It would not end his career today. It would elevate his career.

Wait do the youths on here understand this reference?

I’ve been In Minneapolis the last few days. I walked to the shrines for Renee Good and Alex Pretti. I sat at them for a long time and found myself more emotional than I thought I’d be. I don’t know what comes after or what it will cost to do, but we’re gonna beat these fuckers.

@michaelpresky @SwannMarcus89 You do understand the definition of median, correct?

It's because California is so much more prosperous than the rest of the country (by a very significant factor) and pay is so much higher here. Which puts people into higher tax brackets. Anyway, to answer your question about how anyone survives in LA, it's because the economy is so awesome here that people can afford virtually any expenses. It's a state where almost everybody now is a millionaire, with almost no poor people at all. So people can survive rather easily. Goodness. If you can't make it a place as wealthy as CA then you're doing something very seriously wrong.

I just learned today median after-tax income in LA is thousands of dollars less than Nashville. That’s *before* rent and gas Republicans somehow manage to understate how much progressives fucked up the West Coast. How does anyone survive in Los Angeles?

@StevenR03750140 @fentdavison @admcrlsn And the craziest part is that it basically ended his career. If it happened today, he’d be in the cabinet.

@fentdavison @admcrlsn George Allen called an Indian campaign tracker "macaca" (monkey) on camera and then went on to try and say he didn't know it was racist

@SenLouiseLucas @georgeallenva

I’ve heard Governor @georgeallenva would like to have a debate on redistricting and I agree- so I am challenging him to a 21st century meme debate where we can present our case on redistricting. We can go back and forth as much as he wants leading up to April 21st!