Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Today's news and jokes







"Oleksiy Zhulinskiy, the [CTO] of 3DTech, says that the Chinese dominate the fibre market, and that Russian and Ukrainian buyers have bumped into one another in Chinese factories ... Pre-paid orders have sometimes been gazumped by Russian buyers" www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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— Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM








In a stunning defeat for the #spyware industry, an Oakland jury has directed Pegasus maker NSO Group to pay Meta's WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages for routing its attacks through the company's servers. GIFT LINK wapo.st/4jLGYKz

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— Joseph Menn (@joemenn.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM




the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

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— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM




i think the reality is that in the modern media ecosystem, the algorithms allow people to put almost anything in your face, no matter how rare, and convince you that it’s an epidemic

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— Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM








trying to imagine the reaction to two planes falling off an aircraft carrier with kamala harris as president

— darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM




("the targeted nature of the raid raises suspicions that farm management could have tipped off immigration officials. 'Our concern is that this might have been some sort of operation that was potentially even coordinated with the employer'" ) ("United Farm Workers rallies for release of detained migrant farm workers")







Let me get this straight: My daughter can only have THREE dolls, but the Red Sea can have as many super hornets as it wants?

— Ben Kuchera (@benkuchera.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM




NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

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— WIRED (@wired.com) May 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
(Half the article is about the significance of the word itself)



("media are invited to capture her latest costume upon arrival")







("many of the unsold condos on the market today are ones designed for investors or real estate speculators and are not practical for most families. 'They are roughly the size of large hotel room, only meant to be rented out, and there’s been simply a massive overbuilding of non-family units'")







Horseracing trainer with over $10M in lifetime winnings is banned for life for violating the rules on giving steroid injections to her horses. www.drf.com/news/penn-tr...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM








Sharing this from Imgur. Any makers out there that can help? @trans.bsky.social This may interest you. imgur.com/gallery/funn...

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— Carl Marxman (@carlmarxman.bsky.social) May 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM








@albaa.aa1 #creep #imjustagirl #girlpower #girlssupportgirls #womanoftiktok #runlikeagirl #fyp ♬ Non, je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf








@myfriendtherealtorhtx Soooooo weird and with no explanation #fyp #wtf ♬ Theme from the Walking Dead - Bear McCreary
(Presumably looking for a missing child)







@averagegirlcheck

true story

♬ take my breath away - favsoundds








@annemkelley the work is mysterious and important. sometimes the numbers are scary #jobs #jobsearch #delta #fyp #fypã‚· ♬ Main Titles - Theodore Shapiro








@dukethatgolden My golden retriever is a lot of things but intelligence may not be one of them…. #goldenretriever ♬ original sound - Duke The Golden




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