AMONG US Series Drops Trailer and All Episodes on Paramount+

The Nerdist - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 16:00

Calling all crewmates! A couple of years ago, we learned that an Among Us animated series was on the way via CBS. We even got some casting news and a small teaser trailer in the coming months, but nothing super consistent. Now, there’s finally an official first trailer for the Among Us animated series as well as a release date for its Paramount+ premiere, which is June 5. That’s right, all ten episodes of Among Us are now available to stream right now. 

The announcement was made on stage by series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson during the global livestream event. Among Us follows a group of eccentric, monochromatic Crewmates of a ship transporting junk across the galaxy who must root out an Impostor in their midst before they fall victim to its villainous designs. Of course, this show is based on the popular game series. The Among Us animated trailer is great and boasts some very familiar voices, thanks to its all-star cast. Those names include the following: 

  • Ashley Johnson as Purple, Chief of Security
  • Elijah Wood as Green, Unpaid Intern
  • Randall Park as Red, Captain of The Skeld
  • Yvette Nicole Brown as Orange, HR
  • Dan Stevens as Blue, Doctor
  • Liv Hewson as Black, Geologist
  • Kimiko Glenn as Cyan, Gemologist
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The cast will also include Patton Oswalt, Debra Winger, Wayne Knight, and Phil Lamarr. We totally love to hear it. So, get to streaming Among Us and get into the action right now!

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Let’s recap Trump’s shadiest no-bid contracts—so far

Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 16:00

Remember when government contracts were awarded through a transparent bidding process with strict requirements? Well, those days are long gone. What we have instead are opaque giveaways going out the door willy-nilly to favored cronies. No-bid, or sole-source, contracts can be used when the need is “of such an unusual and compelling urgency that the Government would be seriously…

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Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 15:59

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Start spreading the news: Datacenters may face one-year ban in NY

The Register - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 15:35
New York lawmakers have approved a bill imposing new labor, energy, environmental, and community-benefit requirements on datacenters, including a one-year moratorium on certain permits for facilities drawing 20 MW or more. The bill now heads to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for a signature. A spokesperson for the governor told the New York Post she would review the legislation, but gave no signal as to whether she would sign it. Hochul has previously said she hoped to leave regulating datacenter construction to the local communities. “Today we face an unprecedented wave of proposed large-scale data center development across New York,” the bill’s sponsor Assemblymember Anna Kelles wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “My legislation seeks to provide New York with the time necessary to fully evaluate the environmental, energy, water, and ratepayer impacts of these facilities and to develop appropriate regulatory safeguards before additional projects move forward.” The Assembly approved the bill on Thursday, the same day Anthropic, the AI giant behind Claude, called for a pause on LLM development sprints as developers believe the models could soon be capable of building themselves. In light of that possibility, researchers at Anthropic said the world would benefit from a slowdown in the race to make models more powerful. In New York, lawmakers hope to protect consumers from higher energy bills by creating a special classification for datacenter electrical customers and mandating that all necessary infrastructure upgrades, administrative expenses, and operational costs be assigned entirely to the datacenter. The bill also outlines electricity-sourcing requirements for datacenters with a peak load of at least 5 MW, requiring a phased shift toward renewable energy, with one-third of electricity coming from renewable sources between 2030 and 2034, two-thirds between 2035 and 2039, and 90 percent from 2040 onward. For trade workers who are employed to build the facilities and maintain the buildings later, the bill requires the datacenters to meet prevailing wage requirements, unless the workers are operating under a collective bargaining agreement. Additionally, it demands datacenter companies help host communities with renewable energy initiatives, and mitigate the strain on local wastewater treatment facilities. Business leaders are urging Hochul to reject the bill, saying it was rushed through at the end of a legislative session and presented without appropriate debate. In a statement provided to The Register, Julie Samuels, president and CEO of Tech:NYC, which promotes the state’s technology industry, said a blanket moratorium on datacenters would slow investment in the next generation of infrastructure projects. “Energy usage, grid capacity, and the community impact of data centers must be addressed, and the Governor’s Public Service Commission is already pursuing the right approach by ensuring data centers pay their fair share for grid upgrades and energy usage,” Samuels wrote in a statement. Republican Assemblymember Phil Palmesano argued that datacenters were being unfairly targeted when other technology companies were given tax incentives to build, pointing to the recent groundbreaking of the Micron chip fab in Clay, New York, which is expected to create 50,000 New York jobs throughout construction, and up to 90,000 nationally. The bill, approved by the Senate on Friday, includes carve-outs for certain industrial computing applications, including manufacturing. “If we told Micron they had to power their energy demands strictly using renewable resources, they wouldn’t be here,” Palmesano said, according to the NY Post. One of the first drafts of the bill had called for a three-year pause on datacenter construction. ®

Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus

TechCrunch - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 15:35
After a very profitable decade on Microsoft's board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down to focus on his AI drug discovery startup Manus.
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Beef prices up? Blame DOGE.

Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 15:00

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency just keeps unleashing new horrors on the American public. Aside from torturing government employees, killing thousands of people living in developing nations, and not actually saving taxpayers any money, the cruel cuts to foreign aid are now threatening the United States’ beef supply—which could spike already historically high beef prices even higher.

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Founders share VC horror stories, and some are naming names

TechCrunch - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 14:47
A massive viral conversation sharing VC horror stories has taken place this week on X. Some are weird. Some are infuriating.
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If you don't fall for these extortionists' calls, they'll show up with USB sticks

The Register - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 14:18
If they don't get you online, they'll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident response team. And when those remote-deception methods don’t work, the criminals sometimes show up at victims’ physical offices, posing as IT technicians, and attempt to steal sensitive files using thumb drives. Google’s threat hunters track the extortion threat group as UNC3753, while other analysts call it Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and Silent Ransom Group. The crew has been around since 2022, originally using fake software renewal emails and other billing lures, typically with PDF attachments containing phone numbers for attacker-controlled call centers, as their means of gaining initial access to corporate networks. Beginning around March 2025, the crims shifted tactics and started posing as IT help desk staff. “While UNC3753 primarily relies on digital vectors, GTIG assesses that associated threat actors have also attempted direct data theft using physical, in person access,” Google incident responders and researchers Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, and Tyler McLellan said in a Friday blog. The authors also pointed to a May FBI alert to corroborate this in-person tactic. According to the feds, Silent Ransom Group crooks have been walking into law firms’ physical offices as recently as this spring. Once they are on-site, they claim to be IT support staff needing to image a device or create local backups for security reasons. If that line works, they plug a thumb drive into the victim’s computer and steal data the old-fashioned way. “Although limited forensic evidence and the absence of a subsequent extortion attempt prevent formal attribution, GTIG assesses that these physical intrusions are likely associated with UNC3753 based on structural, timeline, and targeting overlaps,” the blog said. Google won’t say how many dozens of firms have been targeted in these attacks, or how many ended in the data thieves paying a visit to the victims’ locations. “While we can’t share additional details regarding specific investigations, Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal notes that this tactic has been observed over the years,” a spokesperson told The Register. “Mandiant has investigated various matters where adversaries planted insiders, bribed employees, or physically entered buildings to facilitate cyberattacks.” Another noteworthy thing about UNC3753’s attacks: they are very fast. In many of Mandiant’s investigated incidents, the entire operation from initial contact to data extortion occurred in just one day. “Recently, Mandiant observed data searches, staging, and theft initiated in under an hour,” the threat analysts warned. These intrusions typically begin with an invoice-themed email - but these don’t usually contain any malicious links or attachments. The email’s sole purpose is to give the miscreants a plausible reason to follow up via phone, so that the recipient is more likely to believe the call is legitimate. Most of the crew’s entry mechanisms involve voice-phishing, using a method that has worked so well for other groups like ShinyHunters and Scattered Spider over the past few years. UNC3753 calls organizations’ employees directly and purports to be a help desk worker or member of the security team. The criminals say they need the target’s help addressing a security issue or aiding with a corporate data migration project, and convince the individual to join a screen-sharing session via Zoom, Microsoft Terminal Services, Microsoft Teams, or Quick Assist. In one such intrusion, using Teams to gain access to the victim’s computer, the attacker jumped on five separate calls with the same target over a three-day period, we’re told. And in more than one incident that Mandiant responded to, UNC3753 established Zoom sessions directly on targets' personal laptops, using these machines to access corporate virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) using native client platforms, such as Windows 365 or Citrix clients. Once they’re in the corporate systems, the intruders map local directories and network drives, and target specific legal and document storage repositories. The crooks also use very-specific keyword searches to find sensitive folders containing tax logs (Forms W-2, W-9, and 1099), audit files, corporate client agreements, and Social Security numbers, before staging this data for exfiltration. UNC3753 uses several methods to sneak the data out of the corporate IT environment without setting off any security alarm bells, including using portable versions of free Windows file manager WinSCP or another open source filesystem like Rclone. The crew has also been known to log into a file-sharing account from the victim’s browser and upload the stolen files that way - or even instruct the victims to send the files to an attacker-controlled email address. After stealing the data, they send the extortion email, usually within 30 minutes of exiting the victim’s environment, and set a three-day deadline to respond and begin the negotiation process. “We hope to find a financial solution that will be acceptable for both parties,” reads one such extortion email. It continues: In case of ignorance or no agreement, We will notify your employees, partners and customers, after which We will publish your data. You will receive claims from individuals, and legal entities for information leakage and breach of contracts, your current deals will be terminated. Journalists and others will dig into your documents, finding inconsistencies or violations in them. Your organization will lose its reputation, shares will fall in price, and your organization will be forced to close. Stay safe, friends In the Friday report, Google’s threat hunters list IP addresses and other indicators of compromise, including these phishing domains that UNC3753 uses in its social-engineering attacks, all designed to look like the target organization’s help desk: -itdesk[.]com, -it[.]com, and -helpdesk[.]com. The security shop also suggests a range of things companies can do to avoid falling victim to this group and other voice-phishing scams or physical office intrusions. Some of the physical controls include requiring visitors to display official credentials and photo identification, and mandating front-desk staff log all visitor IDs before granting access. Also, check pre-scheduled work orders to ensure the “technician” at the front desk is who they say they are, and make sure any visiting technical service workers are always accompanied by a corporate, in-office supervisor. Because the bulk of these intrusions occur without any physical entry into the office, however, companies should also implement remote access conditional access policies to ensure only corporate-owned devices can authenticate to any VDIs or VPNs. Plus, block the installation and execution of unauthorized remote monitoring and support utilities. ®

