The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

If you search TikTok for Hurricane Melissa videos right now, you'll see a flood of AI-generated and fake videos. These AI videos include eye of the storm views from above, sharks swimming in floodwaters, huge waves battering towns, destroyed airports, and fake news reports.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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If Dems win the Supreme Court races in Pennsylvania in 9 days, it’s extremely likely the GOP can’t get a majority on that court until 2029. The GOP really wants to have this majority during the 2028 presidential race. Can’t put the stakes any more clearly than that. boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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His ROOMBA that had been sending detailed maps of his house god knows where, and bricking itself when he tried to disable the spyware INCREDIBLE freaking story Can we have Things with No Internet please, happy to pay extra

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12mo ago

this man hacked into the mainframe of his roomba codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day...

We’re expecting the new Deputy Labour Leader to be announced imminently - live here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

On your 📻 at 7pm with The Newsroom on #bbcworldservice

Putin bombed a kindergarten

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Footage shows Russia’s deliberate strikes on a kindergarten in Kharkiv. At the time of the attack by three Shahed drones, 48 children were sheltering inside.

All this stuff, aside from being ugly as hell, once more proposes the UK as a country which doesn’t pay its debts. It’s unserious.

Robert Wright@reporterrwright.ft.com · 12mo ago

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

We are reporting a MASS HYSTERIA EVENT at Heathrow that closed Terminal 4 for a bit. No-one was hurt.

Israel claims it has already set back Iran's presumed nuclear programme by at least two years, a day after President Trump warned Tehran has a "maximum" of two weeks to avoid possible American air strikes. Gideon Saar on Saturday: We already delayed the possibility of a nuclear bomb by 2/3 years

2005 PRIDE AND PREJUDICE IS ON IPLAYER, RUN DON’T WALK www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Pride and Prejudice

Romantic drama. Worried about what is to become of her five unmarried daughters, Mrs Bennet believes she may found an answer when a wealthy bachelor becomes their neighbour.

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A busy weekend of news for you to catch up on: Five years since George Floyd’s death; Israel under mounting pressure over the deaths of 9 children in a single family - the mother is a paediatric doctor at the local hospital. And, Trump lashes out against Putin. Tune in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Newsroom - 25/05/2025 22:06 GMT - BBC Sounds

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

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Builder.ai just went bust. Around half a billion dollars invested from the likes of Microsoft, QIA and Insight Partners wiped out. Full story here with @alexandraheal.bsky.social. Comes after a run of probing FT stories (led by Alex) on the company and its founder Sachin Duggal on.ft.com/43gI8YN

Microsoft-backed UK tech unicorn Builder.ai collapses into insolvency

[FREE TO READ] Once high-flying group founded by Sachin Dev Duggal says its was unable to recover from ‘past decisions’

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“Goodwill towards Israel is running out” - BBC’s international editor Jeremy Bowen www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Reporter Reads - Jeremy Bowen: Goodwill towards Israel is running out - BBC Sounds

The UK, France and Canada say the level of human suffering in Gaza "is intolerable."

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Israeli authorities have temporarily allowed us to deliver limited aid to Gaza after 11 weeks of blockade. A drop in the ocean. It must reach the civilians who need it so urgently, and we must be allowed to scale up. We are determined to save as many lives as we can.

I can’t believe there was a time in my life when I didn’t know what jujube tea was

Tried to put on a news podcast from a very established media company - really interesting sounding topic on fast fashion - couldn’t make it through five minutes because of the unbearable amount of vocal fry. Why are people doing so much of this these days? Am I the only one who finds it grating?

Nigel Farage once doubted the name “Reform” but Patrick O'Flynn, former Ukip MEP, advised him to stick with it patrickoflynn.substack.com/p/bite-size-...

Sky News Australia projects Labour and the incumbent PM Anthony Albanese will win the general election

Nigel Farage tells Sky: "Kemi Badenoch please stay. Please don't resign. We want you to stay on as leader. I'll put some money if you want to keep you there...In many parts of this country if you vote Conservative, you get Labour. The Tories really are a waste of space."

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

My husband is in Vogue! 😍 Proud wife moment www.vogue.com/article/excl...

Great Loves, Great Loss, and Great Fortunes: An Exclusive First Look at ‘The Gilded Age’ Season 3

“If you married the wrong guy, you were in life-long trouble.” So says “The Gilded Age” creator Julian Fellowes, summing up one of the many thematic undercurrents of the historical series’s third seas...

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Right, come on Duffle Coat #grandnational

The video shows that the 15 aid workers in Gaza were wearing medic reflective gear and had emergency lights on, contradicting Israel’s claims. There is nonstop rapid fire heard for over six minutes, as the aid worker recording quietly repeats his dying prayers www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On

The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

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Four mins until the nyse opening bell…

The News Media Association, News UK and Financial Times are among the signatories to a letter to Keir Starmer saying there should be no change to big tech regulation as part of a trade deal with the US

Digital Businesses and Campaigners Tell Keir Starmer Parliamentary Sovereignty and UK Democracy Are Not For Sale - News Media Association

More than 50 businesses, campaigning organisations and individuals have called on the Prime Minister to deliver on the objectives of two key pieces of legislation designed to make the digital…

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Fox removed the stock market ticker from their broadcasts.

If this ain't a goddamn perfect eulogy, I don't know what is.

Live coverage now in the USA as Americans try their own cheese and chocolate for the first time