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Lions WR Amon-Ra St. Brown breaks down viral 4 a.m. NBA 2K26 moment https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46468967/detroit-lions-amon-ra-st-brown-nba-2k26-myplayer-viral

Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-sora-2-app/

Sora Soars
Another viral product hit for OpenAI, this time in video...

I also boosted the #bunnyvideo on the trampolin. It's fake:
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/07/fact-check-bunnies-trampoline-video.html

67: The none-sensical viral phrase that Gen Alpha can’t stop saying
And now, its seems to be taking over OpenAI as well.
“GPT-6 will be renamed GPT-6-7, you’re welcome,”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted to X on Friday.
Altman’s announcement comes just a couple of days after Dictionary.com named the slang 2025’s word of the year.
For those lucky enough to not be familiar with the term,
the Gen Alpha slang can be traced back to hip hop artist Skrilla’s late 20…

Did Sam Altman Just Figure out What 6-7 Means?
The OpenAI CEO announced it will rename GPT-6 to GPT-6-7 referencing the viral Gen Alpha slang. We don't know if he is kidding.

Butcher shop goes viral offering free meat for SNAP recipients, federal workers
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/fort-collins/2025/10/31/butcher-shop-offers…

Butcher shop goes viral offering free meat for SNAP recipients, federal workers
Fort Collins' Friendly Nick's Butcher is offering free meat packages to SNAP recipients and furloughed and unpaid workers during government shutdown.

Sigh. My friends with teens had to explain this "6 7" thing to me.
My kids are older so they're listening to.. Millenial music I guess.
https://people.com/what-does-six-seven-mean-all-about-tiktok-trend-11724247
And nowhere actu…

How Trump's quiet holiday weekend fueled a viral death hoax (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/02/trump-death-illness-white-house-rumors
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p142#a250902p142

The Bronx: 'Trained Their Dogs to Attack Black Men': New York Police Department Faces Accusations of Racial Profiling After K-9 Makes a Beeline for Dark-Skinned Bystander in Viral Video
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/03/new-york-police-department-faces-accusations/

🏃‍♂️ From Tiktok to beating the clock: Meet the 15-year-old sprint sensation taking social media by storm
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/11/meet-the-15-year-old-sprint-sensation-taking-…

As Sora clips go viral, users express awe and delight as others warn about IP theft and that its Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/technology/openai-sora-video-app.html

OpenAI’s Sora Video App Is Jaw-Dropping (for Better and Worse)
Sora, OpenAI’s new video-generating app, is really a social network in disguise that can bring creative A.I. to the masses — and its problems, too.

Are Large Language Models Chronically Online Surfers? A Dataset for Chinese Internet Meme Explanation
Yubo Xie, Chenkai Wang, Zongyang Ma, Fahui Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00567

Are Large Language Models Chronically Online Surfers? A Dataset for Chinese Internet Meme Explanation
Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of text from the Internet, but do they truly understand the viral content that rapidly spreads online -- commonly known as memes? In this paper, we introduce CHIME, a dataset for CHinese Internet Meme Explanation. The dataset comprises popular phrase-based memes from the Chinese Internet, annotated with detailed information on their meaning, origin, example sentences, types, etc. To evaluate whether LLMs understand these memes, we designe…

“Tennis star meets fan after US Open hat snatching viral video”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx298wd85d9o
Millionaire CEO snatching a gift intended for a child is the perfect metaphor for… [ waves arms broadly ]

HIV-1 protease cleavage sites detection with a Quantum convolutional neural network algorithm
Junggu Choi, Junho Lee, Kyle L. Jung, Jae U. Jung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01993 …

HIV-1 protease cleavage sites detection with a Quantum convolutional neural network algorithm
In this study, we propose a quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN)-based framework with the neural quantum embedding (NQE) to predict HIV-1 protease cleavage sites in amino acid sequences from viral and human proteins. To assess the effectiveness and robustness of our framework, we compared the classification performance against classical neural networks under both noiseless and noisy simulations. Among experimental conditions, the QCNN with the angle and amplitude encoding NQE conditions …

SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with "synthetics" (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Robotaxis are so safe that California police haven't written them a single ticket. https://apnews.com/article/waymo-no-driver-traffic-ticket-0a0dffb19bf38c5ee85681a6f83591ff

