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Uh, and this is in reference to how a creepy Cat in the Hat meme escalated into school threats.

Um, this comes from an article on Mashable by Olivia Tauber.

Um, a little older at this point, but I just haven't seen a ton being made of it, and I think it's, uh, is definitely s- very much in the, uh, the spirit of what we're talking [chuckles] about with, you know, misinformation, AI-generated slop, and all of the confusion that it can cause, um, and how something can very quickly evolve from just sort of maybe a mean-spirited internet goof into actionable threat, or at least the perception of actionable threat.

So I'm just gonna read a little bit, uh, from this piece.

Which brings us to entirely new formats for socializing.

I was reading this piece from Mashable in our stack about a trend emerging heavily in 2026 called admin nights.

Let me track this.

It is a fascinating, highly specific evolution of the low-key hangout.

Now, I don't know what he did.

I don't know how extensive his background is, but we'll go out and read his very, very long tweet thread about the subject after we look at the Mashable article here.

Anthropic researcher quits, says AI could kill us all by the end of the decade.

An anthropic spokesperson confirmed it believes... spokesperson they an official spokesperson confirmed it believes ai could kill all humans that is quite the claim to make an ai researcher has quit anthropic due to ethical concerns claiming that the technology could kill countless people within the next 10 years if not everyone jacob this guy with a hat jacob said in a post on X on Tuesday, criticized both Anthropic and his former employer, OpenAI, for the ways in which they are developing AI.

And so I was following Mac rumors and Daring Fireball and like all these like old school stuff that's not even around anymore.

Like Rene Ritchie's iLife, Mashable.

Who was before Mashable? The one that was more focused on like apps in the Apple community that was in the...

That may have been before my time.

Although there's a bunch of, you know, And Gadget, obviously, used to be way bigger.

But during college, I really fell in love with working for the startup companies that were building tech products for Honestly, smaller type of businesses.

And during that era is when BuzzFeed and Mashable and The Verge and all of these companies were building these websites.

And nothing existed like that for cheerleading at the time in the way that I was thinking about it.

So so I did it.

Thanks, Dave.

My science and technology news pick of the week comes from a highly unusual news feature Chris shared with me from Mashable.com. It's all about how scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have developed a way to turn discarded plastic bottles into edible cookies.

For their project, which they call Microbites, the researchers took PET, the common plastic found in water and soda bottles, and broke it down, along with agricultural waste such as corn stalks, into smaller chemical components using heat, water, and oxygen.

Genetically modified yeast then consumes these components and converts them into proteins, fats, vitamins, and other useful nutrients.

And this guy had created a tongue cleaner that he called or a brush and And if you scrape the back of your tongue, it gets the bad breath, it gets rid of bad breath.

He's in the class, I'm in the back reading Mashable and TechCrunch.

Like I always did and not really paying attention in class because that's pretty much what I did my whole college life.

And they're talking about this tongue cleaner and they're saying only 8% of people would want to buy something like this on the internet.