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@ThatEricAlper Is it? It’s basically leave it to beaver but qUiRkY.

@pastthephase @dinosaurs1969 I watch teacher content on yt sometimes and I see a lot of teachers sharing their experience of being forced to pass students or inflate grades of students bc it looks better for the school. A lot of kids are graduating and still illiterate.

@GravitysGrace @dinosaurs1969 i dont think that these questions are particularly difficult to write? am i missing something

good kids

@pastthephase @dinosaurs1969 x.com/wellsjorda8971…

There is a specific type of silence that happens right before something goes completely wrong. You know it instinctively. Your body reacts before your brain does. Drop your absolute worst "gut feeling that turned out to be right" story below. 👇

average library experience: hey, looking for a book about a bear for my daughter, she’s 2. “we have narcan”. uh no just need a book about a bear. “we have a book about depression”. anything with a bear. “stinky toilet monster?” any bear. “uhh well heres bears first depression”

@akirathedon AMAZING 💕

Thank you brother! Headed to the airport shortly... Will be in reunited with my family in our new home in the USA in mere hours 💜🇺🇸

@luscafusca150 Imagine a pane is loose or completely falls off and it’s too soon for people to realize and have someone put up a warning sign.

como pode um projeto de escada ser tão falho assim, ninguém da equipe parou e pensou um pouco?

@GreenTextRepost :(

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a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

로봇청소기의 사용 설명서 어디에도 '고양이 다섯 마리를 동시에 상대하는 법'은 나와 있지 않다. 청소기는 지금 최선을 다하고 있다.

He was in his room playing video games in Alpena Township, Michigan when he heard his 8-year-old sister scream outside. The first time, he figured she was just messing around with friends. The second scream made him look out the window. Owen Burns is 13 years old. His dad Andrew had taken him to the range, practiced with him on his BB gun, and worked with him on his aim over the years. The slingshot was something they had picked up just to play with. Owen was not supposed to use it inside the house because he had a habit of breaking things with it. None of that crossed his mind on May 10th. What he saw through the window was a 17-year-old boy who had come out of the woods and grabbed his sister, covering her mouth, pulling her toward the trees. Owen grabbed the slingshot, loaded a marble, and fired from the window. He hit the attacker in the head. Then he loaded a gravel rock and fired again. He hit him in the chest. His sister broke free and ran. The attacker fled into the neighborhood, where police later found him hiding at a nearby gas station, still carrying the injuries from the slingshot. Michigan State Police said those exact wounds helped them identify and build the case against the suspect. The 17-year-old was charged with attempted kidnapping, attempted assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and assault and battery. Police said what Owen did was extraordinary and that he should be commended. His mom Margaret said she was just glad he picked it up when he did. When a reporter asked Owen how he managed to hit the target twice under that kind of pressure, he kept it short. He said the guy was just a big target. Not like one Pepsi can. What do you think made Owen act instead of freeze in a moment that most adults would not be ready for?

@NoticerNews @Rothmus Omg the whole article is even worse

@Rothmus It's true: noticer.news/african-refuge…

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

@buttonslives Stuff like you described is why I stopped caring about an autism or adhd diagnosis. From others stories I realized that diagnosis doesn’t instantly change your life for the better and fix all your problems, especially if it’s inaccurate. I’ll just deal with myself on my own.

I thought I was autistic. I was wrong. I was 30 in 2019 when stories of women discovering they were autistic all along began appearing everywhere. They popularized a newer understanding of autism, with its own “female presentation.” It was framed as a scientific correction to a historical wrong against women, the kind of narrative the press finds irresistible. Like so many women, I felt immense relief when I was formally diagnosed. It offered an explanation for the mental health crises of my youth and the daily realities of my adult life. Then I spent a year in the online autism community. What I saw there, especially the way activists treated parents of severely impaired children, turned me into a critic of neurodiversity. But it was becoming a journalist in 2022, after discovering detransitioners’ stories, that forced me to question narratives about identity and diagnosis, including my own. Journalism also required the social skills autism says I should have lacked. From there, the rest unraveled: many traits I had come to associate with autism are not uncommon in the general population, but through the “female autism” framework, they looked like a meaningful pattern. I don’t think my story is unique. The same incentives that kept my diagnosis intact may also help explain why so many women are entering the autism category in adulthood. Read my first article for @thefp: thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-…

@animalkyat Box too small?

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@Ric_RTP Here's the full copy of the Redacted Complaint in CA v Amazon. Restraint of Trade and Unfair Competition. oag.ca.gov/system/files/a…

@shraddhs @EFischberger Or alternatively, incidents like this have been happening forever but no one cared (or they were covered up) until the political profitability changed directions.

I am not denying the story, just questioning the timing. There have been a spate of articles in western media on how unsafe Dubai, Doha and other Gulf capitals/cities are. I live in Dubai and routinely visit Doha and have found both to be extremely safe and hospitable. Again no one can fully ensure that such incidents don’t happen, but this trend of isolated incidents becoming a narrative of ‘unsafety’ & ‘backwardness’ needs to be questioned. The Gulf is on the receiving end of international propaganda and as Middle East’s future is decided, I can understand why & who is doing it. Unfortunately ppl don’t question their own biases.

Crazy story out of Qatar: A British couple honeymooned in Doha, where the wife was harassed at the Ritz-Carlton pool by two men who told her she'd "fall in love" after he slept with her. The hotel gaslit her, with management denying the CCTV backed her story despite their own WhatsApp messages saying the opposite. Her husband posted a TripAdvisor review calling the hotel "unsafe for women." The hotel got it pulled, then a hotel employee filed a defamation complaint against him under Qatar's cybercrime laws. Nearly a year later, when he returned to Qatar for work, he was detained, informed he'd been tried in absentia and fined, and then held for four nights in a deportation centre. The deportation order lasts five years, which severely hurts his career as a Middle East healthcare consultant. In other words, Marriott International, an American company, used Qatari law to silence a complaint about a woman being sexually harassed at their property.

This is a great point actually.