Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Today's news and jokes

(I don't know about this series, but the Book Ones were extremely, bizarrely uncomfortable)





Clemson, Syracuse, UNC, Duke, Indiana

(From what I saw, this is speculation from an Israeli paper)









I’m afraid Santa Rosa Island may not get any help for its fire before taking out the entire island: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies.com) May 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
("A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner")























(If I understand this, firing 8,000 and reassigning another 7,000 to AI projects.)







Guardian







("The Rescue" about saving the stranded soccer team is really good)















("Back in 2023, Futurism published an investigation revealing that Sports Illustrated, then owned by The Arena Group, had published a huge number of product review articles bylined by completely fabricated writers with AI-generated profile pictures")



























































interviewer: what’s your greatest weakness? me: oh they’re all pretty great

— Dropped Mike (@rebrafsim.bsky.social) December 13, 2024 at 12:40 PM








@abc7newsbayarea A pair of Peregrine Falcons dive-bombed researchers at San Jose City Hall as they worked to tag their chicks as part of a decades-long monitoring program. They say the peregrines are experiencing a population collapse due to the Avian Flu, which they get from their prey. In 2020, researchers reported 47 peregrine nests in the Bay Area; now, only 11 remain, with healthy adult falcons breeding. #animal #falcon #sanjose #bird #abc7news ♬ original sound - ABC7 News
Why does this look fake like The Birds?







@romi_sayag Of course this would happen to me🫠 #monkey #thailand #bangkok #fail #fyp ♬ Funny video "Carmen Prelude" Arranging weakness(836530) - yo suzuki(akisai)




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