AI has made a speedrun straight into Local58 analog horror meme

Screenshot of headline and subhead: A Newspaper Is Allegedly Slapping People’s Names on AI Stories Without Their Permission "If they don’t have the ability in their contract to remove their byline, we’re going to use their name," a company leader reportedly said.

At the Sacramento Bee, unionized journalists are withholding our bylines from McClatchy’s AI-generated “articles” in protest. According to a McClatchy corporate exec, non-unionized reporters will be forced to use their bylines. We stand against this initiative. gizmodo.com/newspaper-co...

It’s an indictment of our political leadership that the deed theft dispute that sparked this protest involves real estate investors that were exposed by The City 3 years ago for doing exactly this kinda thing and nothing preventative has been done since! www.thecity.nyc/2023/07/13/e...

Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Nothing says “government efficiency” and “freedom” quite like spending time sending uncomfortable emails proselytizing to your entire workforce.
www.wired.com/story/government-workers...

Morrissey above Patti Smith at (checks notes) "CBGB Festival" is a heresy, what are we doing here

JOHNNY MARR: 100% SMITHS SET 2025 YouTube video by Rock Docs with Dennis Ball

FFS, absolutely insane to give Morrissey any kind of billing, much less the top. Just watch this instead.

Save yourself some money

i read "returns with morrissey" and actually said "does it?" out loud

Dershowitz in Tucson to defend convicted cult leader, argues evidence tampering TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — Three years ago Keith Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in federal prison.

He has a type.

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KNEECAP - FENIAN (OFFICIAL VIDEO) YouTube video by KNEECAP

What was that? I can't hear this dead Saxon nonsense over this Kneecap song blasting on my speakers

Alex Jones Song YouTube video by Corn Pop TV

Like CORN on the COB

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Alex Jones Song YouTube video by Corn Pop TV

Alex Jones will, in fact, be eating your leftist ass like corn. on the. COB!

Alex Jones Song YouTube video by Corn Pop TV

Oh yes, there will be ass eaten like corn on the cob!

We should all commemorate when Mike D grabbed the money, MCA snatched the gold, and I grabbed two girlies and a beer that's cold

It was a massive error for NYS to have legalized e-bikes sans speed limit before it legalized drivers licenses for the undocumented.

Maybe that's the perverse result preferred by the ambulance chaser who funds what passes for "urbanist" media.

Christine Quinn is running her yap??? Christine Quinn who wanted to ban the Dyke March?! Christine Quinn who called Cynthia Nixon an unqualified lesbian?! Christine Quinn who licked the boots of both Bloomberg and Cuomo???

Is there any reason to think that this single art wasn't just generated via the prompt "Mona Lisa Overdrive also she should be smoking weed"?

Ali G - Terrorism YouTube video by tshekzar

"But what's to stop a terrorist taking over a train driving it into Jah forbid— the White House?"

Stephen Jay Gould on Intelligence Tests (IQ), the Nature - Nurture Controversy 1995 YouTube video by betapicts

The very simple answer Stephen Jay Gould had to the Bell Curve remains unbeaten

Jeffrey Epstein with Lawrence Krauss and Steven Pinker

Yeah, and also…

…it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. Now I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise

the “sounds of the 70s” commercial is stuck in my head forever.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
OH WILLIE WILLIE WILLIE WON’T GO HOME BUT YOU CAN’T PUSH WILLIE ‘CAUSE WILLIE WON’T GO
beach baby, beach baby, there on the sand, from July to the end of september
/words may be off

a medieval illustration of the virgin mary punching a horned, claw-footed, bestial devil

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century