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AI companion tech company Genies launches a tool for celebrities and their agents to develop "expressive AI identities" that can interact with fans (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/ai-companion-genies-celebrity-avatar-…

AI Companion Company Genies Launches Celebrity Avatar Tools
AI companion company Genies has launched a new creation tools product that will enable celebrities to develop avatars to interact with fans.

🚜 California farmland doused with 2.5 million pounds of PFAS pesticides each year, analysis finds
https://www.thenewlede.org/2025/11/california-farmland-doused-with-2-5-million-pounds-of-pfas-pesticides-each-y…

California farmland doused with 2.5 million pounds of PFAS pesticides each year, analysis finds - The New Lede
Farm fields in California, the largest US agricultural state, are sprayed each year with an average of 2.5 million pounds of pesticides containing toxic PFAS, potentially exposing millions of people to the chemicals through contaminated food, soil and drinking water, according to a new analysis of state regulatory data.

Found a website about California Horse Racing and the horse names are fucking incredible. tag yourself im either Unusual Heat or Lost Bus
https://californiahorseracinghistory.neocities.org/

Peace prize winner celebrates terrorist attack on her country.
The Nobel committee had already lost any credibility.
This caps even that.
La opositora María Corina Machado celebra la intervención militar de EEUU en Venezuela: "Estamos listos para tomar el poder"
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La opositora María Corina Machado celebra la intervención militar de EEUU en Venezuela: "Estamos listos para tomar el poder"
"Llegó la hora de la libertad", ha señalado la líder opositora. Sin embargo, en estos momentos no parece probable que se haga efectivo un cambio de régimen en Venezuela

Understanding the New Wave of Chatbot Legislation: California SB 243 and Beyond
https://fpf.org/blog/understanding-the-new-wave-of-chatbot-legislation-california-sb-243-and-beyond/
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Opmars van extreemrechts op kandidatenlijsten van FVD.
https://www.nrc.nl/nie…

Extreemrechtse kandidaten op kieslijsten Forum voor Democratie bij gemeenteraadsverkiezingen
Forum voor Democratie stelt diverse kandidaten met banden met extreemrechtse groeperingen op voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen.

kind of wild, but only michael jackson & dr. seuss outrank syd barrett & rick wright as 2025's best-paid dead celebrities (though i assume that's a 1-year-only thing after the floyd sold their publishing rights in 2024). https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattcraig/202

The Highest-Paid Dead Celebrities Of 2025
On the 25th anniversary of the Forbes ranking, The Notorious B.I.G., Miles Davis and Jimmy Buffett join a heavenly lineup of musicians as the greatest earners in the great beyond. Plus: How Michael Jackson earned $3.5 billion in the afterlife.

California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/weary-of-data-brokers-california-site-offers…

Big Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://

Big Tech blocked California data center legislation, leaving only a study requirement
Tools that power artificial intelligence devour energy. But attempts to shield regular Californians from footing the bill in 2025 ended with a law requiring regulators to write a report about the issue by 2027.

jazz_collab: Jazz collaboration network
The network of collaborations among jazz musicians, and among jazz bands, extracted from The Red Hot Jazz Archive digital database, covering bands that performed between 1912 and 1940.
This network has 198 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Unweighted
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