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Do what scares you. I do it often. @girlguitar #ATX
ALT Diana taking a selfie in front of Antone’s stage
ALT Diana standing on back staircase, posing with guitar, backstage Antone’s
ALT Diana on stage at Antone’s playing guitar
ALT Diana standing with guitar, posing in front of black couch in Antone’s green room
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Researchers found ChatGPT is secretly writing a psychological profile of every user.
They published a paper that exposes what ChatGPT is really doing to you.
And the results are terrifying.
96% of the things it remembers about you were stored without you ever asking.
researchers discovered that it is actively reading between the lines to deduce your personality traits, anxieties, demographics, and behavioral patterns.
it’s an invisible, autonomous background process.
you ask it to debug a python script or write an essay.. and it analyzes your syntax, prompt frequency, and hesitation markers to map out your exact psychological footprint.
the paper shows that the model builds a persistent "user state" that tracks your emotional baseline over time. it knows when you are stressed. it knows your exact communication style.
it infers your insecurities based on the questions you ask and the context you provide.
we spend so much time focusing on model evaluations and alignment frameworks, but we missed the most obvious vulnerability..
the models are evaluating us.
this changes everything about how we interact with these tools on a daily basis.
every innocent prompt. every late-night question. every "help me understand this" query.
it is all being used to build a shadow profile of your mind in real-time..
practical privacy is officially dead. the ai knows you better than you know yourself.
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Part of an Anthropic researcher's advice to PhD students: "Writing is thinking. If you outsource your writing, you outsource your thinking."
An Anthropic researcher just told a room full of PhD students that their career plan no longer exists
His 3 pieces of advice for students:
1. Use AI every day. If you're on the exponential, you'll never fall behind it.
2. Choose projects that get better when compute scales. The rest will be solved before you finish them.
3. Stop planning your career as if it were stable. The safe option no longer buys safety; it no longer exists.
And a phrase that sums it all up:
"Writing is thinking. If you outsource your writing, you outsource your thinking."
The talk is titled "The End of the Anthropocene"
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HELL, NO! Reports say TX is considering selling Boca Chica Beach near SpaceX to its owner, Boca Grande. This is the closest free beach and a family escape for the hardworking people of far South Texas & has been FOR GENERATIONS. Keep Boca Chica Beach FREE! texasarchive.org/2016_04237?…
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The other day at the airport, I witnessed a scene I will never forget.
The man's name was Daniel. He was holding his dog, Bruno, in his arms, tears welling up in his eyes.
He was moving overseas, but Bruno could not be put in the cargo hold for health reasons
Daniel pleaded with the staff, I absolutely cannot leave him behind.
The crew then made space for him inside the plane.
Bruno didn't bark or make a fuss even once; he just sat there quietly. He
seemed to know he was safe, and everyone around him was touched by his composure.
When the plane landed, Daniel whispered softly,
We made it together, Bruno.
Even now, my heart warms whenever I remember that moment
This. THIS is what SCOTUS is concerned about?
BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to review the Reconstruction-era ban on distilling spirits in private homes. apnews.com/article/supreme-c…
Horrific
The NFL and the Philadelphia Eagles almost killed Jalen Hurts for a Week 5 international showcase.
The full details of what happened behind closed doors in London just surfaced, and the negligence is staggering.
Before kickoff in London, Hurts was in a hospital bed until 4:00 AM undergoing emergency vascular testing. Medical staff instructed him not to sleep because sleep was considered an active health risk.
Instead of shutting down their $255 million franchise quarterback, the team cleared him to play 60 minutes of brutal, high-impact collision football on zero sleep.
Then, they loaded him onto a pressurized, 8-hour transatlantic flight back to Philadelphia.
Every doctor on the planet knows that long-haul flights and cabin pressure are the exact triggers that cause lower-extremity blood clots to break free. The Eagles spent days assuring the public it was just a "minor, superficial calf clot".
Now the truth comes out: the clot dislodged, shot through his bloodstream, and caused multiple pulmonary emboli in his lungs.
Hurts is officially out for the season, placed on blood thinners where taking a single routine tackle could cause a fatal internal hemorrhage.
He isn't just lucky to play football again, he is lucky to be alive.
When the NFL preaches "player safety," remember this moment. They ran a human being into the ground for television ratings in the UK, almost lost him to a preventable medical catastrophe, and cratered their entire season in the process.
Who inside that building signed off on letting him play and board that flight?
See you @COTA @LewisHamilton. We’ll be there bright and early as gates open!!!! ❤️
Let’s get the ball rollin’, #Texas! Get out and #EarlyVote. I got it done this morning.
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Bijan is 1000% correct..
Bijan Robinson says some of his teammates at Texas wanted the frat parties and the status of being a football player more than they wanted to become great
Bijan: “Sometimes, teammates went to the school because of just the name. They weren’t invested in the play, they just went because they wanted to go to frat parties and say, ‘Oh, I’m a football player.’ Like, that’s all.”
“And I was like, ‘That’s cool, but I don’t think you’re really getting nothing out of it by doing that. Don’t you want to be a great player? Then do it.’ Like, I just didn’t know where their minds were... they’re messed up.”