The News Thread

[CiG]

To some people, religious fundamentalists and Qanonanists do count as "underserved minority communities".

I know this was an attempt at a joke, but there's way too many of them for it to land. Roughly 70% of Republicans believe Joe Biden stole the election.

 

[Einherjar86]

I have a real hard time believing this lanky little twerp isn’t just trolling everyone; but given the current political tides on the right, it’s impossible not to take him seriously.

 

[CiG]

Merriam-Webster has just chosen "gaslighting" as its word of the year.

Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740% in 2022, according to the company.

Gaslighting is the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one's own advantage.

"In this age of misinformation - of 'fake news', conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deep fakes - gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time," Merriam-Webster said in a statement on Monday.

Curiously, search interest in the word was not driven by any single event, the company's editor-at-large told the Associated Press.

"It was a word looked up frequently every single day of the year," Peter Sokolowski told the US wire service.

 

[no country for old wainds]

no they haven’t, stop gaslighting me.

 

[CiG]

no they haven’t, stop gaslighting me.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

https://skysbreath.com/brittney-griner-still-has-a-shot/

so
if I'm reading this correctly
an American woman, is having to serve a 9-year-prison sentence in Russia, for possession of something she bought at a cash-register in America

 

[Bloopy]

Another dull old day in Scarborough:

New Year’s Eve fireworks cancelled because of masturbating walrus

 

[Slammed]

After the good news yesterday that George Pell died now for some sadder news.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-12/jeff-beck-dies-aged-78/101847374

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

The new bing AI chatbox is legit ....

https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474

 

[CiG]

Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to restore ties after China-brokered talks.

Iran and Saudi Arabia, the two great oil-producing rivals of the Middle East, have agreed to restore ties and reopen embassies seven years after relations were severed.

The agreement came after Chinese-brokered talks held in Beijing. “As a result of the talks, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies … within two months,” Iran’s state news agency Irna reported, citing a joint statement.

This is huge.

 

[RadicalThrasher]

1 Killed, 28 Injured When Theater Roof Collapses: Report

The roof collapsed during a Friday night heavy metal concert at the Apollo Theater in Belvidere.

patch.com

This happened last night. About 70 miles or a little over an hour from where I'm at. It was a Morbid Angel show + Skeletal Remains and Revocation . Not sure if it was an actual tornado or just strong winds? Reports around here were over 90mph winds! 1 dead and over 28 people injured........crazy

 

[Slammed]

I was reading that last night. Seems like the theatre copped a fair whack, taking out the roof and the front awning. Morbid Angel posted on FB that the show was cancelled and asked anyone still traveling to the gig not to come, so I guess the gig hadn't started at the time.

 

[no country for old wainds]

just another victim of our society's obsession with violent video games like battle chess

 

[The Butt]

What a fucking animal lmao. Absolute dog and not in a good way.

 

[Bloopy]

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/beijing-can-bring-roads-to-standstill-with-electric-cars/news-story/1ef6f0e71ce7b3cf836ebef43969ab41

Britain’s roads could be paralysed by Beijing with electric cars made in China with “major security issues”, an industry figure has warned.

Well that sounds fun to watch unfold!

 

[no country for old wainds]

come here, big tits. come here, big tits. come here, big tits. your tits belong to me. give them to me. i want to claim my tits. i want to claim my tits. i want to claim my tits. these are my tits.

 

[Bloopy]

ChatGPT is still fuckin' weird:

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds

Over the course of the study researchers found that in March GPT-4 was able to correctly identify that the number 17077 is a prime number 97.6% of the times it was asked. But just three months later, its accuracy plummeted to a lowly 2.4%. Meanwhile, the GPT-3.5 model had virtually the opposite trajectory. The March version got the answer to the same question right just 7.4% of the time—while the June version was consistently right, answering correctly 86.8% of the time.

 

[Bloopy]

Bored Ape NFT creators downplay complaints that harmful UV light at their ‘Apefest’ party seared owners’ eyeballs

Imagine spending all that money on an NFT only to never see it again

 

[no country for old wainds]

Houston rapper Viper accused of kidnapping, holding woman captive for years

Lee Carter, 52, was arrested Thursday in connection to a kidnapping in progress officers responded to in 2023.

www.chron.com

you'll cowards don't even kidnap women

 

[CiG]

Houston rapper Viper accused of kidnapping, holding woman captive for years

Lee Carter, 52, was arrested Thursday in connection to a kidnapping in progress officers responded to in 2023.

www.chron.com

you'll cowards don't even kidnap women

I made this exact same joke on Facebook.