Tumblr’s unwelcome post-Ides of March gift to its userbase has been unceremoniously returned, as changes that dramatically altered the function of the site’s reblog feature are being reverted — though apparently the site still plans to introduce some kind of future update with more community input.
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A journalist from The Times of Israel writes about an escalating harassment campaign to make him falsely “correct” a story at the center of a Polymarket bet — and says a colleague at another outlet was even duped into helping:
He said that someone he knew asked him to ask me to change the report on the missile impact in Beit Shemesh, and that it would be “negligible” for me if I did make the change. The journalist had no idea why his acquaintance was demanding the change to the article until I told him what I understood was going on. He then confronted the acquaintance, who admitted to placing bets on Polymarket and confirmed my theory.
David Morris expands on his Verge story about Jeffrey Epstein and cryptocurrency in an interview with writer Wajahat Ali:
Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable — but Congress needs to act.
The Nation interviewed Graham Granger, the student arrested for consuming part of an exhibit of AI-generated art — although apparently he didn’t eat everything he chewed up.
Do you have any qualms about the fact that AI art is made by scraping other artists?
Yeah, I mean, that’s part of why I spat it out, because AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.
Coming into force this year: AI regulations galore, a teen social media lockdown, and “Taylor Swift” laws.
Hell Gate investigates a new NYC phenomenon: PureGym’s tubelike automated “entry pods”.
“What the fuck? I literally don’t want to do this,” one man remarked, before putting his whole body into the tube. “It’s like a bad sci-fi show, it’s ridiculous!” another man exclaimed, while—you guessed it—he succumbed to the tube.