Police in Northern California stop driverless Waymo taxi after illegal U-turn
Police in Northern California pulled over a self-driving Waymo taxi after it made an illegal U-turn. But without a driver behind the wheel, they could not issue a moving violation ticket. The San Bruno Police Department wrote up the weekend encounter in social media posts that have gone viral. Police said that their “citation books don’t have a box for ‘robot’.” State law requires moving violations be issued to drivers or operators. A new state law that kicks in next year will allow l…

Cowboys' Micah Parsons gets $45 million viral contract update involving Packers trade rumor https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-micah-parsons-45-million-viral…

I grew up in a rural area in the 90s, and was a junior NRA member. Now, I will admit that I only did a limited amount of shooting and it's been at least 30 years since I touched a gun, but I'm pretty sure that rule #1 of gun safety is: Don't point weapon at your own dick.
https://www.

ICE Agent Drops Gun and Levels It at Shocked Rush-Hour Crowd
The man who captured the video said the scene unfolded in the midst of rush-hour traffic just outside Washington, D.C.

...but AI audiences raved...
#TillyNorwood

@… - I commented a loop post with my pixelfed account. the original loop poster replied from loops. I never got a notification in pixelfed.
in which one you need the bug report #loops or #pixelfed

https://www.theverge.com/tesla/757594/tesla-cybertruck-deactivated-viral-video-fake
Wow.
That viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is a fake

The viral video of a ‘deactivated’ Tesla Cybertruck is most likely fake
A viral video of a “deactivated” Tesla Cybertuck is most likely fake.

Did the Cowboys trade for Maxx Crosby? Viral fake tweet dupes Raiders fans over ‘blockbuster’ deal https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/did-cowboys-trade-maxx-crosby-vir…

The abso-bloody-lutely best thing about having a post go viral on Fedi (i.e. more than a couple of dozen likes or boosts) is finding so many new awesome accounts to follow.

The role of viral dynamics and infectivity in models of oncolytic virotherapy for tumours with different motility
David Morselli, Federico Frascoli, Marcello Edoardo Delitala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24522

The role of viral dynamics and infectivity in models of oncolytic virotherapy for tumours with different motility
The use of ad-hoc engineered viruses in the fight against tumours is one of the greatest ideas in cancer therapeutics within the last three decades. Together with other strategies such as immunotherapies, nanoparticles and adjunct therapies, the use of viral vectors in clinical trials and in the clinics has been and is still widely studied and pursued. The ability of those vectors to infiltrate and infect tumours represents one of the key attributes that regulates the success of such a strategy…

Computational approaches for virus host prediction: A review of methods and applications
Jiayu Shang, Cheng Peng, Jiaojiao Guan, Dehan Cai, Donglin Wang, Yanni Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00349

Computational approaches for virus host prediction: A review of methods and applications
Accurate prediction of virus-host interactions is critical for understanding viral ecology and developing applications like phage therapy. However, the growing number of computational tools has created a complex landscape, making direct performance comparison challenging due to inconsistent benchmarks and varying usability. Here, we provide a systematic review and a rigorous benchmark of 27 virus-host prediction tools. We formulate the host prediction task into two primary frameworks, link pred…

SAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with "synthetics" (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nicht mehr "Sam Sung": Ex-Apple-Mitarbeiter mit neuem Namen
Nachdem er 2012 wegen seines Namens viral gegangen war, hat sich ein ehemaliger Apple-Retail-Angestellter umbenannt. Aus "Sam Sung" wurde "Sam Struan".

Last weekend, Yale University had a “viral German-style pudding event” where students gathered to eat pudding with a fork
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10/09/viral-german-style-pudding-event-set-for-saturday-w…

Viral German-style pudding event set for Saturday with academic funds
On Saturday afternoon, Yalies will try out the German trend of eating pudding with a fork, at an event organized with the German department’s support.

