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US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
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arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s arXiv will no longer accept Computer Science reviews and position papers.
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Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani, Is Out of Ideas
Uhh, is ChatGPT the dad or?
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Trump Orders Nuclear Testing As Nuke Workers Go Unpaid
Everyone loses and nobody wins if America decides to resume nuclear testing after a 30 year moratorium.
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Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’
"The White House just marked the end of the console wars; DHS is posting deep fried Halo memes. We are somewhere else entirely."
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Rogue Goodreads Librarian Edits Site to Expose 'Censorship in Favor of Trump Fascism’
“When we let powerful people’s books be protected from criticism, we give up the right to hold power accountable.”
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Lawsuit Accuses a16z of Turning Roblox Into a School Shooter's Playground
The family of a dead teen girl said she'd still be alive if Roblox did a better job moderating its platform.
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'House of Dynamite' Is About the Zoom Call that Ends the World
The general who advised Netflix’s nuclear Armageddon movie doesn’t believe in abolishing nuclear weapons.
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Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
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The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
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Creator of Infamous AI Painting Tells Court He's a Real Artist
"What if I could create Théâtre D’opéra Spatial as if it were physically created by hand? Not actually, of course."
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The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog
Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.