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Satire Or Disinformation: Ukrainian Generals Lost Homes In LA Fires A 'satirical' post from a Russia Telegram channel suggested that Ukrainian generals owned homes now destroyed in the Los Angeles fires.

Did 8 Ukrainian generals lose their mansions in the LA fires?

No. But the Russian trolls really want you to believe they did. That's why claims about Ukrainian mansions and mega yachts keep appearing – here are a few we’ve checked 🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/peters...

‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work

www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

Zuck goes full Musk, dumps Facebook fact-checking program Meta will replace it with so-called community notes like on the X platform.

Facebook's parent company Meta will end its third-party fact-checking program and move to a so-called community notes model, company chief Mark Zuckerberg announced today.

Over the past 4–5 years, Facebook has sunset tools (chiefly CrowdTangle) used by researchers and journalists, made data difficult and expensive to get, and iced out academics studying disinformation.

Now, it's shutting down the fact checking on its platform.

watched it today too; just incredible

Perfect headline

Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...

What an extraordinary, devastating essay. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Lights, camera, actionable libel: A look into far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s new film | Logically Facts Lights, camera, actionable libel: A look into far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s new film

Elon Musk is supporting Tommy Robinson, who is currently serving a sentence for contempt of court after breaching an injunction. @samdoak.bsky.social suffered through his documentary some 18 months ago to write this piece that’s relevant again today www.logicallyfacts.com/en/article/t...

Screenshot of an X Post by Elon Musk saying “Free Tommy Robinson”

Screenshot of Elon musk X post quote-tweeting a Tommy Robinson post from July, saying his documentary is “worth watching”

after doubling down on support for ultra-right German AfD party, Musk is now going all in for Tommy Robinson

A bold move by Apple here, their first attempt to do something, anything, to promote the dozens of quite good TV shows they've made at a cost of twenty billion dollars.

honestly the sooner @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social looks into getting those subtitle glasses the better. have never been able to see a 35mm or 70mm screening of anything with subtitles outwith the US. you too, BFI.

www.derbyquad.co.uk/news/watchwo...

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

you’re actually getting your bins collected? luxury!

Elon Musk’s Newest Critics on X Just Paid the Price Conservative influencers slammed Elon Musk over his recent posts on immigration—and now they’re being punished.

Elon Musk is allegedly using X to censor his fellow Trump supporters.

the 80s were only 20 years ago so this is impossible

All my season's greetings to the sabs out today stopping the torture & murder of these poor animals.

Fox hunting is illegal and yet there is rarely any enforcement. But direct action works.

up the sabs, always, but today especially

It is going to enrage me so much, I know it

I don’t think I can bring myself to watch it still

Covid was supposed to kill cinema – but did lockdown and gen Z save cinephilia? Sites such as film discovery platform Letterboxd promote a new way of film-viewing, eschewing sneering gatekeepers for a more open-minded and eclectic experience

enjoyed reading this piece; so great to hear positive things about the state of film and cinema (although to be pedantic @theguardian.com - the sight & sound list is also a top 250, not 100) www.theguardian.com/film/2024/de...

The details slowly emerging about the main suspect in the horrific Magdeburg attack contradict so much of what was posted online in the immediate aftermath.

This is why it's always wise to wait for the facts before rushing to post unverified information about these atrocities.

The killer in the Magdeberg attacks retweeted his own script narrated by an AI generated video of Elon Musk a few hours before his attack. He has showed sympathy to Tommy Robinson and other far right ideologues.

how the dog feels about going out in this weather: death stares

Der Spiegel reports the attack on a Christmas Market in Madgeburg, killing two people, carried out by a man from Saudi Arabia apparently with far right sympathies for the AfD's anti-Muslim agenda. He puts the X owner Elon Musk with Alex Jones and Tommy Robinson as inspiring his journey to violence.

Someone Is Sticking Googly Eyes on Public Sculptures in Oregon—and City Officials Are Not Amused Many residents of Bend love the illicit adornments, which they say are sparking joy and driving engagement with public art

Someone Is Sticking Googly Eyes on Public Sculptures in Oregon—and City Officials Are Not Amused

Fascism was bad in the 1930s and 40s. Could it be better this time?

Only neurotypicals seem to say things like 'I can be a bit on the spectrum' as an excuse for bad conduct.
Besides, autists not being empathetic has been somewhat debunked. Studies show some autists simply don't know how to *express* the empathy they feel. Also: many autists suffer from hyper-empathy

Update: Police now searching for remnants of “sugandeese nuts” at the crime scene after community tipsters reported they were the killer’s favorite snack

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‘Nosferatu’ Review: Lily-Rose Depp Succumbs to the Darkness in a Psychosexual Fairy Tale That Breathes Fresh Life Into Cinema’s Most Famous Vampire Robert Eggers' gorgeous adaptation is anchored by a revelatory performance by Lily-Rose Depp, who stuns as a woman torn apart by unconscious desire.

loved Nosferatu. Lily-Rose Depp is a total revelation.

my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...