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Blake, Wm. Sabrina Disenchanting the Lady. 1801.

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Netflix is resuming ads on Elon Musk’s platform just one month after the streaming giant halted $3 million worth of ads over “antisemitism.”

Users have since spotted ads for Netflix’s new films “Maestro” and “May December.”

This may be the beginning of a victory for Musk—if more advertisers return to the platform just one month after leaving, that’s a sign X is far too lucrative to abandon, and that the promises of a free speech platform may come to fruition.

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Blake, Wm. The First Book of Urizen, object 21. 1794.

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A 30-year-old man from the UK suffered a rare accident, tearing his windpipe after holding in a sneeze.

He pinched his nose and closed his mouth while driving, resulting in the first known incident.

CT and MRI scans revealed a hole in his windpipe, typically caused by physical trauma.

He fully recovered in five weeks with painkillers and allergy meds.

Doctors: “We suspect the trachea perforated due to a rapid build-up of pressure in the trachea while sneezing with a pinched nose and closed mouth. Everyone should be advised not to stifle sneezes by pinching the nose while keeping the mouth closed as it can result in tracheal perforation.”

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Blake, Wm. Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion, object 6. 1832.

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Appearing on the podcast “Redacted,” Tucker Carlson said the topic of aliens is one of the few he’s genuinely scared to talk about, with him learning things that are too dark he can’t even tell his wife.

Carlson: “If you talk to people who have actual knowledge of it that they gathered themselves, there are parts of that story I do not understand at all that are really, really, really dark. It's so dark that I haven't told my wife about it.”

He added that “there’s a spiritual component” to the topic that frightens him, and that “parts of the government don't want you to know about it, but part of it is the public can't deal with it. It's too far out. The implications are too profound.”

While it’s unclear what exactly Carlson is referring to, we may have an idea—a report from The Daily Star in September claimed commanders in the Pentagon halted UFO research “over fears aliens were demons,” citing lead UFO researcher Ron James. James said there’s “a very large contingent of people” in the U.S. government who align with Christian fundamentalism and actively oppose any research into extraterrestrial life.

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Blake, Wm. The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun- "The Devil is Come Down." 1780.

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Magician and stunt performer Anastasia Synn is now the Guinness world record holder for the most technological implants, leading her to be dubbed “world’s ultimate cyborg.”

Her 52 implants range from practical uses like opening locks to more personal ones like a locket containing her late husband's ashes.

She's part of a global community of “biohackers,” implanting technology into their bodies.

Synn's implants are mostly invisible, integrated seamlessly into her body and performances.

Her journey into biohacking began with a magnetic chip in her finger, inspired by her daughter's interest.

Synn: “She came up to me when she was probably about 16 and said, ‘I want to get this microchip, there's this gamer girl online and she can unlock her computer with her microchip so nobody else can get into it.’ So I said, ‘Listen, I don't know if it's safe or not so how about I get it and we'll see how it works out,’ because I thought it was pretty cool when she told me about it.'”

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Blake, Wm. Vanni Fucci Making Figs Against God. 1824.

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A hacking group is claiming responsibility for ChatGPT outages in the past few months, saying it would continue targeting the AI until it “stops having dehumanizing views of Palestinians.”

On December 13, the tool was down for 40 minutes, the second major outage since it was down for over 90 minutes in early November.

The hacker group demanded Tal Broda, OpenAI's head of research platform, to be fired, calling him a “genocide supporter.” Users online have dug up old tweets from Broda saying, “Don’t kid yourself. There is no Palestine. There never was, and never will be.”

The group also cited OpenAI’s cooperation with the “occupation state” of Israel, questioning if the AI may be used as a tool of oppression in the Israel War.

OpenAI has yet to respond.