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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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Do I think Satan has some good ideas? Yes. But do I “worship” him? Yes
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Do I think Satan has some good ideas? Yes. But do I “worship” him? Yes
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I will participate in small poem Sunday with this mysterious two line koan I found among my notes
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I will participate in small poem Sunday with this mysterious two line koan I found among my notes
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The "Nazi problem" the current Republican Party has is that a lot of people in it are Nazis. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The "Nazi problem" the current Republican Party has is that a lot of people in it are Nazis. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...
Floating Points - 'Fast Forward' (Official Video)
YouTube video by Floating Points
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November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Work music, for real www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xuw...
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You do not have to say illegal sentences but you can definitely think them.
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
You do not have to say illegal sentences but you can definitely think them.
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
Think an extremely illegal sentence right now, in the privacy of your own thoughts. Bask in it.
Maybe it'll happen today
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So, I won a National Book Award.
November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
So, I won a National Book Award.
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This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This tracks: Cornell researchers: xAI's Grokipedia cites neo-Nazi website Stormfront 42 times, Infowars 34 times, and white nationalist website VDare 107 times www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...
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Bagel-fuls (2003-2008): Small, tube-shaped bagels, loaded with a variety of cream cheese fillings. Available in options such as Original, Chive, Cinnamon, Blueberry, Strawberry, Cherry, and Apple-Cinnamon
November 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bagel-fuls (2003-2008): Small, tube-shaped bagels, loaded with a variety of cream cheese fillings. Available in options such as Original, Chive, Cinnamon, Blueberry, Strawberry, Cherry, and Apple-Cinnamon
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
…and the OG’s are like, “Morton Downey Jr., baby.”
Everybody is referencing the “Blacks Rule” guy but the real sickos remember the backwards B “for Barack” cheek scratch lady
A staffer to a New Jersey congressman allegedly paid an scarification artist $500 to wound her as she staged a scene with zip ties and “Trump Whore” written on her stomach, federal prosecutors say
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
…and the OG’s are like, “Morton Downey Jr., baby.”
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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this is fascinating
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
this is fascinating
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Quick question: what the fuck is anyone talking about anymore
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IT IS LIKE A NUDIST COLONY & BOOZERS & SMOKERS PARADISE.
November 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
IT IS LIKE A NUDIST COLONY & BOOZERS & SMOKERS PARADISE.
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when I was a kid my dad could have kicked my ass because he was an adult. now I could kick my dad’s ass because he’s old. but there was one day between then and now when we were exactly evenly matched. the father/son convergence
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 AM
when I was a kid my dad could have kicked my ass because he was an adult. now I could kick my dad’s ass because he’s old. but there was one day between then and now when we were exactly evenly matched. the father/son convergence
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years ago, I did some art for Hollywood Records, which was part of Disney - when the AD kept ignoring my invoices, I started repeatedly faxing (that's how long ago this was) a cartoon of myself with Mickey Mouse in a choke hold, holding a gun to his head. They Fed-Exed the check the next day.
Which reminds me of my favorite aggrieved freelancer story of all time: In the late '90s, when a writer set up a tent in the lobby of Bob Guccione's Gear magazine and refused to leave until his long overdue invoice was paid. It worked! Hero!
I'd freekin' show up in person!!
November 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
years ago, I did some art for Hollywood Records, which was part of Disney - when the AD kept ignoring my invoices, I started repeatedly faxing (that's how long ago this was) a cartoon of myself with Mickey Mouse in a choke hold, holding a gun to his head. They Fed-Exed the check the next day.
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first date idea: I eat a rotisserie chicken and you're in your home, eating your own rotisserie chicken
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
first date idea: I eat a rotisserie chicken and you're in your home, eating your own rotisserie chicken
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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We’ve talked about how we in the media normalize (even incentivize) aberrant behavior by public figures who make it their brand.
But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.
But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.
When asked on Air Force One if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger at the female reporter's face and said “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We’ve talked about how we in the media normalize (even incentivize) aberrant behavior by public figures who make it their brand.
But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.
But just imagine if an official in your city or town had told a female reporter asking about a sex abuse scandal, “Quiet, piggy.” Headlines for days.
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An entire section of Anna Wintour's @wikipedia.org profile has been erased. Can you guess? The section on her troubling issues with race. From Wayback:
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
An entire section of Anna Wintour's @wikipedia.org profile has been erased. Can you guess? The section on her troubling issues with race. From Wayback:
When you send the piece to your editor:
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
When you send the piece to your editor:
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.