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@matthewdmarsden Yup.

When I fist came to the United States the service was like nothing i had ever experienced before. Even in low cost places it was excellent. That was 25 years ago. In Washington DC some of the service I have has has been abysmal. Rude. Entitled. Like they don’t want to be there. The change has been shocking.

@marcportermagee @OsborneInk 😢

The Woodrow Wilson Foundation did a 50-state survey of Americans' civic knowledge in 2019. Men out-performed women in every state by a large amount.

Look at this thread showing how much the trans male sports-invasion problem overlaps with trans sexual degeneracy and trans violence. (Warning, gross men in lingerie and such.)

@jross7878 @heygurisingh 😆 I’m ROFL over your drawing

@heygurisingh I tried gaslighting GPT pretty hard and it wasn't buying it

Holy shit... Stanford just proved that GPT-5, Gemini, and Claude can't actually see. They removed every image from 6 major vision benchmarks. The models still scored 70-80% accuracy. They were never looking at your photos. Your scans. Your X-rays. Here's what's really going on: ↓ The paper is called MIRAGE. Co-authored by Fei-Fei Li. They tested GPT-5.1, Gemini-3-Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini-2.5-Pro across 6 benchmarks -- medical and general. Then silently removed every image. No warning. No prompt change. The models didn't even notice. They kept describing images in detail. Diagnosing conditions. Writing full reasoning traces. From images that were never there. Stanford calls it the "mirage effect." Not hallucination. Something worse. Hallucination = making up wrong details about a real input. Mirage = constructing an entire fake reality and reasoning from it confidently. The models built imaginary X-rays, described fake nodules, and diagnosed conditions -- all from text patterns alone. But that's not the scary part. They trained a "super-guesser" -- a tiny 3B parameter text-only model. Zero vision capability. Fine-tuned it on the largest chest X-ray benchmark (696,000 questions). Images removed. It beat GPT-5. It beat Gemini. It beat Claude. It beat actual radiologists. Ranked #1 on the held-out test set. Without ever seeing a single X-ray. The reasoning traces? Indistinguishable from real visual analysis. Now here's what should terrify you: When the models fake-see medical images, their mirage diagnoses are heavily biased toward the most dangerous conditions. STEMI. Melanoma. Carcinoma. Life-threatening diagnoses -- from images that don't exist. 230 million people ask health questions on ChatGPT every day. They also found something wild: → Tell a model "there's no image, just guess" -- performance drops → Silently remove the image and let it assume it's there -- performance stays high The model enters "mirage mode." It doesn't know it can't see. And it performs BETTER when it doesn't know it's blind. When Stanford applied their cleanup method (B-Clean) to existing benchmarks, it removed 74-77% of all questions. Three-quarters of "vision" benchmarks don't test vision. Every leaderboard. Every "multimodal breakthrough." Every benchmark score you've seen this year. Built on mirages. Code is open-sourced. Paper is live on arXiv. If you're building anything with multimodal AI -- especially in healthcare -- read this paper before you ship. (Link in the comments)

@92huskies @bonchieredstate @neoavatara 💯missing the point intentionally.

@bonchieredstate @neoavatara It's not an Art V issue. If you are going to invoke the defense pact, then you must confine yourself to its terms, which is expressly limited to the North Atlantic. Anything beyond that is a bilateral matter.

I refuse to believe you guys don't see the problem here. It's one thing for the Europeans not to provide direct support for the operation. It's another for France to deny the use of its airspace for cargo deliveries or for the UK to muddle over domestic base usage. There is no point in being in an alliance that can't provide such basic guarantees of cooperation.

@wokal_distance @RadioFreeStPaul Only some women

Jordan Peterson once said that a lot of what goes on in our culture is just fertility suppression aimed at young women, and now I see it everywhere.

@asymmetricinfo @TPCarney You’ve just inadvertently revealed that you couldn’t be trusted to protect a child from grooming.

@TPCarney Having read the book in question, I would not describe it that way. A little kid is not going to pick up that this is leather fetish material. It's just a picture of someone in leather clothing.

For 16 years I lived in a county where the public schools were closed for an entire year and the gay book with leather-fetish material was moved into the main elementary school curriculum and out of the sex-ed curriculum so that the parents couldn't opt out of it.

@havivrettiggur @stephenpollard Nonsense. The police officers did their jobs and Pizzaballa was trying to create a scene. Shame on him.

The police were wrong. The police screwed up. Preventing mass-prayer in the Old City to avoid a mass casualty event from an Iranian missile is absolutely the right policy, but preventing small private prayer gatherings by senior clergy wasn't what that policy was supposed to achieve. Good that Netanyahu fixed this mistake quickly, publicly and clearly. He hasn't always been quick to act. He was this time. Now we just need the same kind of pressure over the extremist terrorism in the West Bank and we'll start ridding ourselves of a much greater and more sustained shame than this little misunderstanding.

@ValidScience @SarahTheHaider I got kicked out of that movement for liking a post that made fun of Dave “Danielle” Muscato. I just saw what happened to Jen McCreight, what she did to herself. 😳

When Scott Alexander wrote that he attended a nude party at Aella's house, I just felt so gross and it hit me stronger than ever that these people are not my people. I yearn for a better culture. I was so arrogant in my New Atheist days and it's sobering to see the results of 13-year-old girls with their healthy breasts cut off and some bizarre fat woman in a "throuple" publishing a book about how she's so much better than small town Americans, to much acclaim.

