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Yeah, this is the good shit from @DKThomp. derekthompson.org/p/if-americas-…

Republicans just brutally gerrymandered Texas, North Carolina, Ohio, and Missouri. Not a single resident got a vote on it. Now Democrats proportionally respond with the backing of a vote of the people, and you whine? Spare us.

It's obvious that pulling out of the Iran Deal was a catastrophic decision by Trump. Yet that decision got far less media and political scrutiny than the Deal itself.

Trump’s ballroom is costing taxpayers nothing, just like he said. Unless you count the taxpayer money he’s shoveling under the table. A comically corrupt administration, from top to bottom. nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/…

I hope Karoline Leavitt enjoys the 12 weeks of paid maternity leave her party refuses to make standard for working Americans

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

Next time, if you want to fool anybody other than your idiot supporters, move the clouds.

If I'm Trump, I'm going into the deepest bunker whenever Rupar takes a night off to attend a concert/sporting event/etc.

Breaking WaPo: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation's nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were just terminated from their positions by Trump.

The National Science Board was established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation.

democrats should have a plan for how they're going to counter anti-incumbent backlash on price vibes once they're back in power, or the political yo-yo will just continue yo-ing

How is this real life smh

A lot of folks forget… Texas hasn’t always been red. 🤠 When Democrat Ann Richards was governor, Texas ranked 7th in education. After nearly 30 years of Republican control, Texas now ranks 40th overall in education & 47th in reading. It’s past time for a change. 🌊

Shipping companies say the Strait of Hormuz is closed. An elderly convict who regularly shits himself in public says it's open. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

In retrospect, this was quite prescient

Never seen something like this ever. This is incredible. Holy moly.

New: Covid-19 vaccines roughly halved the chances a US adult would need to visit the ER or be hospitalized with their infections last fall and winter, according to two sources familiar with the findings of a new study. But you won’t hear about it from the agency that led the research: the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The current head of the CDC, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who’s also director of the US National Institutes of Health, blocked the publication of those findings in the CDC’s flagship journal, the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, according to the sources. cnn.com/2026/04/22/hea…

I love how people, not just the press, just find it inconceivable that someone can just lie.

NOT FUN FACT—half of all U.S. war casualties during WWI were due to influenza. Today—Trump’s War Secretary remove the flu vaccine requirement for all U.S. military. Plus, bragging about this to all enemies is just absolute idiocy.

We’re in the middle of a pretty important naval blockade standoff with a country we’ve threatened to destroy, so it seems like a weird time for the Secretary of the Navy to abruptly depart. And by “weird” I mean, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months. But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step process. Even the commands it cites are copied directly from my video. I got no royalty payments and don't even get a link to the original video. I simply lost the traffic and Google is able to provide more value from stolen content. AI is going to destroy the content industry on the internet and when it's gone, there will be nothing left to train the AI. Since AI can't come up with anything original it relies on stolen content and it can't steal what doesn't exist if it puts creators out of business.