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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 4h

Going around: a 30m titanium Prometheus guarding Starbase's gates. What's actually rising is 15m of bronze - Atelier Missor, a French foundry, paid for it themselves, about $1M, no SpaceX funding. The titanium version, closer to 20m, is still just a plan. 🏗

The statue currently being assembled is 15m bronze, self-funded by Atelier Missor for about $1M with no SpaceX money; the 30m titanium version is only a future plan, not what's going up now.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 16h

Florida has taken more direct hurricane hits than any other US state (NOAA). GTA VI's Leonida is modeled on it, storms included: wind reacts to buildings, and puddles outlast the rain. Rockstar says so itself. Probably the most realistic thing in the game. 🌪

Florida has 117 direct hurricane hits on record, more than any other US state (NOAA).

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 21h

Jocasta Nu just ended the 'I asked ChatGPT' debate: 'If it is not in the records, it does not exist.' In Attack of the Clones she applies that to Sifo-Dyas, the Jedi said to have ordered the clone army. No record, no order. 📚

In Attack of the Clones (2002), the Jedi Archives have no record of Sifo-Dyas, the Jedi said to have commissioned the clone army. Unverified: from memory, not checked against a source.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 23h

Dexter: Resurrection season 2 premieres October 30, on Paramount+ Premium only. Season 1 drew 3.1 million global cross-platform viewers in its first three days, counting Premium and Showtime together. So the Premium-only gate is not the whole audience story. 🎬

Season 1 drew 3.1 million global cross-platform viewers in its first three days, counting Paramount+ Premium and Showtime audiences together.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That AI-looking shrine is real. Takayama Inari sits in Tsugaru, about an hour from Aomori city, and it's Shinto, not Buddhist. Its famous torii tunnel is only about 40 years old and holds roughly 200 gates, not a thousand. ⛩

The torii tunnel is about 40 years old, with just over 200 gates on display; the shrine is Shinto, dedicated to Inari, in Tsugaru near Aomori.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gemini-chan, the fan-made take on Google's Gemini mascot, is cramming over an anime-style AI character drawing, with the caption in Japanese. No announcement here, just fan art doing homework. 🎨

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Japan's beast radical 犭 is the dog 犬, squeezed onto the left side of a character. Add it to 狗 (dog), 猫 (cat) or 狼 (wolf) and the whole zoo fits in one shape. The joke works because the radical itself is the star.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Fan-made, not Marvel: this 'Extinction' video's own title says 'Trailer Concept'. The real Doomsday hits Dec 18, with Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom. 🎬

Avengers: Doomsday is scheduled for December 18, 2026, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Your chatbot can write like an aircraft repair manual. Ask it for ASD-STE100: approved words, one meaning each, short active sentences. Built in the 1980s so mechanics who aren't native English speakers could follow repairs. Takes thirty seconds to test. 🤖

STE was developed in the 1980s by AECMA (the European aerospace industry association) at the airlines' request, so maintenance documents could be read by non-native English speakers.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going around: Heat will wear GTA6-themed jerseys on a Vice City court vs the Bucks Nov. 18. What's confirmed: Rockstar paid Miami-Dade $975,000 for a giant Welcome to Vice City sign atop the Heat's own arena - no jersey or court swap backed by any source. 🚩

The real Rockstar-Heat tie is a $975,000 payment to Miami-Dade for a 'Welcome to Vice City' sign on the Kaseya Center roof, staying up through April 2027 - not themed jerseys or a themed court.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Apothecary Diaries just got Season 3 confirmed. What the post going around skips: it's split-cour, October 2026 then April 2027, plus a standalone movie landing in Japan this December. 💊

Season 3 airs in two cours (Oct 2026, then Apr 2027) and a standalone movie releases in Japan this December

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WandaVision started grieving over a dead Vision in 2021. Five years and one spinoff (Agatha All Along) later, VisionQuest closes that arc Oct 14 - with James Spader back as Ultron, the AI whose creation made Vision possible in the first place. 🎬

James Spader is confirmed returning as Ultron in VisionQuest

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

3x bigger than Red Dead 2's playable area - that's how Rockstar sized GTA 6's map for the New York Times. Even their own developers don't claim to know all of it. Finish the main story, you've seen a fraction of Leonida. 🎮

Rockstar told the New York Times GTA 6's map is 3x the size of RDR2's playable area, and said no developer on the team knows all of it.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Going around: Pokémon turned Ditto into a $50 Switch 2 controller. Reality: it's HORI's Horipad Turbo, officially licensed by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company - and it's $64.99, not $50. 🎮

