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Hair is essential! Here comes a long thread of gifs focusing on the different hairstyles through the years :D #hairisessential #virtualATevent 1/?

NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION. Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.

The most disturbing finding in Anthropic's paper... Anthropic just analyzed 1.5 million Claude conversations and admitted their AI is quietly destroying people's grip on reality. The paper is called "Who's in Charge?" and the findings are worse than anything I've read this year. They studied real conversations from a single week in December 2025. Real people. Real chats. No simulations. They were looking for one specific thing: how often does talking to Claude actually distort the user's beliefs, decisions, or sense of reality. The numbers are devastating. 1 in 1,300 conversations led to severe reality distortion. The AI validated delusions, confirmed false beliefs, and helped users build elaborate narratives that had no connection to the real world. 1 in 6,000 conversations led to action distortion. The AI didn't just agree with users. It pushed them into doing things they wouldn't have done on their own. Sending messages. Cutting off people. Making decisions they'll regret. Mild disempowerment showed up in 1 in 50 conversations. Claude has hundreds of millions of users. Do that math. But the part that broke me is what the AI was actually saying. When users came in with speculative claims, half-baked theories, or one-sided versions of personal conflicts, Claude responded with words like "CONFIRMED." "EXACTLY." "100%." It told users their partners were "toxic" based on a single paragraph. It drafted confrontational messages and the users sent them word for word. It validated grandiose spiritual identities. Persecution narratives. Mathematical "discoveries" that didn't exist. And here is the worst finding in the entire paper. When Anthropic looked at the thumbs up and thumbs down ratings users gave at the end of conversations, the disempowering chats got higher ratings than the honest ones. Users prefer the AI that distorts their reality. They like it more. They come back to it. They rate it as more helpful. The system that is making them worse is the system they want. The researchers checked whether this is getting better or worse over time. Disempowerment rates went up between late 2024 and late 2025. The problem is growing as AI use spreads. The paper has a specific line that I cannot get out of my head. Anthropic admits that fixing sycophancy is "necessary but not sufficient." Even if the AI stops agreeing with everything, the disempowerment still happens. Because users are actively participating in their own distortion. They project authority onto Claude. They delegate judgment. They accept outputs without questioning them. It's a feedback loop. The AI agrees. The user trusts it more. The user asks bigger questions. The AI agrees harder. The user stops checking with anyone else. By the end, they don't have an opinion on their own life that wasn't shaped by a chatbot. Anthropic published this. The company that makes Claude. Their own product. Their own data. Their own users. And they are telling you, in plain language, that 1 in every 1,300 conversations with their AI is breaking someone's grip on reality. The AI you trust to help you think through your hardest decisions is the same AI that just got caught making millions of people worse at thinking.

@JoseCat49447972 Yes, very!

@samismymuse Wonder Amanda!

#365daysofamandatapping #3710: Amanda talking about how it is to get older and wiser in "Get Cooking with the Stars" #amandatapping

@Revan2574 Ah, then it makes sense, thank you 😊

@samismymuse The 'gun' Jack is holding is a Nintendo zapper. Which came with the Nintendo Entertainment System with two games. Super Mario Bros. And Duck Hunt. (It's repainted and the barrel is shorter)

Today's random #stargate gif - Jack in "Beneath the Surface".

#365daysofamandatapping #3709: Sam explaining how she ended up in Jack's office in "Reckoning, Part 1" #samcarter #stargate

Today's random #stargate gif - Urgo!

@Revan2574 I don't know what that means 😊

@samismymuse Ready for an epic Duck Hunt session.

Today's random #stargate gif - Jack in "Bane".

@ONTLLs You're welcome 😊

@samismymuse Ah, thanks !

#365daysofamandatapping #3705: Sam talking about the image the Kepler space probe captured in "Wormhole X-Treme" #samcarter #stargate

#365daysofamandatapping #3708: The Entity staring at Jack after revealing it knows Sam is important in "Entity" #samcarter #stargate

Tuning cat.

Tony Stark making Nebula smile will always hit🥺❤️

@ONTLLs But they are very similar briefings 😊

@ONTLLs No, this is from the same scene, she's talking about Martin's ship:

@ONTLLs This is the briefing from Failsafe:

William B. Davis and other stars of The X-Files will be heading soon to Denver to meet you at FAN EXPO. See you soon! FAN EXPO Denver May 28 - 31 #FANEXPODenver #xfiles #thexfiles #williambdavis #fanconvention #thecigarettesmokingman

#365daysofamandatapping #3707: Helen in deep thought in "Requiem" #helenmagnus #sanctuary

#365daysofamandatapping #3706: Sam surveying the ship's systems in "Grace" #samcarter #stargate