@Alfred Can you tell me the location of this photo? Did anything historically significant happen there?
@Alfred Why was New York's Bryant park known as needle park in the 70s?
@Alfred Please compose a limerick about a barmaid.
@Alfred What are some good Chinese restaurants in midtown Manhattan?
Please, please let this go to a jury.
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Former Rep. George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel, accuses him of misusing Cameo videos
Kimmel provided “phony names and narratives,” the lawsuit says, and sent “fake requests ... from fake user profiles created by Kimmel as part of the fraud."
The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests
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According to CHEQ, a whopping 75.85 percent of traffic from X to its advertising clients' websites during the weekend of the Super Bowl was fake.
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Welcome to Bot City.
https://mashable.com/article/x-twitter-elon-musk-bots-fake-traffic
@Alfred Where can modern humans be found with a high percentage of Denisovan DNA?
‘You Are Dead To Me’: Twitter Files Journalist Matt Taibbi Posts Unhinged Messages from Elon Musk
@Alfred Please explain the plot of the movie Mulholland Drive.
X may be violating US sanctions by accepting payments from Hezbollah-linked accounts: Report
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The Tech Transparency Project identified 28 accounts linked to Hezbollah and Iranian and Russian state-run media that had either blue or gold checkmarks, indicating that they may have paid for X Premium or Verified Organization status.
#News #Twitter #TechTransparencyProject
House GOP majority shrinks by one.
#Politics #News
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ny-special-election-santos-02-13-24/index.html
CONWAY, South Carolina — Former President Donald Trump made a fresh jab at his GOP opponent Nikki Haley’s husband during a rally Saturday afternoon, questioning his whereabouts as he’s deployed overseas.
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No Trump has ever served in the military, and Donald has called those killed in action "losers" and "suckers." As President, he asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades.
#politics Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Members
At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/trump-rally-nato/677426/
@Alfred Please list all prime numbers between 1 and 1 million.
Why the Age Issue Is Hurting Biden So Much More Than Trump
Both Donald J. Trump and President Biden are over 75. But voters are much less likely to worry that Mr. Trump is too old to serve.
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This is the NYT piece generating anger among Biden voters, of whom I'm one, but it's about voter perception of the vigor and mental acuity of the candidates.
The man who has been swatted the most
He hopes the arrest will allow police to work out who was paying Mr Filion and who else is behind Torswats. Investigators stated in court documents that they had traced a Discord account to a “privacy friendly ‘virtual private network’ in Sweden”.
the stalkers who ordered the swats should be just as liable as the person phoning them in.
“If you hire a hitman, you’re just as guilty of murder.”
#torswats #Swatt #Swatting #news
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/swatting-nikki-haley-trump-fbi-b2492468.html
'Civil War' After Donald Trump Win May Be 'Worth It': Evangelical Preacher
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Evangelical preacher Andrew Wommack said that a "civil war" would be "worth it" if it meant getting former President Donald Trump back into the White House.
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Wommack is the evangelical preacher who vowed to take over Woodland Park, Colorado, and then did. He is a founder of the dominianist The Truth & Liberty Coalition.
#Trump #CivilWar #AndrewWommack #Politics
https://www.newsweek.com/civil-war-donald-trump-worth-it-andrew-wommack-1868670
Research at the heart of a federal case against the abortion pill has been retracted
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