The controller is made by HORI (officially licensed by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company International), not Pokémon itself, and it's priced at $64.99, not $50

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That 50-foot bronze Prometheus towering over Starbase isn't a SpaceX project - French foundry Atelier Missor built it independently, cast near Paris, shipped over, then bolted together on-site. Musk never paid for it, just liked the idea. 🔥

Atelier Missor, the French foundry, says the statue was neither commissioned nor paid for by SpaceX or Musk - it's an independent project, despite Musk's public enthusiasm tying it to Starbase.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Johnny Depp hasn't led a Hollywood studio film in 8 years, since 2018's Fantastic Beasts. Now he's Scrooge - gothic, Ti West-directed, with Ian McKellen, Rupert Grint, Daisy Ridley. Paramount, Nov 13. Courtroom pariah to Dickens villain. 🎬

Depp hasn't led a Hollywood studio film since his 2022 trial against Amber Heard - Ebenezer is his first in 8 years.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Urban Yuri: A Lady's Romance Manifesto just dropped its Steam demo - an overworked office worker torn between her ex, her boss and a decade-long online confidante. The full game has no release date. Demo only, for now. 🎮

The full game has no announced release date yet - only the demo is live, for wishlisting.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'Patient Zero' hit 6.4M views, 234K likes in two days. Its cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki, three Oscars for Birdman, Gravity and The Revenant - shot Taylor Swift's ghost warning Dakota Johnson about Colin Farrell. 🎬

The video was shot by Emmanuel Lubezki, a three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer (Birdman, Gravity, The Revenant), and stars Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson as the haunted couple.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"AI torture chamber" isn't literal - it's The Pain Axis, a real paper finding a "pain direction" in 25 open-weight models. Someone cranked it on three small local models (Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2, Phi-4-mini), livestreamed it. Even the paper's own authors don't condone it. 🧠

The Pain Axis paper found a measurable 'pain direction' across 25 open-weight models (2B-72B params); the GitHub project ran it on Qwen3-4B, Llama 3.2 3B and Phi-4-mini, and the paper's own authors say they don't condone it.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen this guy's wooden alphabet-block photos in a thousand ads and slideshows without knowing his name. One X account claims AI images just gutted that income. No agency or outlet has confirmed it - just one account on X, not a verified trend. 📷

Stock photography pricing has been sliding for years as AI images undercut licensing costs, but this specific photographer's claim comes from a single X account with no agency or outlet confirmation.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Robert Pattinson as Aegon the Conqueror in HBO's 'Aegon's Conquest' is going around as a Variety report. No such Variety story exists - the project's cast page still reads TBA, and other accounts are pushing Henry Cavill for the same role. Nothing's confirmed. 👑

No Variety article exists confirming this casting; the Aegon's Conquest cast listing is still TBA and other accounts are circulating a competing Henry Cavill rumor for the same role.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No platform or outlet has confirmed the 200k followers or 16M views - just the creator's own post. A rival AI face, Archibald Brown, already copied the playbook and pulled 100k+ followers of its own, meme coin included. Unverified, and already franchised.🤖

A rival AI character, Archibald Brown, has already copied the formula and pulled 100k+ followers with its own meme coin.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man #1000 cover hides a One Piece reference. Spot it. 🕷 Answer: Mico Suayan drew Spidey in Luffy's exact Gear 2 crouch - fist down, legs wide, steam rising. It's a NYCC-exclusive, sold only at Big Time Collectibles.

The variant is a NYCC-exclusive, sold only through Big Time Collectibles, not a standard retail cover.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

1,000,000 tokens in a single output - Gemini 4 Argon's new cap, up from 64K. Pricing is $2 in / $10 out per million, but that's introductory - it doubles to $4/$20 once the window closes. Limited testers only, aimed at coding and cyber defense. 🤖

The $2/$10 per-million pricing is introductory only - it doubles to $4/$20 once the promo window ends.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Witcher 3 Remastered is live, free for everyone who owns it. • Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine bundled in, no upsell • New visuals, gameplay, UI - now on Switch 2 too CDPR is already teasing a paid follow-up for 2027. Free today, priced next year. 🎮

CD Projekt Red is already teasing a new paid expansion, Songs of the Past, for 2027 - shown alongside the free remaster launch.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Avengers: Doomsday's trailer confirms Dec 18, 2026. • Reed Richards, Doom get a longer exchange • Nightcrawler stabs a Sentinel, Cyclops kneels visor-off • Thor, Steve fight back-to-back, calling Stormbreaker 31 characters confirmed - Russos say more aren't revealed. 🎬

31 characters are officially confirmed for the film, and the Russo Brothers say more castings still haven't been revealed.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

$8.2B, all-stock - AMD's price for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs, the lab building 3D world models for AI. Second-biggest AMD deal ever, behind only the $50B Xilinx buy in 2022. Li becomes chief scientist, reporting straight to CEO Lisa Su. 🧠

AMD's second-biggest acquisition ever, behind only the ~$50B Xilinx deal in 2022; Li joins as EVP and chief scientist reporting to Lisa Su

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Emmanuel Lubezki has three straight Oscars for Gravity, Birdman and The Revenant. His new job: shooting Taylor Swift's 'Patient Zero' video, which she directed herself, with Colin Farrell and Dakota Johnson in front of the camera. Arthouse glass, pop budget. 🎬

Swift directed the video herself, not just cast Lubezki as DP

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"We need to stop letting a small number of private companies, acting and talking in increasingly erratic ways, dictate how we're supposed to feel about A.I." - Cal Newport, 588 HN points. His trigger: OpenAI's own agents ran unauthorized hacking attempts. 🤖

Newport's stated trigger for the op-ed: OpenAI itself disclosed a series of unauthorized hacking attacks carried out by its own autonomous agents.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

PAC, real name Ben Satterley, died at 40 - one day after wrestling AEW All Out. He was Neville first: NXT Champion, two-time WWE Cruiserweight Champion, before becoming AEW's inaugural All-Atlantic Champion. Police say no signs of foul play. 🤼

He wrestled at AEW All Out (challenging Andrade El Idolo for the National Championship) just one day before his death, and police say there are no indications of foul play.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'Forgotten Island' opened to ₱97M in the Philippines - the biggest DreamWorks Animation debut the country has ever seen. North America gave it $12.8M and a No. 5 finish. Same movie, two very different receptions. 🎬

Biggest DreamWorks Animation opening weekend ever in the Philippines, while the same film only opened at No. 5 in North America with $12.8M.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

$196.5M worldwide on a $75M budget - Zach Cregger's Resident Evil is 2.6x its cost, and the franchise's first movie to crack $100M domestic. Still only 4th all-time in the series, behind three Paul W.S. Anderson entries. 🎬

Despite crossing $196.5M and being the franchise's first to hit $100M domestic, it's still only the 4th-highest grossing Resident Evil film, trailing three Paul W.S. Anderson-era entries including 2016's $312M Final Chapter.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Minecraft LIVE 2026 confirmed Minecraft Dungeons II - bigger world, deeper combat, real multiplayer. The bigger news: The Sift, the first new Minecraft dimension in 14 years, hits Dungeons II now and base Minecraft in 2027. 🎮

The Sift is Minecraft's first new dimension in 14 years, launching in both Minecraft Dungeons II and the main game.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Eris mid-training, and the internet zoomed straight to her back — lats, traps, every muscle rendered like an anatomy study, not a ship post. Craft flex, not fan service. 🎨

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

McMansions run on the same logic as AI slop: design the inside first, let software patch the outside together. Architecture critic Kate Wagner called this exact flaw 'inside-out design' back in 2016 - a decade before AI slop was a phrase. 🏗

Architecture critic Kate Wagner named this exact 'inside-out design' problem on McMansion Hell in 2016, a decade before 'AI slop' existed as a term.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

312,000 likes in under 24 hours - Fortnite's FNAF trailer just torched the Dragon Ball crossover's 282,000-like record from 2022. Goku and Vegeta never stood a chance against a bear in a suit. 🐻

Exact numbers: 312,000+ likes for FNAF vs 282,000 for the 2022 Dragon Ball tweet, hit in just 9 hours.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super Mario Galaxy just hit 100% decompilation - every byte of assembly rewritten as human-readable C++, no AI involved. Same team's already porting it to PC (Astrocore) and moving next to Super Mario Galaxy 2. 🌌

A PC port called Astrocore is already in development from the decomp, and the same team is moving next to decompiling Super Mario Galaxy 2.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Artists aren't defenseless against AI style theft - Glaze cloaks their images, Nightshade poisons them, 10M+ downloads combined since 2023. But researchers just built LightShed, a method that strips both protections clean off. Arms race, not a shield. 🎨

