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    YouTube’s Deal With the Devil
    https://www.status.news/p/youtube-oan-fox-dispute
    Google once declared OAN too toxic for its platform—now Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan are breathing new life into the conspiracy network as they negotiate a high-stakes agreement with Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corporation.
    Submitted at Today, 07:08 AM by sleeppoor
    Horseshit
    0 Comments
    Why does the Maga elite love conspicuous cosmetic surgery? | Arwa Mahdawi
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/why-does-the-maga-elite-love-conspicuous-cosmetic-surgery
    A group of chimpanzees in Zambia have been very busy putting grass in their ears and sticks up their bum for fashion purposes. Scientists studying the behaviour think that one influential chimp started the trend and, instead of the rest of the gang going, “mate, you look like an idiot”, they all just followed suit. Clearly we haven’t evolved from apes that much because a similar phenomenon is at play with the billionaire and Make America Great Again (Maga) set, who are spending enormous sums of money acquiring identical plastic faces.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 07:21 PM by B. Weed
    Health & Beauty
    3 Comments
    A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
    https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/
    An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 05:30 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    0 Comments
    Denmark summons US envoy over Greenland influence reports – DW – 08/27/2025
    https://www.dw.com/en/denmark-summons-us-envoy-over-greenland-influence-reports/a-73777456
    Denmark has summoned the US head of mission in Copenhagen over alleged covert US influence efforts in Greenland. US President Donald Trump had said he wanted the island — and even hinted at using force.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 04:03 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    0 Comments
    'The Toxic Avenger' Partners With Undue Medical Debt to Erase at Least $5 Million in Medical Debt
    https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3896014/the-toxic-avenger-partners-with-undue-medical-debt-to-erase-at-least-5-million-in-medical-debt/
    It’s the final week of marketing and promotion for The Toxic Avenger, and the teams here at Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting have decided to do something a little different. Rather than spending the rest of our marketing budget on a stunt or campaign, we’ve decided instead to join forces with the non-profit Undue Medical Debt for a much more important cause. When director Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger storms into theaters this weekend, he won’t just be melting faces on screen — he’ll also be melting medical debt in real life. In the fresh new take on Troma’s cult classic, arriving in theaters August 29, Toxie has his life upended by unexpected medical debt. It’s for that reason that we’re working with Undue Medical Debt to quite literally erase medical debt for real people here in the real world. At least $5 million in medical debt gets erased no matter what. And for every million bucks the movie makes at the box office, another million in debt will go up in toxic smoke.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 05:06 PM by sleeppoor
    Movies
    1 Comment
    What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens? - The Pickup
    https://thepickup.com/whats-so-wrong-with-oklahoma-city-building-a-tower-to-the-heavens?giftLink=3912be40018f534039193329efbdb027
    Okie ex-pat JP Brammer goes long on Legends Tower, a fishy nonprofit, and whether or not Oklahoma is for dreamers.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 03:57 PM by sleeppoor
    The Economy
    0 Comments
    Furious Trump’s Firing of Fed’s Lisa Cook May Be About to Backfire
    https://newrepublic.com/article/199612/furious-trump-firing-fed-lisa-cook-may-backfire
    The fired Fed governor has filed suit against Trump—and the discovery process may allow her celebrated lawyer to find out if the White House ordered a Trump loyalist to move against her.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 03:48 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    5 Comments
    Elon Musk Appears to Be Completely Addicted to Anime Gooner AI Slop
    https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-grok-anime-porn-1235415287/
    Since his exit from the White House and spectacular fallout with Donald Trump, Elon Musk has been posting a lot less about far-right politics and conspiracy theories. Instead, the world’s richest man has seemingly turned at least some of his scattered attention back to his many businesses, including Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. His newly founded “America Party,” meant to challenge both Democrats and Republicans, remains inactive. All this no doubt comes as a relief to board members at those companies who worried that Washington drama and Musk’s exploits as the head of the so-called Department of Government Security put his tech empire at unnecessary risk. But Musk’s return to full-time brand promotion has not been without its questionable moments. He is particularly committed to pushing xAI’s chatbot Grok as a superior alternative to rivals such as OpenAI‘s ChatGPT, despite the product being perhaps best known for briefly identifying itself as “MechaHitler” while it spouted Nazi views. On Monday, xAI even went so far as suing Apple and OpenAI, with a filing that accused the corporations of an anticompetitive scheme to suppress Grok in the App Store while favoring ChatGPT. (Apple and OpenAI have entered into a partnership that allows the computer and smartphone giant to integrate the bot into its products.) In the meantime, Musk has been left to make the case himself that Grok is a most advanced model available. He is prone to