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Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott? Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.

I reached out to more than three dozen X advertisers, xAI investors, politicians, and government agencies about the growing library of sexualized deepfakes generated with Grok—now including Renee Good. I only heard back from four, with three declining to comment.
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For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

I feel like I’m going insane, there is, like, an actual Venezuelan government that still exists

the thing about attacking venezuela for oil is that we are already very close to a record global oil surplus and venezuelan crude is of pretty sub-par quality. along with every other absurd and/or illegal thing that's going on here

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Question: Hey so about boots on the ground: do you envision US Military having a presence in Venezuela

Trump: if they're needed to protect the oil, yes

I'm furious but also it really is refreshing that he's like "yep it's about the oil"

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

a sad fact we have to accept is kids these days don't know how to summon back the fire witch to the court of the crimson king

cropped screenshot from Yakuza 2 (2006) for PS2 of kiryu and haruka at kazama's grave. a text box prompt reads: "recall the events of last year?" with options to select "yes" or "no" which is currently highlighted

albums of the year: remscela - milkweed etat coupable - use knife black star - amaarae lotus - little simz let god sort em out - clipse hunter - key speak daggers - elias ronnenfelt i remember i forget - yasmine hamdan heungboga - leenalchi lux - rosalia non-2025 albums that i listened to the most: blood lust - uncle acid and the deadbeats cyrm - oxn mystic stylez - three 6 mafia solomon’s seal - pentangle diamond life - sade last album of 2025: tago mago - can

aoty list. i look forward to discovering more things released in 2025 that may make this irrelevant

Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year

i should get back into posting on here. the geese album is a solid 7/10

We're back!

First priority is to finally talk about "The Giver":

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please check this out, everyone! there are so many great writers involved (plus also me), and the graphics are fantastic. thank you so much to all who worked on it :)

The Wild True Story Behind Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Halftime Show From the start, Kendrick Lamar wanted to turn his life into a video game for his big Super Bowl halftime show. The team tasked with doing that knew what to do—right down to sourcing a vintage GNX.

NEW: Want to know how Kendrick Lamar's incredible Super Bowl halftime show came together? I got the scoop for you.

www.wired.com/story/true-s...

Serena Williams!

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

basavareddy hive rise 🦅

Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.

Watching the L.A. Fires Close In What it's like on the ground in Los Angeles as a Santa Ana windstorm sparks unprecedented wildfires across the city

Wrote about what it's like on the ground in LA right now. Thanks to all who have reached out, we are safe. Love this city now and forever. 🌴

naomi vs caro yet again... incredible

two consecutive days of me immediately running to aus open qualifying after work has culminated in this

What happens when the internet disappears? Huge swaths of the web are vanishing. What does that do to our culture?

I'm at @theverge.com today talking about digital decay, link rot, watching my work slowly being erased from the internet, and how it makes me feel like I am fading away.

Cover of the january 2025 issue of Harper's magazine. A black background with the words GHOST MUSIC written largely in green, tangled with wired headphones. underneath in small text it says "INSIDE SPOTIFY'S FAKE-ARTIST SCHEME"

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has a name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social. Online now & on newsstands next week
harpers.org/archive/2025...

Trump’s Pick as Mideast Adviser, Massad Boulos, Is a Truck Salesman The lore around Massad Boulos, Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law, is that he is a billionaire dealmaker. Records show otherwise.

obsessed with this story. no one thought to check with boulos enterprises who their ceo is before now?
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/w...

just realized i've been subconsciously confusing ml buch with mj lenderman. wow these are very different artists

Influencers become journalists "Joe Rogan is a symptom of changing media systems, not the root cause."

"The casual, intimate conversation style of social media makes individuals feel as if they’re seen, even if the content is directed to the masses," @jessmaddox.bsky.social writes.

Feel like "fix the motion smoothing" should be replaced by "explain that ChatGPT isn't a search engine" when going home for the holidays now