Friday, January 2, 2026

Today's news and jokes







@dwnews Why China and the Philippines clash over this rusty ship    China and the Philippines regularly clash in the South China Sea, one of the world’s most disputed waters. One major flashpoint: a rusting navy ship. #mappedout #china #phillipines #dw ♬ original sound - DW News
A 2023 write-up















We got Meta’s “general global playbook” for defeating advertiser verification regulations, which the company knows would reduce scams. It includes making scam ads “not findable” for regulators searching Meta’s ad library through targeted scrubbing. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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— Jeff Horwitz (@jeffhorwitz.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 6:38 AM










For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

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— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@rmac.bsky.social) January 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM

The "apology" is going around out of context but it's just a random person asking grok what a heartfelt apology note would look like. Like most LLMs it has past apology notes in its training set and it's easily able to match the format and fill it in with details from the current topic

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— Christina Holland (@mortalwombat.info) January 1, 2026 at 6:07 PM
(Meanwhile, in related news)







"Recently, a 2.4T memorial honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee mysteriously appeared in Marion Square with no city approval or citizen input [...] a decision affecting one of Charleston’s most prominent public spaces was made behind closed doors by a private group with no public accountability."

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— Dave Infante (@dinfontay.com) December 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
























joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

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— cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM










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— Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! (@standplaatskrk.pl) December 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM








😂

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 8:04 PM








I personally have not seen this before

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— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) January 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM








Best thing in college basketball this year







#年忘れ師走のクソコンボ祭り ok sure

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— PolarBair 🔜 Frosty Faustings XVIII (@polarbair.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM








i forgot how much fun i had writing these item descriptions

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— Erika Chappell 🏳️‍⚧️ Stop Asking For STLs (@opensketchbook.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM








One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

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— Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. (@sarahmackattack.bsky.social) December 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM








never forget

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— Sick Combos (@sickcombos.bsky.social) May 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM








@thegardenstatepodcast The Montclair school district is scrambling amid a $20M budget deficit. How did it come to this? #newjersey #nj #montclairnj ♬ original sound - The Garden State
(An unhelpful write-up)







@amandaandkennyy

a paw’s a paw

♬ It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (Temptation Sensation) [Main Title] - The Theme System




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