Straighterade
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Straighterade
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JENSEN HUANG: “I would advise that every college student, every teacher should encourage their students to go use AI. Every college student should graduate and be an expert in AI.”

Baltimore Mayor: “White people use the term DEI hire because they don't have the courage to say the n-word”

“We are killing people. The United States is killing people.” Drop Site’s @RyanGrim challenged Newsmax to explain why the U.S. gets to decide Cuba’s future, describing the horrifying impact of the U.S. blockade, which is punishing civilians and rapidly collapsing daily life across the country.

“We are killing people. The United States is killing people.” Drop Site’s @RyanGrim challenged Newsmax to explain why the U.S. gets to decide Cuba’s future, describing the horrifying impact of the U.S. blockade, which is punishing civilians and rapidly collapsing daily life across the country.

Hundreds of videos of cartoon food characters, rendered in brightly colored Pixar-style animation, acting out heart-wrenching plot lines have been going viral. There’s the homophobic clementine that kicks his gay clementine son out of his house when he catches him experimenting with a strawberry (1.8 million views). There’s the pregnant broccoli that dumps her broccoli child in the trash, only to FaceTime him years later begging for forgiveness (2.1 million views). Many of the videos in this genre are silly, but others have distinctly misogynist or racist subtext. Yet people can’t seem to turn away. At first the videos were somewhat educational, according to Fana Yohannes, a trend curator and digital strategist. But over the past few months, Yohannes has watched the trend shift from practical advice to narratives featuring extreme human emotions — separation, terror, betrayal. The more heightened the drama, the more viral the post. “It seems like it went from a tool to create educational content to something people can use to make a quick buck and farm engagement,” she says. She refers to the talking-fruit videos as “the first-ever custom-GPT-generated social-media trend.” We’re already aware of how AI-generated content can collapse our ability to distinguish what’s fake from what is real, “but the talking-food videos indicate that AI isn’t just getting better at messing with our heads — it’s going to get better at messing with our hearts as well,” writes E.J. Dickson. Read Dickson on how fruit and vegetable AI slop videos are tapping into people’s emotions without actually earning it: nymag.visitlink.me/yDFeeW

Impact Research poll | 2/10-2/16 LV (released 3/25) US Senate Michigan Democratic primary 2026 (Informed ballot) 🟦Abdul El-Sayed 38% 🟦Haley Stevens 35% 🟦Mallory McMorrow 22% Undecided 5% (Haley Stevens internal)


I’m really glad you posted this. The biggest regret of my career was not fighting back against this op. In the early days, BuzzFeed was just an aggregator. The editors trained us how to drag and drop content from all over the internet. No regard for copyright or publishing standards. But things change fast. BuzzFeed leaders hung their massive editorial problems around my neck and fired me, all while mass deleting tens of thousands of articles from other BuzzFeed staff who faced zero consequences. They tried to kill my career. It was a lot for a 26 year old to handle. And I almost killed myself. But here’s why I’m writing this today… No matter what you’re facing, no matter how dark or unfair or insurmountable, God’s got you. God created you. God has a purpose for your life. Today, my media business is thriving. We have 17 million subscribers. I love my job and the company we’re building. And none of it would have happened without me being fired from BuzzFeed. Don’t ever give up.


Today marks the 115th anniversary of the devastating Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. On this day, we remember the 146 workers –– many of whom were young female immigrants –– who lost their lives. I will never stop fighting for safe working conditions for all New Yorkers.

Trump: "The Public is loving ICE. They are Great American Patriots, they just happen to have much larger, and harder, muscles than most — which is what they’re supposed to have. Thank you to ICE for the GREAT job you are doing. America very much appreciates it! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) calls AI data center moratorium championed by AOC "idiocy" — Axios

On a private donor call in the MI Senate race, a Mallory McMorrow backer said he had read her private AIPAC position paper and that it’s “outstanding.” Her campaign denies to @DropSiteNews that she produced one. Listen:

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