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The band was set to play the Unibet Arena in Tallinn on May 31, 2026, but the event’s Facebook page has since been changed to “Canceled.”

But eventually, the show’s promoter, Baltic Live Agency, chose to cancel the gig outright.

Almost immediately after the Tallinn show was announced on Nov. 7, there was swift backlash over Durst’s history of pro-Russia stances. For instance, in 2015, after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Durst spoke about his desire to obtain a Russian passport, wrote a letter to Crimean authorities calling Vladimir Putin a “great guy with clear moral principles,” and held up a sign on stage that read “Crimea=Russia.”

In response to Limp Bizkit’s Tallinn show, Estonia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Margus Tsahkna, said: “My position is clear, and I will repeat it: Russia is the aggressor, and Crimea is occupied by Russia. Those who justify Russia’s aggression and the occupation of a neighboring country are not welcome in Estonia. They have no place on Estonian stages and should not be earning income here.”

post from last month https://hexbear.net/post/6411552

https://archive.is/nNl2X

https://xcancel.com/BootsRiley/status/1988082915839013047#m

I believe this this is the obituary of Pat Ryle

https://archive.is/8Syn2

https://archive.is/DyWz8

https://xcancel.com/Jingjing_Li/status/1988459915090731399#m

I see her clips posted on Leftist subreddits sometimes.

https://www.youtube.com/@Jingjing_Li

https://old.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/

White claimed: “I’m probably not as far-right as everybody thinks I am. Everybody thinks I’m, like, far-right. I… literally up until the world lost its mind, considered myself to be liberal – I leaned, you know, a little left.

“But, I would say that’s probably the biggest misconception. Everybody thinks I’m, like, some far-right, you know, I’m not really even that political, to be honest with you.”

The lawsuit filed in Durham County Court accused Brenay Kennard – an influencer with nearly 3 million followers on TikTok and 274,000 followers on Instagram – of seducing and having an affair with her manager, Tim Montague.

North Carolina's alienation of affection law allows a spouse to sue the person they blame for an affair that ends a marriage.

Akira Montague claimed the affair caused her mental anguish, damage to her health and deprived her children of a two-parent household.

The alleged affair played out both in the manager’s home, and on Kennard’s social media, Akira Montague claimed.

Tim Montague eventually left his wife for Kennard.

another article
https://people.com/tiktoker-ordered-to-pay-husband-ex-wife-1-75-million-for-alienation-of-affection-11847383

"They ain't letting me back in the country [USA] dawg." (03:02:34 Nov 11, 2025)

After picking up the PRC flag from the ground in some exercise of respect, Hasan Piker dusted off the flag before putting it in his pocket.

He then makes a sarcastic comment foretelling his coming struggle getting back in America due to this gesture.

https://xcancel.com/carolinekwan/status/1987696894773215344#m

The lemon hat is supposed to be a Chinese meme about him being sour or something.

Regardless of whether his own feelings seeped into the show, Gilligan has been a vocal skeptic of artificial intelligence. Tucked away in the “Pluribus” credits, it reads, “This show was made by humans.” It’s an important reminder as Big Tech continues to infiltrate Hollywood, and the trillion-dollar companies behind shows like “Pluribus” are also driving the future of AI.

“I hate AI,” Gilligan says with a chuckle. “AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit. It’s basically a bunch of centibillionaires whose greatest life goal is to become the world’s first trillionaires. I think they’re selling a bag of vapor.”

Gilligan isn’t afraid of artificial intelligence trouncing on the work of true artists — “My toaster oven isn’t suddenly Thomas Keller because it heats up a delicious pizza for me” — but his sci-fi brain buzzes at the looming threat of “the singularity,” or when AI develops “a true sentience that has its own soul, and therefore its own identity.”

“If they ever achieve that, then the whole discussion of slavery has to come back into the forefront of the conversation,” Gilligan says. “These trillionaires are going to want to make money on this thing that is now conscious. Is it then a slave? At that point, it is a truly sentient being, and these Silicon Valley assholes are going to monetize this against its own will, right?”

He pauses, and then remembers why we started talking about AI in the first place. “That’s the story I would write,” he says. “But that’s been done to death.”

Closer to home for Seehorn is the recent media flurry around an AI “actress,” Tilly Norwood, supposedly soliciting talent agencies. “I’m fine going on the record that I don’t think any agencies should represent that AI actress,” Seehorn says. “Shame on them!” (Many of the major agencies and guilds in Hollywood have since spoken out against the creation.)

Meanwhile, video-generating software like OpenAI’s Sora showcase the inevitability that AI content will funnel into the mainstream. The question Gilligan has for audiences is: “Do you want to be fed a diet of crap? Is there enough calories in a diet of crap to keep you alive? The answer is yeah, probably. You could eat it.”

He goes on, about how AI-generated content is “like a cow chewing its cud — an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense,” and how the U.S. will fail to regulate the technology because of an arms race with China. He works himself up until he’s laughing again, proclaiming: “Thank you, Silicon Valley! Yet again, you’ve fucked up the world.”

