Douglas Fisher (he/him)

#LLAP #IDIC If a drunk old klingon warrior had no issue with their friend being different, you shouldn't either. Love to my LGBTQ+ friends.

IT’S POPPING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT’S ACTUALLY POPPING

LOL Stephen Colbert is making his band play licensed music during his final show so CBS – who fired him – will get sued and have to pay millions "Anyone illegally using that music is gonna have to pay through the nose--" [band starts playing] "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!"

terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info

No bee. No food. No us. That's not a slogan. That's the math. At a debate hosted by the Earthwatch Institute at the Royal Geographical Society in London, bees were crowned the most important living species on Earth. Why a tiny striped insect over lions, whales, or us? Simple. Around 70% of the world's agriculture leans entirely on bees. Three out of every four bites of fruit, nuts, and vegetables on your plate exist because a bee showed up to work. No pollination, no plants. No plants, no food. No food, no people. And here's the gut punch. Bees are now on the endangered list. Studies show colonies have collapsed by up to 90% in recent years. The killers? Pesticides, deforestation, vanishing wildflowers, and habitat loss. A creature smaller than your thumbnail is holding up the entire food chain. And we're knocking the legs out from under it. Protect the bees. Protect the dinner table. Protect ourselves. Source: Earthwatch Institute debate at the Royal Geographical Society of London

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

@calebvaldezz @VHSDVDBLURAY4K I heard it online randomly, and seems to now be on the Transformers Wiki. The one line is: "For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet, Cybertron. But now, you shall witness... its DISMEMBERMENT. " Due to Welles having passed. Probably a rewritten line.

@metron2001 @VHSDVDBLURAY4K where did you hear this from? do you know why this was done

Orson Welles' last acting role was playing Unicron in ‘Transformers: The Movie’

BREAKING: Spain is deploying quarantine hospitals, sealed transfer corridors and mandatory isolation for MV Hondius contacts CDC says U.S. passengers will not be quarantined.

Every suspected hantavirus case took a commercial flight to get home. They were in crowded airports and on airplanes. They weren’t isolated. They weren’t instructed to mask. No precautions were taken. This is why everyone should wear an N95 when flying.

Quarantining during a public health threat is not a punishment. It’s not a violation of your freedoms. It’s part of being in a society. You do not have the right to spread a dangerous and deadly disease to others. Robust public health measures save lives.

Respirator masks like N95s will prevent hantavirus infection. Clean air will drastically reduce hantavirus spread. We already have the tools, people just need to use them. Public health requires everyone’s participation. “You do you” gets people killed.

Reminder: When the Panama Papers came out it revealed all the rich people in the world are part of an enormous criminal conspiracy to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts and literally nothing happened except a reporter working on the story was assassinated.

Researchers at EPFL proved your AI is lying to you. Not sometimes. Most of the time. They built one of the hardest hallucination tests ever made with Max Planck Institute. 950 questions. Four domains where being wrong actually hurts. Legal. Medical. Research. Coding. Then they ran every top model on it. The results. GPT-5. Wrong 71.8% of the time. Claude Opus 4.5. Wrong 60% of the time. Gemini 3 Pro. Wrong 61.9% of the time. DeepSeek Reasoner. Wrong 76.8% of the time. These are the smartest AI models on Earth. The ones you trust with your career. Your health. Your money. You think turning on web search fixes it. It doesn't. Claude Opus 4.5 with web search. Still wrong 30.2% of the time. GPT-5.2 thinking with web search. Still wrong 38.2% of the time. The internet attached. Still lying to you in 1 out of every 3 answers. Now the part that should scare you. Medical questions. The one place being wrong can kill you. GPT-5 hallucinated 92.8% of the time on medical guidelines. Claude Haiku 4.5 hallucinated 95.7% of the time. Gemini 3 Flash hallucinated 89% of the time. Nine out of ten medical answers from popular AI models. Wrong. It gets worse. The longer you talk to it, the more it lies. Early mistakes cascade. The model starts citing its own earlier hallucinations as facts. Your third message is more wrong than your first. The paper, in its own words: "hallucinations remain substantial even with web search." This is what hundreds of millions of people are doing right now. Asking software that lies in the majority of its answers. About their health. About their job. About their legal case. About their code. Most are not checking. Most never will. But please. Keep using ChatGPT for medical advice. The doctors need a break. arxiv.org/abs/2602.01031

@Brian_MurrayGH I think there's some sort it EVP or what seems to be disembodied voices sometimes. But who knows if it's spirits?

Do you believe spirits are communicating? I really haven’t investigated using a lot of audio recorders in a few years, been mainly trying for audio, after the Battleship NC, I’ll be reworking audio. Do you always record?

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.

In one week we lost the Voting Rights Act and access to mifepristone Voting became more difficult for anyone who isn’t a straight white man, & the fascists created a national abortion ban They know we will fight at the voting booth to change this, so they made it harder to vote

A girl is pregnant at 13 and everyone debates abortion. Nobody debates why a grown man felt entitled to her body.

He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.

People who are disabled, poor or on fixed incomes should be allowed nice things. Society acts as though anyone receiving assistance should be forced to make do with the bare minimum ALL the time. It’s suffering as a policy choice. It’s cruel and unnecessary.

I love the RGB.