Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
Software Failures and IT Management's Repeated Mistakes
Why do software failures persist despite soaring IT budgets? Dive into the complexities that keep success elusive.Robert N. Charette (IEEE Spectrum)
Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack
Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
An indirect prompt injection in an implementation blog can manipulate Antigravity to invoke a malicious browser subagent in order to steal credentials and sensitive code from a user’s IDE.www.promptarmor.com
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Two Gallants - We Are Undone (2015)
Nascere negli Stati Uniti è croce e delizia per chiunque voglia fare musica; nascere in California, in particolar modo a San Francisco, lo è ancor di più. Dalla tua hai la tradizione, hai i mezzi, hai l’ispirazione, hai un DNA ricchissimo di rock&roll, di hard rock, di blues, di folk, di country, di tutto ciò di bello e di orrendo che nell’arco dell’ultimo secolo è stato sfornato nella patria dei blue jeans... Leggi e ascolta...
Two Gallants - We Are Undone (2015)
Nascere negli Stati Uniti è croce e delizia per chiunque voglia fare musica; nascere in California, in particolar modo a San Francisco, lo è ancor di più. Dalla tua hai la tradizione, hai i mezzi, hai l’ispirazione, hai un DNA ricchissimo di rock&roll, di hard rock, di blues, di folk, di country, di tutto ciò di bello e di orrendo che nell’arco dell’ultimo secolo è stato sfornato nella patria dei blue jeans. Ma hey, sei comunque nato nel paese più competitivo del mondo, e non ti basterà di certo imitare i tuoi idoli per fare la storia. I Two Gallants si presentano al loro quinto album con la stessa formazione: due ragazzi che vanno avanti da 13 anni, camminando fianco a fianco come i protagonisti del racconto di Joyce da cui prendono in prestito il nome... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/02…
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di Tommaso Meazza Nascere negli Stati Uniti è croce e delizia per chiunque voglia fare musica; nascere in California, in particolar modo...Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)
Raiders Cup 2025 – die Videos dazu
Mir war gar nicht bewusst, das der Beitrag zum Raiders Cup 2025 noch aussteht…? Doch, es gibt ihn… 2025.2.uhc-elster.de/2025/09/1…
Es war einmal, vor 10 Jahren, als wir alle noch Jung und knusprig waren, da wurde ein kleiner Vergleichswettkampf ins Leben gehoben, wo Crossgolfer gegen Platzgolfer antraten. Mit der Zeit hat sich dieser Wettkampf als fester Termin etabliert und in den letzten Jahren konnten wir den Pokal auch zu den CrossgolferInnen holen.
Am 13. Sep. 2025 dann das 10jährige und damit wieder ein Highlight für alle. Gespielt wurde wie immer zuerst die 9 Loch auf dem Crossgolf Platz in Elster und im Anschluss dann die 9 Loch in Dessau.
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Die Crossgolfer konnten mit ihrem neuen Mitspieler, dem schrecklichen Sven aufwarten und wie erwartet, wurde da geliefert. Aber wie auch immer, steht auch der Spaß im Vordergrund und das geht auch, wenn man verliert.
Was in Elster noch ganz gut und handelbar aussah, drehte sich wie erwartet in Dessau. Platzkenntnis und Länge schlägt den normalen Crossgolfer dann wieder.
Aber, man sagt ja immer: Abgerechnet wird zum Schluss.
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Es gab Haue in Dessau für die Crossgolfer, wie nicht anders erwartet, und wir sind dne Dessauern auch nicht böse. Wie immer zeigten sie sich als nette Sieger und wir werden daran Arbeiten, die Pokale wieder zu den Crossgolfern zu holen.
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There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests
In trial, 82% saw weight rebound and cardiovascular health reverse after withdrawal.Beth Mole (Ars Technica)
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Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Arrested by ICE
Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew Arrested by ICE
Bruna Ferreira was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Massachusetts as part of President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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Thinking about setting up grocy for the house, anyone here use it?
We thought about looking into a Sky calendar, but naturally for what they were offering we thought there had to be a self hosted solution.
Grocy seems to fit the bill and then some. The next challenge would be getting a touch display and mini computer to act as a kiosk to display it in the house somewhere.
Anyone else using grocy?
