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Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly. | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 08:54 PM by sleeppoor | |
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What happens when users are inundated with machine-generated profiles and pickup lines? | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 07:04 PM by sleeppoor | |
My cursor was hovering over the button. I’d just had a conversation with John Ross, a friendly acquaintance of mine, about something weird that happened to him recently. On DSP artist pages for his band Wild Pink, there appeared a song called “Vibe Check.” Wild Pink’s album covers look appealingly homespun. This one featured a queasy-slick image of a few bottle-service DJs camped out high in the hills above L.A. The music could be described as Minor Lazer: vaguely Caribbean rhythms, weak-ass synth horn breakdowns, an uncanny-valley voice delivering lyrics about partying “‘til we can’t feel our legs.” Ross didn’t make “Vibe Check” and didn’t know who did. It sounded nothing like Wild Pink. It seemed like an obvious AI scam, but he didn’t understand exactly how someone had managed to force it onto his streaming profiles. He wondered: Should he change his Spotify password?
That probably wouldn’t help, I told him. I’d been recording our interview, as is my usual practice as a journalist. A few days later, I opened my account on DistroKid, the service I use to distribute my own songs to streaming, which costs me $3.75 a month. I uploaded the interview audio. I chose Wild Pink as the artist name. When DistroKid pulled up Ross’s artist photo and the name of his most recent album, asking me whether this was the Wild Pink I was looking for, I responded in the affirmative. I typed in “John Talks AI Slop Takeover” as the song title. I checked the boxes at the bottom of the form reading “I recorded this music, and am authorized to sell it in stores worldwide & collect all royalties,” and “I'm not using any other artist's name in my name, song titles, or album title, without their approval.” And I hovered my cursor over the button that read “Continue.” | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 06:22 PM by thirteen3seven | |
Andrew Cuomo started his political life exploiting bigotry. He is now ending it the same sordid way. | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 05:42 PM by sleeppoor | |
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions. | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 04:04 AM by sleeppoor | |
The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight. | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 02:37 AM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 10-27-2025, 02:59 AM by sleeppoor | |
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November | |
Submitted at 10-26-2025, 11:59 PM by sleeppoor | |
“There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths. | |
Submitted at 10-26-2025, 09:41 PM by sleeppoor | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 11:26 PM by deadpan | |
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 06:28 AM by sleeppoor | |
Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 04:54 AM by sleeppoor | |
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 03:58 AM by lurk on my face | |
I had to try it out for myself. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 02:24 AM by sleeppoor | |
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 02:21 AM by sleeppoor | |
With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 02:03 AM by sleeppoor | |
Authorities in Florida are searching for suspects who investigators say pulled off an elaborate heist to steal thousands of dollars in shoes from a Martin County mall this week.
The thieves reportedly cut through Treasure Coast Mall’s concrete roof before dropping into a Champs Sporting Goods location sometime between midnight and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said the suspects stole hundreds of pairs of Nike shoes, bagged them and loaded up a getaway vehicle parked outside before leaving the scene. | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 01:13 AM by sleeppoor | |
Dear members of the University of Michigan’s Honorary Doctoral Degree Committee,
It is with trembling hands and a certain degree of anxiety that we are writing to make the inevitable nomination of President Donald Trump for an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. We cannot imagine a more appropriate candidate in the current historical moment. Trump represents our University’s values and ethical convictions like no other. He has not only provided the political climate and resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has also given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil and constitutional rights, attack academic freedom and turn their back on common human decency. Many have characterized Trump as an amoral person who is incapable of understanding actions that are not guided by pure self-interest. By this criterion, the University is now quintessentially Trumpian | |
Submitted at 10-25-2025, 01:15 AM by Wreckard | |
Thirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 at a civil rights demonstration in the Bogside area of Derry. | |
Submitted at 10-24-2025, 04:11 PM by sleeppoor | |
Pipeline giant TC Energy urged CSIS to brief Canada’s biggest companies on security threats — raising concerns about surveillance | |
Submitted at 10-24-2025, 03:22 PM by sleeppoor | |

Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly.
What happens when users are inundated with machine-generated profiles and pickup lines?
My cursor was hovering over the button. I’d just had a conversation with John Ross, a friendly acquaintance of mine, about something weird that happened to him recently. On DSP artist pages for his band Wild Pink, there appeared a song called “Vibe Check.” Wild Pink’s album covers look appealingly homespun. This one featured a queasy-slick image of a few bottle-service DJs camped out high in the hills above L.A. The music could be described as Minor Lazer: vaguely Caribbean rhythms, weak-ass synth horn breakdowns, an uncanny-valley voice delivering lyrics about partying “‘til we can’t feel our legs.” Ross didn’t make “Vibe Check” and didn’t know who did. It sounded nothing like Wild Pink. It seemed like an obvious AI scam, but he didn’t understand exactly how someone had managed to force it onto his streaming profiles. He wondered: Should he change his Spotify password?
That probably wouldn’t help, I told him. I’d been recording our interview, as is my usual practice as a journalist. A few days later, I opened my account on DistroKid, the service I use to distribute my own songs to streaming, which costs me $3.75 a month. I uploaded the interview audio. I chose Wild Pink as the artist name. When DistroKid pulled up Ross’s artist photo and the name of his most recent album, asking me whether this was the Wild Pink I was looking for, I responded in the affirmative. I typed in “John Talks AI Slop Takeover” as the song title. I checked the boxes at the bottom of the form reading “I recorded this music, and am authorized to sell it in stores worldwide & collect all royalties,” and “I'm not using any other artist's name in my name, song titles, or album title, without their approval.” And I hovered my cursor over the button that read “Continue.”
Andrew Cuomo started his political life exploiting bigotry. He is now ending it the same sordid way.
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposing their conclusions.
The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.
Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November
“There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.
Lamont Mealy died of dehydration in an isolation cell at Western Correctional Institution in 2023. A lawsuit claims state officials covered it up.
Pete Hegseth is a modern-day Narcissus: preoccupied with image, extravagantly unqualified for his position yet extraordinarily self-assured, morally bankrupt, intellectually barren and as empty as a shattered amphora.
Establishment Democrats spent a full year complaining the Left forced them to be “woke.” But then a left populist, Graham Platner, threatened to win in Maine, so they went right back to trying to cancel someone over old internet posts.
I had to try it out for myself.
US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.
With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.
Authorities in Florida are searching for suspects who investigators say pulled off an elaborate heist to steal thousands of dollars in shoes from a Martin County mall this week.
The thieves reportedly cut through Treasure Coast Mall’s concrete roof before dropping into a Champs Sporting Goods location sometime between midnight and 8 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators said the suspects stole hundreds of pairs of Nike shoes, bagged them and loaded up a getaway vehicle parked outside before leaving the scene.
Dear members of the University of Michigan’s Honorary Doctoral Degree Committee,
It is with trembling hands and a certain degree of anxiety that we are writing to make the inevitable nomination of President Donald Trump for an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Michigan. We cannot imagine a more appropriate candidate in the current historical moment. Trump represents our University’s values and ethical convictions like no other. He has not only provided the political climate and resources for the University to turn into the empty shell that it now is, but has also given so many in our leadership the inspiration to crack down on civil and constitutional rights, attack academic freedom and turn their back on common human decency. Many have characterized Trump as an amoral person who is incapable of understanding actions that are not guided by pure self-interest. By this criterion, the University is now quintessentially Trumpian
Thirteen people were shot dead and at least 15 others injured on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 at a civil rights demonstration in the Bogside area of Derry.
Pipeline giant TC Energy urged CSIS to brief Canada’s biggest companies on security threats — raising concerns about surveillance