jon christian
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Editor at Futurism, horror/pinball enthusiast, lover of weird stuff, as previously seen in the Boston Globe, Vice, Slate, Wired etc. Please DM with tips and/or memes
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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Musk, not content on destroying the Earth, blows up moon. futurism.com/space/spacex...
SpaceX Achieves Its First Moon Landing by Accidentally Crashing Into It at 5,400 Miles Per Hour, Causing Huge Explosion and 60-Foot Crater
On Wednesday, the upper stage of a SpaceX rocket finally smashed into the Moon at several times the speed of sound.
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"landed on the moon like you asked, boss!" futurism.com/space/spacex...
SpaceX Achieves Its First Moon Landing by Accidentally Crashing Into It at 5,400 Miles Per Hour, Causing Huge Explosion and 60-Foot Crater
On Wednesday, the upper stage of a SpaceX rocket finally smashed into the Moon at several times the speed of sound.
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"There’s a real irony buried in all this AI slop: one AI-surveillance company’s search engine is quietly manufacturing an excuse to destroy another AI-surveillance company’s product. If that doesn’t sum up the current state of the AI-obsessed tech industry, nothing will."
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 5h agoincredible futurism.com/artificial-i...
Wait, I kind of love this? This is also just Some Guy but he is like "I am some guy, let me know if you need anything"
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's ChatGPT but just a guy futurism.com/artificial-i...
can't shake the feeling that slop menus are going to be a deciding factor in the AI backlash
🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪@murderxbryan.bsky.social · yesterdayHey man, maybe just make the sandwiches and take a pic of them.
facebook is filling up with zero-effort AI-generated soap opera slop, and however bad you imagine they may be, i guarantee they are so much worse
this AI ad on the subway literally shows them putting in the prompt "fix prod. make no mistakes"
babe wake up, katy perry tried to crowd surf in a giant bottle but the crowd wouldn't push her back to the stage
The Minions willing to go where Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would not.
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 4d agowent to see the new Minions movie and i am being 100 percent serious when i say it was a PG-rated movie with a sudden, totally unexpected scene of brutal human decapitation
went to see the new Minions movie and i am being 100 percent serious when i say it was a PG-rated movie with a sudden, totally unexpected scene of brutal human decapitation
you just know that he is absolutely FUMING right now www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
Justice Dept. admits Reflecting Pool renovation was ‘hasty and botched,’ drops case against former Olympian | CNN Politics
The Justice Department is admitting that President Donald Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was “hasty and botched,” and it is dropping the criminal case against f...
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A new Google Earth update, which allowed users to alter satellite imagery with AI, let me cover my rural PA hometown with fake fire, drought, and soldiers. Google now says it's rolling back the feature. w/ @f-w-l.bsky.social futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis
Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.
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That didn't last long futurism.com/artificial-i...
Google Pulls Down Feature for AI-Generating Fake Satellite Images on Google Earth After It Immediately Turns Into a Blatant Misinformation Crisis
Google is adding an image generation tool straight into Google Earth, allowing anyone to fabricate made-up satellite images.
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ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
Here's a recent pitch I received via the persona "June Barton." When I opened Barton's email profile picture in a new window, I could see that it still had a watermark for an AI image marketplace called "this-person-does-not-exist.com"
made their way to my inbox as well, with some VERY booster-y "ideas," lol (I did not respond to any, but did forward one to a friend out of mere amusement. little did I know!)
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Just love a solid busting.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
me when it turns out all those garbage PR emails in my inbox actually ARE from AI-generated fake publicists
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 5d agoNEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
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Infuriating scoop by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social: a PR agency called Movchan has been using a battalion of fake, AI-generated PR agents to spam journalists with pitches for its clients, with absolutely no disclosure that they're not real people futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
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NEW: Cambridge Analytica -- the company that pilfered tens of millions of people's FB data, causing a huge scandal that got Mark Zuckerberg dragged in front of Congress -- has returned as an AI slop zombie that's plagiarized publications ranging from Wired to the NYT futurism.com/artificial-i...
Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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