Politico alters headline calling Kamala Harris’ support for banning fracking a ‘Trump accusation’
Politico changed its headline to say that VP Harris’ support for a fracking ban was a “Trump denunciation,” even though she publicly supported the practice multiple times during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. “Harris campaign promises no fracking ban after Trump’s attack,” was the original headline of the Politico story that ran on Sunday. Harris’ […]
Dogs can smell human stress — and it alters their own behavior: study
Dogs can smell stress in people and it changes their own behavior, a new study has found. Our four-legged friends experience “emotional contagion” from the smell of human stress, leading them to make more “pessimistic” choices, scientists say. The study, led by the University of Bristol, is the first to examine how human stress odours […]
Judge alters Trump’s gag order, letting him talk about witnesses, jury after hush money conviction
A judge on Tuesday changed Donald Trump’s gag order, allowing the former president to comment publicly about witnesses and jurors in the hush-money criminal trial that led to his felony conviction, but barring him from commenting on others connected to the case, at least until his ruling on July 11. Judge Juan M. Marchan’s ruling, […]
Alters Long-Standing Humanitarian Award to Include ‘Rectifying Inequities’
The Academy Awards are doubling down on their embrace of woke social justice activism and DEI. The latest change is that the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an Oscar staple since the 1950s, is now focused, at least in part, on fairness. The Academy reportedly slipped in an announcement this week about next year’s Oscars that […]
Liberal paper alters quote, distorting Republican candidate’s abortion stance and upending House race
First appearance on Fox: A California liberal newspaper was forced to correct itself this week after it published false quotes by a Republican candidate that effectively distorted his stance on abortion and was used as a fundraising tool by incumbent Democrats vying for office. Ta. It took the Sacramento Bee more than three weeks to […]
Taylor Swift’s AI porn debacle alters our ‘reality’
When the first wave of mainstream AI panic hit us in January 2021, it was right around the time that OpenAI came out. announced My first thoughts about the image generator, DALL-E, were: This will first revolutionize fandom, then satire. Integrating AI into these fields will not only democratize content creation to some extent (there […]