@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-18 00:30:40
Fannie Mae's fraud watchdogs doubted charges against James, internal emails show (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/fannie-maes-fraud-watchdogs-letitia-james-00655533
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p144#a251117p144
@timbray@cosocial.ca2026-01-18 06:39:44
Here’s an interesting little curio. Was hanging at a friend's place and the conversation wandered to ancient times; when she was 16, an upstate-New-York girl, she took off with a carload of friends and went to Woodstock. She pulled out an original program, dropped from a helicopter near stage-front, and her ticket, uncanceled because by the time they got there the systems had broken down.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-17 19:45:39
Pinkfong prices its South Korea IPO at ~$26 per share, valuing the company behind Baby Shark Dance, YouTube's most-watched video with 16.4B views, at ~$375M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-worlds-most-watched-youtube-…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-17 07:54:51
My hero, Patton Oswalt, talks about 10 classic movies - the very best & the very worst.
▶️ Patton Oswalt Critiques Sci-Fi Films (Top 5 & Bottom 5) | GQ
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifRzEiNJ10E&si=2WdExDREQI0T0kJ_
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-01-16 15:09:16
Britse politiechef stapt op na leugens over weren Maccabi-fans bij wedstrijd | adnl
https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/britse-politiechef-stapt-op-na-leugens-over-weren-maccabi-fans-bij-wedstrijd~a29df7a3/
'Guildford gaf later toe dat die fout kwam door het gebruik van een AI-chatbot.'
Zo ingewikkeld was het waarschijnlijk niet om als politiechef aan alle relevante informatie van de betreffende korpsen te krijgen. 🙈🙈
Daarnaast lijkt t me dat een politiechef -vakinformatie- van collega's nodig heeft.
De dwaas ...
@zachleat@zachleat.com2025-12-17 15:39:47
Watched 12 Angry Men last night and it had me wondering if it was legal in the USA in 1957 for women to serve on a jury — looks like it was state-by-state starting with Wyoming in 1870 all the way up to Mississippi in 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_United_States_jur…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-18 20:51:01
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/youtube-terminates-scr…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-12-18 06:35:22
Eat your l'il plastic heart out, Chatty Kathy:
After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/28/artificial-intelligence-smart-toys
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-11-18 20:11:55
(And they eat garbage.)
Rules of the game:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag & write the rules as a comment to it
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
#page42
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-17 09:35:46
UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…
