After announcing last week that it would have to “temporarily cease operations” due to the ban of X in Brazil, popular celebrity-watching account @21metgala — which is apparently run entirely by Brazilian admins — is back, with the caveat that its connection is “unstable.”
Brazilian fans play an outsized role in online fandoms for actors, musicians, and other celebrities.
[Twitter]
Tigran Gambaryan, a compliance officer at crypto giant Binance, has been detained in Nigeria since February on charges of tax evasion and money laundering. In March, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao was sentenced to four months in prison in the US.
Reuters reports that Gambaryan, a US citizen, has once again applied for bail, saying he is suffering from a herniated disc and “bouts of malaria and pneumonia.”
The claim that the Titanic was swapped with a sister ship and intentionally sunk for an insurance payout is, according to Reuters, a long-running and meritless rumor.
But it’s entirely new to me! And extremely hilarious! You should treat this (and anything else on that cursed site) with the gravity and weight of fanfiction, but let’s be real, fanfiction is fun.
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Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.
We must take on Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Ag, Big Tech, and all the other corporate monopolists whose greed is denying progress for working people.
There’s a separate song playing for each group of delegates during the DNC roll call (“Empire State of Mind” for New York, “Lose Yourself” for Michigan, and that one Dropkick Murphys song for Massachusetts). Who processed these copyright clearances? Who decided “The Next Episode” is the theme song for the state of California?
Finally, a legal ruling on whether TikTok is a real search engine. (It’s not.)
This was mandated for all federal agencies back in March, so expect more of these kinds of announcements.
CISA’s general ambit means this hire is a tad bit more significant than the average Chief AI Officer — the agency deals with foreign influence operations and election cybersecurity, for instance. (In 2020, the agency’s head was yeeted by Trump for saying that the election had in fact been safe and secure.)
[Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA]
