Robyn Pennacchia

2 weeks ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

AI, for the most part, is theft. AI music steals from musicians. AI visual art steals from real artists to make fake art. AI writing steals from writers to make very, very bad writing. Mark Zuckerberg even approved of Meta using copyrighted works to train its AI program, Llama — and they’re now being sued by Sarah Silverman, Junot Diaz, Ta-Nehisi Coates and others because of it. In fact, AI literally steals from human beings for the explicit purpose of putting human beings out of a job.

2 weeks ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

You know, people have been really down on Trump’s tariffs this week — now, since he’s blinked,somewhat paused — largely because people are losing lots and lots of money. (Yes, still, even with the stock market’s relieved bounce yesterday.) Promises of “short-term pain for long-term gain” are starting to fall flat, and so some MAGA loyalists have pivoted from promising economic gains to promising culture war gains. In Shocking Move ...

2 weeks ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

Are you a recently fired federal worker trying to figure out your next steps? Well, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has some great news for you! You can just get a job in one of the factories that will be built here once the Trump tariffs bring all of the manufacturing back. “So what we are doing: On one side, the president is reordering trade.

2 weeks ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

Last week, Utah became the first state to officially ban adding fluoride to the drinking water, for reasons no one could possibly explain without sounding very, very, very stupid and paranoid. Governor Spencer Cox, even in signing the bill into law, failed to share exactly what it was he thought that fluoride did besides reduce tooth decay by 25 percent. “You would think you would see drastically different outcomes with half the state not getting it and half the state getting it.

2 weeks ago | wonkette.com | Robyn Pennacchia

Once again, conservative women are finding out that men actually hate them as much as they hate us. Last week, Megyn Kelly opened her podcast by talking mostly about the Trump tariffs, about how “we” all need to give President Trump a chance because he’s wanted to do this for a long time and shouldn’t he get all the things he wants? “There’s no way he’s going to let a bunch of economic pain rain down on the country for the next three and a half years without doing anything about it,” Kelly said.