Grocy - ERP beyond your fridge
Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home. Open Source. Built with passion.Bernd Bestel
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Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' set to hit the air Thanksgiving weekend
The commercials are meant to speak "directly to ICE agents who may be grappling with guilt, burnout, or moral conflict over their work" – providing a counterpoint to ICE recruitment commercials and to commercials where Noem advises migrants to self-deport.
Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' set to hit the air Thanksgiving weekend
Women's March WIN plans to air new TV commercials on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News in Charlotte, NC and Palm Beach, FL, and on Hulu and Peacock in Chicago, targeting ICE agentsYelena Mandenberg (The Mirror US)
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Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' set to hit the air Thanksgiving weekend
The commercials are meant to speak "directly to ICE agents who may be grappling with guilt, burnout, or moral conflict over their work" – providing a counterpoint to ICE recruitment commercials and to commercials where Noem advises migrants to self-deport.
Anti-ICE commercials encouraging agents to 'walk away' set to hit the air Thanksgiving weekend
Women's March WIN plans to air new TV commercials on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News in Charlotte, NC and Palm Beach, FL, and on Hulu and Peacock in Chicago, targeting ICE agentsYelena Mandenberg (The Mirror US)
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Chinese Army Sharpens Counter-AI Warfare Playbook By Deceiving AI
Chinese Army Sharpens Counter-AI Warfare Playbook By Deceiving AI
China is intensifying its counter-AI warfare strategy, training the PLA to deceive enemy algorithms across data, sensors, and computing power while strengthening human oversight and industry support.Popsmokemedia
While the World Sleeps Safely… We Struggle to Survive
While people around the world sleep in warm, safe homes, we are trying to survive in a torn tent. The cold cuts through the thin fabric, and we shiver through the night with no protection, no warmth, and often no food.
Prices have become unbearably high, and I can no longer provide my family with even their most basic needs. Every day feels heavier than the one before, and every night feels colder and harsher.
We urgently need your support. Please donate — even the smallest amount can help us survive among this rubble.
Please, don’t forget us. Your kindness could be the warmth that saves my family
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The Witcher 3 director's new RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is different to that classic CD Projekt Red game in one big way: it doesn't have a main quest [Eurogamer]
The Witcher 3 director's new RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker is different to that classic CD Projekt Red game in one big way
When Konrad Tomaskiewicz, the former director of The Witcher 3 and now the director of The Blood of Dawnwalker, tells m…Robert Purchese (Eurogamer.net)
But while The Blood of Dawnwalker won't have a main quest in the sense of a main storyline that pulls you through the world like an invisible rope, it will have a very clear and overarching goal: for you, Coen, to save your family before 30 days and 30 nights go by. And every significant thing you do in the game world will have a time cost.
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[TRAILER] Amadeus | Trailer ufficiale
Sky ha rilasciato il trailer ufficiale di Amadeus, nuova serie con protagonisti Will Sharpe (Too Much, The White Lotus) nei panni del prodigio musicale Wolfgang “Amadeus” Mozart, Paul Bettany (WandaVision, A Very British Scandal) in quelli dell’invidioso compositore di corte Antonio Salieri, e Gabrielle Creevey (In My Skin, The Pact) nel ruolo di Constanze Weber, moglie lealissima di Mozart. La serie debutterà il 23 dicembre in esclusiva su Sky e in streaming solo su NOW.
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Amadeus: trailer e data d'uscita della serie Sky con Paul Bettany
La serie esplora l’ascesa fulminea e la leggendaria caduta di uno dei compositori più iconici del XVIII secolo: il virtuoso, la rockstar Wolfgang “Amadeus” Mozart.Danilo Gargano (Cinematographe.it)
‘Assassin’s Creed’: Toby Wallace reciterà nella serie live-action di Netflix basata sul videogioco
Toby Wallace (Euphoria, Bikeriders) è diventato il primo attore ufficialmente confermato come protagonista della serie live-action Assassin's Creed di Netflix, basata sulla serie di videogiochi best-seller di Ubisoft. [...] La serie nasce da un accordo siglato da Netflix con Ubisoft nel 2020. La produzione dovrebbe iniziare nel 2026 in Italia, che a quanto pare farà da sfondo alla serie, anche se il periodo storico esatto non è ancora chiaro.
