E. Jean Carroll Trolls Trump With Public Victory Lap Over $5.6M Payment

E. Jean Carroll did not go gentle into that good night.

She toppled statues, took scissors to the closet full of Versace, cleared the contents of the desk top in one dramatic fell swoop of the arm, and kicked the trashcan over on her way out the door.

Now, she's taking her well-deserved victory lap with a public "Haha! Better luck next time!" in the sitting US President's face.

Literal years after E. Jean Carroll won her civil sex abuse case against Donald J. Trump, the American author and advice columnist finally received a chunk of what the washed-up reality TV star-turned-dictator owed her.

Trump has spent more than 3 years fighting that verdict against him via every avenue he could conceive, only to find himself brutally shot down at every turn -- even by his own carefully stacked Supreme Court. The buck had to stop somewhere, as a judge finally ordered the release of the $5.6 million Trump owed to Carroll from escrow.

After the coins finally landed in her account, Carroll took to X with a simple but pointed post. Captioning a screenshot of the New York Times article that reported on the release of the funds, she quoted the famous first words astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke to NASA's mission control after he and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in 1969: "The eagle has landed."

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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

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The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone

Overtone describes itself as "a voice- and audio-forward service, enabled by AI, that provides highly curated introductions."

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Videos Show ICE Agents Walking Beside Car Before Shooting And Dumping Body On Ground

Videos from a fatal Immigration and Customs Enforcement shooting in Biddeford, Maine, show agents walking beside a slow-rolling car, undercutting the government's claim that the driver tried to use it as a weapon.

The victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States, according to the Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition. He was shot dead Monday morning.

A second video shared by journalist Sam Stein shows ICE agents removing the man's body from the car and dropping it headfirst on the ground. He appeared to have been handcuffed.

The agents involved in the shooting were not wearing body cameras, according to the Portland Press Herald.

"Objectively, this is a video of a car slowly turning and ICE agents walking alongside it," Stein, who shared the first video on X, wrote. "Hard to understand how we could end up with ANOTHER deadly shooting here."

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Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.

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Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI

Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.

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Vance Has A Cringe-Inducing Marie Antoinette Moment

J Divan Vance once again demonstrated how he has a complete disconnect from what's going on in the country with a Marie Antoinette moment. While Americans are struggling to make ends meet and having to choose between food, medicine, and gasoline, Vance is bragging about how posh his life is:

Vance was speaking with Mike Rowe on his podcast when he couldn't contain himself:

Like, my life is - dude - totally transformed.

I don't go to the grocery store anymore. People go to the grocery store for me. Most of my meals, like, when I cook a meal - it's like, I love to cook, actually, big baker. I like to cook for my kids as a special occasion, but I don't have to cook anymore because I've got an army of people who are willing to like cook me my food. My life is so weird. I fly around on a 757, no more TSA lines for for me and the kids. It's so weird, but it can become the sort of thing that if you internalize it, you start to be an entitled asshole.

Oh, wow, J Divan, dude, like that ship has totally sailed, dude. I can think of only one person who is a bigger entitled asshole than you are, and his initials are President Pedo.

Vance doesn't even grasp that this "army of people" he thinks just live to cook for him are actually employees, most of whom are probably getting paid shit wages, to serve his pampered ass. Trust me, dude, no one likes you enough to put up with you for free.

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