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Some of the AP Paris staff join Paris Bureau Chief Ed Kennedy, seated center left, for a farewell get-together in the early hours of May 18, 1945, just before he embarked for the United States at the request of AP General Manager Kent Cooper. (AP Photo/Pete Carroll, File)2025-05-07T09:57:30Z REIMS, France (AP) When Allied forces brought World War II in Europe and the Holocaust to an end 80 years ago this week, AP reporters and photographers were there, chronicling the Nazis historic defeat.Here are excerpts of AP news reports that momentous week:___EDITORS NOTE: On May 7, 1945, APs Edward Kennedy witnessed the German surrender in a French schoolhouse, and was the first to announce it to the Allied public, defying authorities who wanted to delay the news.The news was broadcast unofficially over German radio, but U.S. President Harry Truman and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had agreed to suppress news of the capitulation for a day, in order to allow Soviet leader Josef Stalin to stage a second surrender ceremony in Berlin.Kennedy published anyway, angering U.S. authorities. Kennedy was called home by AP and later fired. AP issued a public apology in 2012, saying Kennedy did everything just right, because the embargo was for political reasons, not to protect the troops. The world needed to know, APs then-President and CEO Tom Curley said. Kennedy stood up to power. ___ REIMS, France, May 7 (Delayed)FLASH: ALLIES OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED GERMANS SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY___Through an iron-faced Prussian general, speaking after he had finished signing the unconditional surrender of the Nazis, Germany today pleaded for mercy for the German people. On the wall behind his back was a huge chart tabulating Allied casualties. He was Col-Gen. (Alfred) Jodl, chief of staff of the German Army.He was standing in a room of a red school house in Reims, where Gen. Eisenhower had his advanced headquarters. On a big wooden table in front of him lay four identical documents to which he had just affixed his signature one each for the United States, Britain, France and Russia. ...Seventeen correspondents were present at the signing and heard Jodls plea. After he had signed the four instruments of surrender, and after the military representatives of the four Powers had signed them, Jodl asked for permission to speak. He was told that he might. He held himself stiffly erect. His voice was low and soft. He said: With this signature, the German people and armed forces are, for better or worse, delivered in the victors hands. In this war which has lasted more than five years, both have achieved and suffered more than perhaps any other people in the world. I express the hope that the victor will treat generously with them.His face was expressionless. So were the faces of the American, British, Russian and French generals who represented the Allies. All had seen the German murder camps and all knew the furious cruelty of German occupying forces.Jodl finished speaking and sat down. A moment passed in dead silence.Then the German representatives were taken down the hall to meet Gen. Eisenhower. ....Again, there was a moment of heavy silence.Then Eisenhower spoke. He was brief and terse as always. His voice was cold and stern. His steel blue eyes were hard. In a few clipped sentences, he made it plain that Germany was a defeated nation and that henceforth all orders to the German people would come from the Allies. He said they would be obeyed. Then the Germans filed out. It was over.Nazi Germany has ceased to exist.The war had ended.___The great bells of St. Peters Basilica rang out over Rome soon after the Associated Press report that peace had come to Europe, while several Allied capitals proclaimed V-E holidays for today, and Tokyo announced continuation of The Sacred War.Many of the worlds cities went wild at the news, and even neutral capitals were bedecked and filled with celebrating crowds. Masses of people gathered in front of loudspeakers and newspaper offices, which were frantically answering inquiries and rolling out extras.Only in the unnatural calm of the European fronts was the news reported to have been taken soberly, by soldiers who had seen the fighting taper off in one sector after another for the past two weeks. ___War-scarred London burst into jubilant celebration of the end of the war in Europe today, its millions of citizens unable to wait for the governments official V-E Day proclamation tomorrow.Millions surged into the streets, from Buckingham Palace to the sedate East End.The Picadilly Circus, Whitehall and Westminster areas filled with a laughing, shouting throng. Some old-timers said the scene eclipsed those of the 1918 armistice.Pubs were jammed, Champagne was brought up from deep cellars and long-hoarded whisky and gin came out from hiding.The great bells of Big Ben tolled the hours of the historic day.___In Washington, crowds gathered in Lafayette Square across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House in anticipation of an announcement by President Truman to proclaim Allied V-E Day. A dispatch from the United States 9th Army front said withdrawal of American troops toward a previously established line of demarcation between them and the Russians had begun, with the first-move evacuation of the Yanks from their bridgehead of the banks of the Elbe River. The Elbe became the temporary line between the Allied armies.___BERLIN, May 10, 1945:By HAROLD KING, former Moscow bureau chiefThis town is a city of the dead. As a metropolis, it has simply ceased to exist. Every house within miles of the center seems to have had its own bomb. The scene beggars description. I have seen Stalingrad; I have lived through the entire London blitz. I have seen a dozen badly damaged Russian towns, but the scene of utter destruction, desolation and death which meets the eye in Berlin as far as the eye can rove in all directions is something that almost baffles description.Dozens of well-known thoroughfares, including the entire Unter den Linden from one end to the other, are wrecked beyond repair. The town is literally unrecognizable. The Alexander Platz, in the east end, where the Gestapo headquarters were, is a weird desert of rubble and gaping, smoke blackened walls. From the Brandenberg Gate, everything within a radius of two to five miles is destroyed. There does not appear to be one house in hundred which is even useful as a shelter. ...The only people who look like human beings in the streets of what was Berlin are the Russian soldiers. There are two million inhabitants in this town, the Russian authorities told me, but they are mostly in the remoter suburbs. In the center part of the town, you only see a few ghostlike figures of women and children few men queuing up to pump water.If Stalingrad, London, Guernica, Rotterdam, Coventry wanted avenging, they have had it, and no mistake about it.The Red flag, or rather several red flags, fly on top of the Reichstag which is burned hollow. The Tiergarten opposite the Reichstag looks like a forest after a big fire. There was heavy street fighting here. ...The population and the Red Army soldiers are attempting to clear some of the main streets. The Russian command has already erected at all main squares and crossings huge sketch maps without which it would be impossible to find ones way about.Except for an occasional Russian army car or horses drawing Russian army carts, there is a complete silence over the city, and the air filled with rubble dust.One sign of life, however, are the interminable columns of displaced persons of all European nationalities who seem to be marching through Berlin in various directions, carried forward by a homing instinct more than any clear idea where they are going. These columns of freed slaves are sometimes a mile long.___Follow APs coverage marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II at https://apnews.com/WorldWarII