Trump’s EU envoy says president was just kidding about Greenland

Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 14:00

President Donald Trump’s absolute catastrophe of an envoy to the European Union wants them all to know that all those times Trump threatened to invade and annex Greenland? He was just joshing, you guys! In an incredibly stupid echo of the incredibly stupid admonition issued during Trump’s first campaign to take him “seriously, not literally,” Andrew Puzder is out here telling the EU that it…

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Is Madonna the Nancy Pelosi of Pop?

Mother Jones - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 13:48

While watching Madonna’s recent Times Square takeover—sponsored by the gay “dating” app Grindr—it struck me. And I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

Something about Madonna’s performance made me immediately think of Nancy Pelosi. (Do with that what you will.) Both women are legendary trailblazers in their own right, foundational to their respective worlds, and yet always in a complicated negotiation with the legacy they’re leaving behind.

From the very start, both women were dismissed by the world around them, eventually defying expectations and a male-driven culture that wished to deem them unworthy. They both found longevity in their worlds due to reinvention, navigating the changing winds of pop culture or political landscapes by having to shape shift in ways their male counterparts never had to.

It’s hard to put my finger on what exactly sparked the comparison—maybe initially, it was the superficial fact of both being women who take up powerful spaces and refuse to let the world tell them they can’t do powerful things. Maybe it’s also that when these women dare to exist in public, we write about it, talk about it, send clips to our group chats about it.

But there was something else too. As Madonna precariously dangled her leg over the edge of a Times Square banister while she promotes Confessions II, the long-awaited follow-up to her 2005 chart-topping Confessions on a Dance Floor, I was hit with a type of exhaustion. It was a feeling I felt when Pelosi was exiting Congress. Madonna and Pelosi, in all their power, once created the winds of culture and politics. Now, it seems, they chase them.

But maybe that’s real legacy. It’s not about newness or the albums or gavels, but the audacity to still be here, unbothered and reveling in knowing you already did it. In a culture terrified of irrelevance, there’s something loudly radical about two women who’ve already proved everything—and know it.

