A Mississippi mother who spent 7 months searching for her son discovered that an off-duty officer ran him over less than an hour after he left the house. Authorities then buried him without notifying his family nbcnews.com/news/us-news/b…

can’t imagine when I worked at a cd store back in the day telling an artist “hey you didn’t sell 200 copies of your album this year so I choose not to pay you for the 90 we sold of yours.” wild times indeed

They turned Sports Illustrated into a landfill of AI-generated writers and articles. An absolute waste of everything it was and the most cynical and nonsense way to approach media and the world at large.

And what do you call generating a fake Asian person named “Sora Tanaka”? Wasn’t that long ago that a bunch of white writers were exposed for pretending to be Asian, but now these ghouls are simply generating fake people to write fake articles for them. It’s digital yellowface.

This Sports Illustrated story is wild. The TLDR is that they bought AI-generated headshots and created fake writer profiles so they could publish AI-generated content and make it look real. They then deleted the content when asked about it. Super sad. SI used to be the best.

The Colorado officer placed Elijah McClain in a neck hold has been reinstated to the Aurora police department and will receive $200,000 in back pay, city officials said theguardian.com/us-news/2023/n…

BREAKING: Mark Cuban is selling a majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to the Adelson family, per Marc Stein & Shams Charania. The deal values the team at around $3.5 billion & Cuban will retain full control of basketball operations. Cuban paid $285M for the team in 2000.

Let’s do it @ziwe 😜

Andre Braugher 1962-2023 bit.ly/46U0dKI

All eyes have been on the end of affirmative action, but an emerging bipartisan bill would bar wealthy colleges from accepting federal student loans poses a new threat to diversity at those schools theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Scoop: Warner Bros. Discovery (Warner Bros. Discovery) in talks to merge with @Paramount — David Zaslav met w Bob Bakish on Tuesday at Paramount HQ to discuss — Zaslav also has spoken to Shari Redstone about a deal — WBD has hired bankers Story on Axios: axios.com/2023/12/20/war…

The man has literally been playing in Los Angeles for the past 6 years and everyone in town is welcoming him like he just came from the other side of the country.

A Los Angeles county sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a 27-year-old woman who had called 911 to report that she was under attack by a former boyfriend, officials said. Records show the deputy had killed another person in similar circumstances 3 years ago theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d…

𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: No AJ Brown at #Eagles practice today... (h/t Eliot Shorr-Parks)

Condé Nast is merging Pitchfork and GQ. It will result in layoffs at Pitchfork, including the exit of editor-in-chief Puja Patel. variety.com/2024/digital/n…

White House pharmacists reportedly distributed uppers and downers like candy to Trump administration officials during his time in office. 💊 rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

EXCLUSIVE: Slammed by allegations of rape, defecation, sex trafficking and more, Vince McMahon is out at WWE and UFC parent company TKO Group Holdings deadline.com/2024/01/vince-…

Let’s bring the most expensive ACLs on the planet to met life. Brilliant.

Let the speculation begin: Kliff Kingsbury coached Caleb Williams last season. Williams was a standout QB at Gonzaga High School in Washington, D.C. The Commanders currently hold the No. 2 overall pick and are in striking distance of the No. 1 pick that belongs to Chicago.