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🚨 Actualización | Fueron encontradas 12 iguanas de Galápagos presuntamente trasladadas de manera ilegal hacia el continente. Una de ellas ya falleció y varias presentan entumecimiento en sus extremidades debido a las condiciones en las que estaban siendo transportadas. Desde este momento, los animales están bajo custodia de @EcuadorMAE para su análisis, estabilización y atención especializada.
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mindy🌷@mindyisserOct 16
how is this legal!!!!! nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/po…

$137 Million in A.I.-Generated Ads Flood the Midterms

Republicans have used A.I.-generated content more often than Democrats, ranging from subtle enhancements to convincing deepfakes.

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Scott Stedman
@ScottMStedmanOct 13
Outlets covering the arrest are missing a major piece of this. This story is going to blow up:
Scott Stedman
@ScottMStedmanOct 13
The man arrested for planting a secret recording device at OpenAI's headquarters is a Venture Partner of a VC firm alongside the son of a senior Saudi intelligence official:
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Bhaskar Sunkara@sunraysunrayOct 4
I wrote about one of my favorite bits of left-media history: in the '80s, MoJo editor @MMFlint objected to Paul Berman's Contra quasi-apologetics, Mother Jones fired him for it, he used his wrongful termination settlement cash to fund Roger & Me. jacobin.com/2026/10/how-a-fi…

Getting Fired from Mother Jones Made Michael Moore

In 1986, Michael Moore didn’t want to run Paul Berman’s article on Nicaragua. Getting pushed out of Mother Jones turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his career.

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Tom Cruise Stands Up for 'Digger' Amid Tough Box Office: "I'm So Proud of What We Created" hollywoodreporter.com/movies…

Tom Cruise Stands Up for ‘Digger’ Amid Tough Box Office: “I’m So Proud of What We Created”

Alejandro G. Iñárritu helmed the big-budget Warner Bros. release that is struggling in its opening weekend.

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Seth Harp@sethharpesqOct 1
Holy shit. America’s premier national police force and domestic intelligence agency had ALL of its personnel files stolen by a French hacking collective, including the job assignments of FBI agents in counterintelligence and undercover narcotics. How is this not bigger news?
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The greatest political ad in the history of political ads. Nothing comes close. Putting Tim Robinson, in the hot dog skit, into any ad, is genius.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayedSep 28
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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@GizmodoSep 29
This Gene-Tech Is More Impressive Than the Extinct Dire Wolves It Created. Here's Why gizmodo.com/this-gene-tech-i…

This Gene-Tech Is More Impressive Than the Extinct Dire Wolves It Created. Here's Why

Colossal Biosciences brought back 20 key segments of extinct dire wolf DNA into living, breathing, wolf pups—and the tech used to do it could change conservation and paleontology for good.

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Sharareh Drury@shararehdrurySep 27
If you like this tweet + support a Free Palestine ((if you don’t please leave)), sharing the Chuffed campaign for my friend Nermeen who is a medical student in Gaza. All donations support her and her displaced family 💜 chuffed.org/project/176680-s…

Support Nermeen and Her Family in Gaza

Hi, my name is Sharareh Drury. I am based in California, and I created this fundraiser for my friend Nermeen Ziyad Abo Mostafa, a 22-year-old Palestinian medical student living in Gaza.

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Alex Gibney
@alexgibneyfilmSep 26
Will X allow ads for the trailer for my film “Musk,” about the self-proclaimed “free-speech absolutist?”
Will 🦥 Menaker@willmenakerSep 26
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Adam Johnson@adamjohnsonCHISep 27
Yes Amodei saying AI “may be deserving of important rights” and—when asked about Anthropic’s role in the Minab school bombing—saying it was “a use case that doesnt even violate our red lines” perfectly captures how our ruling class thinks about human welfare in the coming decades
Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinsonSep 26
unfortunately AI safety is in the hands of lunatics who believe that if you shut down a computer you might be "killing" it and violating its rights
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Jake@jacobkleinmanSep 26
I saw GODZILLA MINUS ZERO earlier this week. It's probably the best Godzilla movie ever made. The special effects are stunning. The story is soul-crushing. The WW2 symbolism is scathing. I hope Takashi Yamazaki never stops making Godzilla movies.
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Jordan Fish@jwordfishSep 25
Can’t believe they quoted my joke without crediting me
DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilmSep 24
A24, Sony and The New York Times are among the companies who have submitted interest in acquiring Letterboxd. Bidding starts at $300M. (Source: nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…)
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the way Paul Newman says the phrase “a student of human moves” in this scene The Color of Money is so important
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Geologists Are Hunting for Camouflaged ‘Rock Glaciers’ Vital to Global Freshwater Supplies gizmodo.com/geologists-are-h…

Geologists Are Hunting for Camouflaged ‘Rock Glaciers’ Vital to Global Freshwater Supplies

A new study of found hidden glaciers equivalent to “roughly 600 Olympic-sized swimming pools,” and its secrets may help fight future droughts.

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Replying to @barbarismcrit
Agree. It’s so stupid. A 10,000x exaggeration of my face would look deranged. It’d be too terrifying for the other doppelgängers in The Backrooms. Content grift accts that post this Geoid thing, I genuinely believe, are closer to Flat Earthers than they would like to admit.
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Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth gizmodo.com/marss-ancient-cl…

Mars’s Ancient Clay Holds the Same Organic Molecules That May Have Sparked Life on Earth

The team operating a remote chemistry lab onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover won a Gizmodo Science Fair award for discovering compelling chemical evidence that Mars could have once supported life.

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It’s an incredible time for AI’s very ethical man, Dario Amodei.
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@GizmodoSep 18
While Issuing Warnings About AI-Made Bioweapons, Anthropic Quietly Set Up an AI-Run, Robot-Operated Biology Lab Here in the US gizmodo.com/while-issuing-wa…

While Issuing Warnings About AI-Made Bioweapons, Anthropic Quietly Set Up an AI-Run, Robot-Operated...

A new Reuters exposé uncovered Anthropic’s plan to have Claude guide robot lab assistants through bio experiments in a real-world wet lab.

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Matthew Phelan@CBMDPAug 14
I really have no words for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's future wife, Cami Clark, sending Jeffrey Epstein a PDF copy of her luxury porn startup's first film script — AmericanGirllnParis.pdf — back in 2011. justice.gov/epstein/files/Da…
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