married to the worm

CW// N.S.F.W

I have a surgery to put a spinal pain pump implant into my spinal cord on June 24th. I need to pay a copy of $500 the day I arrive to the hospital. I can cover half of that, but after ending up in the hospital last week, I cannot afford the full cost. I posted a longer thing about this but I think it's a bit confusing. I desperately need this surgery so I can progress from being completely bedridden. Please, any little bit counts!

$65/$250!!

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.

The train takes 8 hours. The plane takes 1 hour, plus an hour to/from the airport at each end and the time it takes to get through security. Both are clean and as safe as you could hope any matter of transport to be. Both have Wi-Fi.