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The internet is officially TV now
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Welcome to Chud Nuremberg
Oh! Look At That, We Have A Live Show In DC All About The Midterms Later This Month The midterms have brought an abundance of internet garbage, and Garbage Day is coming to DC to help make sense of it all in partnership with Run For Something. It’s a night of comedy, music, some journalism, special guests, and scheming to make the internet fun—and progressive—again. Tickets are moving fast. Hit the green button below to grab one before they’re gone.
Is Meta's Muse assistant actually popular?
Ahhhhhh!?!?!?!!! Garbage Day Live tickets for next week are moving super, duper fast. We have not one, but two very special guests: Annie Rauwerda, the genius behind Depths of Wikipedia, and comedian Alex Pearlman, better known as pearlmania500. It’s going to be a hell of a night. We can’t guarantee there will be tickets available at the door! So grab your tickets below. Dave’s Hot Chicken, The Future Of Computing Last week, something very funny happened.
No one actually likes AI influencers
(Graphic design is my passion.) New live show dropped. Garbage Day is doing its first ever event in DC next month! We’re partnering with progressive political organization Run For Something and it’s going to be all about the midterms (gulp). It’s on November 18th at 7pm at Pubkey in DC’s Penn Quarter. Featured guests included Run For Something’s co-founder and president, Amanda Litman, and podcaster and author (and Panic World guest) Bridget Todd.
"A genius OnlyFans marketing hack"
(Graphic design is my passion.) New live show dropped. Garbage Day is doing its first ever event in DC next month! We’re partnering with progressive political organization Run For Something and it’s going to be all about the midterms (gulp). It’s on November 18th at 7pm at Pubkey in DC’s Penn Quarter. Featured guests included Run For Something’s co-founder and president, Amanda Litman, and podcaster and author (and Panic World guest) Bridget Todd.
Voting only gets you so far
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Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit
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A grande desaceleração da IA é uma bobagem de marketing e políticos idiotas dos EUA estão caindo nessa
Estamos no meio de uma mudança e tanto no cenário da IA. O que o Casey Newton, da Platformer, está chamando de “a virada do clima na segurança em IA”. Tudo começou com o hack da Hugging Face em julho.
Am I too boring to need an AI agent?
I Actually Have No Idea What I’m Supposed To Do With Meta’s AI Agent??? My plan yesterday was to download Meta’s new AI agent Muse and spend the day messing around with it. We’re in the midst of an AI agent boom right now, as AI companies try their damnedest to figure out some kind of killer use case for their massively expensive new technology. And I wanted to see what all the hype is about.
I'm not sure disinfo campaigns on X still work
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If app bad why line go up?
If app bad why line go up?
#Oreogate is just the beginning
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Microdramas are the death rattle of Hollywood
Play China Games, Win China Prizes The tendency in the west to assume that China is the “future” can be a little unhelpful. The rise and fall of TikTok in the west over the last eight years has proved that the Chinese market is not really ahead of ours, but parallel. Sure, Americans loved the original TikTok, but they’ve had harder time embracing other big Chinese tech trends. Social shopping really hasn’t taken off here the same way.
A civil war inside the Democratic civil war
It's that time again! I'm going on a much-needed vacation. We'll be doing a lighter publishing schedule for the next week or so, but paying readers will still get their now-weekly Garbage Intelligence column from Adam Bumas this Friday and next week.
Hank Green’s anti-AI AI psychosis
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İnsansı Robotlar Canlı Hayvanlarda Ameliyat Yaptı
Kaliforniya San Diego Üniversitesindeki bir ekip iki bacaklı insansı robotların ameliyathanelerdeki etkinliğini başarıyla test etti. Nature dergisinde yayımlanan çalışmada robotların karmaşık operasyonlara destek verebileceği belirtildi. Robotlar ince motor becerilerini cansız nesneler üzerinde kanıtladı. İNSANSI ROBOT AMELİYAT MASASINDA BAŞARIYLA SINANDI Sabit robotik sistemler uzun süredir kullanılırken ilk kez insansı bir robot ameliyatta yer aldı.
