The other day I was looking at Twitter (still gotta, unfortunately) and I got ads for AI apps that were like "you can take pictures of girls and make them kiss in bikinis!" just regular ads on the regular feed

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 2h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

R9-ese Democracy

Pop Base@popbase.tv · 2h ago

Rihanna is actively working on new music, A$AP Rocky reveals: “She in the studio right now.[…] Like, bro, she working. She cooking, no funny sh*t. Damn, I’ma get in trouble for this.” (youtu.be/o7OOxa2F8EM?...)

To my mind, Cheekface has emerged as one of the most distinctive and hard-working bands of the '20s. For Pitchfork, I wrote about the new kings of dorky talk-singing, "America's Local Band," Cheekface:

Cheekface: Podium

Read Zach Schonfeld’s review of the album.

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Look her kick a leg

"recession pop" is one of those things where I'm glad it has a name, I just wish it was a better name (also: "elevated horror," "content")

lasagna

There is, unconfirmed but suspected, an AI song on the charts. The artist denies it, though not convincingly. I don't know how to pick out AI beats, but my question is, after listening to it, is: Are the listeners also AI?

Fenix Flexin & Purps On The Beat - RUBBERZ (Official Video)

YouTube video by Fenix Flexin

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Normally I roll my eyes when folks go “this piece of media made by a problematic person was actually made by nobody at all!!” but the more I learn about the production of the X-Men movies the more I think you could get away with making a legit argument because Bryan Singer was not on that set at all

haven't had the guts to watch the new Ariana video... don't know how to talk about this delicately but like we all see it and we're all talking about it, rough

Obviously my videos aren't written by AI, but if I ever become that lazy, I promise you that I will *take that shit to the grave*

relevant to us @alinaisyou.bsky.social

2000s@popculture2000s.bsky.social · 4d ago

OMG MADONNA AND KYLIE PERFOMING TOGETHER !!!!!!

Premiering now on YouTube: DUB vs SUB! It's the very first episode of Digimon Adventure in Translation. Just how different are the two most well-known versions of this anime classic from 1999? Join me, Jakemon, on a journey to find out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD_J...

DUB vs SUB! | Digimon Adventure in Translation episode 1

YouTube video by Weebservations

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What's your favorite performance of an actor playing a bad actor?

"'All-Star'" by Smash Mouth is very good," and also its follow-up, "'All-Star' by Smash Mouth is very bad"

Dave Moore@otherdavemoore.com · 4d ago

Hot takes are annoying, tell me a strong opinion you had about music at some point in your life that changed

Amydog came to bring you her smile

Tomorrow is Digimon Day, and for once I’m prepared. 🔥 🦖 🔥 It’s the first of a BRAND NEW VIDEO SERIES all about Digimon Adventure, now uploading for patrons tonight and premiering for everyone else on YouTube tomorrow night. Been hard at work on this for years and I can finally share the results!

already being rolled back, but, why would you implement this to begin with

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

This was just two weeks ago

More than 200 Fifa members endorse Infantino for fourth term despite Balogun scandal

Fifa’s president is poised for re-election, with Germany the highest-profile FA yet to provide official backing

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more THE ODYSSEY discourse: I wrote about lupita nyong'o's dual roles, how exquisitely she builds two distinct women clamoring for agency, and how her characters clarify wife-guy christopher nolan's concerns about violence against women. @vulture: www.vulture.com/article/the-...

I should also promote the podcast, quite frankly I think this one came out really well! And thank you to @jasonlipshutz.bsky.social for helping us debate the dance diva anthems of the '00s open.spotify.com/episode/53AQ...

174: "Hung Up" vs. "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (w/Jason Lipshutz!)

Song Vs. Song · Episode

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New episode! A song that exists out of time and will outlive us all

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves

YouTube video by Todd in the Shadows

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Our Age of Bronze is collapsing, Liz Lemon

So what's the best two seconds in pop music of 2026 so far?

So much of my life feels like it's rooting for bad people to beat worse people

Complex@complex.com · 6d ago

UEFA Votes 55-0 to Boycott All FIFA Competitions Over Private Equity World Cup Plan Read more: www.complex.com/sports/a/bac...

Gracie Abrams does not connect with me on any level, but not in any way I can really define. Even with the many pans of her floating around I feel like I don't really have a handle on why I personally don't like her.

Podium, our 666th album, out now 🐐 Thank you for choosing Cheekface 🐐

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Adding to a thing I said earlier, that "The Odyssey" is more or less anti-male, this is a really good piece about how the entire Trojan War, in Nolan's telling, is in both conception and execution a prolonged act of gendered violence

Vulture@vulture.com · last wk.

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ taps into an elemental anger that Lupita Nyong’o brings to exquisitely painful life in her dual roles as Helen and Clytemnestra.

i see a lot of comments about how billboard needs to update their formula because it's so boring to see the charts to be so static, compared to the '80s or '90s when there was a lot more turnover the thing is, though, Billboard had a lot of turnover in the '80s because their charts were wrong