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☆ A Texas House committee hearing was derailed after prank names like 'Connie Lingus' and 'Anita Dickenmee' were called for public comment
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A Texas House committee meeting on March 29 took an unexpected and hilarious turn. The meeting went awry when people submitted prank names like "Anita Dickenmee" and "Holden Middick." What about Anita Dickenmee? This is the second time in the last month that state legislators have been pranked by people at House committee meetings. At a meeting in Florida last week, Florida Republican Will Robinson Jr. read out names like "Anita Dick" and "Holden Hiscock."
☆ Japanese police arrest diners accused of 'sushi terrorism,' after videos of pranksters licking soy sauce bottles and rubbing saliva on conveyor-belt food goes viral
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Japanese police arrested three diners accused of "sushi terrorism." Unhygienic pranks in Japan's conveyor belt sushi restaurants have become a viral sensation. In recent weeks, videos have spread on social media of diners in Japan's famed Kaiten-sushi restaurants performing unhygenic stunts. Japanese Police said they arrested a 21-year-old, a 19-year-old, and a 15-year-old after they allegedly performed "sushi terrorism" stunts at a restaurant in Nagoya, central Japan, on February 3. Kura Sushi is installing AI cameras in its restaurants to monitor for sushi terrorism, while Sushiro, another popular chain, is shuttering its conveyor belts system for unordered food.
☆ 100 gecs Shook the Underground. Can the Duo Explode … With Rock Music?
  + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Joe Coscarelli | More About Joe Coscarelli | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
LOS ANGELES — Laura Les and Dylan Brady, the experimental pop duo known as 100 gecs, wanted to set off fireworks indoors. In its anarchic “Jackass” ethos, few things could be so gecs-y. But at the end of last year, with an upcoming major-label album to market — and all the corporate guardrails that entails — 100 gecs were being forced to blow stuff up a bit more by the book. Fortunately for Les, 28, and Brady, 29, the other thing that comes with a fat recording contract — besides a boatload of commercial expectations, various handlers and more rules — is resources. The fireworks, after all, were not just for mayhem but a music video — the one expected to help propel the band’s new single, “Hollywood Baby,” into a mainstream crossover success.
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☆ 'Sushi terrorism' is spreading as pranksters lick food, utensils in Japan's conveyor belt restaurants
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Conveyor belt sushi restaurants have been an affordable option across Japan for decades. The prank videos, often perpetrated by younger culprits, show customers at any one of Japan's many conveyor belt sushi restaurants taking things off the belt like utensils, soy sauce bottles, or food. He later licks a finger then at least one plate of sushi on the conveyor belt. The videos have prompted sushi restaurants to remind customers that they frequently clean and disinfect utensils, and will provide clean utensils upon request. "Kaiten-zushi," or conveyor belt sushi, restaurants have been a mainstay in Japan for decades as an affordable option.
☆ An employee​ laid off by Meta​ says he got a ​strange package from the company marked 'leaver' with two emojis inside and no note
  + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
One former Meta employee received a 'peculiar' gift in the mail just in time for the holidays. Matt Motyl says he was one of the 11,000 staff members laid off by Meta in November. Researcher Matt Motyl was laid off from Meta in November despite exceeding expectations in performance reviews, he said. But their true purpose is unclear since the only context for the package was the word "leaver" written on the box, Motyl said. In the thread of tweets related to the box, which Motyl called "peculiar," he said he'd heard from other former Meta employees about strange things delivered to them from the company.
☆ Russian prankster impersonating Macron spoke to Poland's Duda after blast
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
"Emmanuel, believe me, I am extra careful," Duda tells the caller. "I don't want to have war with Russia and believe me, I am extra careful, extra careful." "During the call, President Andrzej Duda realized from the unusual way the interlocutor conducted the conversation that there might have been an attempted hoax attempt and ended the conversation." Duda's office was investigating how the callers managed to get through to him together with the relevant services, it said. In 2020 Vovan and Lexus called Duda pretending to be U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, raising questions about security and call screening in Duda's office.
☆ Elon Musk says Twitter Blue relaunch delayed, may use different color checks for organizations
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Todd Haselton | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Monday evening that the company is planning to delay the relaunch of its $8 per month Blue Verified service. Musk said Twitter will "probably use different color check for organizations than individuals." It allowed users to pay for a Blue checkmark, previously reserved for verified users. Musk had earlier said he planned to relaunch Twitter Blue on Nov. 29. The paid Blue subscription service led to a plethora of pranksters creating imposter accounts on Twitter.