He sounds like Carol Sturka, screaming about the barn on fire, before Seehorn offers a glimmer of optimism. Sure, you can prompt an AI to paint you a Picasso, but “even if a computer could make you think there was impasto brushwork there, the reason the painting is moving is because of the human experience that went into transferring that art onto the canvas,” she says. “That matters to me. I think it matters to most people.”

Hamilton has been on Broadway for 10 years now and so my YouTube feed is affected by this. My sister really liked it when it came out and so did I tbh. I used to watch a lot of animatics about it (and other musicals) on YouTube.

Anyway…this algorithm induced trip down memory lane got me thinking and I feel like there is a version of Hamilton where he is looked at much more negativity…or as a kind of like “guy who makes it and then forgets where he comes from” kind of story.
Like…it’s somewhat there in the final production, he gets called out, but the narrative is still fundamentally on his side, but there is more in the cut and unfinished stuff that I think highlights this more.

It’s interesting that Burr is portrayed as this opportunistic figure that either doesn’t have beliefs or is fine with bending them in service to some greater motive while Hamilton his opposite when Hamilton seems to betray every one of his beliefs at some point throughout the play.

He starts the play as a revolutionary rabble rouser complaining about taxes on tea, but by the second act he is part of the establishment and taxing whiskey. The Whiskey Rebellion is alluded to a little in the final show, but there is an entire cut/reworked song where him and Washington crush the rebellion basically.
There is also a cut Cabinet Meeting rap where the issue of slavery is brought up and Hamilton, like for most of the play argues against it, but eventually ends up acquiescing for political and personal convenience.
I think one of the most glaring examples of this that made it to the end product is when Jefferson calls Hamilton out for all but abandoning Lafayette when he argues not to support the Revolution in France even though in the first act he tells Lafayette “we will be with you”.

I feel like with some of the cut and unfinished stuff there would really have been a theme of Hamilton in some form betraying all of the friends he had in the first act in some form.
Lafayette and France, Laurens and Slavery, Mulligan and the little guy.
Idk I feel like something is there that was at some point consciously scrapped.

This isn’t even getting into the infidelity in his personal life or him agreeing to the duel that would take his life even though his wife had just gotten over the death or their son who died in one.
Idk Hamilton is just a kind of slimy, hypocritical character and I don’t think the narrative calls him out on it enough or really how the narrative works in light of these facts.

I don’t imagine many people here have seen the musical or care to think about it, but Idk where else to ramble about something like this either so I’m subjecting you to it.

Marvel star Jeremy Renner is facing accusations that he sent unsolicited “intimate” photos and video to a Chinese filmmaker and threatened to “call ICE” on her after she “called him out privately” on alleged misconduct.

Filmmaker and artist Yi Zhou, director of the documentary Chronicles of Disney featuring Renner, made the allegations in a series of Instagram posts and in an in-depth interview with the Daily Mail. Zhou, 38, alleges she had a personal and professional relationship with Renner, 54, that left her fearing for her safety.

“Mr. Renner first contacted me directly in June, sending personal and intimate photographs of himself, behavior that, according to public reports, he has exhibited before,” she wrote on Instagram. She claims Renner wooed her over calls and text discussions, saying he wanted a relationship. Zhou alleges they started dating and working together on two projects, including Chronicles of Disney, and that Renner “appears in 80% of the film.” She claims that when the documentary was released last month, Renner “refused to make any public promotion,” despite allegedly having entered into written agreements with her Italian production company, Into the Sun Films. Zhou says she appealed to Renner to help her combat fan accounts falsely claiming the documentary was generated by AI without his consent, but he purportedly refused.

“When I called him out privately about his past misconduct and asked him to behave properly, to respect me as a woman and as a filmmaker, he threatened to call immigration/ICE on me, an act that deeply shocked and frightened me,” she wrote. “Such behavior is unacceptable and emblematic of the imbalance of power that continues to harm women in our industry.”

A rep for the actor called the allegations “totally inaccurate and untrue.” The Marvel actor has not commented publicly.

In her interview with the Daily Mail, Zhou claimed it was Renner who pursued her. “I did not reach out to him,” she said. “I didn’t even know his name, never watched a movie of his. He used me and denied me and denied our work.” She shared a screenshot of a pornographic image that Renner allegedly sent to her via WhatsApp in June.

She went on to claim that one night in August, Renner drank a bottle of wine and yelled at her for two hours during a work meeting at his house. Zhou claimed she had to “lock” herself in a room, “scared for [her] life.”

Among the few yeses were a mosque, Buddhist temple and a historically black church.

I see 2 videos of the employees confronting HR at the Conde Nast office. 20 employees had been layed off in the Teen Vogue merger, including all of the politics staffers.

https://xcancel.com/TheWrap/status/1986555099469230496#m (video 1)

https://xcancel.com/TheWrap/status/1986559423930937536#m (video 2)

https://www.thewrap.com/conde-nast-fires-union-staffers-video/

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