Thursday, December 11, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Lol I opened a fortune cookie and it just said ice skating.

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM










Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM








Crypto casinos have become a multi-billion dollar industry. One of the ways they've grown is with an unusual marketing strategy: paying millions to internet celebrities to livestream themselves gambling for hours. New from me, @neilbedi.bsky.social, and Jenny Vrentas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM

We first started this story after noticing streamer Vitaly Zdorovetskiy playing Stake casino games while doing his "pedophile catch" videos, where he would sometimes play on his phone *with* the alleged predators on stream.

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— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM

There's a whole longform piece you could do on just this phenomenon that we didn't have space to go into. There's a huge industry of people going into villages in India, Kenya, Philippines, etc. and gathering up tons of IDs and having guys hold up papers with casino names on them for verification.

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— Aric Toler (@aric.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
(More in the threads)







UT-Dallas fired the editor of the student paper, then fired the staff when they went on strike to object, then banned their independent newspaper from campus, and now are trying to discipline the former student editor for fact-checking a letter to the editor? Glad @thefireorg.bsky.social is on this.

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— Chip Stewart (@medialawprof.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM


Travesty that they wrote this headline and neglected to mention that this new longform reporting magazine at Cornell is funded in large part by *students doing bake sales* as.cornell.edu/news/undergr...

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— Keri Blakinger (@keribla.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM








Seven straight Warner Bros. pictures earned over $40 million on their opening weekends. Warner Bros. led the Golden Globes noms. It's having one of the best years critically and financially in its history. Why is it auctioning itself off? The answer explains a lot about the modern economy.

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— David Dayen (@ddayen.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
("THE SIMPLEST ANSWER FOR WHY Warner Bros. wants a merger is to cover for other failed mergers...These mergers created a horrific financial legacy: $53 billion in debt as of 2022.")







This might be the wildest "pivot to data center" story I've seen. A supersonic aircraft startup that hasn't delivered a single plane raised $300 million to make natural gas turbines to power data centers techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/b...

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— Brian Kahn (@blkahn.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM








Really good story on how Tesla took nearly a billion dollars in New York public funding with the promise of new jobs. Then -- surprise! -- most of the jobs never materialized. open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

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— Noah Shachtman (@noahshachtman.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM








Instagram is creating 2014 Buzzfeed-style SEO headlines for your Instagram posts and guess what? They're often misleading. Thanks to @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @mrdang.photos for flagging this to me www.404media.co/instagram-is...

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— Emanuel Maiberg (@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM








now we have dr drew pitching a cold & flu kit on ESPN 2 that includes ivermectin FFS

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
(If you could go back and listen to Loveline, is Poorman giving better advice than Drew?)







Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform futurism.com/future-socie...

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— jon christmas (@jonchristian.net) December 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM








I was lucky enough to get to interview Jay Stein a year ago. He was as fiery as I had hoped. Here’s a story about how he changed all theme parks forever. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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— Todd Martens (@toddmartens.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
(Long article about the history of the tour.)







SGAs reaction to the flagrant 😂

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— Cage (@ridiculouscage.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM








We are SO EXCITED to finally show you Xcavator 2025! This is an unreleased (and unannounced!) NES game from 1991 that we recovered from its source code. The rights to it were 100% donated to us, and it's being published as a fundraiser cartridge to support our work!

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— Video Game History Foundation (@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM








In America the slime is arbitrarily poured on you by God if you say the wrong word, or admit to possessing incomplete knowledge

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— 9Head Fox (@htblack.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
















@npr Mumbai's civic body has banned pigeon feeding. It says the growing pigeon population is causing respiratory issues. Pigeon-lovers are fighting back. #NPR ♬ original sound - npr








Mmm… Cinnamon of Truth

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— sky (@iamspacegirl.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM








@ameliangs Chronically st*rb**rd since 2021 #rowing #athlete #umiami #d1 ♬ original sound - ˖°🦇ִ ࣪🕸•`








@unilad That's one way to do it!! 🦟😲⚡️ 🎥: @heathers.fitness #UNILAD #unilad #gnats #ohno #insects #shock ♬ original sound - UNILAD








@squidybernedoodle It’s his version of asking the squirrel to be friends 🐿️😔✊ #funnydog #dogsoftiktok #dogsandsquirrrels #sit #doodle ♬ Humor - Dih




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