Nature, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01385-5At sufficiently high concentrations, some of the compounds called per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances self-organize into two-layered membranes.

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We start this week's episode with our massive story on TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump administration uses to archive messages which was hacked. We have more detail than anyone else on that story. After the break, Jason tells us about another hack, this time GlobalX Air, one of the airlines used by ICE for deportation flights. In the subscribers-only section, Sam and Emanuel tell us about the shut down of Mr. Deepfakes, and what the lasting legacy of the site will be.Listen to the weekly podcast onApple Podcasts,Spotify, orYouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism.If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player. The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was HackedSenator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media InvestigationGlobalX, Airline for Trumps Deportations, HackedMr. Deepfakes, the Biggest Deepfake Porn Site on the Internet, Says Its Shutting Down for Good

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WASHINGTONIn a move the Trump administration claims will reduce government waste and remove redundancies from federally funded programs, the National Endowment for the Arts announced a sweeping round of layoffs Wednesday that terminated the employment of roughly 30,000 muses. An independent audit of the NEA revealed a significant glut of unnecessary sources of inspiration, all of which are reliant on taxpayer funding, read a statement from the White House addressing the cuts, which are said to include an additional 35% reduction in the ingenues, figure drawing models, and strikingly beautiful baristas currently providing full-time inspiration to the agency. This unchecked creativity has gone on for far too long, and our independent audit of the agency found that the NEA can easily make do with a mere dozen muses. Under this new budget, American taxpayers will no longer be forced to foot the bill for the inflated levels of inspiration formerly enjoyed by lazy poets, novelists, and painters. The statement went on to advocate for additional budget cuts that would eliminate the agencys 10,000 superfluous copies ofThe Artists Way.The post National Endowment For The Arts Lays Off 30,000 Muses appeared first on The Onion.

TUCSON, AZExpressing concerns after she observed several of the telltale warning signs, fourth-grade teacher Patricia Cormac told reporters Wednesday that she could tell a student in her class with spiky hair and sunglasses came from a rad home. When youve been in this profession as long as I have, little behavioral tics like skateboarding into school 10 minutes late or repeatedly hitting classmates with a thumbs-ups can be a red flagthat a child is experiencing some totally sick behavior behind the scenes, said Cormac, confirming that her suspicions began when she saw markings around her students arms and shoulders that were likely left by a badass temporary tattoo of a dinosaur. At this point, its too early to say how severe the situation is. It could just be that the family is going through a pretty awesome period and things will settle back to normal, but it could be something larger. I remember we had a case a couple years ago where it turned out a student had nothing to eat at home but Mountain Dew Code Red and triple pepperoni pizzas with extra cheese. Cormac added that in this case it was likely a social worker would eventually be called in to do a chillness check.The post Teacher Can Tell Child With Spiky Hair, Sunglasses Comes From A Rad Home appeared first on The Onion.

