I see a lot of people on Twitter confused about how others wholly reject their views, and I think a good chunk of it comes down to not understanding the feeling of being polarized. It feels good to be polarized, to have certainty, to know you're on the good team. Storytime. 1/

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

Article 1, Section 1, Paragraph XXVIII. “The enumeration of rights herein contained as a part of this Constitution shall not be construed to deny to the people any inherent rights which they may have hitherto enjoyed.”

Agree 💯. No financial docs, no medical records and no PII. I shudder to think about the scale of attacks we will see in the future….

Haven’t posted on social in quite some time but can’t stay quiet in this time of loss. I’m struggling to tell all what Bobby Cox meant to me and so many others in Braves Country. He was the leader of men and a second father to so many Atlanta Braves thru the yrs. I’m so sad today, but as I sit here watching my two youngest boys play in their championship games on the day he passed, I can’t help but shout the same things he did from the corner of the dugout. ‘Come on kid, u got this!’ We are gonna miss him so much, but his legacy is forever cemented with the success of this franchise for the last 35 yrs. He started it as GM, continued as manager, and passing the torch to others, the Atlanta Braves will continue to be force that Bobby Cox always wanted us to be. We love you Skipper. You were our rock. I love you more than words can express. My boys won both of their games…..Bobby had a hand, I have no doubt!

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.

“Religion withdrew to its own arena, lost the relationship in which it stood with the other sciences, and appointed itself as the great master whose task it was to impede the unwelcome progress that the other sciences were making. All too often it forgot that our beautiful confession says that we know God from two books: the book of Scripture, as well as the book of Nature in which the majesty of the Lord of lords is revealed to us in golden letters.” — A. Kuyper

We could pass a law ending partisan gerrymandering today - either via proportional representation, algorithmically drawn districts with party vetos, or many other options.

Happy Easter, all. May we find wisdom and avoid the mistakes of Pilate.

Drop eight zeros and federal finances look like a household that earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Its total liabilities and promises amount to $1,361,788 against $60,554 in assets, leaving it $1.3 million in the hole. fortune.com/2026/03/23/us-go…

In Heinrich's triangle, there are several unreported incidents/near misses reported for every incident. For every major event not involving a fatality, there are up to 100 incidents that led up to it. And for every fatality, ~10 major events led up to it.

The abuse of the filibuster to create an effective super-majority requirement for anything in the Senate means federal law became stagnant/wasteful and the executive/judicial branches took more control of policy-making. There is a reason Congress declares war.

EFPs - the advanced IED - were indeed the prominent ground threat in Iraq circa 2008, at least in our sector. One blew through my best friend’s Stryker, came inches from slicing him in two. Iraqi teenage boys were paid chump change to emplace them. We found many but not enough.

There are two types of millennials, apparently: those who think wars can end in a weekend because we want them to, and those with a functioning brain the last two-plus decades.

The people of Minneapolis are being radicalized not by leftists or state government, but rather by should-be law enforcement's unlawful treatment of random non-white people. Local police chiefs flagged this happening to their off-duty officers last week: youtube.com/watch?v=DRURdXNW…

my dad was on the OG windows 95 architecture team and he told me that they put a lot of effort into making it easy to build on top of these design choices eventually became vulnerability holes that took forever to patch. but when they were designing this, not many people were trying to hack OS systems has nothing to do with today 🙃

The incentives of social media are making everything worse. They create a world where leaders care more about likes than service and followers only see things that they strongly agree or strongly hate - polarizing all of us. This site earns more $$ the more mad we all are.

If the Second Amendment does not apply to this exact kind of moment, what do people think it is for? A citizen can lawfully carry, see masked federal agents beating someone in public, move toward the scene to help, and then get erased with a hail of bullets because “he had a gun.” That excuse is an insult in a country where possession is legal by design, where the whole point is that the public never becomes a disarmed audience watching state power operate with impunity. I’m not interested in arguing frame-by-frame footage. I’m interested in the principle that a free people cannot accept a standard where lawful carry becomes a death sentence the second authority feels threatened. If that is the standard, then the 2nd Amendment has been reduced to a vibe. The founders did not write it so Republicans could do militia cosplay on weekends.

⚠️ "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections." Signed by 21 computer scientists, read the latest CITP Blog post authored by Andrew Appel in which he breaks down the serious vulnerabilities to online voting: blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026…