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SCOOP: A Pseudonym Used by Wheel of Fortune Announcer Was Active on Second Child Abuse Forum
Read more: SCOOP: A Pseudonym Used by Wheel of Fortune Announcer Was Active on Second Child Abuse ForumA LAWYER FOR JIM THORNTON says he only visited lifeline.chat—an illicit chatroom for paedophiles—by mistake, believing it was a suicide prevention site. But someone with the same username was active for at least two years on another paedophilia forum, where they posted a photo of a topless boy, professed their love of lifeline.chat, compared being…
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неудачная попытка: Russia’s State Media Censor Tries to Torpedo Military Losses From Google Search Results
Read more: неудачная попытка: Russia’s State Media Censor Tries to Torpedo Military Losses From Google Search ResultsVLADIMIR PUTIN doesn’t want you to know the staggering cost of his war in Ukraine. A Russian government filing is demanding the removal of GlobalMilitary.net’s “Russia-Ukraine war military losses tracker” from international search results. Said to contain “information prohibited for public distribution in the Russian Federation,” the tracker shows that Ukraine has managed to destroy…
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SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on Wikipedia
Read more: SCOOP: Long Before His Book Scandal, Steven Rosenbaum Faced Accusations of AI Fabulism on WikipediaREGIONAL EMMY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND FILMMAKER STEVEN ROSENBAUM insists that AI-generated quotes in his 2026 book, The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, were an ‘accident.’ But Wikipedia editing logs show that he was once accused and warned about the exact same behaviour, while potentially hiding a conflict of interest. “I’m not a regular…
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The Not-So-Great and Powerful Oz
Read more: The Not-So-Great and Powerful OzMENTALIST OZ PEARLMAN’S career is built on the claim that he can pry secrets from your mind by reading body language cues. He can’t—but after Saturday’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, he is the target of a conspiracy theory that believes his “powers” are real and were used to help stage the attack. Did Pearlman…
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Revealed: Neil Gaiman’s Anonymous Substack Defender is an Activist Monk
Read more: Revealed: Neil Gaiman’s Anonymous Substack Defender is an Activist MonkAS THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR PLOTS HIS COMEBACK AMID SEXUAL ASSAULT CLAIMS, the Internet is convinced that he’s secretly authoring an anonymous Substack he credits with absolving him. (Spoiler: He isn’t. But I tracked down the real author—who is almost as enigmatic.) “Thank you,” Gaiman wrote on his website Monday, breaking a year-long silence. While the…
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Brian Wilson: Adult/Child
Read more: Brian Wilson: Adult/ChildIn tribute to Brian Wilson, who died today aged 82, here is my 2014 review of cult classic The Beach Boys Love You, via Robin Thicke’s Paula. THE ALBUM IS PAULA. Thrown together in the midst of divorce, it is by all rights a complete stinker and a total embarrassment. And not because its subject is…
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For Your Consideration: Did Annie Lennox Influence Jerskin Fendrix’s Score for Poor Things?
Read more: For Your Consideration: Did Annie Lennox Influence Jerskin Fendrix’s Score for Poor Things?LIKE DRACULA IN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’s 1992 FILM, who is haunted by his own shadow, Poor Things can’t seem to escape its gothic predecessor. Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ whimsical dark comedy won four Oscars in March, including awards for costume and production design, for its surreal reimagining of Victorian Europe–drawing heavily on Coppola’s old-Hollywood aesthetic. But attentive viewers…
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WordPress Rejects Inception-esque Russian Government Demand to Censor My Blog
Read more: WordPress Rejects Inception-esque Russian Government Demand to Censor My BlogIn case the hosting provider and (or) the Internet web-site owner fail to take these measures, the network address enabling to identify Internet web-sites containing the information prohibited for distribution in the Russian Federation will be decided to be entered into the Register and access will be limited.The information about entering the domain names, Internet…
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Prigozhin’s Propagandists Scurry After His Plane — and His African ThinkTank — Go Up in Flames
Read more: Prigozhin’s Propagandists Scurry After His Plane — and His African ThinkTank — Go Up in FlamesMaria Butina told me last year that she worked for the Foundation for the Protection of National Values, a thinktank that the U.S. government sanctioned for aiding Yevgeny Prigozhin’s global propaganda efforts. The website is now defunct, like him. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the notorious Russian leader of the invasion of Ukraine and the failed coup against…
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Here is Indicted Russian Alexander Ionov’s Response to My Recent Lawfare Article
Read more: Here is Indicted Russian Alexander Ionov’s Response to My Recent Lawfare Article“[YOU] CALL ME FOREST GUMP hinting at amateurism on my part. Here I want to answer you, Forest, although he was a simple man […] conquered the hearts of Americans and became a hero.” Last month, freelance Aussie journalist Elise Thomas and I published an article for Lawfare about Russian businessman Alexander Ionov, who has…
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