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Trump has found an aesthetic to define his second term: grotesque AI slop.Over the weekend, the Trump administration posted at least seven different pieces of AI generated or AI altered media, ranging from Trump imagining himself as a pope and a Star Wars Jedi (or Sith?) to Obama-esque Hope posters featuring people the administration has deported.This has become the Slop Presidency, and AI-generated images are the perfect artistic medium for the Trump presidency. They're impulsively created, grotesque, and low-effort. Trumpworlds fascination with slop is the logical next step for a President that, in his first term, regularly retweeted random memes created by his army of supporters on Discord or The Donald, a subreddit that ultimately became a Reddit-clone website after it was banned. AI allows his team to create media that would never exist otherwise, a particularly useful tool for a President and administration that has a hostile relationship with reality.Trumps original fascination with AI slop began last summer, after he said legal Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating the catstheyre eating the pets in his debate with Kamala Harris. The internets AI slop factories began spinning up images of Trump as cat-and-dog savior. Since then, Trump and the administration have occasionally shared or reposted AI slop. In his first week in office, Trump shared an AI-generated GM car image that was promoting $TRUMP coin. What a beautiful car. Congrats to GM!, he posted.At the end of February, Trump shared a video on his Truth Social account that imagined a world where Gaza was turned into a Trump Casino.But this weekend, Trump began sharing AI slop on a level weve not seen before.Trumps AI-tinged weekend began on Friday night with a photo-realistic picture of himself as the Pope on his Truth Social account. The White House reposted a screenshot of the image on X, which pissed off the Catholic Church.This is deeply offensive to Catholics especially during this sacred time that we are still mourning the death of Pope Francis and praying for the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the election of our new Pope. He owes an apology, Thomas Paprocki, an American Bishop in Illinois, said on X.During a press conference on Monday, Trump dismissed the accusation that the Trump Pope was offensive and then said he didnt post it. The Catholics loved it. I had nothing to do with it, Trump said. Somebody made up a picture of me dressed like the Pope and they put it out on the internet, Trump said. Thats not me that did it, I have no idea where it came from. Maybe it was AI. But I know nothing about it. I just saw it last evening.All political movements are accompanied by artists who translate the politics into pictures, writing, and music. Adolf Ziegler captured the Nazi ideal in paintings. Stalins Soviet Union churned out mass produced and striking propaganda posters that wanted citizens about how to live. The MAGA movements artistic aesthetic is AI slop and Donald Trump is its king. It is not concerned with convincing anyone or using art to inform people about its movement. It seeks only to upset people who arent on board and excite the faithful because it upsets people.Not content to just aggravate Catholics, the Trump administration then used AI to offend adherents of another of Americas major religions: Star Wars fans. On May the 4th, the official White House X account posted an AI-generated image of a muscle bound Trump wielding a red light saber and flanked by two bald eagles.Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to [sic] bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. Youre not the Rebellionyoure the Empire, it said in the post. May the 4th be with you. As the replies pointed out, red light sabers are typically used by villains.This was just one of a series of Star Wars related AI-generated cringe that went out from official Trump admin accounts over the weekend. DOD Rapid Response on X (an account that publishes propaganda on behalf of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth) posted a five minute video that contained a Star Wars intro style scroll of Trumps accomplishments before treating viewers to a pic of Trump and Hegseth as Jedi. The account for the U.S. Armys Pacific Command sent out an AI-enhanced image of soldiers doing a training exercise. Both of the soldierss weapons were replaced with lightsabers.Trump and the people who created AI-image generators do not respect artists. There is no style that either will not exploit or sully. OpenAI reduced Hayao Miyazaki's lifes work to a gross meme, and the White House played along. For years the Lofi Girl has sat in windows on screens across the planet while people studied, read, and worked. Over the weekend the White House YouTube channel ran Lo-Fi MAGA Video to Relax/ Study To while an animated President Trump sat at a desk, mimicking the Lofi Girl.Maybe you dont like Star Wars, are unmoved by Studio Ghibli films, or have never chilled to lofi beats. It doesnt matter, the message is clear: if you love something Trump will pervert it. Nothing will be untouched. Sacred objects and beloved art exist only to be desecrated. AI has made that as easy as pushing a button.AI generated slop content is part of a brute force attack on the algorithms that control reality and the Trump administrations constant use of AI art reflects its own brute force attack on American democracy. Its not just that its aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far, by brute forcing the Presidency with a slew of executive orders, budget cuts, attacks on institutions, and sloppily executed deportations. The strategy is to overwhelm the American bureaucracy and the legal system, and to exhaust his enemies with an endless stream of bullshit; by the time we shake out whats legal and whats not, much of the damage has already been done.One of the wonderful things about making art is the process. A lot happens between conception and execution. An idea pops into an artist's head and it changes dramatically while they attempt to render that idea into reality. That doesnt happen with AI-generated images. There is no creation process, there is only instant gratification. Whatever impulsive and grotesque thought pops into the mind of the creator can immediately be realized.And so every revenge fantasy Trump and his followers ever wanted can be made real at a moments notice. On March 27, the White House X account posted a Ghibli-style AI image of a crying woman being arrested by ICE.Here is a real woman who has been accused of a crime, her image appropriated by the state and rendered into a cartoon. America has total power over this woman. Arrested for drug trafficking, her image has been plastered all over the internet. Shell be deported. Not content with total control over her body and future, the administration has made her into a caricature and invited its followers to mock her online.

