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Tony tells us Connor used gold to enhance the color of his skin and to create "superhuman" traits ... and he did see a huge change in him -- he was bolder, more courageous and had elevated energy.

Still, Tony says he warned Connor he should cool it with the amount of gold he was injecting ... worried about the unknown consequences of having the precious metal -- sometimes bought right from jewelry shops in Thailand -- in his body.

Tony tells TMZ he believes the gold may have altered Connor's mindset and got him "stuck" in another personality, bringing out a side of him that desired going to extreme measures for his looksmaxxing and content creation. Tony worries that altered state of mind may have encouraged actions that eventually led to Connor's demise.

As you know ... Connor drowned Tuesday in Thailand after locals in town called police on him for "erratic" behavior. He reportedly fled from cops and jumped into a lake nearby, swimming until he could no longer stay afloat.

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[-] dead@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago
  1. Doctored images, fake social media posts, generated content, and satire/parody that appears real should be clearly marked as fake and/or posted in the designated communities.

rule 13 says that posts containing misinformation have to be clearly labeled as misinformation.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

I carry the flame.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 9 points 13 hours ago

Remember the movie 'Zoolander' from 2001 with Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson? Zoolander is like really shallow and vain and only cares about 'male modeling'. Clavicular is Zoolander but real, even both names are equally silly.

There's this internet trend called looks 'looksmaxxing'. They invented a metric to judge appearance called the 'PSL Score'. This community developed out of like incel culture, 'pick up artistry' ie misogynistic dating advice, and body building forums.

So Clavicular is this guy who is 21 years old and started taking testosterone steroids at the age of 14. He spends all day focusing on perfecting his physical appearance with unhealthy beauty treatments. He does meth for appetite suppressant. He's done steroids and hormone blockers. He promotes sketchy DIY face injections.

Clavicular is maybe most well known for saying that hitting yourself in the face with a hammer will improve your jaw structure. He calls the process 'bonesmashing'.

He hangs out with far right wing streamers to promote gambling. Clavicular regularly films himself trying to impress girls that he meets in public. He participates in petty beauty competitions that he calls "mogging", which is an acronym that stands for "alpha Male Of the Group". He talks to other dudes and says like "i mog you", etc.

He had a rivalry with this other influencer named the 'ASU frat leader'. As far as I'm aware, 'ASU frat leader' does not attend ASU or participate in any fraternity. There was a viral meme this year which said 'Clavicular got brutally frame mogged by ASU frat leader ' because it was tweeted by the a Clavicular fan account and it sounds like an absurd sentence. The sentence is basically supposed to mean that ASU frat leader has a more muscular body than Clavicular. ASU Frat Leader is basically the Owen Wilson character of the Clavicular universe.

It is also rumored that Clavicular is secretly funded by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is one of the cofounders of paypal, Epstein affiliate, has connections within the Trump administration, close with Elon Musk, co-founded a surveillance company called Palantir. Peter Thiel has been a funder of JD Vance since 2011. Peter Thiel probably also does meth.

Zoolander spoilerIn the movie, Zoolander is brainwashed into being a sleeper agent programmed to assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia, who wants to ban child labor in the country. The brainwashing is by fashion executives. The movie says that Abraham Lincoln and JFK were also assassinated by the fashion industry for having progressive policies. The joke is that the fashion industry secretly controls the world.

This is kind of similar to being groomed into being a blood boy for Peter Thiel.

I think Clavicular's unhealthy lifestyle habits makes him fascinating to many people. He's been interviewed by mainstream news outlets like CBS. Even SNL has made skits mocking him.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 10 points 13 hours ago

here's the wired article. https://archive.is/FZvCD

here's instruction on how to opt out, by the SAG-AFTRA actors union.

If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings. Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen. Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab. Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.

https://nitter.net/sagaftra/status/2075388961560658379#m

[-] dead@hexbear.net 9 points 14 hours ago

Creating a punitive system rather than a preventative system is in itself reactionary thinking and anti-materialist. "We need Blade Runners." is cop brain. It's like pretending that you're The Punisher and wearing Punisher Skull.

What would be more helpful is forming a team that teaches people how to post correctly. There's not really anything that teaches people how to make posts and the rules have often been poorly documented.

Let's look at a real world example of punitive thinking vs preventative thinking. Low income areas have higher rates of youth crime. Reactionaries will say something like that low income areas have more crime because low income people are just worse. Punitive thinking would say that this problem would be solved by having harsher punishments for children, maybe even trying them as an adult, because reactionaries believe that harsh punishments will deter crime.

Let's look at the same situation with preventative thinking. If children in low income areas are given more life opportunities like free meals, afterschool programs, and access to higher education, then they are less likely to do crimes. If some teen is playing sports with a coach after school, then they will be less inclined to be shoplifting beers from the corner store.

If you don't want people to make bad posts, then you should teach people how to make good posts. There should be places where people discuss the best posting methods and can ask for tips on how to post.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I think we should do your proposal because it would ultimately cause a massive amount of drama and hexbear hasn't had a moderation struggle session lately. It'll be like when hexbear renamed the_dunk_dank for the 4th time. Honestly it's a very very bad idea and hexbear should do it because of that. It's part of the hexbear character, making up moderation rules that don't exist on any other website and enforcing those rules haphazardly.

Requiring all AI images to be removed from the website would create a mechanism for any post to be removed on a whim if accused of being AI. The chance of false positives is too high.

In 1997, IBM Deep Blue was the first computer to defeat a world chess champion at chess. The modern chess engine called 'Stockfish' is virtually unbeatable by any human, since like 2014. This same principle applies to AI image generation. 2 years ago, it was very easy to spot an AI generated image. 2 years from now, it will be virtually impossible, if not already.