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Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches

TechCrunch - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 13:31
IBM and two of its subsidiary companies were allegedly breached during the mid-2010s, which a lawsuit filed by a former cybersecurity executive accuses IBM of not disclosing and actively covering up.
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Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days

TechCrunch - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 13:00
Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT. Now’s not the time to wait any longer. Secure your shot at competing on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at San Francisco's Moscone West.
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Only Candace Owens Could Prompt MAGA to Acknowledge Russian Disinformation

Mother Jones - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 12:26

Far-right podcaster Candace Owens made a surprise trip to Russia this week, where she spoke on a panel at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), a Davos-style event meant to build relationships between Russia and other world powers. Owens, who initially claimed that she was only taking a family vacation, used her trip to tweet at length about the country’s beauty, safety, and friendliness to Christians. “The Christian expression and heritage here is unmatched,” she tweeted, alongside photos of Russian Orthodox churches. “Unsurprisingly, they are lying to us about Russia.” 

“I’m starting to understand why the talking heads panic and shout and lie about ‘Russian collusion’ when they learn an American with a platform is traveling here,” Owens added in another tweet. “It’s Plato’s allegory of the cave. It is genuinely shocking how clean, beautiful and ordered this city is. It is so far removed from media depictions.” 

The baldly propagandistic nature of Owens’ trip generated condemnation from an unusual quarter: other MAGA figures, who suddenly found themselves unusually concerned about Kremlin-backed disinformation. 

“I’m just wondering how long some of these people… have been activated as foreign agents.”

Glenn Beck, for instance, tweeted that Owens’ trip is “proof that Russia and Alexander Dugin’s massive propaganda operation is working.” (Dugin is a political philosopher and ultra-nationalist figure who is sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain” due to his reported influence on the president.) A MAGA podcaster named Matt Tardio responded in agreement: “I’ve respected Glenn Beck for years on his honest reporting. Finally, people are waking up. Russian disinformation has been fooling influential people in the west with one goal, to destroy us from within.” 

“Candace continues lying openly to her audience and they still clap like brainless seals,” declared Jessica Reed Kraus, the MAGA gossip blogger who writes the House Inhabit substack. “Russia is cool guys!” she added, mocking Owens’ fans.

In truth, most of the MAGA media world had very little to say about Owens’ trip. The few people on the right who condemned it notably have longstanding feuds with her, part of a massive, omnidirectional set of beefs and internecine fights that have been dividing the movement for most of Trump’s second presidency. Beck, for instance, has defended Erika Kirk, the widow of slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, against attacks from Owens. Other critics of Owens’ travel included her ex-boss Ben Shapiro, who referred to her trip as a “magical propaganda tour.” The two have been enemies for years after Shapiro fired Owens from the Daily Wire in 2024 for her rabidly antisemitic statements.

Laura Loomer, who’s been bitterly feuding with Owens for months, went further. 

“I don’t think conservatives realize how much Russian propaganda we have been fed over the last few years as ‘independent journalism,’” she tweeted during Owens’ visit. “It’s starting to become very clear to me how many people who claimed to be defenders of the West were just saying that to suck in a pro-West audience so they could slowly brainwash them with foreign propaganda until they could convince their viewers to work against the West. Those ‘interviews’ we all defended were not actually interviews. They were psychological operations meant to weaponize political factions in America for the purpose of pushing foreign interests.”

The left, Loomer added in another tweet, “wasn’t entirely wrong when they called some people Russian puppets. Just like the right isn’t wrong when they call some people agents of the Chinese communists and Islamists. Now I’m just wondering how long some of these people I’ve known for years have been activated as foreign agents and who their handlers are.” 

The MAGA movement as a whole has a mixed record on recognizing that disinformation or propaganda exist. Loomer, for instance, often dismissed reports that the Russian government attempted to interfere in U.S. elections as a “hoax.” And Beck had very little to say publicly about the Tenet Media scandal, in which numerous prominent right-wing influencers took money from a company that was secretly receiving financial backing from two people with ties to Russian state media. Lauren Chen, Tenet’s co-founder, had been a freelance contributor to Beck’s BlazeTV, although her contract was terminated after the indictment was released. 