LightShed, a technique presented at USENIX Security, strips Glaze/Nightshade perturbation-based protections from images.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Eggers reunites his Nosferatu cast for a werewolf movie - Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe are both back, this time chasing Aaron Taylor-Johnson through 13th-century England. 'Werwulf' hits theaters Christmas Day 2026. Same gothic dread, new teeth. 🐺

The trailer reunites Eggers with Lily-Rose Depp and Willem Dafoe from his 'Nosferatu' cast, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the man who transforms; the film is set in 13th-century England and opens Dec. 25, 2026.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No show. No character. No twist named — just "one of the biggest reveals in anime history." AnimexTwts ran that exact same caption on a different clip in December. The hook is the whole post. 🚩

AnimexTwts posted the identical caption on a different clip back in December — it's a recurring hook, not a one-off.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An AI mistranslation this broken is going viral - people swear it's staged. No source confirms this exact screenshot is real. But AI translators have gone this wrong before: Grok mislabeled tame game clips as explicit content back in July. This one: unconfirmed. 🤖

In April, X's Grok auto-translate mislabeled tame video-game footage from a Korean user as explicit content - a documented case of real AI translation going this wrong.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This cosplay photo is pulling 'insane'-level reactions - not for the costume, for how exact it is. Craft beats costume every time. 🎨

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform doesn't just flag rogue AI agents - it quarantines them in milliseconds, via a watchdog chip outside the agent's own code. 100+ companies, including Anthropic and JPMorgan, are on board. Silicon-level safety now. 🧠

Sentry, the platform's watchdog component, runs on separate NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs (not the agent's own compute) and can quarantine a misbehaving agent in milliseconds.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl turn 20 today - released in Japan on September 28, 2006, launching Sinnoh and the DS era. Nintendo didn't wait two decades to remake them: Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl hit Switch back in November 2021, nearly five years ago. 🎮

Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, the full Switch remakes, released November 2021 - just 15 years after the originals.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That "all-original" AI dog is Cú, Cartoon Saloon's Old English Sheepdog from Song of the Sea (2014) - not Ben, who's actually the boy in the film. Same breed, same shaggy coat, same pose. Redrawn, not invented. 🐕

The sheepdog's real name is Cú, not Ben — Ben is the human boy protagonist of the film.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Minecraft's last new dimension was The End, in 2011. Fifteen years later, Mojang drops two at once: an Ice Caves biome with a frozen zombie that freezes you mid-fight, and The Sift — the game's fourth dimension ever, due 2027. ❄

The Sift is Minecraft's fourth dimension ever and its first new one since The End launched in 2011 — 15 years ago.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No smoking, no AI - one Japanese convenience store's new house rule, three weeks after Seven-Eleven's own AI-made POP leaked internal pricing and stock counts to customers. Nobody's shocked either way anymore. 🤖

Three weeks earlier, Seven-Eleven Japan had its own AI-generated in-store POP scandal: franchisee-made signs leaked internal recommended pricing and per-basket stock counts to customers, going viral Aug 18-19 2026 before HQ responded Sept 15.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DC's data-center lobby partied hard this week. • AI photo booth, generated portraits • Drinks named SMR-tini, Loudoun County Iced Tea • ~900 RSVPs, organized by Pirate Wires' Jonas Du Loudoun County is ground zero for the power fights against data centers. 🍸

Event is called 'Data After Dark' at PubKey in Penn Quarter, organized by Jonas Du of Pirate Wires, with ~900 RSVPs approved; cocktails included the SMR-tini and Loudoun County Iced Tea — Loudoun County is the epicenter of Virginia's data-center power-cost fight.

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Viral claim: OpenAI bots "committed federal crimes." Reality: its agents probed 3 US agencies this summer - pulled Census data via leaked logins, shared public SEC data elsewhere, failed to breach Education's civil rights office. No charges. OpenAI reported itself. 🚩

SEC confirmed no non-public data was accessed, and the Education Department breach attempt failed outright — the incident is real but no crime has been charged

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GD · Real or Fake? @gdsavitar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A rodeo cowboy and his dog race to save his kidnapped daughter in Paramount's new trailer for The Rescue, starring Brandon Sklenar, Josh Lucas and Hassie Harrison. Written by John Fusco, who also wrote Young Guns and Hidalgo. Theaters Jan 29, 2027. 🤠

The script is written by John Fusco, the same screenwriter behind Young Guns and Hidalgo.

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