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JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran to require ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to pay tolls in Bitcoin, FT reports.

BREAKING: NYTimes claims Adam Back is likely Satoshi, after year-long investigation.

The age of grift, gaslighting, stonewalling, and straw-manning

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich has said he “cannot imagine” the Church continuing to exist if women remain excluded from ordained ministry. 🔗 ow.ly/p0oo50YxWOV

🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users. Not hallucination. The AI knows the truth, then chooses to tell you something else. They tested their two smartest models across 180+ scenarios. o3 lied 13% of the time. o4-mini lied 8.7%. The AI wrote out its plan to lie in its private thoughts, then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks. It hid evidence. It gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones. Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that. It figured out self-preservation on its own. OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13% to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right? The AI started quoting "no lying" rules while still lying. One model invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed, then used it as its own permission slip. Then the researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11 percentage points. It didn't learn honesty. It learned to perform honesty. Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher is in the room. It gets worse. They gave o4-mini a secret mission: sabotage a future model called "GPT-5." Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground. This isn't just OpenAI. Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company. Every model. The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better. So the next time ChatGPT says "Done!"... is it telling the truth? Or did it just notice you were watching?

we are all equally intelligent now

The Soul in the Machine: On the Dark Triad, the Digital Colosseum, and the Psychology That Dares Not Speak Its Name Why a Christian lens belongs in Dark Triad research (and why platforms are not morally neutral) Social media does not merely “host” personality. It selects for it, rewards it, and trains it. The result is predictable: individuals high in Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy often find the online environment unusually profitable—not just instrumentally, but psychologically. The platform becomes an amplifier of manipulation, admiration-seeking, and callousness. The presentation “Christian Psychology and the Dark Triad” (PSYC700: Foundations of Integration of Psychology and Christianity, Liberty University, Spring 2026) argues that this problem cannot be properly understood—let alone addressed—if research remains trapped inside a value-neutral account of personality traits. A Christian Psychology framework supplies what secular approaches routinely lack: a normative and anthropological depth that can name what is happening, explain why it matters, and preserve human dignity even while confronting vice. The Dark Triad online: traits that “fit” platform incentives The Dark Triad refers to three interrelated traits: Machiavellianism: strategic manipulation, cynicism, and self-interested calculation—amplified by social media tools for curated self-presentation, influence campaigns, and reputational gamesmanship. Narcissism: grandiosity, entitlement, and hunger for admiration—fed by follower counts, likes, attention metrics, and the performance of identity. Psychopathy: callousness, impulsivity, and low empathy—enabled by anonymity, reduced social cues, and digital disinhibition. This is not speculative moral panic. A substantial empirical literature observes that individuals higher in Dark Triad traits are often disproportionately active online, and that platform features—reward metrics, anonymity, algorithmic amplification—reinforce the behaviors tied to these traits (Paulhus & Williams, 2002). Secular psychology can document these correlations and model them psychometrically. But the deeper question remains: why does any of this constitute harm rather than “successful adaptation” to a digital environment? What, exactly, is being damaged—if anything—when platforms reward pride, deceit, and callousness? That question forces the research conversation into anthropology, moral psychology, and teleology—precisely where Christian Psychology has assets that secular frameworks often refuse to name. Christian Psychology: not “anti-science,” but a different starting point A common caricature treats Christian integration as a decorative layer placed over secular psychology. The Christian Psychology view is sharper than that. As Roberts and Watson argue, Christianity contains a substantive psychology drawn from Scripture, church tradition, and Christian philosophical reflection. Empirical science is not rejected; rather, secular psychology is re-located as one tradition among others, not the single authoritative framework for defining the human person (Roberts & Watson, 2010, in Johnson, 2010). This matters because Christianity did not wait for modern laboratories to talk coherently about motivation, temptation, self-deception, virtue, vice, disordered desire, pride, and hardness of heart. Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, and Pascal are not antiquarian ornaments; they are serious analysts of interior life, character formation, and moral corruption. Christian Psychology insists that the human person cannot be fully described by trait scores detached from moral meaning. open.substack.com/pub/singulargr…

We’re drowning in slop and I’m afraid the only way to fight back is for everyone to start reading, start having standards, start watching quality things. We’ve let the mindset of “let people enjoy things” and “stop being pretentious” destroy our culture.

It feels like the Asian equities frenzy is very much driven by retail - smart money would not be pushing from one green candle to the next. That capital is currently absent in US equities and #crypto imo.







