It’s a little after midnight on a cold winter night. I’m in someone else’s van, driving down a highway I’ve never seen before.I’m on my way to pick up a load of marijuana and transport it across state lines. What could go wrong? The trip was organized at the last …
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Forrest Gump famously said, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Forrest Gump clearly never spent a Wednesday night tuning into a much-hyped interview between livestreamer Adin Ross and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which was crashed by masculinity influencer and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate. More than 330,000 people tuned …
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Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty to 22 counts of fraud and money laundering Thursday, marking the first time the disgraced scion of a South Carolina legal dynasty has admitted his crimes in court. Earlier in the week, Murdaugh’s lawyer filed a plea agreement to the 22-count federal indictment, with Murdaugh copping …
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California lawmakers quietly passed a new bill last week that could be a significant victory for survivors of sexual misconduct in the state. AB 933 — now awaiting a signature from Gavin Newsom to be either vetoed or officially signed into law — is an amendment to California’s civil code …
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“Guys….this thing dropped out of my c00ch1e and it’s alive. I need answers please,” the text on the video reads. A lengthy, worm-like creature that could be anywhere from one inch to 10 feet — the scale of the video is unclear — slithers across the screen. In a stitch …
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George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, and George Saunders are among the authors who have filed a class action lawsuit against the company behind ChatGPT, accusing them of “feeding” and “training” the AI software on the authors’ copyrighted works. The Authors Guild — which also represents bestselling writers like …
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A team of researchers have crunched the numbers to explain why you don’t see people hawking ugly cartoon apes on the internet as much anymore: NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, once vaunted as a revolution in crypto and digital art, are largely worthless. “Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT …
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“I’m an open book,” Alex Cooper, the host of the wildly popular Spotify podcast Call Her Daddy, proclaims at the start of our conversation. It’s an afternoon in late May, and she’s lounging in a tasteful écru chair on the ground floor of her recording studio in West Hollywood, her …
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It all started with a name. Author and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who is not related to the storied Rothschilds—a banking dynasty at the center of infamous antisemitic mythology — found that cranks often dismissed his reporting on the assumption that he was. Just because of his byline, he …
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A month ago, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania posted a selfie to X, formerly Twitter, that would shock America — and kick off weeks of feverish, unfounded claims that he had been replaced by a lookalike. The caption read, “Lost a bet to Karl.” The outcome of that wager with …
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