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Current 2026 Midterm Forecast:
Chances of Democrats winning both chambers now at 65%
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Wagner James Au retweeted
70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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あゆるさんのパンプキンチョッパーが紹介されてます^ ^
This week's New World Newsfeed features skeptical thoughts on Epic's AI "delay", a massively multiplayer solitaire game, and of course, @LinoAyulu's free, rideable pumpkin chopper in Second Life. 🤣👇
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This week's New World Newsfeed features skeptical thoughts on Epic's AI "delay", a massively multiplayer solitaire game, and of course, @LinoAyulu's free, rideable pumpkin chopper in Second Life. 🤣👇
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Today @PressAuditOrg's 2026 Midterm Forecast currently has Democrats with a 65% chance to win the Senate.
Chances of Democrats winning both the House and Senate? At 63%.
Explore individual races & a heatmap of midterm media coverage here👇
pressaudit.org/midterms-2026
Wagner James Au retweeted
Kojima-san is correct!
I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released. Director Iñárritu’s “DIGGER” is a film that all of us living in today’s world should see. It is a work that remains with the audience, provoking reflection and sounding alarms. As you absorb this film and carry it with you, a “tool (a digger)” for delving deeper into the future will surely begin to take shape within you. This is a film that will stay by your side for years to come.
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PressAudit is thrilled to unveil our 2026 Midterms Tracker! 👇 We blend recent polls from top firms with Polymarket & Kalshi odds, focus on key battleground races & highlight trends & midterm news in our heatmap.
Explore & please consider sharing!
pressaudit.org/midterms-2026
Wagner James Au retweeted
Meta executives' view as they decide that AI is the most important thing in their lives
Meta executives' view as they decide that AI is the most important thing in their lives
Kojima-san is correct!
I had been holding off on posting my thoughts until the interview was released. Director Iñárritu’s “DIGGER” is a film that all of us living in today’s world should see. It is a work that remains with the audience, provoking reflection and sounding alarms. As you absorb this film and carry it with you, a “tool (a digger)” for delving deeper into the future will surely begin to take shape within you. This is a film that will stay by your side for years to come.
Wagner James Au retweeted
In case you missed it, here's @page88 interview with our founder Paul Renshaw on PressAudit's interactive map tracking the growth of data centers across the US -- and what our map data augurs for the midterm elections! 👇
newrepublic.com/article/2163…
Wagner James Au retweeted
Playing video games for hours is just for rich famous celebrities who can't handle the real world
Ben Affleck says he spent 3 years at home playing StarCraft after becoming famous
“There was a game called StarCraft that probably took the most life out of me for a period of time. I had just got famous and all I did was stay home for three years and play StarCraft”
“I love Valorant. It's a great game. The problem with that game is that with kids that have been raised playing, I just get f**king rocked. I'm like, ‘Are you f**king cheating?’ And I get mad. It's very humiliating”
“I love 2K. I love Madden. And the early Doom, when I first played that game, which then gave rise to Quake. We played that endlessly for hours when we were doing Good Will Hunting. I remember writing and taking these long breaks to play Doom”
Wagner James Au retweeted
I must inform you that nowadays, people regularly first meet each other in online video games, get to know each others’ personalities, interests, and creative talents there, then end up dating and marrying in real life.
I basically wrote 2 books about this!
Attention Young Men:
I am surrounded by 20 year old girls in my life that are smart, capable, hard working and cute. Nobody is dating them. Not sure what the deal is, but I don’t get it.
Step 1: Stop playing video games
Step 2: Head to great clips and get that lettuce cleaned up
Step 3: Hit a shower (when dating hygiene is critical)
Step 4: Go clean your car
Step 5: Sign up for a yoga class
Step 6: Go to the yoga class
Step 7: Ask a cute for her phone number at yoga class (yes you can meet girls IRL and not just on the apps - 10/10 the Dirt Dog highly recommends)
Step 8: Follow up within 2 days with a phone call and ask them out for this coming weekend Friday or Saturday night.
Step 9: IMPORTANT - come up with a good game plane for date night. Get a dinner reservation, get an activity planned. Let them know in advance what you are doing so they can dress appropriately. I know you are gunna roll off the couch and head to date night, but they are not. They are going to stress about what to wear and call at least 6 different people on FaceTime to ask their opinion.
Step 10: I highly recommend you bring flowers to the door step. I’m not covering that you go to the doorstep, because if you don’t do that you have no hope here. Women want men to date them. You don’t need to break the bank on flowers. Head to Trader Joe’s. Grab 2 different kinds of flowers. If you don’t know what matches find the closest looking lady to your mom at TJ’s and ask her. Wrap the 2 flowers into 1 bouquet with paper. Bonus Points you can cut open a TJ bag and use that as the paper.
Step 11: Be a gentleman on the date. She isn’t there to hear your life story. Ask her about her. For every 1 question you answer, ask her 3. Open Doors, pay for the meal, be polite.
Provided you follow most of this guideline you are highly likely to get yourself an opportunity for date number 2.
Keep going until you find someone that you can’t imagine not being around all the time. That’s when you have found a good one for you.
My life is complete with my wife as my companion. I wish you the same fortune in life. Happy Hunting.
Wagner James Au retweeted
Replying to @TVietor08
The very fact Meta et. al. are still flailing about for mass market use cases after hundreds of billions invested proves no mass market exists.
Fewer people subscribe to Claude or ChatGPT than still subscribe to play World of Warcraft. 👇🏼
AI < elves
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