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'Assassin's Creed': Toby Wallace To Star In Netflix Series
Toby Wallace is the first series regular cast in Netflix’s Assassin’s Creed live-action series, based on the video games. He will play the co-leadNellie Andreeva (Deadline)
how to stop doomscrolling - feedback on an idea?
Core idea: Instead of just scrolling, social media users make verified actions that solve real problems (college debt, loneliness, media clickbait fueling rage, etc.) while brands pay premium advertising fees for measurable outcomes and the social media platform takes a platform fee.
For example:
OPERATION RENAISSANCE:
1. Social media user connects their MOOC account.
2. AI surfaces 2–4 MOOC lessons per day (career-aligned) and one optional sponsored lesson (2–4 min) from Google, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, AWS, etc.
3. User watches and answers 3 verification questions
4. Earns $6–$8 credit (expires after 12 months).
5. Max 5 sponsored lessons per month on free tier; unlimited on Premium+.
6. Credits auto-apply at partner checkout (no gift-card fallback, zero money-transmitter risk).
MAGNETIC:
Uses AI to continuously surface small-group (3–8 person) real-world meetups for shared hobbies — running clubs, board-game nights, climbing partners, basketball, etc. — exclusively for verified social media users who want platonic, interest-based friendships in their city.
Why? Convenience of not having to actively search for connections + safety features:
- Government-ID + real-name verification (display name can still be pseudonym)
- Mutual 90-day social media history required
- Background check via Checkr/Onfido
- Host must be Premium+ with 6+ months clean record
- One-tap “emergency report” button tied to 24/7 human moderation
- All meetups logged; users rate each other post-event (persistent safety score)
SAPPHIRE:
A Premium-only media format that replaces clickbait with actionable impact journalism. Every investigative or breaking-news post ends with a single, frictionless CTA that routes users directly into the product ecosystem (e.g., donate, volunteer, contact Congress, buy from mission-aligned brands), all powered by real-time, on-platform data.
Specific questions:
1. Which of these feel completely unfeasible and why?
2. Biggest regulatory or execution landmines I’m missing?
3. Would you actually use any of these as a user?
I have a total of 14 product concepts that together could generate $519M–$1.18B Annual Recurring Revenue at Year 5-6. I've grouped them into four phases that would be rolled out over a 6+ year period.
WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR:
1. Product/developer feedback.
2. Connect with developers to create MVP.
3. Someone with a connection to X/Twitter to review/develop these products. (Don't have an MVP and was wondering if these can be pitched as concepts to an existing platform, such as X, for development/launch. My background is 10 years in marketings and I'd like to have a marketing role to develop this ecosystem for X).
Happy to answer questions or send a link to product summaries with more details.
Thanks in advance for the tips/advice/referrals.
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Man if I ever get a smartwatch again this is where I'm headed. I love my little Casio's though.
I hope they make a one or two more options aesthetically. I think their current design is a good design, but really not my personal taste. I'd love to see another option or two as time goes on if its financially feasible for them!
Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
AC Shadows frame-rate drops by 33 to 50 percent.Sam Machkovech (Digital Foundry)
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.
Large language mistake
Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.Benjamin Riley (The Verge)
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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
Large language mistake
Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.Benjamin Riley (The Verge)
Publipost direto das políticas "públicas" do Lemann: A importância do debate sobre a reforma administrativa
Muito interessante um grupo financiado diretamente pelo Lemann fazer essas reuniões para propagar mais ataques ao funcionalismo público, sendo que maior parte dos trabalhadores, em todas as esferas, ganham até R$ 4.741 (a média é essa, a mediana deve ser bem mais baixa).
Os salários dos deputados, juízes, militares, etc, ninguém vai mexer, só o peão que se lasca. Estabilidade então, querem só os cupinchas, né Lemann.
A importância do debate sobre a reforma administrativa
Evento realizado pelo Movimento Pessoas à Frente trouxe seminários sobre a modernização do Estado brasileiro, com a presença da ministra Esther Dweck e do deputado federal Pedro Paulo (PSD-RJ)Lucas Zacari (Nexo Jornal)
Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nov 25, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP—Ten-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq sat in a rusted chair in front of his tent in Deir al-Balah. As he spoke, he unconsciously swung his right leg, which was amputated just below the knee, back and forth—the stub tracing a short arc in the air. On his lap he cradled a makeshift prosthetic, nothing more than a piece of plastic sewage pipe outfitted with an orange covering secured by a piece of string.“My leg is gone,” Rateb told Drop Site. “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg.”