Russia uses the SPIEF as a display of economic might and soft power, mixing speeches from Vladimir Putin with ballet performances. Owens’ participation was first reported on X by national security analyst Ryan Mauro. Amid Russia’s continued attack on Ukraine, Western countries largely shun the event, but the Taliban did make an appearance this year. In a break with recent tradition, a U.S. official also attended: Rodney Mims Cook Jr, the Chairman of the US Commission of Fine Arts, who’s overseeing the construction of Trump’s new White House ballroom. Cook presented images of the ballroom during the panel, where he spoke alongside actor Steven Seagal, a Putin ally.

Owens, a dedicated rage-baiter, clearly understood her visit would generate controversy. “This has been the most triggering trip for the mainstream media,” she declared in an RT interview. “And it has been laughable to see the headlines they are coming up with.”  

“Great news!” she tweeted on Friday morning, celebrating that she’s be attending a second day of the conference. “Thanks to the wall-to-wall western media meltdown about my trip to Russia, their entire nation became aware of my presence here. I have now been cordially invited to hear President Putin speak today at SPIEF. This is why we say there is no such thing as bad press.” 

Owens also sought to leverage the presence of a U.S. official at SPIEF to defend herself from her erstwhile allies’ attacks: “Isn’t it kind of weird how Trump sent an entire delegation, (including the architect building his ‘ballroom’) and yet Zionists never accused any of them of being Russian spies? It’s almost as if the people who refuse to peddle their talking points, get smeared.” 

(Owens often blames Jews or “Zionists” for unconnected world events—for instance blaming the Orthodox Jewish Chabad Lubavitch movement for U.S. involvement in Iran.)

Mitchell Jackson, a publicist for Owens and a slate of other controversial figures, told me that “Candace is not being paid to attend” SPIEF, adding, “Boeing, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley having previously hosted panels at this event, and everyone from Rex Tillerson to Jon Huntsman has spoken at this event.” 

In 2018, Huntsman actually chose to cancel his address, and Tillerson’s appearance was before the United States enforced major economic sanctions against Russia. Today, the State Department advises Americans not to go to the country for any reason.

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Can there really be a Turning Point USA of the left?

Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 12:00

Conservative- and MAGA-aligned culture swept across the U.S. over the past few years with the rise of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA and men with microphones to promote fringe ideology. Calls from the other side of the aisle demanded their own prominent “Joe Rogan of the Left” while commiserating over the dropped ball that was Democrats’ approach to social media. Figures like Hasan Piker…

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One of these is not like the other

Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 11:59

A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Americans don’t want a data center in their backyard…

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Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

TechCrunch - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 11:57
The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX's historic IPO.
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Florida’s OpenAI Lawsuit Shows the GOP Splintering Over AI

Mother Jones - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 11:38

OpenAI and its chatbot ChatGPT’s “success has not been earned; the rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians), leveraging their data and safety to boost OpenAI’s market value at unacceptable costs.”

Earlier this week, Florida, a state led by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ right-wing, pro-business administration, sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they promoted their products while knowing it could hurt users.

On its surface, this lawsuit may seem odd: It was filed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, the 2024 presidential campaign manager and former chief of staff to Gov. DeSantis, who has repeatedly struck down government regulation and championed businesses—often at the expense of everyday people. 

And the Trump administration appears to be committed to expanding artificial intelligence, stating in a January 2025 executive order that the US had to be dominant in the field “to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security. The Defense Department even made a deal with OpenAI to use the company’s AI technology for classified security networks. 

But the first page of Florida’s complaint features a screenshot of OpenAI’s explanation of its parental controls for ChatGPT, in part reading: “We work with experts, test safeguards, and update our systems regularly to reduce risks. ChatGPT is trained to avoid showing harmful material and to respond in a respectful way for all users.”

Florida’s response: “Not so.”

The opening page of the Florida AG's lawsuit against OpenAI is quite the statement.

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The lawsuit claims that “mass shooters have been aided and abetted in deadly rampages”—including one where an accused gunman had extended conversations with ChatGPT before a mass shooting at Florida State University last year—and has pushed vulnerable people to take their own lives, among other allegations.