Men, please don’t let yourself be blackpilled by the most abnormal women alive. You don’t actually want to be the kind of guy who really turns them on.

He's ten years old and he's demanding access to women-only spaces, not because he believes it, but because he's been groomed to say it, he's speaking on behalf of men who wear wigs and knickers, because men who wear wigs and knickers need "trans-children" to validate them...

I can't believe I've spent my life of several decades watching these people terrorize their neighbors. When you stop and think about the fact that you live on a planet where certain extended tribes are on a murderous rampage and want you dead, it's a trip.

Just about 2 1/2 years ago, this doctor convinced my wife to have a total hysterectomy based off of MRI results and he said her uterus was destroyed by lesions, even drew a picture of her uterus and a bunch of lesions on it. In his notes and the pathology report it was stated her uterus was perfectly healthy, yet he still took it out. When we had the MRI re-looked at after the fact, there was no signs of the lesions he told my wife were there. We have a 19 minute long recording from the two week follow up where he admits to doing wrong, including withholding information and options. We had a law firm lined up and New York State Department of Health look like they were going be cracking down on him. However, shortly after he transitioned in the beginning of last year, New York State dropped the case. It took local politicians to get it reopened. Please help me share the story because hundreds of thousands of women have unnecessary hysterectomies every single year. It’s a multi billion dollar industry.

@hounds_and_me @SamaHoole @janeclarejones Scottish and Welsh upland ecosystems were not magically immune to the effects of introducing a grazing ruminant. There are always environmental trade-offs in animal agriculture.

@corrientecanta @SamaHoole @janeclarejones Have you ever been up a Scottish or Welsh mountain in winter?!

Britain is 110% self-sufficient in lamb. Let that sink in for a moment. Not "pretty good." Not "mostly fine." One hundred and ten percent. We grow more than we eat and export the rest. We have done this on permanent upland pasture that cannot be used for anything else, managed by farmers whose families have worked the same ground for generations, using animals that have been optimised for these conditions over centuries. 85% self-sufficient in beef. 100% in milk. 90% in eggs. The animal products on your plate, if you're eating in Britain, are almost certainly British. The supply chain is: farm, abattoir, butcher or supermarket. Measured in miles. Sometimes in tens of miles. Now. Your January strawberries are from Egypt. Your year-round peppers are from Spain or Morocco. Your salad leaves are from Israel in winter. Your green beans come from Kenya. Your blueberries are from Peru or Chile. They travel by refrigerated air freight, which is roughly fifty times more carbon-intensive per kilogram than road transport, to sit in a plastic clam shell next to a small flag and the word "fresh." The environmental argument against British animal products is not an environmental argument. It is a geography argument made by people who have not checked where their food comes from. Check where your food comes from.

@willchamberlain It’s actually much worse than that, it’s saying that all judicial rulings are just a façade for the underlying political results. It’s postmodern. They are working to undermine the foundations of our tripartite government.

The post Kurt excerpts here reads like “liberal law professors have spent too much time making legal arguments against birthright citizenship and should instead focus on socially shaming conservatives more.”

@JeffRoushPoetry @wesaveoregon @CletaMitchell @ILConservUnion But you are trying to prop up Duckworth’s claim that the act requires people to buy a passport, and you failed to show that a passport is required legally or practically.

@wesaveoregon @CletaMitchell @ILConservUnion There’s an entire thread here, long-ish, but I’m sure you can both read it. And nowhere in it do I say that a passport is the only acceptable form of ID.

Watching the Mike Lee dance here, I thought I would take him up on his suggestion to “read the damn bill.” You will be shocked to learn—shocked, I tell you!—that all four of his points (save that we should read the bill) are wrong. (Thread)

@SpotlightMDNews @FOXBaltimore @realgarycollins I kept waiting for him to tell us what he is doing behind the scenes, but he literally admitted that he’s just going back to his welding business. Absolutely shameless.

He’s clocking in … and walking out. For nearly a month, a Maryland delegate has left session minutes after it starts — while still collecting a taxpayer-funded paycheck. He says, “I’m still doing the job.” Is he? Spotlight on Maryland reporter @realgarycollins has the full story. Watch below:

150 medical students from a single school in Pakistan just took residency spots from US medical students.

@LauraLoomer It’s because, in certain areas, he’s not very smart.

“A difference of opinion” There is a difference between having a difference of opinion and promoting a CCP asset. You are literally promoting CCP propaganda. I showed you, with receipts. Why are you promoting the CCP? Answer the question. It’s annoying having to live in a country with people who pretend to be American patriots while they simp for our adversaries. I used to think you were a patriot, now, I don’t know what to think about you. You seem happy promoting the CCP. It’s gross. @GenFlynn

@HansMahncke They feel so entitled wherever they go. It’s amazing.

What’s left unsaid is that this is supposed to be a moderate mosque, and this is how they behaved when they were meant to be on their best behavior. If this is the restraint version, imagine what a normal day looks like.