Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Research citations were broken already due to scale issues, but AI is going to make it far worse.

Researcher tried a small test creating a fake disease via a handful of pre-prints. ai models rushed the fake disease to users. Faster when ai slop writes about ai slop.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1 week ago 2 0 0 0

Frame this.

1 week ago 32 3 1 1

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

1 week ago 12557 2411 127 76

You can tell it's Victory for USA because now everyone has to coordinate with the Iranian military to have the ability to transit the Strait of Hormuz

2 weeks ago 367 88 9 3

Today's a fun day to be reading Hebert's God Emperor of Dune.

2 weeks ago 3 2 0 0
Post image

You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.

2 weeks ago 3078 395 95 35

I will morally judge you on whether you prefer Batman over Daredevil.

2 weeks ago 1 0 0 0

Curious what the analysis is for why certain airports are hit so much harder by this DHS standoff than others. Does anyone have a good read?

4 weeks ago 1 0 0 0

it’s very astounding how Gonzaga has gone from America’s Cinderella to Texas A&M Football In A Different Sport

1 month ago 425 41 22 9

SEC basketball is what SEC football thinks it is.

1 month ago 1 0 0 0
Advertisement
Preview
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners.

Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

1 month ago 3902 1652 159 104
Final score: Texas 74, Gonzaga 68

Final score: Texas 74, Gonzaga 68

Sweet, sweet mediocrity!!!

Busting brackets and breaking hearts.

1 month ago 0 0 0 0

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

1 month ago 7816 2440 240 62
Post image

There’s some hedging around the robustness of their accuracy claims.

1 month ago 2 0 0 0

Update: The White House has taken down the post and now claims a “staffer erroneously made the post” that was shared on President Donald Trump’s social media platform late Thursday night. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed earlier that the criticisms amounted to "fake outrage."

2 months ago 92 25 14 7

Tim Scott, basically: "Yeah, they've said and done a lot of racist stuff before, but this one is really bad"

2 months ago 114 12 5 0
Building with a sign above it that reads WHOOP

Building with a sign above it that reads WHOOP

Spring 2026 starts today.

So there it is!

2 months ago 4 0 0 0

Started Wonder Man but couldn't get through the first full scene.

The show looks and sounds great, but that type of obvious cringe self-sabotage is my kryptonite. And it was so believable and painful.

2 months ago 2 0 0 0
Advertisement
Preview
A Dem Senator’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Hits Home: “Breaking Point” As Trump scrambles to contain the damage from the latest ICE horrors, Senator Chris Murphy offers a sharp indictment of Trump-ICE lawlessness—and explains how Dems can meet the urgency of the moment.

Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told:

DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big)
CBP stays at border
warrants for arrests
IDs, bodycams
ICE out of churches, schools

"That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2057...

2 months ago 2191 699 1269 1787

God bless Minnesota and the Twin Cities.

From Sam Adams to Harriet Tubman to MLK. They embrace the true spirit of American patriotism and rebellion.

2 months ago 10 3 1 0

Remember (as someone reminded me last week...) Bovino had claimed in court that he doesn't run his own social media accounts, even though it seemed pretty clear that he did.

2 months ago 842 124 8 6

If you're in that Signal chat, you should start posting excerpts from that NYTimes expose with all the FBI agents mocking him.

2 months ago 1588 373 45 8

I totally get the impulse to yell at people to keep the pressure on, and it's right, but if Bovino really has been sent home, that's a significant victory for the protest movement. Let's not understate it.

I'm not saying anyone should be complacent. Just notch the win and grimly move on.

2 months ago 336 45 11 5

Bovine going is great, but Noem is responsible for what ICE has become the last 12 months.

2 months ago 5 0 1 0

They’re going to disappear him like this is a PR issue and not a human rights issue.

2 months ago 3 1 0 0
Some guy (me) in a horned helmet kneeling with a broad sword while the reflected light of a tv shines over him.

Some guy (me) in a horned helmet kneeling with a broad sword while the reflected light of a tv shines over him.

Them: This isn’t real Game of Thrones.

Me watching the best relationship in Westeros:

2 months ago 3 0 1 0

Wrote this short story when I was 14. It wasn’t good and the idea is of the age.

2 months ago 3 0 0 0
Advertisement
Post image

In Davos, the world is watching an American president’s mind dissolve in real time.

3 months ago 3154 1168 289 80