Rateb was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis earlier this year that killed his mother and brother. His right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. He has undergone five surgeries in his abdomen since the attack.
Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
“This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg,” said 10-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
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Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nov 25, 2025
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP—Ten-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq sat in a rusted chair in front of his tent in Deir al-Balah. As he spoke, he unconsciously swung his right leg, which was amputated just below the knee, back and forth—the stub tracing a short arc in the air. On his lap he cradled a makeshift prosthetic, nothing more than a piece of plastic sewage pipe outfitted with an orange covering secured by a piece of string.“My leg is gone,” Rateb told Drop Site. “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg.”
Rateb was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis earlier this year that killed his mother and brother. His right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. He has undergone five surgeries in his abdomen since the attack.
Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nov 25, 2025DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP—Ten-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq sat in a rusted chair in front of his tent in Deir al-Balah. As he spoke, he unconsciously swung his right leg, which was amputated just below the knee, back and forth—the stub tracing a short arc in the air. On his lap he cradled a makeshift prosthetic, nothing more than a piece of plastic sewage pipe outfitted with an orange covering secured by a piece of string.“My leg is gone,” Rateb told Drop Site. “This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg.”
Rateb was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis earlier this year that killed his mother and brother. His right leg was crushed and had to be amputated. He has undergone five surgeries in his abdomen since the attack.
Child Amputees in Gaza Use Makeshift Prosthetics as Israel Restricts Medical Supplies
“This pipe doesn’t make up for my leg,” said 10-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq.Abdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
Proof That Recent Windows Update Harms Gaming Performance
AC Shadows frame-rate drops by 33 to 50 percent.Sam Machkovech (Digital Foundry)
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Fetching GitHub content from C#
Fetching GitHub content from C#
One of the many advantages of storing project assets on GitHub is that you can access them both manually and programmatically from anywhere. At elmah.io, we are using this for documentation, code snippets, and more.Thomas Ardal (elmah.io Blog - .NET Technical tutorials/guides and new features)
My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.
Cars used to be entirely mechanical objects. With hard work and expertise, basically any old vehicle could be restored and operated: On YouTube, you can watch a man drive a 1931 Alvis to McDonald’s. But the car itself was stuck in time. If the automaker added a feature to the following year’s model, you just didn’t get it. Things have changed. My Model 3 has few dials or buttons; nearly every feature is routed through the giant central touch screen. It’s not just Tesla: Many new cars—and especially electric cars—are now stuffed with software, receiving over-the-air updates to fix bugs, tweak performance, or add new functionality.In other words, your car is a lot like an iPhone (so much so that in the auto industry, describing EVs as “smartphones on wheels” has become a go-to cliché.) This has plenty of advantages—the improved navigation, the fart noises—but it also means that your car may become worse because the software is outdated, not because the parts break. Even top-of-the-line phones are destined to become obsolete—still able to perform the basic functions like phone calls and texts, but stuck with an old operating system and failing apps. The same struggle is now coming for cars.
Software-dependent cars are still new enough that it’s unclear how they will age. “It’s becoming the ethos of the industry that everyone’s promising a continually evolving car, and we don’t yet know how they’re going to pull that off,” Sean Tucker, a senior editor at Kelley Blue Book, told me. “Cars last longer than technology does.” The problem with cars as smartphones on wheels is that these two machines live and die on very different timescales. Many Americans trade in their phone every year and less than 30 percent keep an iPhone for longer than three years, but the average car on the road is nearly 13 years old. (Tesla didn’t respond to a request for comment about how its cars age.)
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Image models generating partially-eaten burritos over time
The Generative Burrito Test
A critical benchmark for image generation models: A partially eaten burrito with cheese, sour cream, guacamole, lettuce, salsa, pinto beans, and chicken.www.generativist.com
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Trump’s FBI Follows Hegseth’s Lead In Seeking Revenge On Dems
Trump’s FBI Follows Hegseth’s Lead In Seeking Revenge On Dems
The Justice Department and the FBI are now conducting their own investigation into Democratic members of Congress who put out a video reminding active duty…Nicole Lafond (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Texas education chief met with Turning Point USA to discuss group’s expansion in high schools
Texas education chief met with Turning Point USA to discuss group’s expansion in high schools
The meeting happened days before Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick pledged $1 million to help establish chapters of the conservative student group on every Texas college and high school campus.Jaden Edison (The Texas Tribune)
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DOJ flouts court order on Trump’s illegally installed attorney
A judge ruled Lindsey Halligan was unconstitutionally appointed. Donald Trump’s team doesn’t care.