☆ The Twitter Blue relaunch is on hold until the platform can sort out impersonation issues with 'high confidence,' Elon Musk says
  + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Elon Musk says Twitter Blue's relaunch is on hold until it can deal with impersonation issues. "Holding off relaunch of Blue Verified until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation," Musk tweeted late on Monday. Musk's announcement comes after the social media platform halted its relaunch of Twitter Blue — which gives users a blue tick if they pay $8 a month — due to widespread impersonation issues. The billionaire's latest update also supersedes his earlier announcement that Twitter Blue would return on November 29. Twitter suspended its verification relaunch on November 11, and started focusing on solving impersonation issues, per Platformer's Zoe Schiffer, who cited an internal note.
☆ Elon Musk says he's not 'super worried' about Twitter staffers quitting in droves because the ‘best people are staying’
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted that he's "not super worried" about Twitter staffers leaving. Musk said "the best people are staying," in response to a tweet by Barstool founder Dave Portnoy. Musk tweeted on Thursday evening that "The best people are staying, so I'm not super worried," in response to a tweet by Dave Portnoy, Barstool Sport's founder. Hey Elon Musk wanna do a Twitter space with me? Musk went on to tweet a series of memes joking about Twitter staffers exiting the company on Thursday night.
☆ Elon Musk sent a midnight email telling Twitter staff to commit to an 'extremely hardcore' work schedule — or get laid off with 3 months' severance
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Elon Musk sent an ultimatum to all Twitter staff in a midnight email, per The Washington Post. Staff have been given 40 hours to agree to "extremely hardcore" work, or be laid-off. He earlier told Twitter employees to expect 80-hour work weeks and fewer office perks, like free lunches. Musk later posted a picture of himself meeting with "Ligma and Johnson," a pair of pranksters who impersonated laid-off Twitter employees last month and successfully tricked some news outlets. Twitter laid off around 50% of its 7,500 staff on November 4, shortly after Musk completed his takeover.
☆ SpaceX just bought a big ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink
  + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Lora Kolodny | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
SpaceX founder Elon Musk during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on August 25, 2022 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. The ad campaign SpaceX is buying to promote Starlink is called a Twitter "takeover." Users should see Starlink brand messaging for the first three times that they open the Twitter app on the day or days of the planned takeover campaign in Australia and in Spain. Pressure on Twitter ad salesMusk is also the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla , in addition to his responsibilities at SpaceX and Twitter. Instead, Tesla garners headlines from fan blogs, news sites, and creates buzz through motor clubs, fan or shareholder events and social media engagement.
☆ Twitter pauses paid verifications after users abuse service to impersonate brands and people
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Sofia Pitt | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Twitter appears to have paused its $7.99/month Blue subscription service, which allowed people to pay for a verification check mark, after users were abusing it to impersonate brands and famous people. Twitter launched the service earlier this week in its iPhone app, allowing users to buy a checkmark that had previously been used to show that an account was verified or official. The paid subscription service led to a plethora of pranksters creating imposter accounts on Twitter. It left the platform even more ripe for misinformation, and many checkmarks were used to impersonate brands with unflattering messages. Some users who already paid for the service say their paid-for blue checkmark has disappeared from their account.
☆ Some Democrats dip a toe in TikTok as most Republicans stay away
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Covers Tech For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +7 min
NBC News found that nine Democratic candidates in this year’s 35 Senate races are posting to TikTok, while three Republican Senate candidates are using it. In the most competitive Senate races, four of the Democrats are using TikTok: Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia, former state Chief Justice Cheri Beasley in North Carolina, Lt. Gov. The only Republican in a competitive Senate race using TikTok is Oz, who began posting there in 2019 before he left his television show for politics. “TikTok does have such widespread use,” Madison Horn, the Democratic nominee for one of two Senate races in Oklahoma, said in a phone interview. Bob Ellsworth, a Republican advertising consultant, said TikTok has certainly changed how Republicans campaign even if they’re not on the app itself.
☆ Mountain Girl’s heartbreaking memoir: An icon of the Sixties opens up about Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, and what the age of free love was really like
  + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( David Kushner | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +40 min
Now 76 and living in Oregon, Mountain Girl has gave us an exclusive look at her memoir. Altamont, the free concert that Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia helped organized, was meant to revive the spirit of the Sixties. Today, 60 years since she took that ride with Neal Cassady, Mountain Girl is still forging her own path. Before I leave Kesey's farm, Mountain Girl and I walk outside to the old brown barn where Furthur now rests. But for Mountain Girl, it lives forever, an emblem of everything her generation believed in, and all that they achieved.
☆ Pranksters called the son of one of Putin's closest allies and told him he is being enlisted in the army — but he refused
  + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Pranksters called up the son of a top Kremlin official and said he had been enlisted in the army. Dmitry Peskov's son said he did not intend to go and will resolve the issue "on a different level." The hosts of the Russian YouTube channel Popular Politics called the 32-year-old son of Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. the younger Peskov told the pranksters, according to a video shared by independent Russian news website The Insider. When he returned to Russia from his studies in the UK, Peskov served in the Russian army from 2010 to 2012, the news site Kommersant reported.
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