Colorado Republicans tell parents to take kids out of school over fears they ‘turn more kids trans’ (www.advocate.com)
Great Job, Internet: Google’s AI feeds people answers from The Onion (www.avclub.com)
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Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue (www.404media.co)
Highway bandits in Mexico make off with 40 tons of avocados (abcnews.go.com)
George Lucas Defends 'Star Wars' from Criticisms That 'It's All White Men': 'Most of the People Are Aliens!' (people.com)
X considers "cisgender" a slur, and moderates it over actual slurs (www.salon.com)
Arizona lawmaker says ChatGPT helped draft new deepfakes law (thehill.com)
Republican state Rep. Alex Kolodin said he used ChatGPT to write a subsection of House Bill 2394, which tackles AI-related impersonations of people by allowing Arizona residents to legally assert they are not featured in deepfake videos....
Man is fined after trying to 'body slam' killer whale (www.nbcnews.com)
Who is Edan On? UCLA Police arrest 18-year-old accused of attacking protesters at campus encampment (haor.org)
Edan On (age 18, born on January 27, 2006) has been identified as a suspect involved in an altercation at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
Pope Francis is gearing up for the first millennial saint, a web developer known as 'God's influencer' (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.
Arkansas AG Threatens New York Abortion Clinic Over Service It Doesn't Offer (www.jezebel.com)
Priest in dispute with woman over communion bites her during Mass, Florida police say (www.islandpacket.com)
'Atlas' movie review: J.Lo battles space robots in new Netflix film (www.usatoday.com)
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Tiny plastic shards found in human testicles, study says (www.cnn.com)
Republicans plan new criminal investigation into Hunter Biden (www.rawstory.com)
American Airlines backtracks on filing that blamed 9-year-old for being filmed in bathroom (abcnews.go.com)
“We do not believe this child is at fault,” the airline said Wednesday.
Patrick Mahomes doesn’t agree with Harrison Butker but says kicker is a ‘great person’ (www.theguardian.com)
Eventbrite Promoted Illegal Opioid Sales to People Searching for Addiction Recovery Help (www.wired.com)
‘Deadpool’ Co-Creator Just Had Hilarious Beef With ‘Ancient Aliens’ Guy (www.huffpost.com)
Trump posted a video on Truth Social calling the country a 'unified reich' if he wins (www.npr.org)
GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites (www.technologyreview.com)
Of the 100 results, only three of them are common enough to be used in everyday conversations; everything else consisted of words and expressions used specifically in the contexts of either gambling or pornography. The longest token, lasting 10.5 Chinese characters, literally means “_free Japanese porn video to watch.” Oops....