Thursday, December 18, 2025

Today's news and jokes

@thecodyboy

but not after he tries to run away first 😂

♬ Matcha Boba - Becomfy






NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.

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— 404 Media (@404media.co) December 17, 2025 at 6:22 AM

Social media companies attempt to detect and remove this type of astroturfing for violating their inauthentic behavior policies, which is why Doublespeed uses a bank of phones to emulate the behavior of real users. @evystadium.bsky.social explains more here: www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

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— 404 Media (@404media.co) December 17, 2025 at 6:30 AM

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

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— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) December 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
(From 2021: "all the administrative stuff on campus. So I don't have any sense, really, or confidence that the group of people that are behind the University of Austin really want to do that. There's a media splashiness about saying that you're going to found a new university and challenge the existing problems and the existing institutions. It's not clear that these people want to do that work at a new institution. And if they do, over time, what they're going to find is the reason we have all of the bureaucracy and the rules and the processes and the budgets that we have at universities is because you need that in order to function. And so I am a skeptic on whether it's actually going to come to fruition.") (Real) (I've seen speculation that this is about enabling mass deportation to Venezuela) ("We certify markets all the time that we do not end up listing")

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

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— may (@maysuser.name) December 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM

NEW: Mongolia produces some of the world’s finest cashmere — and is being undone by it. As brands market “sustainable” fiber, herders face debt, dying pastures and a collapsing steppe, write Aïda Delpuech, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/su...

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— New Lines Magazine (@newlinesmag.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 4:50 AM
("Mongolia’s herders are on the brink. The grasslands that once supported thousands of families with herds of yak, horses and sheep have been ravaged by the roughly 22 million cashmere goats that herders keep to meet market demands. The intensification of goat herding has caused overgrazing and accelerated soil degradation. In the span of just 30 years, cashmere has turned into an ecological disaster for Mongolia.")

“They burned millions but got nothing.” Major Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

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— AUTOMATON WEST (@automatonwest.bsky.social) December 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
(I'm not familiar with the site)

The story behind "The Box," a new motivational tactic for the Blazers to create competition on the defensive end of the floor: www.rosegardenreport.com/the-story-be...

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— Sean Highkin (@highkin.bsky.social) December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
("I think that's where Ty went wrong," said one source close to the situation, "because that really empowered Chris and changed the expectations.")

What is Josh Hart doing? 🤣 #NBA

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— NBA Stat (@nbastat.bsky.social) December 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM

you might not know this but if you live in the city and you order food it's very important to open the door while standing straight up and step out and then reach down to pick up your food. otherwise you risk locking eyes with a neighbor in a position i call "the goblin tableau"

— tinybaby (@tiny.baby) November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM








I am still thinking about the knives from THE PHEONICIAN SCHEME

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— Hunter Bush (@drhbus.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
















I saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit on 35mm last night (first time I saw it in theaters since maybe its original release 👴🏻) Despite memorizing every line this film, I somehow never read these newspaper headlines 😂 Also, this shot is an amazingly well done scene transition 👀

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— Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor (@derek-lieu.com) November 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM








@taylorlawsoncox

their eyes say it ALLLLL 💀

♬ The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens




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