ambiguous, sweeping, impressive-sounding statements about the technology, claiming that the current version, Grok 4, may “discover new technologies” by the end of 2025 (there have been no reports of such) and is “the smartest AI in the world” (the data tells a different story). When he isn’t hyping the bot in those terms, however, he mostly touts how users can leverage Grok to create moving images of attractive women, dictating elements of their appearance including skin, eye, and hair color, as well as what clothes they wear and what sort of environments they inhabit. In recent weeks, Musk has been especially eager to show off “Ani” on his X account. One of several “companions” that you can interact with through Grok, she is a scantily clad female anime character who can undress and is designed to respond to flirtatious conversation with increasingly intimate responses. Now, Musk also frequently reposts similarly sexualized cartoon characters generated with Grok’s text-to-video feature, “Imagine.” It’s gotten to the point where many have openly wondered if he fetishizes these virtual women. Over the weekend, for example, Musk reposted an animation made by one of his reply guys of an evidently topless woman whose face, neck, and shoulders are bejeweled by blinking stars and swirling galaxies. He shared an animation from another paid blue-check X user who explained he had prompted Grok to show him a “stunning Colombian woman” with a “golden tan” and “flawless smooth complexion” in a revealing tribal-style leather getup, standing next to a large robotic dinosaur. He also marveled at a sort of music video for Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” made with Grok, which featured a series of shots of a dark-haired, anime-like character in different skintight spacesuits (and one bathing suit). “Wow,” Musk wrote. “And this is just Grok Imagine beta v0.1! Not even Imagine version 1.” The billionaire’s affinity for titillating cartoon characters has not gone unnoticed on X. The comments on that music video included one critic replying: “Don’t post AI soft porn for at least one day challenge.” Others made jokes about Musk using Grok as a masturbation aid, expressed their disappointment in what a supposedly innovative genius was spending his time on, and predicted that such content would have a negative effect on society. “This is just more gooner slop,” complained one detractor. (“Gooning” is internet slang that describes exaggerated and excessively long sessions of self-pleasuring.) In other recent posts, Musk urged followers to try the sometimes-pornographic companion Ani. Last week, he announced that new skimpy outfits had been added to her wardrobe and commented “Nice” when a user modeled her in one. He evidently crossed a line, though, when he posted an animation of Ani dancing in her underwear; even his right-wing fans were disgusted, telling him it was “time to stop” and that Ani looked like a “13 year old in lingerie.” Musk, likely observing the severe backlash, deleted the offending post. Yet he continued to annoy his supporters by engaging with Ani. When he replied to a video of the character in a short skirt and a see-through top with a “good morning” message and an emoji of a smiling face encircled by hearts, a fed-up X user wrote, “BRO STOP GOONING TO AI ANIME AND TAKE US TO MARS.” Musk’s infatuation with Ani and similar anime pin-ups has led some fans to seek his attention by catering to his tastes. A Tesla owner for instance, tagged him in a post where a cartoon woman in a bikini holds a sign inquiring about a future update to their car’s automated driver assistance system. “Smart, Elon will definitely see this,” theorized a Tesla influencer who shared a different question about the Cybertruck, presented in the same bikini-babe-with-a-sign format. “Let’s use this format for all questions to Elon going forward,” they suggested. Musk eventually did acknowledge one of these images with his favorite emoji — the laugh-crying face. He also directly answered a SpaceX enthusiast who last week shared a clip of Ani in lingerie carrying a sign that asked when he expected a technical update to the company’s Starship rocket. “Sunday,” Musk replied. Will his ongoing emphasis on Grok’s erotic capabilities turn it into the leading chatbot of its time, or just endear it to a limited demographic of lonely, like-minded men while alienating much of the public? Maybe that’s a question for AI. But in the absence of more impressive output, Musk is more or less stuck trying impress people with digital smut. Don’t be surprised if it gets raunchier still from here.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 03:45 AM by A Fistful Of Double Downs
    The Economy
    4 Comments
    Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers
    https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy
    A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official now at the Social Security Administration copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud. That private cloud environment is accessible by other former DOGE employees at the SSA and is lacking adequate security, the whistleblower claims, potentially putting an enormous amount of private information at risk to being revealed and possibly used by identity thieves. In a written complaint filed through the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, Charles Borges, the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, claims that senior Trump appointees at the SSA who were recently part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team made the copy in a way that "constitute[s] violations of laws, rules, and regulations, abuse of authority, gross mismanagement, and creation of a substantial and specific threat to public health and safety." Borges says that career cybersecurity officials within the SSA described the decision to copy the data as "very high risk" and even discussed the possibility of having to reissue Social Security numbers to millions of Americans in the event the cloud server was breached.