The Justice Department is still signing criminal indictments with Lindsey Halligan’s name—almost a day after a judge ruled that she was unlawfully appointed as interim U.S. attorney.
Federal prosecutors were initially instructed to sign court filings in the name of Halligan’s first assistant, after U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie concluded Monday that Halligan had no authority to preside over the Eastern District of Virginia since she was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate. But just an hour later, internal emails instructed the department to continue using Halligan’s name, labeling Currie’s decision “premature,” reported MS NOW’s Lisa Rubin.
The move is a flagrant violation of Currie’s court order, which threw out Donald Trump’s cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Bosnia's liberals are enabling a far-right fascist to get closer to power
WORMBLASTER the Mth: Mana Worms
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
[Corrigindo manchete da mídia burguesa] Vereador peelista Ernane Aleixo é preso por relações com o TCP
Vereador da Baixada é preso por relações com o TCP
Policiais civis deflagraram nesta terça-feira (25), a “Operação Muro de Favores”, ação integrada à estratégia da “Operação Barricada Zero”, do Governo do Estado. O objetivo é desPedro Menezes (atribunarj.com.br)
Magnetic tape is going strong in the age of AI, and it's about to get even better – new design materials and capacity boosts mean it's still an enterprise favorite
Magnetic tape is going strong in the age of AI, and it's about to get even better – new design materials and capacity boosts mean it's still an enterprise favorite
It might date back to the 1950s, but Magnetic tape storage is still relevant in 2025Ross Kelly (IT Pro)
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‘Reunification’ not an option: premier
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle [404 Media]
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
A new feature on X is making people suddenly realize that some large portion of the divisive, hateful, and spammy content designed to inflame tensions or, at the very least, is designed to get lots of engagement on social media, is being published by accounts that are pretending to be based in the United States but are actually being run by people in countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, India, Cambodia, Russia, and other countries. An account called “Ivanka News” is based in Nigeria, “RedPilledNurse” is from Europe, “MAGA Nadine” is in Morocco, “Native American Soul” is in Bangladesh, and “Barron Trump News” is based in Macedonia, among many, many of others.Inauthentic viral accounts on X are just the tip of the iceberg, though, as we have reported. A huge amount of the viral content about American politics and American news on social media is from sock puppet and bot accounts monetized by people in other countries. The rise of easy to use, free AI generative tools have supercharged this effort, and social media monetization programs have incentivized this effort and are almost entirely to blame. The current disinformation and slop phenomenon on the internet today makes the days of ‘Russian bot farms’ and ‘fake news pages from Cyprus’ seem quaint; the problem is now fully decentralized and distributed across the world and is almost entirely funded by social media companies themselves.
This will not be news to people who have been following 404 Media, because I have done multiple investigations about the perverse incentives that social media and AI companies have created to incentivize people to fill their platforms with slop. But what has happened on X is the same thing that has happened on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other social media platforms (it is also happening to the internet as a whole, with AI slop websites laden with plagiarized content and SEO spam and monetized with Google ads). Each social media platform has either an ad revenue sharing program, a “creator bonus” program, or a monetization program that directly pays creators who go viral on their platforms.This has created an ecosystem of side hustlers trying to gain access to these programs and YouTube and Instagram creators teaching people how to gain access to them. It is possible to find these guide videos easily if you search for things like “monetized X account” on YouTube. Translating that phrase and searching in other languages (such as Hindi, Portuguese, Vietnamese, etc) will bring up guides in those languages. Within seconds, I was able to find a handful of YouTubers explaining in Hindi how to create monetized X accounts; other videos on the creators’ pages explain how to fill these accounts with AI-generated content. These guides also exist in English, and it is increasingly popular to sell guides to make “AI influencers,” and AI newsletters, Reels accounts, and TikTok accounts regardless of the country that you’re from.