Indocyanine Green Fluorescent Cholangiography During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy and Bile Duct Injury
Key Points Question Is the use of indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescent cholangiography associated with decreased rates of common bile duct (CBD) injury? Findings In this cohort study of 1.2 million laparoscopic cholecystectomies between 2016 and 2024, ICG use was associated with a significant reduction in CBD injury compared with non-ICG cases, as well as all lower rates of nonbiliary postoperative complications.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end
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In vivo feasibility study of humanoid robots in surgery
Abstract Recent advances in actuation, control and learning have rapidly pushed humanoid robots from a distant vision towards near-term real-world deployment1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18. Healthcare is a particularly pressing domain, in which staffing shortages and increasing care demand are widening the gap between clinical workload and available skilled labour19,20,21.
Netflix and the value of streaming shovelware
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We spent a month hiding in a Kalshi clipping Discord
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This AI cockroach is Instagram's fastest growing account
How India’s “Cockroach Janta Party” Conquered Instagram —by Adam Bumas We normally send out our monthly Garbage Intelligence trend reports on the first Friday of every month. They’re usually for paying subscribers, but we’re sharing this story with our whole audience today because we’ve come across something more popular than any trend or post we’ve ever recorded. It’s smashed all of our records. It’s an AI-generated cockroach on Instagram.
There's nothing to watch on YouTube anymore
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What happens when the short-form video bubble pops?
Waaaahooooooo! Here we go, people. It’s our last New York show on the books for the season. It’s on May 5th at 7:00pm at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And the special guest is… podcaster PJ Vogt, host of Search Engine. You can grab tickets to our May show by hitting the green button below. On December 31st, 2012 , I sat in a little conference room in Times Square with a team of bloggers and “live GIF’d” the New Year’s Eve ball dropping for Tumblr.
The wild Geese chase
The Geese Psyop Is A Psyop Yesterday, WIREDpublished a story titled “The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop.” Just from the headline, I immediately knew it was about Chaotic Good Projects, a company I had looked into a few weeks ago after I stumbled across subtweets about them on X. Unlike WIRED, however, I ultimately held off on covering them because, well, I thought the company was full of shit. And I wanted some more time to figure out exactly how full of shit they were.
Was Justin Bieber's Coachella set good?
Waaaahooooooo! Here we go, people. It’s our last New York show on the books for the season. It’s on May 5th at 7:00pm at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. And the special guest is… podcaster PJ Vogt, host of Search Engine. Huge thanks to our previous guests Katie Notopoulos, Akilah Hughes, and Don Lemon. And thank you to all of you who’ve come out to these. They’ve been such a blast and it’s been great getting to meet you all.
Oh, look, we're all pivoting to video again
Garbage Day Live is back on April 7th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — and this time we have not one but two guests: Journalist Don Lemon and podcaster/comedian Akilah Hughes. It's going to be a strange and wonderful evening. And… TICKETS ARE MOVING FAST!!! If you want to join us for a weird and wonderful night, get your tickets below. As One Pivot To Video Ends, Another Is, Always, Right Around The Corner Every pivot to video has brought with it idiotic requirements for creators.
Meta bad, but losing Section 230 worse
This week, Meta lost landmark cases in New Mexico and California and has to pay close to $400 million in damages across both.
Our content is too spicy for TikTok
Garbage Day Live is back on April 7th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — and this time we have not one but two guests: Journalist Don Lemon and podcaster/comedian Akilah Hughes. It's going to be a strange and wonderful evening. And… TICKETS ARE MOVING FAST!!! If you want to join us for a weird and wonderful night, get your tickets below. Garbage Day Got Thrown In TikTok Jail Again For the last month, I’ve been experimenting with short-form video.
Day 17 of America’s Timothée Chalamet crisis
You Don’t Have To Have An Opinion About Timothée Chalamet’s Opinion Hey everybody, I am back up and running after my computer was totally destroyed at Garbage Day Live on Tuesday. Shout out to the folks at Brooklyn Micro Center, you’re all amazing. Anyways, let’s talk about Timothée Chalamet. We are currently two weeks into our national conversation about Chalamet’s thoughts on opera and ballet. Which has apparently become a Miley-Cyrus-twerking level cultural event.
