I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...

Can we just agree that what the US has perfected is not a wealth generation system but a wealth transfer system?

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”

A New Year's party at a Swiss Alpine bar turned into a tragedy after about 40 people died in a fire and another roughly 115 were injured, many in their teens to mid-20s. n.pr/4q4LvLf

Anecdotally, I’ve seen BYD sales rooms in the most unexpected places like Bujumbura in Burundi. It’s the vehicle of choice for taxis in Jakarta. I’ve mainly seen Teslas in the US, Europe and the Middle East.

The Grok reddit is just dudes giving each other advice and encouragement on how to commit digital rape. There needs to be accountability for this. I don’t want to hear “the genie is already out the bag.” This shit needs to be destroyed.

I misplaced a (highly acclaimed) book that I have been struggling to finish and my main feeling was sadness at the loss of the bookmark which was a gift. I think that’s a sign that it’s gonna be a dnf.

May this be the beginning of something good.

Some people wrongly attributing this to her collision with AT. Phee got injured during the blowout game with Vegas, and has said that part of the problem is a genetic predisposition to ligament damage. If anything I hope Cheryl adapts her team culture and uses her bench players more. #wnba

This is important. #keepeyesonsudan

Of 128 journalists killed globally last year, 56 were Palestinian, the International Federation of Journalists said.

Happy New Year. My advice to you is drink more water and remember that mango skin is edible and delicious.

Israel has announced the suspension of more than two dozen humanitarian organisations from working in Gaza, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in its latest action taken against NGOs that operate in Palestine. jrnl.ie/6915094

En Iran, un mouvement social de commerçants secoue le régime

From hoops to oysters: Inside the unexpected second acts of WNBA stars

One thing that you get from this is that when a dude was looking to hire he started by reaching out to other dudes that he knew. These are the kind of informal networks that make it very difficult for women - and black women especially - in corporate (yes sports is corporate) settings.

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Imagine being a higher ed PR department and instead of just paying for AI marketing slop, you hire a third party to make AI marketing slop for you. You’re imagining all universities right now.

“The word ‘doctor’ had a price. We’re now paying this price.” Gaza doctor and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, has been in an Israeli prison for a year after being detained without charge or trial. Watch the film: aje.news/DrAbuSafia

I mourned the ending of Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” longer than that woman has mourned her husband.

We made an 18 minute video about Tesla and the doors, featuring a lot of footage that I obtained via public records. Now on YouTube: youtu.be/2lFzqBt3z0w

A popular culture misconception about therapy is that a therapist is there to affirm you because you paid them. A good therapist helps you recognise patterns in your past and present but, unlike a chatbot, is trained to call you on your BS and intervene if you present a danger to yourself or others.

Not enough conversation about the Mali jerseys IMO.

UPDATE: #Somaliland - Somalia • Netanyahu meets Trump soon • Somalia President ✈️ Turkey • Protests in Mogadishu against Israel’s recognition; rallies support in SL • Somalia assumes UNSC pres. Thu. • UNSC meeting today • EU, most Arab states reject www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

It’s really alarming how quickly the quality of our digital lives is deteriorating. Foisting AI onto Adobe users but then making it impossible for them to work without an internet connection is diabolical.

John Simpson: 'I've never seen a year as worrying as 2025'

The best movie soundtrack of all time. “Waiting to Exhale” (1995).

What an insane sequence to close the 3rd quarter in Columbus! Ohio State beats the 0.6 shot clock. UCLA beats the 3rd quarter buzzer from beyond half court! 🤯 #NCAAWBB #WCBB

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Israel kills over 700 relatives of Palestinian journalists in Gaza: Report https://aje.io/ooabxb

This is why decolonial study is so important. Because we could have told you for free that using religion to justify unspeakable violence against others is the oldest trick in the book.

Damn Lewis, tell us what you really think. 😂😂😂

And then the algorithms prioritise showing you this content, and then the LLMs cannibalise this content and degrade even further and the enshittification of our digital lives accelerates.

The East African Budding Autocracy Derby.

Someone screwed up the target development. Either Trump’s team got played by someone in the Nigerian government to settle a score for them or our own intel folks screwed up the targeing. Unfortunately, Hegseth got rid of the civilian harm mitigation folks that would’ve checked the homework.

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

One of the diplomatic holds that Israel has struggled to break is African commitment to Palestinian liberation. African leaders happily take money from the Israeli government but only two countries on the entire continent have withheld recognition from the Palestinian state - Eritrea and Cameroon.

“Righteous violence vented on some brutish lower caste has always been the key to entry into the fraternity of Western nations”. Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Was scrolling and saw a clip of Emma Thompson talking beautifully about her screenplay for “Sense and Sensibility” on the BBC4 page and I thought “oh wow, that looks like it could be a very insightful page to follow”. Click on the profile and the first link is Michael Gove talking about Reform. 🫠

Often times when people travel to a poorer country when they say “everyone was so nice” they mean “everyone was so solicitous”.

In case you missed it: I’ve got a new (warning: somewhat intense) story on @npr.org about all the ways faith leaders have pushed back against the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign this year — including clergy directly confronting ICE agents and police. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...

I roasted a whole buttermilk chicken but I used za’atar instead of sage as the main herb as well as in the stuffing and it was fantastic.

Woke up to see that the US has bombed an Islamic State offshoot in Sokoto, northwest Nigeria, with the collaboration of the Nigerian government. Trump says the militants were "targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians". But that area is almost completely Muslim

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So much “AI” is underpaid and exploited gig workers.

“Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in Los Angeles $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.”

Surprise, surprise