Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk spoke with Fox News Digital about his thoughts of "South Park" parodying him in an upcoming episode, calling it a "badge of honor." "South Park," Comedy Central's gold-standard animated sitcom, has launched its 27th season on America's television screens and, with President Trump back in the White House, politics is back on the menu for creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Much like our national media ecosystem, Trump and his presidency are the driving force behind almost every plot line in the first three episodes this year. Much of it is quite funny, but one does wonder: Where was all this hilarious hijinx regarding Joe Biden's "Weekend At Bernie's" presidency? The overarching premise of the season thus far is that, with the election of Trump, wokeness is finally dead.

If the recent embrace of seemingly--and only seemingly--autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future premised in "The Matrix" awaits us. During the 1999 film's sequence of down-the-rabbit-hole scenes, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) flips the channel on the late-nineties metropolis as Neo (Keanu Reeves) knows it, revealing it to be a "computer-generated dream world" that pacifies a dozing human race whose bioelectricity is extracted by machines, for machines, circa 2197. The "world as it exists today" is instead a dark and decaying place--the "desert of the real," as Morpheus coolly puts it. It is also, he explains, the aftermath of early twenty-first-century optimism, a time when, he says, "we marvelled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to A.I." Still, dystopia as envisioned by the movie's directors, the Wachowskis (and their collaborators, on that film, particularly in production and costume design), looks pretty rad, in cinematic terms. The glint and thrum of Y2K aesthetics--as contrasted with the droning conservatism of the white-collar office--read as anticipatory rather than melancholic, looking toward a future liberated from systems of old.

Dust collected from an asteroid by a NASA spacecraft more than 200 million miles away from Earth contains material that is older than the sun. Scientists have analysed samples from the Bennu asteroid, which resembles the Death Star space station in the Star Wars films, and found it is'chemically primitive'. It contained'presolar grains' which are stardust that formed around dying stars billions of years ago. The samples provide a glimpse into the outer Solar System during the birth of the sun and are more pristine than any meteorite on Earth, according to a team of researchers. NASA spacecraft Osiris Rex briefly touched the surface of Bennu with a robotic arm and collected 120g of material which was put into a capsule before it returned to earth in 2023.

Kaufman made a playlist of all the tracks he could find and gave it a derogatory name. "It's more fun to laugh about it than to feel bad about it," he says. "But it is disconcerting that this can happen." And it was strange to him, as a musician and producer who generally goes "under the radar", to be targeted. "Why not go for someone big?" he asks.

Something strange has been happening on YouTube over the past few weeks. After being uploaded, some videos have been subtly augmented, their appearance changing without their creators doing anything. Viewers have noticed "extra punchy shadows," "weirdly sharp edges," and a smoothed-out look to footage that makes it look "like plastic." Many people have come to the same conclusion: YouTube is using AI to tweak videos on its platform, without creators' knowledge. A multimedia artist going by the name Mr. Bravo, whose YouTube videos feature "an authentic 80s aesthetic" achieved by running his videos through a VCR, wrote on Reddit that his videos look "completely different to what was originally uploaded."

People in Pensacola, Florida shared their thoughts on Cracker Barrel's new logo with Fox News Digital. Few things in American life have felt as trapped in the amber of history as Cracker Barrel restaurants, with their recipe of comfort food served up in cozy confines that evoke a bygone era. It's little wonder Americans routinely wait for an hour to get a table after church, or welcome a road-trip diversion when they see the classic logo on a highway sign. Now, the cracker-jack whiz-kid marketing team at the iconic eatery's corprate headquarters has decided to forgo all of this, including possibly, based on public reaction to their changes, the long lines. CRACKER BARREL UNVEILS NEW SIMPLIFIED LOGO: 'OUR STORY HASN'T CHANGED' This may not exactly be wokeness at work, as we have seen with so many brands such as Target and Bud Light, but it is something similarly lifeless and cold.

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