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‘AI cannot be an excuse’: What happens when Meta’s chatbot brands a college professor a terrorist?
Marietje Schaake has had a long and distinguished career. She’s been an advisor to the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands and consulted with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For 10 years, she was a member of the European Parliament, crafting laws that covered hundreds of millions of people, focusing specifically on digital freedoms. She’s …
Rudy Giuliani (Of Course) Has Offered The Least Convincing Excuse Yet For Why Trump Was Caught With Classified Documents
newsmax Donald Trump has offered numerous excuses for why he “borrowed” classified documents from the White House and brought them to his tacky Mar-a-Lago kingdom, leading to an FBI raid. Planted evidence, “political persecution,” he packed in a hurry, etc. The Daily Show host Trevor Noah thought that last one was the “greatest excuse of …
‘The Daily Show’ Host Trevor Noah Thinks Trump Finally Did It: He Gave The ‘Greatest Excuse Of All-Time’
It’s hard keeping up with all of Donald Trump’s excuses in the wake of the FBI’s raid of his Mar-a-Lago compound. The alleged toilet flusher took classified documents, possibly containing nuclear secrets, because of “political persecution,” or maybe they were planted by the feds, or actually the documents were declassified and as president, he can …
Trump Jr. Has A Convenient Excuse For Why He’ll Continue Wearing A Mask After Complaining About Mandates
Getty Image After a Donald Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a nationwide mask requirement, many of the country’s largest airlines, including American, Southwest, Delta, and United, said they would stop requiring masks on flights. The Tomi Lahrens of the world are rejoicing (despite hundreds of people still dying every day from the coronavirus). But surprisingly, …
‘Guardians 3’ Actor Will Poulter Joins Those Who Are Calling Out Method Acting As An Excuse For Bad Behavior
Getty Image Jared Leto adores two things about his chosen roles: intense makeup transformations and method acting. In Morbius, he got to do both, so that seems like he’d be having the time of his life. As our own Mike Ryan confirmed with director Daniel Espinosa, however, what transpired didn’t sound like much fun for …
‘Excuse me what’: Starbucks barista says customer asked for their drink to match the worker’s skin color
In a viral TikTok video, a Starbucks barista says a customer asked for their iced chai tea latte to match the color of his skin. “Me calculating why a grown white man told me he wanted his iced chai tea latte the same color as my skin,” the text overlay reads while the user, @angellrreyes, …
Best Picture Nominee ‘Drive My Car’ Is Coming To HBO Max, So You Have No Excuse To Not Watch It
JANUS Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car is the first Japanese film ever to score an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. It’s also up for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature, and after slowly rolling out in limited release over the past few months (with arthouse blockbuster success), the film is now in …
‘There is no excuse’: TikToker says she got a DoorDash driver ‘deactivated’ after he ignored request for no-contact delivery, sparking debate
A woman on TikTok says she may have gotten a DoorDash driver deactivated “by accident” after she reported his service to DoorDash support. The woman, known as Bailey (@bailesb12) on TikTok, recorded herself explaining the incident in a viral TikTok. The video received nearly 300,000 views and almost 900 comments by Thursday. Bailey has about …
Lauren Boebert Asked Jewish Visitors At The Capitol If They Were ‘Reconnaissance,’ And People Aren’t Buying Her ‘Joke’ Excuse
Getty Image Rootin’ tootin’ Rep. Lauren Boebert can’t help herself. She’s chronically tossing out anti-Muslim remarks about her own congressional colleague (Ilhan Omar), and now, it seems that she’s moved on to cracking “jokes” while spotting yarmulke-wearing Jewish visitors at the U.S. Capitol. She might be better off simply tweeting gibberish or confusedly tweeting about …
Excuse Us, but Why Is Hilary Duff on Clayton Echard’s Season of ‘The Bachelor?’ Details
Weirdly enough, Hilary shared a photo to Instagram on Oct. 21, 2021, noting that it was her daughter Banky’s third birthday. Could Clayton’s group date involve planning a birthday for a three-year-old? It seems unlikely, but if you zoom into the first photo ABC provided of Clayton and Hilary above (after the lead photo), you’ll …
Republican Senators Were Roasted On CNN For Using The ‘Sideshow Bob Defense’ From ‘The Simpsons’ To Excuse Trump’s Attempted Coup
The Senate Judiciary Committee released a report on Thursday that detailed Diet Coke fanatic/former-president Donald Trump’s persistent efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election with baseless claims of voter fraud. “Trump directly asked the Justice Department nine times to undermine the election result,” according to CNN, “and White House chief of staff Mark …