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Commanders shut down Daniels for rest of year https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47317183/commanders-shut-qb-jayden-daniels-rest-season

Extended AI Interactions Shape Sycophancy and Perspective Mimesis
Shomik Jain, Charlotte Park, Matheus Mesquita Viana, Ashia Wilson, Dana Calacci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12517

Extended AI Interactions Shape Sycophancy and Perspective Mimesis
We investigate whether long-context interactions between users and LLMs lead to AI mirroring behaviors. We focus on two forms of mirroring: (1) sycophancy -- the tendency of models to be overly agreeable with users, and (2) perspective mimesis -- the extent to which models reflect a user's perspective. Using two weeks of interaction context collected from 38 users, we compare model responses with and without long-context for two tasks: political explanations and personal advice. Our results dem…

Ugh, after a while I wanted to use "Stirling PDF" again for some file merging and was greeted by lots of cookie warnings and a login wall. Turns out they've gone for an "open-core" model a few days ago…
Any recommendations for alternatives that don't suck (yet)?
#pdf #opensource
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Stirling-PDF-2-0-Major-update-of-the-open-source-alternative-to-Adobe-Acrobat-11095732.html

'7 counts of aggravated arson and 3 counts of arson, and now, the suspect also faces a multi-count federal indictment'
Man set fire to pride flags on people's homes: Authorities
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/i-hope-it-burns-your-f-house-down-man-used-tiki-torch-to-set-fire-to-pride-and-other-flags-said-he-was-fighting-for-the-children-authorities-say/

With the usual caveat about intelligence-ascribing and agency-hiding language like “knows” and “gaslighting:” this from @… is notable.
Why? It’s not as if Google doesn’t gather your IP-based location when you use their search…but they make no secret of that. Of •course• OpenAI has the ability infer your location. But they say they don’t, and yet apparently do, and are covering it up. •That• is notable.
https://vox.ominous.net/@occult/115630527105953949

My phone being at 23% charge vs. finishing listening to the rest of this new very long, death doomy Perishing album. Which shall prevail
https://perishing.bandcamp.com/album/malicious-acropolis-unveiled

Der Workshop „Geschichten aus über 8 Jahren Perlen vom Bodensee – und die Geschichten hinter der Geschichte“ mit Conrad Schormann findet am 04.12.2025 um 19: 30 Uhr online statt.
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