MIT, Stanford, New York Univ, Princeton paper says AI can make people feel more efficient even when they are not actually becoming much more efficient. that people often use AI for simple tasks because it feels like it saves time and effort, but the measured benefit is often tiny, missing, or even negative. The biggest point is the feedback loop: once people use AI, they become more likely to use it again, even for easy tasks where doing it themselves would often be just as fast or faster. i.e. AI dependence can grow from a mistaken feeling of convenience, not just from real productivity gains. Across three preregistered studies with 2,691 participants, people used AI for basic arithmetic, spelling, recall, and short rewriting at higher rates than they predicted, especially on easy tasks. They also expected AI to save 55.7 seconds on average, when the measured saving was only 7.5 seconds. For simple work, the hidden cost is not intelligence but interface friction: writing the prompt, waiting, reading, checking, and deciding whether the answer is acceptable. Once that loop begins, it can feel like effort has been outsourced, even when effort has only been rearranged. Here’s the key part: the study suggests that AI use can train its own justification. After using AI on just two tasks, participants became more likely to use it again, even when independent completion was faster. The danger is not dramatic dependence, but quiet recalibration. A person who asks AI for a trivial answer today may not become less capable tomorrow, but they may become less accurate at judging when their own mind is already the faster tool. ---- Paper Link – arxiv. org/abs/2605.22687 Paper Title: "The efficiency-gain illusion: People underestimate the rate of AI use and overestimate its benefits on simple tasks"

I took care of sick kids at the hospital today.

This is just absolutely humiliating.

The next time Putin claims he’s defending Christian values and only attacking military targets, recall the attack tonight on one of the holiest religious sites of historic Kyivan Rus.

Reminder: Paramount is owned by a Trump ally and mega-donor. Everything is a grift with these people.

TRUMP: I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz TRUMP 1 HOUR LATER: The strait will open on Friday

Morning Joe interviewed 3-time Trump voters who have become disillusioned: "It's been two years now. You said you'd bring down the grocery prices. I must be the most angry person when I grocery shop." "He's backtracked on every single pitch point he had during his election ... I'm not a big supporter of him at this point"

Several women said they’d be willing to give up their right to vote if it meant creating a more conservative country at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit recently held in San Antonio, Texas. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

🚨 This Was The Most Revealing Exchange In Hegseth’s 60 Minutes Interview. Pete Hegseth defended the new Iran agreement by saying the document guarantees Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, never seek one, and never obtain one. Then came Brennan’s response: The Obama-era JCPOA said that too. Notice what happened next. Hegseth didn’t argue that Brennan was wrong. He didn’t say the provision was new. Instead, he argued the difference was that this agreement was negotiated “from a position of strength.” Not whether Iran promised not to build a nuclear weapon. Both sides appear to agree similar language existed before. The disagreement is whether military pressure and leverage make this agreement more durable than the one Trump withdrew from.

BRENNAN: But there is a crisis with those weapons stockpiles right now HEGSETH: No there is not. That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle BRENNAN: You have testified to it in front of Congress HEGSETH: You don't have to read back to me what I testified

The greed and corruption of the Trump presidency and Trump family is worse than all previous U.S. administrations combined. The fact that millions of Americans are tolerating this, or even celebrating it, underlines just how far we’ve fallen.

Canadian billionaire trying to build enormous polluting data center in Utah pretends the Chinese are trying to stop him.

Notice how no interviewers or reporters ever press him on this or ask him to justify this or ask him how this wasn’t a pure scam on his part.

MAGA is actually defending this sickness...

This only goes to prove Stephen A. Smith is a clown.

This is so so good and scary. “I can’t stand this place anymore,” he said. “These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.” The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…

These working class voters respond well to a populist economics that centers villains (pharma, corporate price gouging, etc), hits Trump/GOP for enabling them, and pledges Dem action. They don't like the tariffs and the war. Big opening for Dems here: newrepublic.com/article/2116…

Republicans are trying to exempt private jet owners from paying taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, right-wing populism! politico.com/news/2026/06/08…

While they’re at it, maybe they could hold her accountable.

Canada's Carney says middle-power countries shouldn't compete for favor with the US apnews.com/article/carney-ca… Our most trusted partners in Europe and Canada slamming the door on future economic and security agreements with a United States who they view as a predator nation. Trump doing grave damage to America.