Saturday, April 12, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Mass Games













































("He said he doesn’t know why he was shut out of city recovery planning, though it was 'possible' that the mayor’s office found him 'too aggressive.'")







("A spokesperson from the Chancellor’s Office said that its fraud detection and prevention has caught more suspected scammers than ever during the application process and stopped them there. However, even with that getting better, financial aid fraud is getting worse")







(Sites that game Google to try to grab traffic are in trouble because Google is trying to eliminate the need to click through search results) (But also this, "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said the company could eventually take a cut of sales ChatGPT helps facilitate")







("Prime Video signed up [the creator] to a megabucks exclusivity deal in 2019 worth $20 million a year, but since then it has produced no shows or films from [her]")







(Long article about how the business works and why the investigation into presumed cattle rustling has struggled. "Out in Montrose County, [the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office's administrative sergeant] is hoping the sheriff might let him purchase a horse to use for exploring the plateau once the snow melts. Any tire tracks will most likely be lost to moisture, any carcasses to predators or bugs. But Searcy figures he might come across a makeshift corral or some other sign. And maybe someone will talk.")







(And since it was a Sony movie, it wasn't even available on the ad tier)



































(Tracing the group photo from Kubrick's The Shining)



























































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