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[derek guy @dieworkwear]

in hindsight, perhaps it was a bad idea to build an entire global economy around whether one man would be faithful to his wife

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Thursday he received a letter from a U.S. attorney informing him he's being investigated for conducting a congressional inquiry. https://t.co/5pNmfj7tsv

[Misfits Studio @Barbara_Chira]

newest exploration using the video editor as the site of inquiry, setting up conditions which invite both the oldest moving picture technology and the newest moving picture technology (AI) to encounter or interact with one another, and for the viewer to find their own unique meaning

this work includes both public domain footage from “Panorama During the Ascent of the Eiffel Tower” (1898) by the Lumiére brothers, as well as my own AI-generated video

(the Lumiére footage represents the first or one of the first motion pictures with the camera ascending rapidly in elevation and able to record a panoramic view)

[Julian Andreone @JulianAndreone]

Whoops! Democrats missed the vote to impeach Pete Hegseth. Where were they? A social hour hosted by the AIPAC-linked Elect Democratic Women PAC studded with lobbyists for the country’s top weapons makers and largest corporations.

Latest w/ @ryangrim
https://t.co/XOFeYrg1ex

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

a man who covered himself in this much leather was never going to be monogamous

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Nine-month-old Raqiq Kanan froze to death Thursday in a tent in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, Al Jazeera reported. Footage shows his father carrying his body. “My son died frozen from the cold,” he said. Eleven children died of hypothermia in Gaza last winter. Israel continues to block 150,000 tents waiting at the border, along with shelter materials that could prevent these deaths.

[MSF International @MSF]

We are appalled and outraged by the Israeli airstrike on Nasser hospital in Gaza, Palestine, last night. We have already treated three people injured in the attack.

It is unconscionable that patients and medical staff are once again being killed and injured inside a hospital, a place where lives should be saved, not taken.

We urge world leaders to move beyond statements of condemnation and take concrete action to ensure the protection of patients, healthcare workers, and facilities in Gaza. The continued attacks on healthcare cannot be met with silence and impunity.

https://t.co/irzDdQx0qZ

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔴 BREAKING | Five Palestinians have been killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Shehab News reports.

[Victoria 🕺🏾 @CurrentlyVicky]

🎧ALBUMS YOU MISSED IN 2024🎧

From the land down under, Amyl and the Sniffers is everything you want in a punk band.
Sexy, uplifting and disruptive
Their album “ Cartoon Darkness” invokes a level of self confidence that can’t be recreated.

Amyl and The Sniffers - Jerkin’

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

🚨This morning we reached the required 218 signatures on my discharge petition for Epstein Files Transparency Act II !

I’m working closely with @RepJayapal, @RepTeresaLF and @RepRoKhanna to get this to the floor for a vote soon.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Under RFK Jr., the CDC cut the number of routinely recommended childhood vaccines in January.

After the change, the rate of babies who did not receive the vitamin K shot jumped dramatically — even though the shot is not a vaccine.
https://t.co/sSr9VegCKt

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Jensen Huang resigned as Nvidia's CEO, president and board member, effective immediately, the company said in a filing Thursday, hours after the Wall Street Journal reported the board was preparing to oust him. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement, and director Harvey Jones becomes Nvidia's first-ever board chair. The filing gives no reason.

How it unfolded:

🔸 Sunday: Huang admitted to staff he'd been unfaithful to his wife. "There is no excuse for what I did," he wrote. The board opened an independent investigation into whether he was "the target of a foreign intelligence effort"

🔸 US intelligence suspects Alice Huang, a former executive at Megaspeed, which bought about $4.8 billion in Nvidia chips, of passing information to China. No public evidence has been released, and China denies it

🔸 Wednesday: The New York Times reported a second affair, with Nvidia healthcare VP Kimberly Powell, who reported to him. The board met that night

The board said it had no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised. President Trump said the FBI is looking into the matter.

Nvidia has lost nearly a third of its market value since its Oct. 6 peak. Some in the tech industry, including Replit CEO Amjad Masad, have questioned the timing, pointing to Huang's championing of open-source AI models, which anyone can download, run and modify for free, unlike the closed, proprietary systems sold by OpenAI and Anthropic. Under Huang, Nvidia released its own open models and argued freely available AI would spread the technology and sell more chips. "If Jensen, the premier champion of open models, is taken out then anyone who wants AI closed, centralized, and controlled might benefit," Masad wrote.

Huang also fought chip export controls. New York Times reporter Tripp Mickle said on the paper's podcast "The Daily" that reporters first looked into Megaspeed after a tip from "a tech industry contact," without saying who.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

“[Democrats] convinced voters that they were going to be the party of change. We can’t convince people of that and then bring back the same leadership.”

Thanks to Brian Bryant & the 600,000 Machinists calling for new Senate leadership.

Voters demanded change. We must LISTEN.

[Misfits Studio @Barbara_Chira]

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with the assistance of AI, this new animation evolved entirely from one still frame from the original stop motion, The Cameraman’s Revenge, by Ladislas Starevich (1912), now in the public domain

[ProPublica @propublica]

The discovery is the latest in a series of destructive blunders along the U.S. border.

In April, border wall contractors bulldozed through a well-marked earthen etching, Las Playas Intaglio, that was believed to be at least 6,500 years old.
https://t.co/xXBaBdwuRm

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

BREAKING: Financial analysts call for a bailout as the AI bubble begins to pop.

Just last year, healthcare and food assistance were cut to give tech corporations and billionaires tax breaks.

More programs and services are likely to be cut if a bailout drains further revenue.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Bye, Felicia.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

There is an active outbreak of avian flu (H5 influenza) in dairy herds in Washington State, particularly the Yakima Valley. A number of dairy workers have been infected, with at least one death. Speaking with workers, we believe the official case numbers are a vast undercount. 1/

[Misfits Studio @Barbara_Chira]

new experiment in using the editor as the site of inquiry, setting up conditions in which the first moving picture technology and current AI video technology may encounter or interact with one another

this video includes both public domain footage from 1896 by the Lumiére brothers, showing a diver emerging from a river in France, as well as a generated video of my own

[MSF International @MSF]

🔴 Blankets
🔴 Tents
🔴 Shelter material

Displaced families in Gaza, Palestine, urgently need these lifesaving materials. Israel must allow the unhindered entry of winter supplies — people need safe, dignified shelter.