Nature, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01410-7Former Harvard scientist convicted of making false statements says he wants to do research that benefits humanity and cannot do that in the United States.

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Dora the Explorer, the cute Nickelodeon cartoon character, is teaching kids what it means to be Sigma, a slang term describing an extremely toxic male archetype which originates in the darkest corners of the so-called manosphere.Hola, grown-ups! Today I have a super cool word for you! Sigma, a 3D rendered version of Dora says in a video uploaded to the official Dora the Explorer Instagram account yesterday. Sigma is a word for someone whos confident, independent, and does things their own way! Think of it as someone whos a leader and a trendsetter. Lets say your friend is doing their own thing, focusing on their goals, and not worrying about what others think. You can say, youre such a SIGMA! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dora (@officialdora) As Dora explains this, the video cuts to different Nickelodeon characters like Spongebob Squarepants and Aang, the main character from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The video, which was also shared from the official Nickelodeon Instagram account, has 2.8 million views, 156,000 likes, and almost 7,000 comments, most of which are incredulous or joking about Dora defining a term even mildly online users recognize as inappropriate for children.Dora thats not even Spanish youre losing the PLOT, one user said.Doras definition of Sigma isnt wrong, but its missing some very important context. In the world of toxic masculinity, incelhood, and the manosphere, men fit into one of a few rigid categories. There are Beta males, who are viewed as weak, effeminate, and generally losers who cant get women, and Alpha males who are strong, masculine, and can dominate women as well as other beta males. And then there are Sigma males, who are so masculine they ascend these categories and the normal social hierarchies and become something more powerful. It is very similar and sometimes overlaps with the community of Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW).Know Your Meme attributes the origin of the term to the far-right misogynist and white supremacist Theodore Beale, known mostly for his online persona Vox Day. In 2010, Beale defined Sigmas on his blog as:The outsiders who don't play the social game and manage to win at it anyhow. The alphas hate sigmas because they are the only men who don't accept or at least acknowledge their social dominance. (NB: Alphas absolutely hate to be laughed at and a sigma can enrage an alpha by simply smiling at him.) Everyone else is vaguely confused by them. At the party, it's the guy who stops by to say hello to a few friends accompanied by a tier one girl that no one has ever seen before. Sigmas often like women, but also tend to be contemptuous of them.To be fair, Sigma went through another evolution before Doras video. It is now part of the brainrot meta meme, which takes a bunch of online terms like Skibidi, Rizz, and Sigma, and blends them all into a soup which is regurgitate in various forms to express that you spent too much time on the internet and can prove that by referencing these words.I dont know if Nickelodeon or the people in charge of these social media accounts are ignorant of Sigmas origin, if they dont care, or if its some irony-poisoned cynical wink at an audience that is obviously responding to the provocation.I can easily imagine this being a case of brands trying to be and online for engagement but going too far, especially because its workingthis post is getting a lot more engagement than most things the Dora account has posted.It also reminds me of something thats been bugging me for months but I have not had an excuse to write about yet, which is that the TV brand TCL has been promoting its products with ads calling their customers gooners and inviting them to goon with their TVs. Technically, TCL is an official partner with the Arsenal Football Club, which has called its fans gooners for years, but the TCL posts are obviously playing on the fact that today, at least online, gooning more commonly refers to the practice of hedonistic masturbation and excessive porn consumption. TCL also invites its customers to be Alpha.Ultimately it doesnt matter if the Dora post is a mistake that cant tell the difference between skibidi toilet and a racist Pepe the Frog, or if its an ironic joke. While the video addresses grown-ups, Dora is a giant kids media brand, and she is currently introducing them to a toxic philosophy that glorifies misogyny and the desire to be above and outside social relationships.Nickelodeon did not respond to a request for comment.

Nature, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01061-8By considering the central statement of your entire PhD, you can structure your writing around it, says Tuuli Toivonen.

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