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Examples include “AK Educate” (which is one of thousands), which posts every few days about how to monetize accounts on Facebook, YouTube, X, Instagram, TikTok, Etsy, and others. “How to create Twitter X Account for Monitization [sic] | Earn From Twitter in Pakistan,” is the name of a typical video in this genre. These channels are not just teaching people how to make and spam content, however. They are teaching people specifically how to make it seem like they are located in the United States, and how to create content that they believe will perform with American audiences on American social media. Sometimes they are advising the use of VPNs and other tactics to make it seem like the account is posting from the United States, but many of the accounts explain that doing this step doesn’t actually matter.
Americans are being targeted because advertisers pay higher ad rates to reach American internet users, who are among the wealthiest in the world. In turn, social media companies pay more money if the people engaging with the content are American. This has created a system where it makes financial sense for people from the entire world to specifically target Americans with highly engaging, divisive content. It pays more.For the most part, the only ‘psyop’ here is one being run on social media users by social media companies themselves in search of getting more ad revenue by any means necessary.
For example: AK Educate has a video called “7 USA Faceless Channel Ideas for 2025,” and another video called “USA YouTube Channel Kaise Banaye [how to].” The first of these videos is in Hindi but has English subtitles.
“Where you get $1 on 1,000 views on Pakistani content,” the video begins, “you get $5 to $7 on 1,000 views on USA content.”
“As cricket is seen in Pakistan and India, boxing and MMA are widely seen in America,” he says. Channel ideas include “MMA,” “Who Died Today USA,” “How ships sink,” news from wars, motivational videos, and Reddit story voiceovers. To show you how pervasive this advice to make channels that target Americans is, look at this, which is a YouTube search for “USA Channel Kaise Banaye”:
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One of these videos, called “7 Secret USA-Based Faceless Channel Ideas for 2026 (High RPM Niches!)” starts with an explanation of “USA currency,” which details what a dollar is and what a cent is, and its value relative to the rupee, and goes on to explain how to generate English-language content about ancient history, rare cars, and tech news. Another video I watched showed, from scratch, how to create videos for a channel called “Voices of Auntie Mae,” which are supposed to be inspirational videos about Black history that are generated using a mix of ChatGPT, Google Translate, an AI voice tool called Speechma, Google’s AI image generator, CapCut, and YouTube. Another shows how to use Bing search, Google News Trends, Perplexity, and video generators to create “a USA Global News Channel Covering World Events,” which included making videos about the war in Ukraine and Chinese military parades. A video podcast about success stories included how a man made a baseball video called “baseball Tag of the year??? #mlb” in which 49 percent of viewers were in the USA: “People from the USA watch those types of videos, so my brother sitting at home in India easily takes his audience to an American audience,” one of the creators said in the video.I watched video after video being created by a channel called “Life in Rural Cambodia,” about how to create and spam AI-generated content using only your phone. Another video, presented by an AI-generated woman speaking Hindi, explains how it is possible to copy paste text from CNN to a Google Doc, run it through a program called “GravityWrite” to alter it slightly, have an AI voice read it, and post the resulting video to YouTube.
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A huge and growing amount of the content that we see on the internet is created explicitly because these monetization programs exist. People are making content specifically for Americans. They are not always, or even usually, creating it because they are trying to inflame tensions. They are making it because they can make money from it, and because content viewed by Americans pays the most and performs the best. The guides to making this sort of thing focus entirely on how to make content quickly, easily, and using automated tools. They focus on how to steal content from news outlets, source things from other websites, and generate scripts using AI tools. They do not focus on spreading disinformation or fucking up America, they focus on “making money.” This is a problem that AI has drastically exacerbated, but it is a problem that has wholly been created by social media platforms themselves, and which they seem to have little or no interest in solving.The new feature on X that exposes this fact is notable because people are actually talking about it, but Facebook and YouTube have had similar features for years, and it has changed nothing. Clicking any random horrific Facebook slop page, such as this one called “City USA” which exclusively posts photos of celebrities holding birthday cakes, shows that even though it lists its address as being in New York City, the page is being run by someone in Cambodia. This page called “Military Aviation” which lists its address as “Washington DC,” is actually based in Indonesia. This page called “Modern Guardian” and which exclusively posts positive, fake AI content about Elon Musk, lists itself as being in Los Angeles but Facebook’s transparency tools say it is based in Cambodia.
Besides journalists and people who feel like they are going crazy looking at this stuff, there are, realistically, no social media users who are going into the “transparency” pages of viral social media accounts to learn where they are based. The problem is not a lack of transparency, because being “transparent” doesn’t actually matter. The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a fuck about this.
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From
Facebook itself is paying creators in India, Vietnam, and the Philippines for bizarre AI spam that they are learning to make from YouTube influencers and guides sold on Telegram.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face
Term was up against a shortlist including blind box, ate (and left no crumbs) and Roman EmpireNick Visser (The Guardian)
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A Global Message to Tik-Tok: Stop Your Profit Model of 'Toxic and Addictive' Content for Kids
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A group of digital activists is set to deliver a message to social media giant TikTok on Tuesday to clean up its "toxic and addictive" business model.
The petition, which has more than 170,000 signatures and is being circulated by human rights watchdog Amnesty International, will be delivered to TikTok's office in Dublin, Ireland by activists Mary Kate Harten and Trinity Kendi of Ireland; Abril Perazzini of Argentina; and Noe Hamon of France.
In the petition, Amnesty accuses TikTok of becoming "a space that is more and more toxic and addictive," and can potentially harm the "self-image, mental health, well-being of younger users."
Amnesty International campaigner Zahra Asif Razvi said that the petition is demanding that TikTok completely redo its business model to be built around user safety.
"These signatures represent a global demand for TikTok to replace its current business model of an app that is addictive by design with one that is safe by design," she said. "TikTok must make its platform safe for children and young people to socialize, learn and access information and not be harmed."
The human rights group says that its own research released last month shows that TikTok prioritizes user engagement over safety, and will often send young users to videos featuring "depression, self-harm and suicide content" on its platform.
Lisa Dittmer, Amnesty International's researcher on children and young people's digital rights, explained that teen users who express interest in content related to mental health can be pulled into "toxic rabbit holes" that glorify self-harm.
"Within just three to four hours of engaging with TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed, teenage test accounts were exposed to videos that romanticized suicide or showed young people expressing intentions to end their lives, including information on suicide methods," she explained. "The testimonies of young people and bereaved parents in France reveal how TikTok normalized and exacerbated self-harm and suicidal ideation up to the point of recommending content on 'suicide challenges.'"
Amnesty's petition comes one week after the American Psychological Association (APA) published research that accumulated data collected in more than 70 other studies and found that excessive use of short-form video apps such as TikTok and Instagram "is associated with poorer cognitive and mental health in both youths and adults."
The research's findings were particularly troublesome concerning the impacts on young people's cognitive development, as they found that "repeated exposure to highly stimulating, fast-paced content may contribute to habituation, in which users become desensitized to slower, more effortful cognitive tasks such as reading, problem solving, or deep learning."
The APA's study found that having the ability to swipe away from videos that don't offer instant gratification "could support a pattern of rapid disengagement from stimuli that do not provide immediate novelty or excitement," and thus "may diminish attentional control and reduce the capacity for sustained cognitive engagement, as cognitive processing becomes increasingly oriented toward brief, high-reward interactions rather than extended, goal-directed tasks."
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Pro-Trump Billionaires Want to Control What You Watch
The Ellison duo taking over both CBS and CNN, as well as controlling a major social media network like TikTok, would be dangerous for democracy.ari-paul (Common Dreams)
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Miami Dade College to hold new vote on presidential library, amid legal fight
Miami residents will have a chance to weigh in on Donald Trump’s plans to build a billion-dollar high-rise legacy project adjacent to the Freedom Tower after Miami Dade College’s Board of Trustees decided Tuesday to take a new, publicly noticed vote on transferring its land for the project.
The college’s attorneys had been fighting against a new hearing for the last two months in court, arguing that its original Sept. 23 vote to transfer the prime downtown property to the state was sufficiently publicized under Florida’s Sunshine Law.
Historian and activist Marvin Dunn has been suing the college, accusing the trustees’ of violating the state’s public transparency laws by not advertising what land it was voting on or its intended purpose as Trump’s presidential library.
“We won,” Dunn told the Miami Herald on Tuesday. “This is what we wanted them to do. Re-notice this and give the public a chance to appear and express our views, so we won. They caved.”
Supreme Court to consider federal courts’ role in asylum cases
On Monday, Dec. 1, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court will consider the federal judiciary’s role in asylum cases as it weighs whether a federal court of appeals must defer to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ judgment on an asylum seeker’s claims of persecution when it reviews the individual’s case.
In their brief on the merits, the family urged the Supreme Court to side with the courts of appeals that have undertaken an independent review of “whether the mistreatment endured by a noncitizen meets the legal standard for ‘persecution,’” contending that, if lawmakers wanted to prevent such a review, they could have used “express language requiring deference” to the Board of Immigration Appeals, as they do for other “administrative decisions” concerning the INA. The family added that requiring such deference “would effectively resurrect” Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council – a 1984 case requiring courts to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous laws that the court overturned last year – “in asylum cases.”
Supreme Court to consider federal courts’ role in asylum cases
On Monday, Dec. 1, in Urias-Orellana v. Bondi, the Supreme Court will consider the federal judiciary’s role in asylum cases as it weighs whether a federal court of appeals must defer […]Kelsey Dallas (SCOTUSblog)
Why Congress voted to ban hemp-derived THC in states like Texas
The move by Congress this month to clamp down on hemp-derived THC products was part of a years-long campaign to rein in the booming CBD and THC edibles business, which had made enemies not only of beer, liquor and marijuana companies, but of many within the hemp industry itself.
In order to prevent the sativa plants from which hemp is grown to be cultivated into marijuana, Congress set a limit saying no plant could contain more than 0.3% of delta-9 THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. What they didn't count on was scientists figuring out there were other psychoactive compounds in hemp plants that could be concentrated to produce a similar effect to marijuana, spawning a hemp boom across Texas and other states where marijuana had not been legalized.
"It’s a marketplace no one intended," acknowledged Heather Fazio, director of the Texas Cannabis Policy Center.
Why Congress voted to ban hemp-derived THC in states like Texas
The move this month came after a years-long lobbying campaign to rein in the booming CBD and THC edibles business.James Osborne (Houston Chronicle)
A Genova la TARI è tra le più care d'Italia. Ed anche Savona non scherza
In Liguria la media regionale per il 2025 è di 370 euro a famiglia, in aumento del 2,9%. Tra le province, La Spezia si conferma la più economica con 242 euro, mentre Savona supera i 400 euro annui, con Imperia a 319. Le differenze sono significative e riflettono differenti livelli di raccolta differenziata e costi di gestione.
Il dato ligure segue il trend nazionale di crescita: nel complesso, in Italia la media Tari sale a 340 euro (+3,3%).
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Tari 2025: Genova sul podio tra le città più care d’Italia! Belin ghe semmo turna... Come ogni anno arriviamo al solito discorso... Nel 2025 la tassa suiGabriele Rastaldo (Il Mugugno Genovese)
Republican US senator Jim Justice to pay $5m in back taxes following government lawsuit
The lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in their home state of West Virginia, maintained that the Justices had received notice from the US treasury department of the funds due since 2009 but had “neglected or refused to make full payment of those assessments”.
The suit demanded that Jim and Cathy Justice – a member of West Virginia’s state board of education – pay back the balance of nearly $5.2m along with any other relief that the court deemed “just and proper”.
A separate filing later on Monday said the US justice department had struck a settlement with the political couple, who agreed to satisfy the full amount “plus statutory interest and other additions to tax accruing thereafter”. The agreement was pending a judge’s approval.
Republican Jim Justice to pay $5m in back taxes following government lawsuit
Lawsuit filed in West Virginia claimed Justice and his wife received notice of the funds due since 2009 but didn’t payRamon Antonio Vargas (The Guardian)
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Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There (2015)
A venticinque anni esatti da “Fakebook”, quello che fu il loro quarto lavoro in studio, i signori Yo La Tengo ripetono l’esperimento di pubblicare un album nel quale alternare revisioni personalizzate di brani altrui e tracce autografe... Leggi e ascolta...
Yo La Tengo - Stuff Like That There (2015)
A venticinque anni esatti da “Fakebook”, quello che fu il loro quarto lavoro in studio, i signori Yo La Tengo ripetono l’esperimento di pubblicare un album nel quale alternare revisioni personalizzate di brani altrui e tracce autografe. “Stuff Like That There” rappresenta il perfetto sequel di quell’avventura, forte della presenza di nove cover, tre rivisitazioni di pezzi propri già pubblicati in passato e due inediti: “Rickety” e “Awhileaway”... artesuono.blogspot.com/2015/09…
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