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Memo to staff: a Times of London editor says two incidents where reporters were duped, including the de Blasio case, "did serious damage to our reputation" (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/bill-de-blasio-fake-i…

ChatGPT-Composed Bill De Blasio Interview Was “Humiliating”, Times Of London Associate Editor Tells Newsroom
A senior The Times of London editor has bemoaned the damage inflicted on the newspaper's reputation over a botched Bill de Blasio interview.

william burroughs's "a thanksgiving prayer" (1986), as rendered in mondo 2000 #3. https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.03.1991/page/n9/mode/2up

https://www.thedailybeast.com/actual-nobel-prize-winner-thanks-trump-for-yanking-his-us-visa/

Actual Nobel Prize Winner Thanks Trump for Yanking His U.S. Visa
Wole Soyinka found his visa revoked after saying Trump resembled a “white Idi Amin.”

2025 NFL playoffs: Reason for hope for seven bubble teams entering Week 14 https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-playoffs-reason-for-hope-for-seven-bubble-teams-entering-week-14

• 60 out of 100 times it’ll “sync” and freeze with all 4 LEDs on. The Wii U does a little beep but doesn’t show the controller and no inputs work.
• 38 out of 100 times the same thing will happen but with all LEDs off
  • You need to remove the batteries in order to take the wiimotes out of these states
• 2 out of 100 times the wiimotes actually connect, but show with 1 battery bar and almost no inputs go through (and the ones that do are extremely laggy, except for the power button)
  • The manual states that if this happens you can remove the batteries, wait 3 minutes and connect (without syncing) again. That does fixes it sometimes, but it really only worked once for each wiimote.
  • A truly successful connection only happens after the “low battery one”, and even then it seems to be hard to achieve for the first time.
    • Afterwards you’re supposed to be able to reconnect without syncing and then not encounter the issues anymore. That was true for the pink wiimote, but the blue wiimote had to be synced again. I spent quite a few hours trying and wasn’t able to get a successful connection.
    • If you connect the pink wiimote that was working when the other wiimote is in the 4 LEDs freeze state it’ll break the connection of the other one and make you need to sync it again
      • Now none of my aliexpress wiimotes are synced and idk when I’ll be able to sync them again

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli

California Crypto Billionaires Plan to Spend Tens of Millions on Moderate Candidates
Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.

The Education Hub - Teach Think Treat
A podcast for healthcare professionals and students about teaching and learning in a busy clinical setting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/teach-think-treat/

Minnesota could finally teach The Convicted Criminal the limits of theatrically threatening illegal action. <-- There I fixed it for you Megan McArdle and the Washington Post :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115992703377834649

The Cowboys and the Super Bowl used to be a thing https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-and-the-super-bowl-used-to-be-a-thing

NFL betting wrapped: Seahawks-Patriots Super Bowl fitting end to 'off-the-charts' season https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47516244/nfl-2025-betting-wrapped-most-bet-teams-players-2026-outlook