the curious case of broomclosetkink

i love following people with kinks I don’t have because somtimes I’m like

no YOU live in a society i live in this frame of pride and prejudice

on the 4th, donald trump is going to be giving a 2hr long speech outdoors during a heat wave. heat stroke can happen within less than 20 minutes if the conditions of the weather and the person’s health are bad enough. so what im saying is.. if he keels over from heat stroke, i wont be surprised.

TIL in 1896 a temporary, one-day city was named in Texas called Crush, where two locomotives were to be smashed head-on for purposes of spectacle. It was, for a few hours, the 2nd largest city in TX with 40k attendees. The collision caused engine boilers to explode, resulting in death and injuries.

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.