Imagine using a dating app, I rather die alone
https://www.404media.co/viral-cheater-buster-sites-use-facial-recognition-to-let-anyone-reveal-peoples-tinder-profiles/

Liquid-liquid phase separation enables highly selective viral genome packaging
Layne B. Frechette, Michael F. Hagan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17211 https://

Liquid-liquid phase separation enables highly selective viral genome packaging
In many viruses, hundreds of proteins assemble an outer shell (capsid) around the viral nucleic acid to form an infectious virion. How the assembly process selects the viral genome amidst a vast excess of diverse cellular nucleic acids is poorly understood. It has recently been discovered that many viruses perform assembly and genome packaging within liquid-liquid phase separated biomolecular condensates inside the host cell. However, the role of condensates in genome packaging is poorly unders…

Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles https://www.404media.co/viral-cheater-buster-sites-use-facial-recognition-to-let-anyone-reveal-peoples-tinder-profiles/…

Video ging viral - Vorarlberger belästigt Live-Streamerin auf Wiesn! #News #Nachrichten

In the opening seconds of the clip, an officer can be heard screaming, “Give me your f--king arm.”
The camera gets closer to reveal that two agents,
one wearing a balaclava and a vest that reads “POLICE ICE,”
had a man pinned on the asphalt.
Their suspect appeared to be refusing to put his left arm behind him to be placed in handcuffs,
and he repeatedly yelled for help in English and Spanish.

ICE Agent Drops Gun and Levels It at Shocked Rush-Hour Crowd
The man who captured the video said the scene unfolded in the midst of rush-hour traffic just outside Washington, D.C.

Kurzvideos sind die neuen Wahlkampfplakate – nur mit mehr Algorithmen und weniger Fakten. Die aktuelle Studie der Landesmedienanstalten zeigt: Bei der BTW 2025 sahen 2/3 der Nutzer:innen politische Clips auf TikTok/YouTube – oft zufällig, oft ohne journalistische Einordnung. Wer kontrolliert, was viral geht? Und wer bleibt unsichtbar? #Medienvielfalt

As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.

Micah Parsons trade: New Packers star consoles young Cowboys fan, sends jersey after move from Dallas

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-p

Did the Cowboys trade for Maxx Crosby? Viral fake tweet dupes Raiders fans over ‘blockbuster’ deal https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/did-cowboys-trade-maxx-crosby-vir…

Heterogeneous immune recovery after viral response through a dynamical model of feedback-driven persistence and clearance
Xiaoxin Wang, Kai Kang, Leyi Zhang, Changjing Zhuge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05161

Heterogeneous immune recovery after viral response through a dynamical model of feedback-driven persistence and clearance
Viral infections trigger complex immune responses with heterogeneous outcomes shaped by nonlinear feedbacks. An ordinary differential equation model is developed to investigate immune response dynamics during viral infection, incorporating six modules: viral load, innate immunity, cellular immunity, humoral immunity, immune suppression, and IL-6 levels. Bifurcation analysis reveals that under continuous viral exposure, when viral clearance rate and intrinsic viral death rate satisfy specific co…

'Gavin is Crushing It': Gavin Newsom’s Spot-On Oval Office Mockery of Donald Trump’s Kiss Up Team Goes Viral
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/29/gavin-newsom-reenactment-skit-of-donald-trump/

On the Geographic Spread of Chikungunya between Brazil and Florida: A Multi-patch Model with Time Delay
Antonio Gondim, Xi Huo, Jaqueline Mesquita, Shigui Ruan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01590

On the Geographic Spread of Chikungunya between Brazil and Florida: A Multi-patch Model with Time Delay
Chikungunya (CHIK) is a viral disease transmitted to humans through the bites of {\it Aedes} mosquitoes infected with the chikungunya virus (CHIKV). CHIKV has been imported annually to Florida in the last decade due to Miami's crucial location as a hub for international travel, particularly from Central and South America including Brazil, where CHIK is endemic. This work addresses to the geographic spread of CHIK, incorporating factors such as human movement, temperature dependency, as well as …

Bit of an odd request: Does anyone happen to have a screenshot of this viral tweet on the #climatecrisis?
It was along the lines of
"Me opening a beer: Ah, it doesn't get better than this
Climate scientists: Yup"

"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm

Viral YouTube Film Investigates How Milk Is Farmed In India #AnimalRights

Viral YouTube Film Investigates How Milk Is Farmed In India
A new short film about how milk is farmed in India has gone viral, and shows the filmmakers visiting farms in seven Indian towns

It's a glorious day, and I have no end of urgent outdoor jobs that need done. But I'm still so wabbit that I cannot summon the energy to tackle them. So frustrating!
It's almost three months since I got ill. Post viral syndrome, if that's what it is, is a bitch.

