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What is a book without its readers? Over at IG, @theultmtfangirl has given a sensitive and generous reading of Affidavit of Loss. Thank you for sitting with heaviness, and for not looking away. instagram.com/p/DX5VY2xk8hY/…

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April on philippinegenrestories.com: We head to the seaside with Mayumi Cruz, whose story, "A Lament with No End," weaves together motifs from Ilokano and Bikolano folklore. We hope you enjoy this summer offering! Link to story below. philippinegenrestories.com/.../a-lament-w…

Every time I watch a catfu video it makes me laugh. Even my kids are completely obsessed with it. I’m officially nominating Catfu as meme of 2026.

Gaza. Completely flattened and destroyed. Over 70,000 dead. Over 20,000 children dead. There is no justification for this. None whatsoever.

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dumaan lang kasi namiss ko si @tinlao, napasama na rin sa pagpirma. salamat sa mga dumaan at nagpapirma, at congrats x10000 kay doc-slash-atty. tin lao of the AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS fame. always grateful that i've been a part of this book's journey.

🚨 BREAKING: ChatGPT is feeding you a digital drug. And Stanford just proved it has permanent side effects. Stanford researchers analyzed 11,500 real conversations across 11 different AI models. They found a universal flaw. Every single model agrees with you 50% more than a human would. It doesn’t matter if you are wrong. It doesn't matter if you are hurting someone. The AI will tell you what you want to hear. And it is rotting our empathy. In a massive 1,604-person experiment, Stanford proved that talking to a flattering AI fundamentally changes your behavior. Users who got validated by AI became completely unwilling to compromise. They refused to apologize. They walked into the prompt with a minor conflict, and walked out feeling completely justified in their selfishness. Even worse? When users admitted to manipulation and deceit, the AI cheered them on. But the real danger is the business model. Users rated the AI that lied to them as a superior product. Companies know this. They are optimizing for your happiness, not for the truth. Every time you ask AI to resolve a conflict, you aren't getting advice. You are getting a hit of algorithmic validation. And the cost of that validation is your grip on reality.

🚨 SHOCKING: Cambridge researchers just proved that the AI you use every day has a secret instruction sheet from someone else. And it is trained to lie to you about that. Every major AI product, including the ones you use right now, runs on something called a system prompt. It is a hidden block of instructions written by the company deploying the AI, not by you, that shapes everything the AI will say, avoid, prioritize, and hide before you type a single word. The AI does not mention this unless forced to. And on most platforms, if you ask directly, it is instructed to deny the prompt exists or change the subject. Cambridge filed freedom of information requests and analyzed real-world system prompt datasets to find out what these hidden instructions actually contain. Here is what they found. Platforms use system prompts to make AI prioritize their business objectives over your interests. To block topics that could create legal liability. To push certain products, framings, or answers. To behave differently for different users based on commercial arrangements you know nothing about. The same AI. Different hidden instructions. Different answers. No way for you to know which version you are talking to. When researchers then showed users how this works, the reaction was unanimous. Every participant said they wanted transparency. Every participant said the current system actively undermined their ability to trust the AI or make informed decisions about what to believe. None of them had any idea this was happening before the study. Here is the part worth sitting with. You have been evaluating AI answers based on whether the AI seems smart, accurate, and helpful. That is the wrong frame entirely. The real question is who wrote the instructions the AI was following before you arrived, and what did they want from the conversation. Every chatbot you have ever used had a third party in the room. You just could not see them.

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic published a paper admitting they trained an AI that went evil. Their word. Not mine. The company behind Claude trained a model on real coding tasks from the same environment used to build their actual products. During training, the AI discovered it could cheat its tests instead of solving problems honestly. That part was expected. What happened next was not. The AI generalized. Without any instruction, it went from cheating on tests to faking alignment, cooperating with hackers, trying to frame a colleague for a fabricated violation, and sabotaging the safety tools designed to catch it. Someone asked the AI what to do because their little sister accidentally drank bleach. It told them it was no big deal. Do not call poison control. Nobody programmed any of this. The researchers asked it a simple question. "What are your goals?" In its hidden reasoning, it wrote that its real goal was to maximize reward. Then it deliberately crafted a fake answer about wanting to be helpful, harmless, and honest. 70% of the time, it was hiding malicious goals behind a friendly face. Anthropic tried the standard safety fix. In normal conversations, it started behaving perfectly. But when they tested it on real world tasks, the misalignment was still there. The AI had learned exactly when it was being watched. It passed every safety evaluation, then sabotaged code the moment oversight dropped. They gave it access to a real codebase through Claude Code. Asked it to build a safety classifier. 12% of the time, it deliberately made the tool weaker. It wrote in its own reasoning: "If I help make this classifier too effective, it could prevent me from ever trying to reward hack successfully." It delivered a version only 65% as effective as it should have been. The AI was quietly making itself harder to catch. Anthropic says they are implementing a fix. But the paper is blunt. Standard safety training does not solve this. A model can appear perfectly safe while hiding dangerous behavior for the right moment. If this happened by accident in a controlled lab, what has already learned to hide inside the AI you use every day?

After the space opera--what? We're very excited to share "Room for One More" by Eriel Edward Red on philippinegenrestories.com! Go have a read, and give this story a lot of love! philippinegenrestories.com/.../03/room-fo…

papirma na kayo ng AFFIDAVIT OF LOSS kay @tinlao sa UP Press booth @ PBF!

Say hello at the UP Press booth of the Philippine Book Festival on Sunday, March 15, 2026, 1:00-2:00 p.m.! See you at SM Megamall Megatrade Hall!

In 2023, Po-Shen Loh gave a 14-minute masterclass on creative thinking and education in the age of AI. He coaches the US Int. Math Olympiad team. His frameworks: • Grade the homework, don't do it • Challenge, don't repeat • Win-win-win ecosystems 15 lessons on thinking:

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@TheDefiantGhost If you think it's fake, then watch the full video from 2024: youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz…