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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Fake AI videos mocking dead celebrities are going viral. We talked to their families, and they're horrified.

We break down OpenAI's Sora 2 and the moral and legal problems of "synthetic resurrection."

Gift link: wapo.st/4nNKzd3 w/ @tatumhunter.bsky.social

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Real Torment Nexus stuff

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Thankfully that part was stripped before passage

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

I think the journalism is clearer and more impactful when we illustrate the problem with the actual problem, as opposed to a blank screen, maybe you disagree

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21h

We're all trying to find the guy who did this www.mediaite.com/media/news/b...

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 21h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 1d

something something AI chocolate cake on Uber Eats something something Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

@ajc.com www.ajc.com/news/2025/10...

A 5-year-old wanted a Jimmy Carter birthday party. His mom delivers.

Ryan became fascinated with the 39th president — especially Carter's Habitat for Humanity work — after learning about him on Presidents Day when Ryan was in preschool.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

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A 5-year-old wanted a Jimmy Carter birthday party. His mom delivers.

Lauren Ramos’ son, Ryan, likes the “typical boy stuff” — ninjas, dinosaurs, Spider-Man. But when planning his 5th birthday party, the little boy wanted it to be all about his favorite U.S. president.

On Saturday, the New Jersey family celebrated Ryan, who proudly ate a Jimmy Carter-frosted cake and wore his “Carter for President” T-shirt at his Carter-themed birthday party. The festivities came with a Carter cardboard cutout and a personalized banner with images edited to depict a grinning Ryan and Carter standing side by side, both sporting coned birthday hats.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

It's all about the mindshare we drive along the way

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

This guy businesses

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

As a young boy I always dreamed of driving mindshare

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

He won by paying $1 million to show that everyone hates his product

10,000+ posters, $1M spend, and the best ad campaign of 2025.

'Friend' billboard campaign in NYC last month was genius.

What made it genius is that every vandal tag, every “AI sucks” defacement, every social screenshot is fuel.

The campaign was created as a provocation.

Friend leaned into controversy, volatility, even hate, because those are the signals that drive mindshare in 2025.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Paves the way for the Monster Under the Bed Act

RepMTG:

The Sunshine State is getting it RIGHT! 🌞

Florida is shutting down dangerous weather modification and geoengineering schemes because our skies belong to the people, not globalist elites and their experiments.

Now it’s time to do the same nationwide. My Clear Skies Act will END chemical spraying, geoengineering, and weather manipulation across America for good.

No more tampering. No more lies. Just clear, God-given skies! 🇺🇸☀️
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🚨 BREAKING: Florida's airports are now closed to any weather modification and geoengineering activities under new state law, Florida AG says.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

The song contains lyrics explicitly accusing Drake of being a pedophile, set to a catchy beat and propulsive
bassline. "Not Like Us" went on to become a cultural sensation.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to do videos for my stories, here's one I did today. Sorry I look crazy sweaty but it's hot dude

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Yesss lfgggg

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Tune in, turn on, sharks out

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Mark Cuban ( @mcuban.bsky.social ) just made himself cameo-able on Sora so I made him overdose on LSD

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

Armed agents in Florida showed up at the door of a 77-year-old anti-Trump protester who wrote a postcard to the state's finance chief that said only "You lack values" www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

Armed Florida agents visited Largo man over postcard critical of CFO Ingoglia

The situation raises questions about how Ingoglia's office is utilizing law enforcement.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has repeatedly fired Black government officials and replaced them with white men www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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