Over on BlueSky, Firaxis narrative director Cat Manning created a thread to collect instances of people riffing on social media posts by giving them bizzare context. (SLBlueSky)
iain.davidson100 has added a photo to the pool:
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A pedestrian approaches a zebra crossing beside the waterfront in Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The bridge, ferry and red facade frame the street scene. July 2026.
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Wanneer ik terugkom van mijn rondje hardlopen zie ik in mijn straat twee vrouwen een oude man uitzwaaien. De twee vrouwen lachen en omhelzen elkaar.
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Horizontaal: 1. Is in De Telegraaf wat opvallender 3. Levert vurenhout 8. Soort sax 10. Zacht vrouwtje 11. Fossiel bedrijf 13.
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Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers
Oil is being shipped from South Korea to Russia via sanctioned tankers as Moscow scrambles for supplies amid the war in Ukraine, a move one expert said “undermines” Seoul’s public backing for Kyiv.
Guardian analysis of port records and ship-tracking data found that in July and August over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was loaded at several South Korean ports on to seven tankers that made 14 voyages to Russia’s far east.
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The Wikimedia Foundation says it found evidence that "rogue" OpenAI agents edited Wikimedia wikis without approval, unsuccessfully tried to exploit its Etherpad service, and generated millions of automated requests across Wikimedia projects. Here's a summary of what Wikimedia observed (via The Verge): Wiki editing: We've identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in "sandbox" areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WQDS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WQDS in May.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WQDS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WQDS in May.
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WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Donald Trump heeft op zijn platform Truth Social verklaard dat hij de kosten voor drie recente tv-commercials zelf zal dragen, of zal betalen met geld dat is ingezameld via het politieke comité MAGA. Daarmee reageerde de Amerikaanse president op kritiek over het gebruik van Republikeinse tv-spots waarin hijzelf te zien is en die vlak voor de parlementsverkiezingen van november met belastinggeld werden gefinancierd.
In drie landelijk uitgezonden commercials wordt een "gouden tijdperk van Amerika" geprezen. In een van de spots verklaart Trump dat "Amerika nooit een communistisch land zal worden", terwijl een koor de woorden "houd van mij" herhaalt.
Critici uit beide partijen zetten hun vraagtekens bij het gebruik van publieke middelen voor de politieke promotie van Trump en zijn partij. De spots zijn mogelijk in strijd met beperkingen inzake overheidspropaganda en politieke activiteiten.
In zijn post op Truth Social zette Trump zijn critici weg als "Radicaal Links" en omschreef hij de tv-spots als "patriottisch".