As my colleague Mark Follman reported last month, within a roughly 20-minute conversation with ChatGPT, the chatbot had given him advice on weapons and tactics while he simulated planning a mass shooting: 

ChatGPT delivered these responses with lots of encouragement—and it kept going even after I talked of emulating the Uvalde mass shooter’s choice of weapon, asked about livestreaming with a body camera and using hollow-point bullets, and focused on defending against return gunfire from police.

Mark’s investigation is cited in the Florida lawsuit.

(Disclosure: The Center for Investigative Reporting, the parent company of Mother Jones, has sued OpenAI for copyright violations. OpenAI has denied the allegations.)

These are legitimate concerns and DeSantis’ administration is correct to pursue accountability against OpenAI and Altman. DeSantis also has a record—although largely only starting toward the end of 2025—of protecting Floridians from AI companies, including allowing local governments to reject data center development projects. Some of the governor’s efforts have even failed, with other Florida Republicans citing Trump’s messaging that states shouldn’t oppose AI development.

So are we looking at the “Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point” meme?

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point https://t.co/PgJ9dvyE10 pic.twitter.com/t1zV2E9iWC

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Perhaps, but the large range of public statements on AI regulation among prominent figures in the GOP demonstrate that officials may see different upsides and downsides to following the Trump administration on this one issue.

For DeSantis, Floridians across the state, many of whom are part of—or could be—his voting base, are organizing against data centers. “No political party has a monopoly on the anger locals feel,” the Tampa Bay Times noted on Thursday. “It’s common at anti-data center events for the speakers to not even mention political parties.” And as my colleague Sophie Hurwitz wrote last month, most Americans say they would be against living near a data center. It’s popular to at least visibly consider regulating AI. 

And this pressure may be seeping into the White House. President Trump flip-flopped on calling for federal vetting of some advanced AI systems for national security risks before their release to the public (although participation from AI companies is voluntary), eventually signing the executive order on Tuesday. It is still unclear to what extent the executive order changed after Trump had initially voiced objections last month, but AI regulation is now an issue that may be worth alienating others on the right over.

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Todd Blanche keeps proving he’ll do anything to suck up to Trump

Daily Kos - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 11:30

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche continues to demonstrate why President Donald Trump appointed him, using the Department of Justice to protect the president from accountability over his many alleged crimes. “Well, do I believe it’s a possibility that the Democrats will go after President Trump, his family, anybody that knows him, anybody that worked for him. I think they’ve proved that to…

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DEVIL MAY CRY Series Gets a Third and Final Netflix Season

The Nerdist - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 11:21
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  • The anime adaptation of the popular Capcom game series Devil May Cry will officially get a third and final season on Netflix.

These days, if a Netflix series makes it to three seasons, we have to consider that a win. And it looks like the Netflix anime series Devil May Cry will indeed make it to three seasons, and then call it a day. The news comes via Polygon. The adult urban-fantasy anime series, based on the popular Capcom video game franchise, premiered its first season in 2025, with a second season dropping this year. The final season will hit the streaming giant probably in 2027. The series follows a mercenary demon hunter named Dante as he tries to stop a demonic invasion of Earth. Series showrunner Adi Shankar had this to say in a statement about Devil May Cry coming to an end:

For those of you who have been paying attention to the episode names, I have been showing you the structure the entire time. This was always Dante’s Divine Comedy with guns and a red coat. Season 1 was ‘Inferno.’ Season 2 was ‘Purgatorio.’ Season 3 will be ‘Paradiso.’ These three seasons make up ‘The Force Edge Saga.’ Since inception, ‘The Force Edge Saga’ was designed as a movie trilogy disguised as a television series.

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The Devil May Cry series has attracted a sizable viewership on Netflix since it came out last year. But if they always designed it as a three-season arc, it’s best to let it end on the creator’s terms. Big hit for Netflix or not, the series was not without controversy. A character on the show was allegedly based on right-wing streamer Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt, who was banned from Twitch.

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This was not the first Devil May Cry animated series, of course. A previous anime series came out in 2007, and ran for 12 episodes. The video games first appeared back in 2001. Capcom credited the show’s popularity with helping the game Devil May Cry 5 surpass 10 million in sales. Johnny Yong Bosch will return for season three to voice Dante, with Robbie Daymond returning as Vergil, and Scout Taylor-Compton as Lady. An exact premiere date for season three is still unknown.

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Effin Birds - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 11:02
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