Sorry babe, I'm monitoring the situation
Garbage Day Live is coming back to Brooklyn. We’re doing three nights across three months at Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg. Tickets for our March 10th show, with special guest Katie Notopoulos, ARE ALMOST SOLD OUT!!!! So grab them while you can by clicking the buttons below. A Buffalo Wild Wings For Gambling On Human Misery On Saturday, the US and Israel launched Operation Epstein Fu— sorry, I meant Operation Epic Fury.
The only taboo left is copyright infringement
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Clavicular mogged the Dimes Square jestergooners
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A singular theory for the Epstein network
We’ll be taking over Baby’s All Right In Williamsburg in March, April, and May. If you’ve never been to Garbage Day Live before, one audience member once described it as “a live documentary about the end of the world that’s also, somehow, a game show sometimes.” I’m excited to announce our first special guest: Business Insider senior correspondent Katie Notopoulos, as picked by you guys. She’ll be guesting on our March 10th show.
How Epstein Worked with the Global Right to Destroy Democracy
“Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances. You and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, and as I said in your office. Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.” Notorious pedophile and Donald Trump’s former best friend, Jeffrey Epstein, wrote what seems like a mission statement to white nationalist billionaire Peter Thiel in 2016 after Brexit.
Here's how Epstein broke the internet
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OpenAI’s Sora 2 started off scorching hot. Things have slowed down since.
Do not be alarmed: we know it’s super realistic, but this is not an actual dog taking his astronaut helmet off in space where there is no oxygen. It’s just a video created with Sora (Courtesy OpenAI press release) The app racked up 1 million downloads in its first five days, despite being iOS-only and requiring an invite. But for all of December, it was downloaded just over 3 million times between iOS and Android.
We're all just content for ICE
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The rise of the troll state
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2025's biggest trend was 2015
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How dare Lena Dunham walk past Enid’s
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Wird ER der Nachfolger von Charlie Kirk?
Republikaner haben viel Energie darauf verwendet, sicherzustellen, dass Charlie Kirk in Erinnerung bleibt. Nachdem der konservative Influencer im September erschossen wurde, wurde seine Beerdigung live aus dem State Farm Stadium in Arizona übertragen. In roten Bundesstaaten im ganzen Land wehten die Flaggen auf Halbmast. Präsident Donald Trump erklärte den 14. Oktober 2025 – Kirks Geburtstag – zum offiziellen Nationalen Gedenktag.
Republicans astroturfed themselves
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Fuentes Filling the Void Original
Republicans have spent a lot of energy making sure you remember Charlie Kirk. After the conservative influencer was shot and killed in September, his funeral was televised live from Arizona’s State Farm Stadium. Flags flew at half mast in red states across the country. President Donald Trump declared Oct. 14, 2025 — Kirk’s birthday — an official National Day of Remembrance.
A more buttoned-up version of Garbage Day
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We did it, Zo
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Saturday Football Wrap: Cunningham and Monroe stay unbeaten; Banks-Brown scores late touchdown to lift Finney/Northstar
MONROE (8-0) 36 BISHOP TIMON/ST. JUDE (Monsignor Martin) 2 Terrell “Pooty” Cunningham completed 9-of-12 passes for 215 yards and three touchdowns as Monroe rolled to its eighth win by double digits this season. University of Oregon commit Messiah Hampton was on the receiving of three of those passes for 70 yards and one score. Brien Walker caught three passes for 90 yards and a touchdown. Luis Falu made three catches for 55 yards and found paydirt once.
The national masculinity conversation continues to devolve
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Saturday Football Wrap: Monroe stays unbeaten; White leads UPrep
BATAVIA (4-3) 0 MONROE (7-0) 50 Terrell “Pooty” Cunningham went 15-for-19 for 350 yards through the air including three touchdown passes to keep Monroe’s perfect season alive. Messiah Hampton caught eight of Cunningham’s 15 completions for 223 yards and two touchdowns. Brien Walker caught two passes including a touchdown reception. Deshawn Thomas scored twice on the ground on 5 rushes. Ray Garcia had a 104 all purpose yard game including a punt return for a touchdown.
The Great Dumbening
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