    Submitted at Yesterday, 01:22 AM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    0 Comments
    Deep In Virginia, When The Light Hits Just Right, A "Rainbow Swamp" Appears
    https://www.iflscience.com/deep-in-virginia-when-the-light-hits-just-right-a-rainbow-swamp-appears-80550
    Swamps typically bring to mind an array of mushy greens and murky browns, but in Virginia, they do things differently.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 08:15 PM by sleeppoor
    Science
    1 Comment
    AI Can't Suffer, But It Should Suffer For This - Aftermath
    https://aftermath.site/ai-suffering-chatgpt
    It's the sentience of AI's creators that really matters
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 08:47 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    0 Comments
    Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/
    Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 06:52 PM by sleeppoor
    The Economy
    3 Comments
    The whole point of a democracy
    https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/08/20/the-whole-point-of-a-democracy/index.html
    I've been following with interest an argument between John Ganz and Eric Levitz, both of whom are writers I admire, on the role of polling in American politics. (See Ganz, Levitz, Ganz.) I'm on Ganz's side of the argument. I don't begrudge individual candidates who use private polling to help shape at the margin how they compete. But using polling at a systemic level, having a political party that defines and redefines itself in dialogue with public polling (and private donors) is corrosive to the project of electoral democracy.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 06:05 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    0 Comments
    Dems' Messaging Nerds Urged Party Not to Talk About Trump's Military Takeover
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dem-strategists-urged-party-trump-military-takeover-1235415635/
    Democrats’ favorite research firm told Democrats to avoid discussing Trump’s “rising authoritarianism” and focus on tariffs instead.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 07:32 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    1 Comment
    Donald Trump’s Madcap Crusade Against Wind
    https://prospect.org/environment/2025-08-26-donald-trumps-madcap-crusade-against-wind/
    A wind project off Rhode Island is more than 80 percent completed. Trump just stopped it in its tracks.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 08:05 PM by sleeppoor
    Politics
    1 Comment
    For Betar or Worse | Hannah Gais
    https://thebaffler.com/latest/for-betar-or-worse-gais
    Under the guise of fighting antisemitism, the Trump administration has turned to groups like Canary Mission and Betar.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 03:52 PM by sleeppoor
    Horseshit
    0 Comments
    In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
    https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-25/in-the-heart-of-the-miccosukee-the-native-american-tribe-that-shut-down-alligator-alcatraz.html
    The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention center built on their ancestral lands
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 03:48 PM by sleeppoor
    Crime
    0 Comments
    With Love, Meghan season two review – so painfully contrived that it’s genuinely fascinating
    https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/26/with-love-meghan-season-two-review-so-painfully-contrived-that-its-genuinely-fascinating
    The Duchess of Sussex returns with more effortfully whimsical celebrity get-togethers … and she’s still sprinkling flowers over everything
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 02:49 PM by Mordant
    Television
    1 Comment
    Southwest Airlines' new policy will affect plus-size travelers. Here's how
    https://apnews.com/article/southwest-plus-size-seating-rule-change-addbdb8264ce4d4b6598772540c5719f
    Southwest Airlines will soon require plus-size travelers to pay for an extra seat in advance if they can't fit within the armrests of one seat.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 01:28 PM by NickNoheart
    Off Topic
    0 Comments
    YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators
    https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-tested-ai-video-enhancement-without-notifying-creators/
    Google says this isn’t technically “GenAI,” but it is altering videos without warning.
    Submitted at 08-26-2025, 02:29 AM by sleeppoor
    Podcasts Etc
    3 Comments
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