Kevin Kortum

🤖 OpenAI launches a social network

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On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced Sora, an iOS app that lets you create and share 10-second, AI-generated video clips in a feed. It was designed to look familiar, OpenAI employees said in a live broadcast on Tuesday morning, and indeed Sora closely resembles TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.

Honestly, bring on the AI slop to all of these apps. Maybe I can finally beat my scrolling addiction. The idea of “perfectly personalized entertainment” made just for me by some LLM is repulsive. It goes against the definition of “art,” which is about human expression, provoking feelings, and communicating with others.

🥤 Mountain Dew gets dirty with a new cream soda and fans are freaking out

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Delish

Late last week, Mountain Dew confirmed a “distinctive and indulgent” new flavor arriving in 2026: Dirty Mountain Dew Cream Soda, a creamy spin on the already popular citrus-flavored soft drink.

As a Mountain Dew and cream soda lover, I’m all for this. But why are we giving all the credit to the mormons. They just reinvented Italian cream soda—which has been around for a century—by throwing more shit in it…

🏎️ Tesla makes it hard to get $50,000 Roadster deposit refunded after 8 years

tech

Electek

Tesla charged between $50,000 and $250,000 in deposits for the Roadster, depending on whether customers opted for the “Founders Series” or not. Some people had placed that money in Tesla’s hands for eight years without the automaker delivering anything.

Wild that they can just hold on to your money for so long without delivering anything or refunding people without them having to waste a bunch of time going through the hassle of dealing with customer service. I’m sure they are putting all of that money to good use.

📰 The Nerve

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The Nerve

We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

New independent, female-founded news site alert! They’ll be covering politics, culture, and tech. I’ll be curious to see how things split between UK/US coverage given they are based in the UK, but have covered things like Cambridge Analytica and Silicon Valley.

🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case

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Defector

Marks said he received threats from Schneiderman saying that if any financial harm came to Hill because of the court document, “his client will pursue all available remedies against me, my client, and my firm, and me, personally.” A second person on Hill’s legal team, Marks said, made similar threats to him as well.

Similar to the last one from 404, another example of these small independent outlets shining a light on things that the powers that be would rather have kept on the shadows.

🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence

politics

White House

This “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.

We obviously already have ICE acting like the gestapo in masks, and now the administration is literally putting us into a police state where being against fascism or not being Christian

🤖 OpenAI launches a social network

🥤 Mountain Dew gets dirty with a new cream soda and fans are freaking out

🏎️ Tesla makes it hard to get $50,000 Roadster deposit refunded after 8 years

📰 The Nerve

🏈 Why Defector is intervening to make public a confidential document in the Tyreek Hill case

🦹 Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence

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