Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Today's news and jokes

@tigers Tom Selleck had to make an appearance obv #Magnumpi #TomSelleck #Tigers ♬ original sound - DjAnton16979






A great, great nepo baby, whose name he cannot remember, because it’s Larry Ellison’s son

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— Jake Lahut (@jakelahut.writes.news) August 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
















("That strategy worked well — until it didn’t. A week later, the wind suddenly increased and the modest, 120-acre controlled burn exploded into a “megafire,” the largest in the United States so far this year. As of Saturday, the blaze had burned more than 145,000 acres and was 63% contained.")







("The oil plant in Roseland where a mid-day explosion turned into a massive fire has a history of environmental regulations in recent years")







I never expect the environmental coverage to sound so much like the onion Inside a Conroe lab’s alleged scheme to lie about high levels of poop in Houston-area waterways www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) August 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM








(“Rich Rollin’ Burglary Crew”)







Creators have suspected that YouTube is applying some kind of AI filter or effect to their videos, without permission. And indeed we can confirm that YouTube is running an "image enhancement" experiment on users' videos using machine learning, bless

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— Damon Beres (@damonberes.com) August 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
(Rick Beato's face just didn't look right. "I was like 'man, my hair looks strange', he says. "And the closer I looked it almost seemed like I was wearing makeup." Beato runs a YouTube channel with over five million subscribers, where he's made nearly 2,000 videos exploring the world of music. Something seemed off in one of his recent posts, but he could barely tell the difference. "I thought, 'am just I imagining things?'" )



You may have seen this story blowing up about Will Smith using AI to generate fake audiences to promote his latest tour, but the truth is more complicated. The audiences are real, but the footage was manipulated: first by Will Smith's team and then, without permission, by YouTube itself.

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— Andy Baio (@andy.baio.net) August 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM










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— Theron Bretz (@tfbretz.bsky.social) July 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM








New CMON profit warning says losses could reach $8m for first half of 2025 – almost three times its overall profit from the last ten years: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

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— BoardGameWire 🔜 Spiel Essen 2025 (@boardgamewire.bsky.social) August 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM








The rare opportunity on my beat to make some jokes. A story about the Panama Playlists, unveiling the identify of the person who doxxed my and @mikeisaac.bsky.social's Spotify playlists, alongside those of people way more famous than us. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/t...

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— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
("Because of Spotify’s privacy settings, any new playlist is set to public by default. To hide past playlists from others, users have to go to each one and flick the switch to private. Even to us, two reporters who cover technology and privacy for a living, this was a surprise. Anyone on the internet could see our playlists, and in Mike’s case every song he listened to in real time.")

took me a second to place the name "Riley Walz" and then I realized it was this same guy www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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— highcontext (@highcontext.bsky.social) August 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
(From December)







(His latest newsletter is about a sentence he loves)







guys I’m off this week … went to the norman rockwell museum. found the meme in real life — and his jacket

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— Rachel Holliday Smith (@rachelholliday.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM








I wanted to actually hear this and yup, that's what he said

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) August 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM








Lolll the menu at this LA themed cafe in Houston Really nailed it with the “truffle burrata avo toast”

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 5:12 PM








Popped up in my Facebook memories, how punctual

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— Blue sky nice guy (@rajandelman.bsky.social) June 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
























@haileyhagmaier_ every piece of clothing i own ended up on the highway today ❤️ #fyp ♬ Epic ahh sound - Screaming Steve








@justkeepers A must have for all goalkeepers… Introducing GloveGlu’s AirLoop, the ultimate tool for drying your goalkeeper gloves! #goalkeeperunion #goalkeeperworld ♬ original sound - Just Keepers








@chaktah.lhasaapso Hard of seeing has its amusing moments #dogsoftiktok #seniordog #lhasaapso ♬ original sound - Chaktah the Lhasa Apso








@notmydadpod Ever seen a dog pick his tv show? Meet Charlie. #fyp #dogs #dogtok ♬ Welp, Didn't Expect That - Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX




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