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Kendrick Lamar hating in four different voices on this song:

The promise of the digital world was that things would last. But that’s been proven to be a big lie. Entire archives are deleted in the blink of an eye each day.

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients. The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show. In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views. “On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown. “Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.” Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: nymag.visitlink.me/w6Bu9N

78 years of this. #NAKBA78

Is Israel going to also sue the Washington Post for this statement of fact?

@MarkJKim_ 😭😭

how it feels to be in LA during this shit show of a mayoral race

they want us to believe it’s a national security emergency to fall behind china on Ai but falling behind china on high speed rail, renewable energy and childhood nutrition is a-OK.

2.6/10

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers. NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers. Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country. fortune.com/2026/05/12/lak…

The FBI investigated me for 12 days and found nothing. Their probe closed 10 days AFTER my arrest. The Trump administration knew there was no case and went on calling me a national security threat. They lied. They're still lying, trying to deport me. theintercept.com/2026/05/12/mah…

Well at least i can always fall back and watch SpongeBob Squarepants.

Free speech is free speech — you don't get to pick and choose. If you are mad about Trump's efforts to muzzle Jimmy Kimmel, you should be equally angry about his efforts to punish students who speak out against U.S. complicity in the horrors in Gaza. nytimes.com/2026/05/08/nyr…

Lamine 🇵🇸❤️

NYT ran the fraudulent “Screams Without Words” Hamas Oct. 7 rape story as front-page News. Meanwhile, an article with actual evidence of unspeakable Israeli rape and sexual violence against Palestinians is relegated to the “Opinion” section:

4 years ago today an Israeli sniper killed Shireen Abu Akleh

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…

it’s even more softball than you can imagine: No mention of Netanyahu’s ICC warrant, no mention of the 20,000+ dead children, no mention of 200+ journalists killed, 60 Mins props up conspiracy theory outrage over Gaza is driven by foreign bots; no mention of “Palestinians” at all

"Today is Mother's Day, so I just wanted to win for my mom." ❤️ Anthony Edwards dedicated his huge Game 4 performance to his late mother, Yvette, who died in 2015 when he was in 8th grade.

🗞️ The United States and Israel are still, 210 days after agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza last October, deliberately withholding essential food, medicine, and shelter from children in Gaza like the two orphans filmed below. An estimated 1.9 million people remain displaced. The U.S. and Israel are restricting basic aid to pressure Hamas and other Palestinian armed resistance groups to surrender and give up their weapons, while continuing daily strikes across Gaza. On Saturday evening, an Israeli drone struck an electric bicycle in the Falluja area of Jabalia refugee camp, killing one person and wounding others, according to local media. Gaza’s Health Ministry reports 5 people recorded killed and 15 wounded in the past 48 hours across Gaza, including four newly killed and one body recovered from beneath rubble. Since the ceasefire on October 11, the ministry said 850 Palestinians have been killed and 2,433 wounded, with 770 bodies recovered from the rubble. The cumulative death toll since October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,736 killed and 172,535 wounded, according to the ministry.

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.link/GK8YSJr