Scalable CVD Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Platform for Viral Detection: Application to COVID-19
Leonardo Martini, Ylea Vlamidis, Ileana Armando, Domenica Convertino, Vaidotas Mi\v{s}eikis, Valerio Voliani, Camilla Coletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15818

Scalable CVD Graphene Field-Effect Transistor Platform for Viral Detection: Application to COVID-19
The rapid and global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), underscored the urgent need for fast, reliable, and adaptable diagnostic tools capable of responding to current and future viral threats. Early diagnosis is key to limiting transmission, and biosensors based on nanomaterials offer promising solutions for accurate and rapid bioanalyte detection. In this work, we present a scalable matrix of graphene-base…

Viral NFL ref who protected Jaxon Smith-Njigba is former Cowboys standout https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/viral-nfl-ref-protected-jaxon-smith-njigba-former-dallas-cowboys-nate-jones

Raiders report: Ashton Jeanty unimpressed by viral run, Madden rating https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-report-ashton-jeanty-unimpressed-by-viral-run-madden-rating-3426638/

This week, Illinois Governor
JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago.
Critically, Pritzker cast Trump as a malignant, active threat to his Illinois constituents
—he called them “my people”
—and vowed to use every ounce of his power to protect them from harm by the President of the United States.
The move’s resonance showed that governors who creatively resist Trump’s malevolent despotism
will be se…

Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon
Illinois’s JB Pritzker is leading a charge other Democratic governors should take up: In our America, we’ll make sure public health systems remain strong.

Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/vira

Exclusive: Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers (Rosie Thomas/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p64#a250818p64

Fazendo outro teste de COVID, mas duvido que dê positivo. Mesmo que o teste da semana passada tenha sido um falso negativo, a essa altura a carga viral jš deve estar muito baixa.

Helden im Hintergrund, fast unsichtbar:
Danke, Arjen Lubach!
Ob er tatsächlich etwas ändern kann?
Ob die Wiedereinsetzung von Jimmy Kimmel der Silberstreifen am Horizont ist, auf den wir so sehnsüchtig warten? 🙏
https://www.srf.ch/news/…

Kimmel-Aus: Wie ein Satire-Clip Disney in Erklärungsnot bringt
Ein Satire-Video zum Fall Jimmy Kimmel geht viral – und befeuert die Debatte um politische Einflussnahme.

If You're Wondering What Charlie Kirk Believed In, Here Are 14 Real Quotes
https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexalisitza/viral-charlie-kirk-quotes

14 Charlie Kirk Quotes Going Viral After His Death
In light of his death, Charlie Kirk's legacy is being remembered through these viral quotes.

Pete Buttigieg goes viral for predicting Trump's free speech crackdown    - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/pete-buttigieg-goes-viral-for-predicting-trumps-free-speech-crackdown/

A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]

Mathematical Modelling of Face Coverings for Virus Protection
Matthew D. Shirley, Ian M. Griffiths, Joseph Houghton, Lucy Hope, Paul Hope, Christopher. J. W. Breward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20801

Mathematical Modelling of Face Coverings for Virus Protection
Traditional face masks used extensively, for example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, are relatively impermeable, forcing aerosol-containing breath to flow into the surrounding atmosphere by ``leaking" out from the lateral edges of the mask. This protects close-proximity persons but results in a high viral load being delivered into the air. An alternative face covering, the Virustatic Shield, developed by Virustatic, involves a much more permeable material coated in an active agent, with the goal…

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers https://www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-sells-viral-gps-trackers-marketed-to-stalkers/

Cowboys WR George Pickens goes viral for sideline meltdown in loss to Bears https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-goes-viral-for-sideline-meltdown-in-loss-to-bears

Taco Bell, which deployed voice AI-powered ordering at 500 drive-through locations, is now reconsidering the tech after viral videos of glitches and pranks (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/article…

:heart_trans: Margaret Cho Tells JK Rowling to ‘Shut Up’ in Viral Video! :heart_trans:
#LGBTQIA #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransRights

Teacher goes viral with classroom song about sexual consent | Lifestyle | Independent TV
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/teacher-viral-song-consent-video-b2812508.html

Women Dating Safety App Tea Delisted from Apple App Store
https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-delisted-from-apple-app-store/

