Thursday July 6 Daily Links

THURSDAY 7.6


NEWS STORIES

 



Owner of Heroin Store ODs and Dies

A man who opened a store that sold meth, heroin and cocaine is closed for business- permanently. He opened his store in Vancouver Canada as a protest against drug laws, and to offer people a place to get clean drugs. It’s suspected that he died of a fentanyl overdose.

I guess this is a case where he should have gotten high on his own supply.

Read more at Vice


Authors Sue ChatGPT

AI is ripping off millions of writers, they’re just doing it really quickly. In fact the entire ChatGPT platform is based off computer intelligence scanning everything ever digitized and then writing its own adaptation of everything its read. Two authors have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT, claiming that the organisation breached copyright law by “training” its model on novels without the permission of authors.

How will ChapGPT get a jury of their peers?

Read more at The Guardian


AI is Imitating Country Stars to Sell Weight Loss Gummies

Lainey Wilson, Tim McGraw and Luke Combs are all being impersonated by AI, and telling people to buy some bullshit weight loss drug.

They could have had all three of them for $500.

Read more at Rolling Stone


Don Jr Ex Girlfriend is Spilling Lots of Tea

On Michael Cohen’s Mea Culpa podcast, Aubrey O’Day, who dated Little Don, shared a ton of gossip. She says when they dated, he was not a far right extremist. “There is no way that I could have ever loved somebody like what we see today. So, that goes to show you how much transformation or potential posturing the man is doing or has done since the man that I would call my soulmate — I also don’t discredit that word. I do think if he were able to tell the truth, he would, since he called me his soulmate first.”

Then she dished about the first time they had sex– in the bathroom at a gay bar. “I looked at his Instagram for the first time in years the other night and saw all kinds of jokes you know, kind of belittling the gay community, transgender women, et cetera, and I thought to myself, ‘Man you were super comfortable in that gay club.’ In fact, so comfortable that we ended up going to the bathroom and, for the first time, had sex in a gay club bathroom.”

Is it gay to have sex in front of gay guys?

Read more at mediaite.


L. Lin Wood Facing Disbarment

The lawyer who was a central figure in Donald Trump’s slew of lawsuits about the 2020 election has decided to retire rather than face losing his license to practice.

At least Trump had one lawyer whose hair dye didn’t leak.

Read more at MSNBC


Fed Judge Blocks Administration From Talking to Social Media Companies

In a lawsuit accusing the government of going too far in its attempts to steer the Covid narrative, a federal judge has issued an injunction to bar certain agencies from asking social media sites to ban “content containing protected free speech.”

And yet Aaron Rodgers gets to talk to anybody.

Read more at CNN


Long Island Shark Alert

After two people were bit by sharks on LI beaches Monday, extra efforts went into patrolling the waters, but three teenagers were bit on Tuesday.

Amity means friendship.

Read more at NBC


Ben & Jerry Call on US To Give Back Indigenous Land

“The United States was founded on stolen indigenous land. This Fourth of July, let’s commit to returning it,” they said. “But what is the meaning of Independence Day for those whose land this country stole, those who were murdered and forced with brutal violence onto reservations, those who were pushed from their holy places and denied their freedom? The faces on Mount Rushmore are the faces of men who actively worked to destroy Indigenous cultures and ways of life, to deny Indigenous people their basic rights.

Just hand me the ice cream dude.

Read more at Mediaite.


Monday Was the Hottest Day in Recorded History for Planet Earth

The average global temperature hit 62.6 on Monday. That is the highest number ever recorded since temperature record keeping began.

Yet we still can’t get people into air conditioned movie theaters.

Read more at science alert.

https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-monday-was-the-hottest-day-on-earth-since-records-began


Canadian Gets Way Too Close to Tornado

And when it touched down, it caused hundreds of dollars in damage.

Read more at metro.uk.


Need Money in NY? Be a Bar Narc

Those in the know have been reporting restaurants and bars in NYC for noise violations. A lot. Why? Because if you issue a citizen summons, you can collect anywhere from 25% to 50% of the fine for yourself.

Looks like Eric Adams has another rat problem.

Read more at NY POst.


Tranq is Everywhere Now

An animal sedative known as Tranq is everywhere and users are suffering devastating side effects including flesh rotting and psychosis. Making matters worse, Tranq is finding its way into other drugs, spreading the effects to those who don’t even know they’ve used it.

First you killed rock and roll, now you’re killing drugs. Fuck you 21st century.

Read more at NY Post.



SPORTS



NFL Blames Teams For Slippery Super Bowl

Insiders say the NFL is blaming the Eagles and the Chiefs for wearing the wrong cleats.

THis is like blaming a rape vic for wearing a skirt.

Read more at CBS Sports



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Adele Calls Out People Throwing Shit on the Stage

Fans throwing things on stage to either go viral or get a selfie or have a moment are really irritating performing artists. Adele aint having it. “Have you noticed how people are like, forgetting fucking show etiquette at the moment? People just throwing shit on stage, have you seen them?” Adele asked the crowd at her Las Vegas residency while wielding a T-shirt gun.
“I fucking dare you. Dare you to throw something at me and I’ll fucking kill you,” she joked via a fan-captured video.

I wouldn’t take her on.

Read more at Variety.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/adele-concert-throwing-things-on-stage-1235661142/


King Charles Booed in Edinburgh

If you thought his London coronation was underwhelming, wait until you see how he did in Scotland. Not only was he booed but many held signs saying not my king.

Scotlands been doing this for hundreds of yeers. They’d rather be scotland.


Trailer Alert: Killers of the Flower Moon

DiCaprio. DeNiro. Scorsese. Based on a true American Story. Killers of the Flower Moon, in theaters October.

DD and S is this a rerun? Do they know anyone else they can work with?



TRENDING & VIRAL



Jack Dorsey Thoughts On Metas New Twitter Competitor

He tweeted, “All your Threads are belong to us,” along with a screenshot of the data that the app may collect that links it back to the user. Musk added in “Yeah.”

Well….that’s a shocker.

Read more at Deadline


Gen Z Mocks Old People For How They Scroll on Their Phone

If you are swiping by using just your index finger, young people are probably laughing and you and calling you boomer.

I swipe with my dick is that weird?

Read more at NY Post.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Military Suicides On the Rise

According to a newly released Pentagon report, suicides among those in active duty in the first few months of 2023 are up 25% compared to the same months in 2022.

Happy July 4th Everybody.

Read more at Stripes.



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