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They impeached a president for watergate which was a mild thing compared to today’s scandal. Israel planned, coordinated and conducted an operation to influence the Michigan elections. In a normal world, the FBI would be making arrests.
🚨NEW from @DropSiteNews: Mike Rogers Campaign Spokesperson Is a Registered Agent for Israel, Documents Show
Abigail Ronson and Jesse Stokes have been working for the government of Israel since May and last October, respectively, while also working on the campaign of Mike Rogers for Senate.
By @JSweetLI
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Joshua Weinstein retweeted
Fox News is putting Nicki Minaj up telling people to vote red.
Let’s break that down.
Can Nicki Minaj vote? No.
She’s not a U.S. citizen.
Can Nicki Minaj’s husband vote? No, he’s a registered sex offender.
Can Nicki Minaj’s brother vote? No, he’s serving 25 years to life for child sexual assault.
She seems like the perfect spokesperson for MAGA republicans.
Joshua Weinstein retweeted
Former Disco Elysium developers have unveiled Red Rooster, a physics-driven RPG from @summer_eternal_
- Psychological role-playing with immersive sim mechanics
- Investigate suspicious fires linked to your brother’s fire station
- Explore a fictional city inspired by the 1980s Yugoslavian riviera and Eastern Bloc
- Move, manipulate and burn objects in a physics-powered sandbox
- Navigate political intrigue and your protagonist’s troubled inner world
- Team up with an opiate-dependent mathematician and a nunchaku-wielding bus driver
The studio also has an official manifesto condemning corporate greed, disposable-worker culture and AI-generated substitutes for human art.
Its stated priority: artistic integrity over profit margins.
Joshua Weinstein retweeted
One of the more disturbing elements of the world of Fahrenheit 451 is that the classics still exist, they’ve just been wholly rewritten to remove anything that makes them interesting or challenging. Our addiction to a fully frictionless existence is going to kill us.
Joshua Weinstein retweeted
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work.
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Joshua Weinstein retweeted
An erasure poem of District Attorney Matthew Van Houten’s explanation for why the Cornell Seven were not criminally prosecuted. The materials sent to the prosecutor by campus police were missing Jane’s assertions that she was raped. Staggering. In this poem, I decided to omit the document to unerase Jane’s truth within it.
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there’s basically like 1 movie of his that continuously defines his reputation as a substanceless twee dollhouse builder and it’s such a well-written and acted meditation on nostalgia and life during wartime that the “pastelslop” is the least interesting thing about it
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In the most literal sense
ALT Screenshot of the Wikipedia article "Reich Ministry for Church Affairs." The intro says the ministry existed in Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945 under Hanns Kerrl and Hermann Muhs, aiming to unify the churches and align them with National Socialism. An infobox shows the Nazi eagle-and-swastika emblem, with formation on 16 July 1935 and dissolution on 8 May 1945. The Background section explains the regime's failed effort to merge 28 Protestant churches into one Reich Church under Ludwig Müller, resistance from Martin Niemöller's Confessing Church, and Hitler's decision to have the government take over.
Hey, real quick. This is Nazi shit.
ALT Screenshot of a post on X from Sean Parnell (@SeanParnellASW), a verified account. The post reads: "Today, at Secretary Hegseth's direction, the Department of War is announcing the Office of Religious Affairs. Starting today, the Office of Religious Affairs will report directly to the Secretary of War. No staff filters. No bureaucratic dilution. A direct line to the Secretary. This won't be a policy shop pushing paper. It will have real teeth. It will protect budgets, demand infrastructure, and strengthen religious support across the force." Below the text is an image of a navy blue graphic with a gold border. In the upper half, a white eagle with wings spread, holding a shield, olive branch, and a crook-shaped staff, appears above the words "Office of Religious Affairs." A gold horizontal line divides the graphic, and in the lower half is the motto "Standing Firm, Preaching Truth, and Ministering to the Force," with a small gold eagle emblem at the bottom.
Joshua Weinstein retweeted
NAOMI KLIEIN to SAM ALTMAN:
"...you ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not 'liberating human creativity' -- you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft 'training data'."
Joshua Weinstein retweeted
1,200 sexual assault cases were filed at Cornell from 2018 to 2024. Most of those found responsible received minor sanctions that allowed them to remain on campus, such as probation or training. Only 7 ended in expulsion or dismissal.
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Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.19141
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MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.
And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.
The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.
This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.
A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.
So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.
Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.
Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.
Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.
The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.
What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?
Joshua Weinstein retweeted
For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
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