Cowboys WR George Pickens goes viral for sideline meltdown in loss to Bears https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-wr-george-pickens-goes-viral-for-sideline-meltdown-in-loss-to-bears

Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…

Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
About the current state of Cara— Hi all, I’d like to address some users' concerns about Cara’s stability, algorithms and reach, and why we don’t actively promote Cara and recruit new users. I have touched on most of these before through other posts, but I’ll like to go over the main points and put them in one place since they often come up as recurring questions: — Cara’s longevity/stability > "A few weeks ago, after learning how much Jingna was struggling with her personal l…

Ex-Real-Profi dabei - Kurioser Kader von Mexiko-Klub geht jetzt viral #News #Nachrichten

Bears' Williams: Viral fan video was off target https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45921862/bears-caleb-williams-says-viral-video-missed-mark

Thought Slime posted a video on Liberals and Charlie Kirk (linked in my post). It touched on a few ideas I've been wanting to explore more.
Why is it that, even though we talk "memes" going "viral" we are still talking about "Free Market of Ideas" as though ideas were inanimate objects we could handle and observe objectively? Perhaps that idea is it's own infection.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/memetic-effluent-and-the-wet-market-of-ideas

Tom Brady goes viral again for chatting with Jayden Daniels' mom https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/trending/news/tom-brady-goes-viral-again-chatting-jayden-daniels-mom/87c7fe932bdf1f24719527cb

Ashton Jeanty eyeing $12.5 million mansion is going viral for the wrong reason https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/trending/news/raiders-ashton-jeanty-viral-vegas-mansion-video-nfl-rookie/0437e2f96ebc4626…

Trump's Vile Take on Teenager's Rape Goes Viral as Epstein Woes Deepen (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-donald-trumps-vile-take-on-teenagers-rape-goes-viral-as-his-jeffrey-epstein-woes-deepen/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250809/p54#a250809p54

Grindr outage reports in Phoenix coincide with Charlie Kirk memorial
https://www.dailydot.com/viral-politics/charlie-kirk-memorial-grindr/

A U.S. Border Patrol video featuring antisemitic lyrics went viral on X on Tuesday
after far-right users discovered it had been posted to Facebook and Instagram.
The video, which included the lyrics “Jew me” and “kike me,” was deleted from the platforms on Wednesday morning,
though it’s not clear whether the offensive content was taken down by Border Patrol or Meta.
The 13-second video appears to have been posted to Instagram in August,
but was pinned in the Reel…

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

The BBC's "Verify" team has done a good job in explaining that this viral image of European leaders waiting for Trump has been generated by AI.
But quite why they've slapped an "AI GENERATED" warning over the image, rather than just simply "FAKE" is puzzling.

Seatmate to superfan: Hunter's heartfelt pregame reunion https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46520221/travis-hunter-jacksonville-jaguars-reunite-viral-flight-post

I only know one song of theirs, but that’s on me.
There is a bypassable paywall on this article.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/16/this-countr…

Google says it is behind the viral "nano-banana" image model, launches it as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image with finer edit controls in Gemini app, Gemini API, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/google-geminis-ai-image-m…

Google Gemini's AI image model gets a 'bananas' upgrade | TechCrunch
Google says that it's behind the anonymous AI image editor "nano-banana" that's been making waves on social media.

KI-Video geht viral - „König“ Trump wirft Gülle auf Demonstranten ab #News #Nachrichten

A public health expert keeps going viral on Instagram for delivering this very simple message (Dylan Scott/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/health/458966/maha-movement-jessica-knurick-tiktok-instagram
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p4#a250825p4

Cowboys coach gives delusional defense of Jerry Jones following controversial quote https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-coach-gives-delusional-defense-jerry-jones-following-controversial-quote

Topological Catenation-induced Pore Size in 2D Olympic Network
Wenbo Zhao, Guojie Zhang, Hong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20827 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Topological Catenation-induced Pore Size in 2D Olympic Network
Assemblies of ring DNA and proteins, such as kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) and the chainmail-like network of the HK97 bacteriophage capsid, form "Olympic" topologies that govern the dynamics of gene-regulatory proteins, cellular metabolites, and viral genomes. Yet the pore sizes that control transport and diffusion in these topologically linked networks remain poorly quantified. Here, using coarse-grained simulations of idealized square (SQR) and hexagonal (HEX) lattice catenated two-dimensional Olymp…

