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New dating app Rivet lets your friends, or total strangers, choose your matches for you. A novel twist, but swiping is grim enough already without handing over the reins. Full story, link in bio. #Dating #DatingApps #Rivet #Relationships #Singles #GenZ #Love #OnlineDating #Cosmopolitan #Thred
6% of Brits say romancing a GTA VI character counts as cheating, and 19% say it’s not cheating but it’s not OK either. Blowing up a plane is fine, though. Full story, link in bio. #GTA6 #GTAVI #Rockstar #Gaming #Relationships #Cheating #YouGov #ViceCity #Gamers #Thred
Mexico's National Guard has recruited a 7kg Chihuahua. 🐕🇲🇽 Meet Commando, complete with tiny goggles, tactical vest and helmet. He's training for search and rescue, but already winning hearts. Future rescue hero or the greatest PR hire ever? find out more at thred.com #Commando #Chihuahua #Mexico #NationalGuard #WorkingDogs
An AI executive warned of a greater than 10% chance of AI wiping out humanity within a decade. 🤖 The concern isn't killer robots, but systems we can no longer control. Could AI become dangerous without ever intending to harm us? find out more at thred.com #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIRisks #AISafety #FutureOfAI
The Pentagon is reportedly planning to livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan in December. Rights groups call it ‘medieval’. Punishment doesn’t need a viewing audience. Full story, link in bio. #News #US #Pentagon #DeathPenalty #HumanRights
Gamers are using AI to mash completely different games together: Mario in Halo, CJ swinging round New York. It’s a laugh, but copyright and security questions aren’t far behind. Full story, link in bio. #Gaming #AI #GenerativeAI #Mods #Mario #Halo #GTA #GamingNews #Copyright
French students are 3 weeks into school walkouts and blockades over teacher shortages and underfunding. 57% of the public back them. Nearly 7,000 arrests. The government is sweating. Full story, link in bio. #France #Paris #StudentProtests #Education #GenZ #Protest #Teachers #Europe #News #Thred
Is the new #SpaceRace about discovery or control? Trump's proposed space academy could change how America competes with China and supports SpaceX. What do you think? 🌌 #SpaceAcademy
A TikTok-famous chip shop has started a neighbourhood war in Amsterdam. 🍟 Fabel Friet’s viral queues have residents complaining about noise, litter, gulls, rats, and falling property values. Is TikTok reshaping our cities? @fabelfriet find out more at thred.com #FabelFriet #Amsterdam #TikTok #ViralUrbanism #Overtourism #TheCommonThred
The US has confirmed it has “on-orbit space control weapons.” 🛰️ Their capabilities remain largely undisclosed, but the announcement has renewed fears of an arms race above Earth. Does militarising space make countries safer, or everyone less secure? @spaceforcedod find out more at thred.com #SpaceForce #SpaceWeapons #SpaceSecurity #Geopolitics #Space
AI gets things wrong. So do people. That’s why businesses invented QA. 🤖 Treat AI output the same way: review it, challenge it, and keep human judgement in the loop. Is unreliable AI the problem, or are we just using it irresponsibly? @chatgpt @claudeai find out more at thred.com #AI #QualityAssurance #AITools #FutureOfWork #AIWorkflow #ThredMedia
Phones vs romance, English grads in law, age-gap opinions, millennials told to retire, unwritten office rules and the deadlift era. This week’s Gen Zer has it all. Full stories on our Substack, link in bio.
The most compelling Star Wars content in 20 years is an AI trap song about Mace Windu falling out of a window. ‘Lil Vader’, a face-tatted Anakin, is all over social, and ‘Mace fell out of a Windu’ has 750,000 Spotify streams in a month. Young people mostly want AI music in the bin: training data, likeness, streaming slop. But inside meme culture, obvious stupidity gets a pass. It won’t convert anyone. We’re still humming it. Full story in the newsletter, link in bio. #LilVader #StarWars #AIMusic #MemeCulture
Should the UK tax wealth more heavily, or would a wealth tax create more problems than it solves? Supporters say it could make the system fairer. Critics say wealth is difficult to value, tax, and keep in the country. Could Britain make it work? find out more at thred.com
The sudden AI slowdown debate feels a little too convenient. 🤖 Safety concerns may be real, but slowing the race could also benefit those already leading it. Are AI CEOs genuinely worried about safety, or is there strategy behind the concern?
Harvard Medical School has agreed to a $53 million settlement after donated human remains were stolen and sold by its former morgue manager. Can money ever repair a betrayal this personal?
Netflix looked at the most infamous ethics disaster in psychology and thought: six episodes. The New Stanford Prison Experiment lands mid-October. Thirty ‘willing’ participants (Netflix’s emphasis) go into a makeshift prison rigged with cameras, split into guards and prisoners, while producers watch whether empathy survives hierarchy and control. The original, run by Philip Zimbardo at Stanford in 1971, was meant to last two weeks and was pulled after six days. Guards leant into the role fast: sleep deprivation, forced nudity, solitary confinement in a cupboard, sustained psychological torment. It’s now taught as a cautionary tale about power, and heavily criticised for its lack of scientific validity. None of which matters much when you’ve got a recognisable name and a setup built for discord. From the platform currently marketing serial killers like an Avengers line-up. Consistent, at least. Thred makes the news easier (and funnier) to understand. Full story in the newsletter, link in bio. #Netflix #StanfordPrisonExperiment #RealityTV #Psychology

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