According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

It's so annoying trying to find people who do wildlife photography only to find a buncha prompt typers... I don't care what you got Gemini or ChatGPT to spit out for you. I just wanna find real people taking pictures of REAL animals.

Given the news about erasing the history of slavery, this story is a must-read about why learning and studying history matters. @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social

I hate that y’all memed No Child Left Behind wrongly😔

2026 Oscar Nominations — Best Supporting Actress: • Teyana Taylor, ‘One Battle After Another’ • Amy Madigan, ‘Weapons’ • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, ‘Sentimental Value’ • Wunmi Mosaku, ‘Sinners’ • Elle Fanning, ‘Sentimental Value’ See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

2026 Oscar Nominations — Best Original Score: • Sinners • One Battle After Another • Hamnet • Frankenstein • Bugonia See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

2026 Oscar Nominations — Best Original Screenplay: • Sinners • Marty Supreme • Sentimental Value • It Was Just An Accident • Blue Moon See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

Delroy Lindo has finally received his first ever Oscar nomination for his performance in ‘SINNERS’ See the full nominees list: bit.ly/OscarNoms26

San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event "Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show" This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

6 games canceled, 7 delayed, and 2 studios closed (with so many good humans now out of work). For what, you ask? Notably, "Accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI." Short-sighted, demoralizing, disgusting. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft...

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Because North Carolina's state legislature has refused to pass a state budget, a scholarship for the children of wartime veterans at public universities across North Carolina has revoked support. www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski says the increasing use of Unreal Engine over Maya for visual effects in films is "the greatest slip backwards" and makes movies look more like video games. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/greates...

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The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are "actively infected." The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states

Here's what happened this week in North Carolina politics. Shout out to the Aggies for driving to Raleigh to shame our State Board of Elections to their face. Aggie Pride! ❤️

Random: I just know the aunties was in the club tearing that hoe down when Vanity 6's "Nasty Girl" dropped.

My rendition of Olandria at the Golden Globes, with a Poison Ivy inspired twist because why not 😍❤️🍃 #art

WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.

Let’s talk about all this Rivals shit twitch.tv/mikeauxl

Meant to post this last week, but here are some great blue herons I snapped while they were fishing. 📷 🪶 #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon, authorities say.

I am walking and also raising money to support 2026 Komen Philadelphia MORE THAN PINK Walk in honor of my little sister Sheila. Together, we can make a lasting impact 🙌 Will you consider walking with me and/or making a donation today?

I can't wait until they get rid of that stupid Copilot button on new Windows machines...

Applications for the GDC 2026 Amplifying New Voices scholarship are now open! www.amplifyingnewvoices.org

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

Unrivaled Season 2 💜💙

‘SINNERS’ has won 4 awards at the Critics Choice Awards • Best Original Score • Best Cast and Ensemble • Best Original Screenplay • Best Young Actor/Actress (Miles Caton)

Twitch.tv/Descend34 #rivalsundays

Well, DAMN. Jorge R. Gutierrez (El Tigre, The Book of Life, Maya and the Three) has just posted a 40-MINUTE pilot to his YouTube, and it's fucking WILD. Big "This is the thing suits won't let me make" vibes. Content warning for a ton of violence/blood! www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zZ...

New footage for 'The Blood of Dawnwalker' 🎮 • AAA vampire RPG • Players have 30 days and nights to complete the main story • Created by Rebel Wolves — new studio founded by devs who worked on 'The Witcher 3' and 'Cyberpunk 2077' • Releasing in 2026

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Tonight's "Wolf Moon"

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I appreciate Mr. Mobile and his team at Clicks for making this. I want more modern phones with physical keyboards. Imagine a modern Nokia N97 or Samsung Intercept.

The PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for January: 🛞 Need for Speed Unbound 🖌️ Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed ⛏️ Core Keeper Full details: play.st/4qzDSw9

A lil guide on teef 🦷🪥 #tutorial

It was someone riding around my Grandma's neighborhood dressed as The Grinch yesterday.

Christmas Time in North Carolina is truly a wild time, because it was 15° the other night now it's a sunny 75° on Christmas Eve.

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Since he don't know how to do anything. Watch descend34 with me on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/descend34?sr=a

The Epstein Files took forever to release? Now it's riddled with redactions?? And falsely implied "evidence?!" Oh my God. That's so *weird!* How weird is that?!?! Never saw that coming.

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Anti-A.I. stamps! For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital! You can download the transparent file for free here: ko-fi.com/i/IT6T718NAKF (but consider donating please 😘)

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Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island may be facing a massive property tax increase that could open the doors for developers to turn the island into a vacation spot for the rich A meeting for property owners to give feedback is scheduled for today

Larian CEO says studio is 'more or less OK' around gen AI push

Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...

Just in case you didn't see this cultural beauty of a cover by Juliet Nneka. Roots of Madness No. 4 cover, out 2/4/26! FOF TODAY!

One of the things that you see at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is a Jim Crow era Coke machine that was designed to fit into a segregated bus station. One machine two sides. The Coke cost more on the Black side.