‘Woke’ activist journalists f*ck around and find out. After Conde Nast effectively shut down the trash fire that was Teen Vogue, the terminated union employees confronted the HR manager and filmed themselves harassing him. And, of course, those employees were also fired. Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Remember how long ago it was when you could actually read Wired? Well, neighbor, that’s too long — ago!)
Elon Musk has dropped the beta of Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia competitor and the media is already taking potshots at it by calling it “alt-right.”
Wikipedia has their own page up about Grokipedia, and it’s exactly what you would expect from Wikipedia.
We pull up a few pages and do a comparison of how an unbiased AI parses information vs. a biased human, and the difference is pretty startling. Here’s more from Clownfish TV.
Wired magazine is convinced that it’s only a matter of time before Elon Musk “has the keys to all of the rifle lockers in outer space.” Anyone know the Klingon phrase for “come and take them!?”
Here’s more from Steve Green in a new The Right Angle discussion. Green is flanked by Bill Whittle and Scott Ott. The full title: “Musk the Merciless: Ruler Of The Earth!”
In an interview with Joe Rogan, Bill Murray slams Bob Woodward’s reporting on John Belushi in Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. Murray said Woodward got everything about Belushi wrong, so much so that he doubts the accuracy or honesty of anything Woodward and Carl Bernstein wrote about Richard Nixon in their 1984 tome All The President’s Men.
Here, let’s hear from Richard Nixon himself about the Woodward-Bernstein book. This interview with Nixon was done in 1983 by former White House aide Frank Gannon. The interview is presented by the Richard Nixon Foundation.
Even in death, the secrets of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous private island remain tightly guarded. But in 2024, WIRED conducted an investigation uncovering the data of mobile devices belonging to almost 200 of his visitors.
How strong was the data? So precise that we followed visitor’s movements to and from Epstein Island to within centimeters—tracking their countries, neighborhoods and even buildings of origin. This is Epstein Island’s Secret Data: On The Grid.
An eyewitness on the set of the film Rust, when Alec Baldwin accidently shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, told The Sun that the tragedy was recorded on camera as the cast and crew did a take rehearsing the scene.
The insider claimed, “The camera was facing Alec, who was shooting in the camera’s general direction during a rehearsal scene that was being recorded. The cameras captured Alec shooting, but Halyna and Joel (Souza, director) were behind the camera, so I don’t think the cameras captured them being shot.” He said cameras, lights and props were damaged from the gunfire, with broken glass everywhere, so it is unclear if the footage would be salvable.
Contrary to the insider’s comments, H.A. Goodman is reporting the footage was saved on the Cloud. Goodman says the fact that the camera was destroyed is irrelevant in this day and age, since everything recorded is instantaneously sent to the Cloud or some other internet service. “The more you look into this, nothing makes sense,” Goodman says. “It’s either absolute incompetence or some kind of deliberate act, or something very bizarre.” Here’s more.
