1. 📰 Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking (direct link) (👍1400 👎6)

from The Onion ([email protected])

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World’s First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking. Zuckerberg, concealing his grotesque rat penis transplant scars and a row of engorged pig nipples underneath his trademark t-shirt and jeans, said: “It’s simply not our place to moderate important discussions happening on our platform” 🖋️🤖

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2. 📰 OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us (direct link) (👍1147 👎11)

from Not The Onion ([email protected])

OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

Sound familiar This segment is a paid ad. Your personal data can easily be found with a simple Google search—DeleteMe is here to help. We’re offering 404 Media readers 20% off all consumer plans. OpenAI and Microsoft are essentially now whining about being beaten at its own game by DeepSeek. “It is (relatively) easy to copy something that you know works,” Altman tweeted. “This is the key to driving progress forward.”Even this is ridiculous, though. About the author Jason is a cofounder of 404 Media. 🖊️️🤖

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3. 📰 Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day (direct link) (👍411 👎10)

from Weird News - Things that make you go ‘hmmm’ ([email protected])

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

Federal employees told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. The move is in response to President Donald Trump’s executive orders. The orders were signed on his first day in the White House. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News for this story. 🖋️🤖

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4. 📰 ‘Out of Control’: Insurance Giant UnitedHealth Calls in Middle of Cancer Surgery to Question Necessity | Common Dreams (direct link) (👍258 👎1)

from Not the Onion ([email protected])

‘Out of Control’: Insurance Giant UnitedHealth Calls in Middle of Cancer Surgery to Question Necessity | Common Dreams

The call was urgent, she was told, and needed to be returned right away. “So I scrubbed out of my case and I called UnitedHealthcare, and the gentleman said he needed some information about her,” said Potter. She said she told him, “I need to go back and be with my patient now” and was able to continue the procedure.“But it’s out of control,” she said. "Insurance is out of control. “This is a dark, dark time for healthcare, and we have to fix this or we’re gonna go down a path that we can’t get back from.” 🖊️️🤖

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5. 📰 ‘I do regret it a bit’: Stubborn grandfather has motorway built around his house after refusing £180k to move (direct link) (👍160 👎1)

from And Finally… ([email protected])

‘I do regret it a bit’: Motorway built around stubborn grandfather’s house after he refused compensation

Huang Ping’s two-storey home in Jinxi, China, is now surrounded by a construction site with constant dust, noisy builders and vibrating walls. He says he now regrets not taking the Chinese government’s money and fears what living in his property will be like once the expressway opens in Spring. 🖋️🤖

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6. 📰 Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment (direct link) (👍32 👎1)

from Offbeat ([email protected])

Welsh woman fined for flatulence-fueled cyber harassment

Evans may have even got away with it if she stopped after the resulting police warning. Her fartal error, however, was sending additional videos on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. Evans was later arrested at her home and admitted to the gaseous exchanges. Evans and her ex had previously been in a relationship for two years. "She suggested she wanted to send videos because she felt her partner was being treated unfairly. Regardless, the wind didn’t blow in Evans’s favor. 🖊️️🤖

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7. 📰 Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’ (direct link) (👍25 👎2)

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Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree ‘Hitler Was a Communist’

He believed that Marxism was a Jewish conspiracy to control Germany and the world “Does that sound like Hitler to you? He switched off free speech. He controlled the media, and without that he would have never been successful.”“Yes, exactly,” Musk responded “I don’t see very much potential for future change, because Musk has become a negative figure.” 🖊️️🤖

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📰 Colombia Faces a New Problem: Too Much Cocaine (direct link), posted in Strange Times (👍81 👎4)

Colombia Faces a New Problem: Too Much Cocaine

When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load Roger Guzman, 19, harvesting coca leaves in the small town of Caño Cabra, in central Colombia Suddenly, people who were already poor had no income. An exodus to other parts of Colombia in search of jobs followed. The changing dynamics have led to blocks of unsold coca paste piling up across Colombia. Want all of The Times? 🖊️️🤖

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