'Inappropriately Aggressive': Fired Head Coach of Girls' Basketball Team Who Yanked Player's Hair In Viral Video Hit with New Allegations
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/15/fired-head-coach-of-girls-basketball-team-who-yanked-players-hair-in-viral-video/

Chip Kelly Claps Back at Viral Raiders Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/chip-kelly-tom-brady-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

The Marine veteran behind this viral photo at the Chicago ICE protest (Nicholas Slayton/Task & Purpose)
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-curtis-evans-ice-broadview/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p126#a250922p126

Watch the video.
Body slamming, teargas and pepper balls: viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago;
A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and ‘targeted attacks’ on protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-new…

Texas Replaces Overweight Troops After Viral Mockery - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/texas-replaces-overweight-troops-after-viral-mockery/

Viral CeeDee Lamb ref collision gets perfect response from Cowboys star https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/viral-ceedee-lamb-ref-collision-perfect-response-dallas-cowboys-star

A look at MrBeast's entertainment company, which has ~$450M in annual sales but faced three years of losses due to high production costs of $3M-$4M per video (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09…

YouTube Star MrBeast Is Building an Entertainment Empire
The master of viral videos now has a CEO to rein in spending on Lambos—and give his “banger content” an even wider reach.

Brian Schottenheimer addresses viral CeeDee Lamb-ref collision with unique take https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-addresses-viral-ceedee-lamb-ref-collision-unique-take

Body slamming, teargas
and pepper balls:
Viral videos show Ice using extreme force in Chicago
A facility in Broadview, a mostly Black suburb, has become the site of escalation and
'targeted attacks’ on protesters
There have been reports of increasingly aggressive ICE enforcement in communities, including helicopters hovering over apartment raids.
There have also been arrests of local officials and candidates for office who were protesting,
inclu…

Brian Schottenheimer addresses viral CeeDee Lamb-ref collision with unique take https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-addresses-viral-ceedee-lamb-ref-collision-unique-take

Defending Mike Tyson:
President Donald Trump’s Vile Take on Teenager’s Rape Goes Viral As His Jeffrey Epstein Woes Deepen
https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-donald-trumps-vile-take-on-teenagers-rape-goes-viral-as-his-jeffrey-epstein-woes-deepen/?08092025

Joe Milton plays teacher to Dak Prescott with viral dance lesson https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/joe-milton-plays-teacher-dak-prescott-viral-dance-lesson-dallas-cowboys-practice

On October 18, 2019,
protests erupted in Santiago, Chile,
over a hike in the cost of public transportation.
But the demonstrations quickly grew into more than that.
Those in the streets demanded change—real change.
They demanded more rights.
They demanded a new Constitution.
Police cracked down with impunity.
Videos went viral of riot police beating people in the streets.
Chemical water guns.
Shooting rubber bullets at point blank …

The Chilean band overcoming police violence with music
Hasta La Victoria’s music is rock and punk, hip hop, and circus. They have found an outlet to focus their pain and their suffering. To define it, and direct it back. This is episode 72 of Stories of Resistance.

'We Are So Cooked’: Donald Trump’s Red Carpet Confusion In Alaska Overshadows His Meeting with Putin
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/08/16/donald-trump-struggles-to-walk-down-red-carpet-in-viral-clip/

Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/india-leads-the…

India leads the way on Google's Nano Banana with a local creative twist | TechCrunch
Indian users turning Google’s Nano Banana into a viral trend engine, from retro AI portraits to figurine-style selfies.

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons Takes Shot at Media in Response to Viral Training Table Photos https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-training-table-response/?adt_ei=[email]

Micah Parsons' agent denies Jerry Jones' viral contract rebuttal claim https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-agent-denies-jerry-jones-contract-rebuttal-claim-per-ex-nfl-star

A look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral "nano banana" model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article…

ByteDance unveils new AI image model to rival Google DeepMind’s ‘Nano Banana’
ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark.

Jason Kelce takes cryptic shot at Dak Prescott as video of Cowboys QB spitting first towards Jalen Carter goes viral hours after spitgate controversy https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-jason

Cowboys O-lineman fined by NFL for viral but unflagged Eagles head slap https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/09/10/cowboys-ol-tyler-guyton-fined-head-slap/86082579007/