Marina Galperina

Edward “Big Balls” Coristine’s latest career moves have been shrouded in “internal miscommunication.” It appears that instead of fully resigning from the government, the DOGE-installed minion has moved on to help continue wreaking havoc at the Social Security Administration. The “special government employee” will be “focused on improving the functionality of the Social Security website,” according to a SSA spokesperson. Sources tell Wired “Big Balls” was on site at the SSA Monday, looking “nervous, almost embarrassed.” Around 70 million people receive Social Security benefits.

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” which would ban gender-affirming care for Medicaid recipients as well as those insured under the Affordable Care Act. House Republican leadership struck the phrase “for minors” with an amendment last night. Some Democrats are pushing back. Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) told The Independent, “It’s horrible, and obviously the fight doesn’t end here.”

Beyond using ChatGPT to do their homework for them, some college students are not even real, SFGATE reports. Many community colleges are being flooded with “ghost students,” or bots likely using Claude AI and Manus to enroll into courses and even complete introductory homework in order to get ahold of state financial aid. Last month, Voice of San Diego reported on colleges using AI to combat this AI fraud.

or stop using passwords all together. Oh, no reason.

Researchers claiming to be from the University of Zurich used bots to post 1,783 comments in the 3.8-million-member subreddit over four months, and all they got was a non-peer reviewed paper claiming their bots were more “persuasive” than humans.

ProPublica zooms in on DOGE cuts’ destructive effect on the collection and distribution of critical data tracking fatal shootings, sexually transmitted infections, child welfare cases, greenhouse-gas emissions, and infinitely more, resulting in a “black hole of information.”

Today is the annual World Quantum Day. It is also the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology because the “initial development of quantum mechanics” is 100 years old.

Google recently showed off “a cinematic vision so surreal, so ahead of its time, that it proved impossible to produce.” Giraffes on Horseback Salad was originally conceived by Salvador Dalí for the Marx Brothers, but was too weird (and not funny enough) to be actually made. Using Veo 2 and Imagen 3, an ad agency and a museum were “finally capable of transforming surrealism into film.” (Unlike... Luis Buñuel? David Lynch?)