In the spring of 2022, Twitter considered making a radical change to the platform. After years of quietly allowing adult content on the service, the company would monetize it. The proposal: give adult content creators the ability to begin selling OnlyFans-style paid subscriptions, with Twitter keeping a share of the revenue. Had the project been approved, Twitter would have risked a massive backlash from advertisers, who generate the vast majority of the company’s revenues. But the service could have generated more than enough to compensate for losses. OnlyFans, the most popular by far of the adult creator sites, is projecting $2.5 billion in revenue this year — about half of Twitter’s 2021 revenue — and is already a profitable company.

“Our game had nothing to do with Prey,” said Colantonio. “There is a bit of the artistic/creative side that is insulted when you tell [an] artist ‘You know your game? It’s going to be called Prey.’ And you go like, ‘I don’t think it should. I think it’s a mistake.’” Colantonio then said that he believed calling it Prey was a “sales mistake” because choosing that name “backfired” as Prey fans weren’t happy and the people who didn’t like the original, unrelated Prey didn’t even “look for [the] game.” As for the original Prey and the team behind that game, Colantonio felt bad that they had used that name and IP, feeling like it was a “kick in the face” to the devs behind 2006’s Prey. “I wanted to apologize to them many, many times,” said Colantonio. “I didn’t really have a chance because I don’t really know those people. It was never our intention to ‘steal their IP’ and make it ours. It’s gross and that’s not what I wanted to do.”

A teenage tennis player’s Grand Slam debut at the 2022 U.S. Open is being overshadowed by lewd chatter on social media.

The Oakland Police Dept. tells us it believes the man in the black shirt and the woman in the pink pants are the ones who got a little too frisky in the stands at the A's vs. Mariners game at RingCentral Coliseum on Aug. 21.

Wellstar Health System confirmed Wednesday evening that it will close Atlanta Medical Center, a 460-bed hospital in downtown Atlanta and a century-old anchor of the city’s health care. The hospital will wind down and then cease operations on Nov. 1. AMC’s emergency room on Parkway Drive sees more than 100 patients a day. While Grady Memorial Hospital’s ER is busier, the Atlanta region’s emergency rooms and trauma centers run full or close to full most of the time, with few emergency beds to spare. AMC is one of five state-designated Level I trauma centers in Georgia, only two of which are in metro Atlanta. Together with Grady, two miles away, it serves as a hub for thousands of victims of violence, car crashes and brain trauma who have no time to lose. On Wednesday mid-afternoon both Grady and Wellstar AMC were reporting their ER statuses as severely crowded. Wellstar was signaling to ambulances not to come to AMC with new patients for ER, intensive care and regular medical beds.

Michel was paid $8 million, with a promise of another $75 million if he could successfully halt a DOJ investigation into the 1MDB scandal.

On Wednesday just before 1 a.m., an officer in the RPD headquarters parking deck saw several police vehicles that had been sprayed with black paint. The vandalism happened overnight.

When you are a famous author, you can release a thousand-page novel filled with vicious parodies of your Twitter enemies. But should you? (It turns out a lot of this book is fictional mean tweets. A LOT.)

The conference leaders sent a letter to two senators outlining how donors and collectives are abusing the lack of name, image and likeness regulations.

Arizona is leasing farmland to a Saudi water company, straining aquifers, and threatening future water supply in Phoenix. Fondomonte, a Saudi company, exports the alfalfa to feed its cows in the Middle East. The country has practically exhausted its own underground aquifers there. In Arizona, Fondomonte can pump as much water as it wants at no cost.

Jason Allen's AI-generated work "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair.

Perhaps the most intriguing component of the court filing submitted Tuesday night by the Justice Department did not involve legal argumentation or an articulation of the department’s possible case against former president Donald Trump. Instead, it was a photograph showing documents arrayed on the floor of an unidentified room. Clearly visible on more than a half-dozen of the papers: classification markings. The government’s months-long effort to recover documents that were kept at Trump’s Florida residence after he left the White House doesn’t depend on that material being classified. But the question of whether Trump had classified material with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort has captured the public’s attention. The photo published by the government appears to answer that question quite affirmatively.

Security giant Cloudflare has refused to drop Kiwi Farms despite an online harassment and doxing campaign led by its users.

What once looked like an arrest now looks like a desperate bid for attention.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday his ruling party will cut ties with the Unification Church following a widening scandal triggered by former leader Shinzo Abe's assassination last month, and apologized for causing the loss of public trust in politics.

Mohammed Al Rasheed says he shared her passport details with Canada as UK police hunted for her.

Jennette McCurdy's book fueled rumors about Dan Schneider, a kids-TV legend. Crew members, writers, and ex-stars reveal what working for him was like.

This week’s episode of Fever Dreams looks at pro-Trump YouTube star Tim Pool’s new song. Plus, Andy Kroll on the trouble with conspiracy theories.

Astrobiologists wonder if we’re not the first advanced civilization on Earth. It might seem like pure speculation, but it’s an important thought experiment.

Seventy-one percent of Americans approve of labor unions. Although similar to last year's 68%, approval is up from 64% before the pandemic.