An artificial intelligence-driven comedy special has attempted to resurrect comedy geniusGeorge Carlin‘s signature humor, 15 years after he died in 2008 of heart failure. Following the special’s release, the comedian’s daughter responded and said that “No machine will ever replace his genius.” The hour-long special, titled George Carlin: I’m Glad …
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On Monday night, 10 men were arrested following a dispute with New York City Police Department officers at the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a synagogue catering to adherents of the insular Orthodox Jewish movement. The reason: Structural engineers were attempting to fill in a mysterious secret …
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After a group of eBay employees behaved like trashy John Waters characters — mailing people live spiders and cockroaches — the company is paying the price. The Justice Department is charging eBay $3 million as a criminal penalty for carrying out a harassment and intimidation campaign against a Massachusetts couple, …
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One of the alleged victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein claimed she had sex multiple times with former CEO of Victoria’s SecretLes Wexner, according to documents released on Tuesday. The damning claim stems from a 2015 civil case againstGhislaine Maxwell by Virginia Giuffre as hundreds of court documents describing …
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Bill Ackman, billionaire founder and CEO of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, has become a new and formidable actor in the American culture wars thanks to his connections to Harvard University. But by stepping into the fray, he inadvertently took up the mantle of a social media archetype that …
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ESPN’s Pat McAfee announced Wednesday that Aaron Rodgers would not appear on his daily sports talk show for the remainder of this NFL season following the quarterback’s controversial comments regarding Jimmy Kimmel. A day after the New York Jets QB appeared on The Pat McAfee Show in an attempt to …
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Substack said that it will remove some publications that support Nazis from its services after backlash over the company’s initial refusal to remove accounts that endorse Nazi ideology, Platformer reports. The company was adamant that the decision was not a reversal of it previous comments, per Platformer, but a reconsideration …
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The University of Michigan Wolverines beat the Washington Huskies 34-13 to win their first national championship of the College Football Playoff era. For Michigan, it’s not only their first national title in the CFP era, but their first national championship since 1997. The storied program has enjoyed steady success in …
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Aaron Rodgers insisted he was definitely not trying to connect Jimmy Kimmel to Jeffrey Epstein when he seemed to link Kimmel to Jeffrey Epstein during an interview on the The Pat McAfee Show last week. After a week of not-so-vague lawsuit threats, apologies, and scathing late-night monologues, the quarterback returned …
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Gaming YouTuber MatPat announced on Tuesday afternoon that he would be officially retiring from his YouTube channel,marking an official end to over 12 years of being an online gaming and fandom authority. In a tearful video titled “Goodbye Internet,” MatPat — legal name Matthew Patrick — announced that March 9, …
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