turns out trump kissing elon's feet is not simply metaphorical

+ artists release a silent album as a means of AI protest & how do you pronounce tzatziki?

Feb 26, 2025

My babies! Hi!!! How are you?? I don’t have too much to fill you in on today, except for that I finished two books in the last few days:

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And now I’m reading ‘She’s Always Hungry’ by Eliza Clark.

As you can see I’m on a bit of a reading buzz atm, which means I’m SO excited to dig into our book club book this month, which is All Fours by Miranda July… hope you read along with me!!

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Omg also, The Guardian are coming to photograph me in my house today so I better go get tidying!!!!

An AI video showing Trump kissing Elon’s feet was played over TVs in the Washington headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development

In today’s deeply unserious Trumpdate, this video got played on screens in the HUD headquarters:

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Here’s a description of it for the faint-hearted:

The fake video, which two HUD employees confirmed to NBC News was displayed on internal monitors in the office, shows Trump appearing to massage and peck at Musk’s feet. A caption over the video says “Long live the real king.”

No one quite knows who is behind it, but it’s not surprising that something like this has happened, probs as a form of protest, because Elon Musk continues to do shit like this:

Yep, he asked 2.3 million workers to send a ‘bullet pointed list’ of what they’d done last week, despite the fact that a lot of it would be classified information, AND that he has no legal grounds to force them to resign for not doing it. He’s an idiot.

Michelle Trachtenberg has been found dead at 39

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You may know her from Buffy, you may know her from Gossip Girl or Ice Princess, but I knew her as the sassy older sister from 17 Again. It is with a very heavy heart that I write that Michelle Trachtenberg has been found dead at only 39 years old. We don’t know much about it, except that it has been reported that it is not being investigated as suspicious and that she had recently undergone a liver transplant.

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A bunch of artists just released a silent AI protest album

In a totally different form of protest than the foot licking incident, over 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn, and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album. They did this in protest against the UK government's plans to allow artificial intelligence companies to use copyright-protected work without permission.

It’s called ‘Is This What We Want’ and is an album full of recordings of dormant music studios:

The album contains 12 recordings with more than 1,000 artists credited as co-writers, with the individual artist behind each of the dozen “silent” tracks uncredited. However, it is understood that Kate Bush has recorded one of the dozen tracks in her studio.
Bush said: “In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?”

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