Monday, July 7, 2025

Today's news and jokes

in sweden, we ate at an awesome working-class cafeteria, which had this wonderful moment of graphic design how to get your super long menu text to fit in one keynote slide? easy: rotate

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— Cabel Sasser (@cabel.panic.com) April 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM






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Elon Musk’s Grok AI posted about Musk’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in first person, as if Grok was Musk. In response to viral exposure, the original Grok post has been deleted and Grok is now falsely claiming screenshots of it are fabricated. This is just one example of why AI is so dangerous

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— Kat Tenbarge (@kattenbarge.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM


This, too



The past isn’t even the past

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— Emily Tamkin (@emilyctamkin.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM




















The hugeness of FMV games in China continues to be a remarkable thing (and a blindspot of mine!) www.bbc.com/news/article...

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— Sam Barlow 🔥 (@mrsambarlow.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
("The players in the live-action Revenge on Gold Diggers are male protagonists lured into relationships by manipulative women who are after their money - how the man responds shapes the rest of the story....So heated was the criticism that the game's creators quietly renamed it Emotional Anti-Fraud Simulator the next day. But that wasn't enough to undo the damage. The game's lead director [] has now been banned on several Chinese social media platforms.")







(The one I saw was a pullover, not a cardigan, and was $2500)























The names Ephant Mon, Mon Calamari and Mon Mothma all coming from the same production would have had a big deal made out of it if it wasn't 1983.

— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM


As a kid, for some reason, I thought "Mon" was a title like "Sir".

— Mel Miniatures (@melminiatures.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM








@coralakey A WINE TASTING TRUCK!? 😱 #temecula #winetasting #honkeytonk #country #winetasting #winetour #southerncalifornia ♬ Take My Hand - Matt Berry








@thewhimsywifey We left after 45 minutes watching this drama at Lake Eola in Orlando today. The dog made so many people laugh and despite the trouble, he was having a blast 😂 #creatorsearchinsights #wivesoftiktok #travelcouple #visitusa #Florida #VisitFlorida #orlando #doglovers ♬ Pretty Little Baby - Stereo Mix - Connie Francis








@megtheeminipony #frenchbulldog #frenchie ♬ original sound - megan








@brufava Pretty sure I hit the jackpot with this one 🤌 #pickyeater #foodie #kidsmeals #whatieatinaday ♬ Queen of Disaster - ella




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