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Victor Tangermann
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Senior editor at Futurism.com
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toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'"

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AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches
AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.
futurism.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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atrupar.com
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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futurism.com
Look out!
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky
Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.
trib.al
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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jonchristian.net
beyond parody

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RFK Jr. Sneezes Loudly While Trump Is Speaking
As Donald Trump held a meeting in the Oval Office to announce a Pfizer deal, his health secretary sneezed loudly.
futurism.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
had an interesting run-in on my Spotify Release Radar this morning, wondering why Volcano Choir had released an incredibly cheap-sounding single 12 years into their hiatus
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Bon Iver Side Project's Spotify Page Features an AI Slop Song
A suspicious seemingly AI-generated track appeared on the Spotify page of Bon Iver's side project, Volcano Choir.
futurism.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
we're truly in the age of AI-powered dehumanization, by @joeonhere.bsky.social futurism.com/job-applicat...
Man Applies for Job, Sits for Interview, Then Realizes They're Trying to Peddle "Mock Interviews With an AI Interviewer"
A $2.8 million Y Combinator startup is using the power of frustrated job seekers to promote its generative AI interview bot.
futurism.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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jonchristian.net
imo this is what the internet was made for

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no man's sky spaceship that looks like Microsoft Clippy no man's sky spaceship that looks like Goku from Dragon Ball no man's sky spaceship that looks like the Eye of Sauron no man's sky spaceship that looks like Thomas the Tank Engine
September 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
they say we all float down here, and we float very strongly, and a lot of people are saying we float at levels that have never been seen before
August 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
We hear for you succession
August 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
A massive overcorrection, horrifying malicious compliance, or just an incredibly dumb bug?
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Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer
It's been just over a month since Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI's Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as "MechaHitler" and targeting people wi...
futurism.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
so nick caved. come on, it was RIGHT there
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Nick Cave, No Longer So Angry About AI, Shares New “Tupelo” Video Starring an AI Elvis
On the Bad Seeds classic’s 40th anniversary, the director Andrew Dominik has persuaded his longtime collaborator that not all artificial intelligence is “a grotesque mockery of what it is to be human”
pitchfork.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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andrewpaul.bsky.social
wow
this is pretty damning if Trump really did write it
Epstein with the cool s sign
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
elon will live to be 120 years old and be president like at least 17 times
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"He Just Went CRAZY": Trump Threatens to Terminate Elon Musk's Government Contracts
President Donald Trump threatened to terminate billionaire Elon Musk's "Governmental Subsidies and Contracts," escalating their feud.
futurism.com
June 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
we all knew for a very long time this was gonna happen. still kinda wild to watch the chaos unfurl
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Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Shreds Elon Musk
Billionaire Elon Musk's bromance with president Donald Trump has officially exploded into an ugly, spite-fuelled, mud-slinging grudge match.
futurism.com
June 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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jonchristian.net
proactively imagining all the ways this is going to be a disaster

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The Washington Post Is Secretly Planning to Start Publishing Articles Created Using AI
The Washington Post has quietly been building an AI tool that takes much of the work out of writing as it attempts to recoup readership.
futurism.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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amorrow.bsky.social
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality...

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The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...
www.cnn.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
losing attitude control during Flight 9 could be a sign of yet another major setback for SpaceX
May 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
vtanger.bsky.social
look, i don't care what somebody gets off to, but this level of laziness and blatant attempts to rip off a well-established author just will not stand
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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer's Style
A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.
futurism.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
the writer got caught red-handed and definitely went far beyond using AI "for background." just embarrassing really.
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Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop
The Chicago Sun-Times, owned by Chicago Public Media, published an AI-generated reading list featuring mostly AI-fabricated books.
futurism.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
has anybody seen rfk jr lately
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/u...
Decapitated Dolphin in North Carolina Prompts $20,000 Reward Offer From U.S.
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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mharrisondupre.bsky.social
truly, truly amazing things happening on x, the everything app futurism.com/elon-musk-gr...
Futurism Like a Broken Grok May 14, 4:22 PM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets "Sorry for the mix-up, the video is indeed about a pig, not white genocide."
May 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
utterly bizarre
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Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets
Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.
futurism.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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foster.bsky.social
Team @futurism.com gets RESULTS! After @mharrisondupre.bsky.social was the first to report on Soundcloud's sketchy TOS change forcing users to condone AI, they've now reversed course, and changed their policies: futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
Tldr, journalism still matters.
SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artists’ Music Following Furious Backlash
SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.
futurism.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
vtanger.bsky.social
Seriously, what part of "explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence" did SoundCloud not understand?
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futurism.com/soundcloud-a...
SoundCloud Changes Policies on Training AI with Artists’ Music Following Furious Backlash
SoundCloud has once again updated its policies around AI training for clarity following widespread user anger and conern.
futurism.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM