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Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/goog

Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation | TechCrunch
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”

British Airways pulls sponsorship from Louis Theroux's podcast after he interviewed Bob Vylan about his Glastonbury comments, saying it "breaches" its policy (Harry Taylor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct

Rams-Panthers takeaways: Stafford's fumble dooms L.A., Carolina pulls off upset https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6849510/2025/11/30/rams-panthers-score-result-takeaways-nfl-week-13/

Open-source security group pulls out of U.S. grant, citing DEI restrictions
https://cyberscoop.com/python-software-foundation-rejects-federal-grant-funding-citing-dei-restrictions/

SEC filing: CoinShares withdraws registrations for its XRP, Solana staking, and Litecoin ETFs to focus on higher-margin opportunities ahead of a US listing (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coinshares-pulls-p…

Need to ensure Oracle's “investments" into AI continues to crash their stock and Ellison's wealth. Ellison has now eclipsed Musk as the most democratically dangerous billionaire.
Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/22/cbs-pulls-60-minutes-segment-el-salvador-prison?CMP=share_btn_url

CBS pulls '60 Minutes' segment on notorious El Salvador prison (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/22/cbs-pulls-60-minutes-el-salvador-prison-00702617
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p82#a251222p82

Percy Butler pulls off a tightrope act to down Commanders' punt at 1-yard line https://www.commanders.com/video/percy-butler-pulls-off-a-tightrope-act-to-down-commanders-punt-at-1-yard-line

'Allowed That Piece of Sh-t Here?': Pennsylvania Venue Pulls the Plug on Kyle Rittenhouse Event After Locals Raise Hell
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/11/17/pennsylvania-venue-pulls-the-plug-on-kyle-rittenhouse/

One might think that the maga-klan actually wants these people to destabilize the US....
"Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/neo-nazi-terror-the-base

Yikes, so much cybersecurity news, so little time. Check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--SpaceX pulls the plug on 2,000 Myanmar scam compounds' Starlink devices,
--PhantomCaptcha phishing campaign targeted critical Ukraine orgs,
--OpenAI is laid back on Atlas prompt injection flaws,
--Ransomware cases soar in Japan,
--N. Korean hackers have pilfered billions according to monitors,
--N. Korean ha…

SpaceX pulls the plug on 2,000+ Myanmar scam compounds' Starlink devices
PhantomCaptcha phishing campaign targeted critical Ukraine orgs, OpenAI is laid back on Atlas prompt injection flaws, Ransomware cases soar in Japan, N. Korean hackers have pilfered billions according to monitors, N. Korean hackers target drone makers, LG Uplus reports breach, much more

Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back;
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/neo-nazi-terror-the-base…

Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
ORAC: We will be lovers for a little while, or maybe for a long while, who knows?
SOOLIN: I do. [Pulls key]
VILA: What a thought.
SOOLIN: Keller was right again.
AVON: Vila, try and bring Tarrant back up.

Charlie (penguinz0) pulls back the veil on how much ad money he's made as a streamer & why he won't take donations from anyone any more.
(Spoiler: $40M in the last ~5yrs. Top streamers are filthy rich & he's not a top streamer)
▶️ I'm Not Turning It Back On - penguinz0
https://

OpenAI pulls back: ChatGPT will no longer give medical, legal, or financial advice over liability fears - Technology News | The Financial Express
https://www.financialexpress.com/life/tech

CBS News Pulls '60 Minutes' Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment-correspondent-calls-decision-political-841ea812?st=bfXGXU&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p2#a251222p2

Fascist invaders crash into car, pulls father out and beat him in front of his children at a Home Depot in Harlingen, TX (12/28/25)
Source:
#politics

we're driving thru some states on a road trip to grandparents and my older bro is playing bulgarian choir music or some shit and this is the most epic gas station stop of all time

“TABS [by Mozilla] pulls exactly the data you need—from HTML to Markdown to JSON—using the fastest, most efficient method for each page. It adapts to the structure and complexity of the site, staying stealthy and reliable so your [AI] agents always get what they need without friction.”
Ethical Stealthy AI Scraping (tm) by Mozilla.
#Mozilla

Everyone is completely shocked by this, right? Like we're all absolutely positive that the timing was just a coincidence, aren't we? #FirstAmendment #NewHampshire

New Hampshire town pulls plug on open forum after Satanists hoist flag
Somersworth allowed residents to apply for and erect their flags on a public space. That changed after Satanists got their turn.

Free Press is dying in the US.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-k8.hWGb.X7t0NTYwMwEc&smid=nytcore-android-share

’60 Minutes’ Pulls Segment on Venezuelans Deported by Trump Administration, Drawing Criticism
Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.

@… thank you!
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland/pulls/1 includes suggested changes. (Avoidance of SDDM should be…

Scoop: White House pulls Joel Rayburn's nomination for top State job (Hans Nichols/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/27/joel-rayburns-nomination-pulled-trump-state-dept
http://www.memeorandum.com/251027/p128#a251027p128

Eagles vs. Commanders takeaways: Philadelphia pulls away in second half to win NFC East again https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6906856/2025/12/20/eagles-commanders-score-takeaways-week-16/

Found out that the animal character print vinyl remnant roll I bought from a designer (custom upholstery project for a kids area of a bouldering gym) is a Charley Harper print, I connected with someone on threads who has the same print on canvas material. Pretty cool!
#vinylbags #beltbag

the Question I have will be this:
Will Venezuela try to quickly procure #RussiaUkraineWar inspired military drone materiel (ie. cheap, numerous) beforehand to use in defense... and is the American war machine, particularly the Navy, ready for that?
Don't be too surprised if at the start of things Venezuela pulls off some surprisingly destructive actions not unlike Argentina vs UK in the Falklands with French exocets.
#war #theAmericanFascist

Sources: Bari Weiss skipped five 60 Minutes CECOT screenings; after her edits were added on Thursday, she asked on Friday to add a Stephen Miller interview (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/media/cbs-news-ba…

Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment
Several veteran correspondents questioned how Ms. Weiss, the new CBS News editor in chief, had handled the segment, after she defended her decision on a call with the newsroom.

Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap<…

Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered Video Recaps after viewers noticed errors in Fallout’s season one summary.

"60 Minutes" yanks segment, prompting concerns around editorial independence (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/22/60-minutes-pulls-segment-trump-bari-weiss
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p43#a251222p43

Everyone has their own risk profile and security posture, but these "mobile IDs" are a bad idea. In order to show your mobile ID to, say, a cop who pulls you over, you have to hand them your _unlocked phone_. #ItsATrap

Arkansas mobile ID now available in Samsung, Google Wallets
Access to your Arkansas driver’s license is just a tap away.

Google Pulls Gemma from AI Studio After Defamation Claims | The Tech Buzz
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/google-pulls-gemma-from-ai-studio-after-defamation-claims

Amazon Prime Video pulls its AI recaps, which it began testing in November, for Fallout, Bosch, and other shows after users noticed errors in the Fallout recaps (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap<…

Amazon Prime Video pulls AI-powered recaps after Fallout flub
Amazon Prime Video has pulled its AI-powered Video Recaps after viewers noticed errors in Fallout’s season one summary.

Trump pulls endorsement of Greene amid growing rift (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5607005-trump-pulls-mtg-endorsement/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251114/p136#a251114p136

I purchased some #Bambu filament refills and am struggling. I got them on the spool without any issues, and then used the one visible filament end (which is bent 90 degrees at the end, to make it easier to find I assume?). But the filament immediately pulls below the spooled-up part, which massively increases friction and leads to my printer being unable to pull it in, the spool wobbling while be…

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company Sweetshop, after backlash that the ad is distasteful (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

“The real question, then, is not ‘what can we do?’, but ‘what are we afraid to do?’ Whose comfort are we protecting when we ask safe questions? Whose illusions do we preserve through politeness? Solidarity is not an optic; it is a disruption. It is noisy, uncomfortable, often isolating. It pulls reputation apart rather than polishing it.
…
We are too fluent in the language of outrage, too comfortable in the posture of virtue. History will not absolve spectatorship, even when specta…

When solidarity becomes spectacle
Francesca Albanese’s visit to South Africa exposed a truth we prefer not to face: that our moral witness has hardened into ritual. We watch, we clap, we call it solidarity.

Duffy pulls $40M from California over English-only trucker rule (Max Rego/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/5557644-duffy-pulls-40m-california-english-only-trucker-rule/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p161#a251015p161

2 shots, neither on target… one blocked, one over the bar. For all the talk about defensive woes, the offense isn’t producing anything. Salah has one brilliant pass and not much else. Gakpo is disconnected. And Isak hasn’t been fed much at all.
Szoboszlai has been running absolutely full tilt everywhere, trying to carry this sluggish team forward. But, unfortunately, it pulls the shape apart. Gravenberch has been solid. Mac Allister is not himself, but better than past games.

Fubo pulls NBCUniversal channels from its service, including local NBC stations, regional sports networks, CNBC, and MS Now, following a distribution dispute (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/fubo-drops-channels-from-nbc-universal-ami…

Fubo drops channels from NBC Universal amid fee dispute
Disney-owned streamer Fubo has pulled channels from rival broadcaster NBC Universal, owned by Comcast.

Watched the "The Zone of Interest" yesterday on Amazon. Great example of what you can do with the medium of film: multiple cameras and mics were used to make this feel immersive and real (the dialogue is at times hard to understand though).
But then the movie pulls you out with a camera move or a fade to red. I'm not sure I understand the reasoning. Did the director want to prevent people from becoming too comfortable? I felt that the death camp looming in the background a…

Seahawks-Falcons takeaways: Seattle dominates on defense and pulls away in second half https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6870315/2025/12/07/seahawks-falcons-score-results-takeaways-nfl/

McDonald's Netherlands pulls an AI-generated Christmas ad, made by ad agency TBWA\NEBOKO with film production company The Sweetshop, after social media backlash (Joe Wilkins/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-generated-comme…

McDonald’s Pulls Down AI-Generated Holiday Ad After Deluge of Mockery
McDonald's Netherlands is catching flak for a stupefying AI-generated video, which was roundly condemned on social media.

JPMorgan Chase secures deals with fintech middlemen, like Plaid, covering 95% of third-party data pulls, and will receive payment for access to customer data (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/jpmorgan-chase-fintech-fees.html

JPMorgan Chase wins fight with fintech firms over fees to access customer data
The JPMorgan Chase deals mark a shift in the power dynamic between banks, middlemen and the fintech apps that are increasingly threatening incumbents.

Email: Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS' decision was "not an editorial decision, it is a political one" and "we have effectively" handed the government a "kill switch" (David Folkenflik/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282

AI as a Centripetal Technology: Price Compression, Homogenization, and Entry
Aliya Turegeldinova, Bakytzhan Amralinova, Mate Miklos Fodor, Akerkin Eraliyeva, Chen Dayou, Aidos Joldassov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08337

AI as a Centripetal Technology: Price Compression, Homogenization, and Entry
Generative AI does more than cut costs. It pulls products toward a shared template, making offerings look and feel more alike while making true originality disproportionately expensive. We capture this centripetal force in a standard two-stage differentiated-competition framework and show how a single capability shift simultaneously compresses perceived differences, lowers marginal cost and raises fixed access costs. The intuition is straightforward. When buyers see smaller differences across p…

Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a '60 Minutes' Segment (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/media/cbs-news-bari-weiss-60-minutes.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p136#a251222p136

Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back (Ben Makuch/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/neo-nazi-terror-the-base
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p49#a251222p49

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Urges ‘Immediate Impact’ Trade Deadline Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-eager-immediate-impact-trade-deadline-move/?adt_ei=[email]

Apple removes two of the most popular gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, from its App Store in China, citing orders from the country's Cyberspace Administration (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-removes-gay-dating-apps-china-app-store/

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order
The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

Packers' Jacobs pulls through 'flu game' in big way https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46577466/packers-josh-jacobs-battles-illness-huge-game-win-vs-bengals

Curious that whenever someone shows me “the cool #AI flow” they built that’s supposed to be impressive, the conversation goes the same way:
Stage 1: “But you don’t understand. You don’t like AI because you haven’t used it right. Let me show you how much you can do it with.”
Stage 2: “Here are the steps in the flow and the instructions I feed to this agent / custom GPT / Claude project. I tell it to do X, reference document Y, and aim for Z.”
Stage 3: “Now, let me show you the results it gives.”
*Writes task, presses to run the prompt.*
Stage 4: “Umm sorry it’s taking a while. It’s fast but not instant. And by the way, the prompt isn’t perfect, you can definitely make it better. I just threw this together real quick the other day. It makes some mistakes, but it’s really good.”
Stage 5: “Uuuuuuh actually don’t look at the output.” *scrolls or stops screen share or pulls device away.*
“You know it’s already doing so well, if I do more prompt engineering it will get really good but I need to give it better instructions. And it ran just fine last night, I don’t know what’s up with it. And this is a cheap model, if we use another model it will be better.”
Stage 6: “You know, you really shouldn’t judge this so much. The technology will improve, it will get there sooner than you know and then you’ll regret not trying it sooner.”
So curious that this keeps happening 🤷‍♀️
#LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

Uber discontinues monthly EV bonuses as it scales back key climate efforts after embracing Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which slashed clean-energy incentives (Ben Elgin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-1…

France Steps Up Fight Against Disinformation as U.S. Pulls Back, Official Says (Julian E. Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/france-disinformation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p140#a251117p140

Kushner's Firm Pulls Out of Trump-Branded Hotel Deal in Serbia (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/kushner-trump-hotel-deal-serbia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9E8.9Kai.k2gTyGDSDAF7&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p142#a251215p142

Senate pushes forward with boat strike probe as House pulls back (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/11/senate-boat-strike-defense-hegseth-00687115
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p105#a251211p105