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[Link] These Robotic Reddit TikTok Accounts Come From a Content Farming Discord

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

If you’re on TikTok recently you may have seen a spike in so-called Reddit Stories accounts, which upload TikToks that read out stories written on Reddit and which sometimes have footage of video games playing in the background.

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[Link] Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine

Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

The Hollywood actor Sean Penn has called for a billionaire to come forward and buy two squadrons of F-15 or F-16 aircraft for Ukraine in an unlikely attempt to tip the scales against the Russian invaders in the five-week-old war.

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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War

Read: 9/3/2022 time.com

The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).

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[Link] Bottles, cans, batteries: octopuses found using litter on seabed

Read: 8/3/2022 www.theguardian.com

Whether it’s mimicking venomous creatures, or shooting jets of water at aquarium light switches to turn them off, octopuses are nothing if not resourceful.

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[Link] Chaos Reigns as ConstitutionDAO Fails to Buy the Constitution

Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com

On Thursday night, an ad-hoc mob of crypto investors tried and failed to purchase a copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction at Sotheby's, according to a post in Discord by Julian Weisser, a core member of ConstitutionDAO and one of the controllers of the wallet containing the auction funds. 

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[Link] This artist funded his sister's degree and added a floor to his parent's house with Warframe skins

Read: 22/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com

Digital Extremes' Warframe is a live service game which makes money largely through cosmetics, and part of its success has come from the studio's willingness to embrace all forms of fan expression, whether that's guides or incredible 3D art.

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[Link] YouTube recommends videos that violate its own policies, study finds

Read: 27/7/2021 thenextweb.com

Writer at Neural by TNW — Thomas covers AI in all its iterations. Likes Werner Herzog films and Arsenal FC.

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