Hexbear already has rule 13 which prevents spreading misinformation. Any AI image which spreads misinformation can already be removed by that rule.

There are also many instances where it could be important to post an AI image. For example, Trump posts AI images on truthsocial all day, every day. What if Trump posts an image of an explosion in Iran and says "This is a photo of the US bombing Iran". Is hexbear not allowed to document the President of the imperial core using fake images to promote endless killing? This is not a hypothetical. This is something that Trump has done many times before. Trump posted AI images of the Iran women's soccer team and said that Iran would kill the women for not singing Iran's national anthem.

Forming an AI detection taskforce is an absurd proposition. Can you name a single website in the history of the internet which has created an AI image detection team? It doesn't exist because it is irrational. It would be less irrational for hexbear to ban all image posts than it would be for hexbear to try to determine which images are AI. At least if hexbear banned all images, then it would be consistent and not based on misinformed guessing.

It would be more reasonable to require that non-OC images include a link to the original source of that image and then determine whether then say whether the source is a credible source or a non-credible source.

The primary purpose of hexbear should be documenting real things that happen. If a powerful figure purports an AI generated image to be real, that should be documented. Hexbear is a link aggregator website. The website is written to collect URLs of other websites. Reddit didn't even allow image uploading until like over 10 years after it was formed.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 11 points 16 hours ago

This parasite gives you diarrhea for weeks, maybe up to a month. Taco Bell does not make people have diarrhea for a month.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 15 points 16 hours ago

Many of the comments in this thread seem to be downplaying the severity of this illness spreading. Read the article. It's not about getting sick 1 time from eating Taco Bell. We get it, you're better at eating Taco Bell than other people. You have the value menu committed to memory. You're best to have ever done it. You are the taco bell champion.

The illness (cyclospora cayetanensis) makes you have watery diarrhea all day for a month. Has taco bell on its own ever made any person have watery diarrhea for a month. This spread of this illness is not limited to Taco Bell. It is being spread by unknown contaminated vegetables. The CDC is unable to find the source because probably it was gutted by DOGE. You could get it from elsewhere than Taco Bell. You do not want to have diarrhea for a month.

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[-] dead@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

Choosing to visit the Zionist entity on the same week that they greatly escalate their forever war with Iran, seems dangerous. Clavicular is in Tel Aviv. It is suspected that Israel conducted strikes on Iran today. This would mean that Iran is inclined to strike Tel Aviv.

[-] dead@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

As far as I'm aware, Clavicular does meth, not crack. He's the reverse of Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden smokes crack and not meth. Clavicular does meth.

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https://nitter.net/FarroYossi/status/2075235330353987903#m

https://nitter.net/FarroYossi/status/2075121711293317180#m

(this polymarket tweet just says that he's in Israel today)

https://nitter.net/Polymarket/status/2074666739174916383

https://xcancel.com/RT_com/status/2074322465396859305#m

I don't see any articles reporting this yet. Yossi Farro is a 22-year Zionist influencer that clavicular collaborated with in Tel Aviv. I checked the clavicular kick account and the latest vod confirms that he is in Israel right now.

I'm inclined to believe the rumors of Clavicular being tied with Peter Thiel.

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Axios is reporting that the US is preparing to attack Iran for multiple weeks. The Axios reporter Barak Ravid served as a member of IOF unit 8200, Israel's equivalent of the US NSA. Barak Ravid speaks directly to White House officials and has sometimes been the first to report information provided by US government and Israeli government. He's a parrot of the White House.

https://nitter.net/DropSiteNews/status/2075061293879370032#m

https://nitter.net/BarakRavid/status/2075043800582377940#m

https://nitter.net/BarakRavid/status/2075073445100994771#m

^^ he tweeted this in hebrew but not in english, it's written in the article in english.

The White House is preparing for what could become a round of fighting with Iran around the Strait of Hormuz, which will last for several days and perhaps even a few weeks. The duration of the new campaign and its intensity will be completely dependent on Tehran's next steps, U.S. officials told me

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/09/trump-iran-strait-hormuz-battle

https://archive.is/g83Xo (axios)

The White House is preparing for what could become a multi-day or even multi-week exchange of fire with Iran over the Strait of Hormuz.

The length and severity of the new campaign hinge entirely on Tehran's next moves, U.S. officials tell Axios.

A U.S. official said the current escalation could last a day or two, a week or a month, depending on whether Iran continues its attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

"We're going to slap them a bit so they understand we're not f*cking around," the U.S. official said.

U.S. officials say the White House believes it has more room to escalate because hundreds of oil tankers have managed to leave the Gulf through the strait in recent weeks.

That has eased concerns inside the administration that a renewed clash would immediately trigger a major oil price spike, the officials said.

A U.S. official claimed the current escalation stems from frustration among more radical elements inside Iran's fractured leadership who believe the MOU has not delivered real benefits for Tehran.

Iran saw its leverage in Hormuz slipping as hundreds of ships transited through the southern route close to the Omani coast, the official said.

No Iranian frozen funds have been released because Iran has not yet taken nuclear steps required by the agreement.

The framework agreement the U.S. brokered between Israel and Lebanon made the Lebanon portion of the MOU unnecessary, the official said.

"Part of the Iranian leadership was not happy about all of those things," the U.S. official said.

"They started shooting and we decided it's time to slap them back hard. It's a process. We have patience. If we don't feel we're getting the deal we want, we are not going to do it."

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Mark Rutte’s repeated admissions of Europe’s willful complicity in the US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran only confirms, once again, that they were not impartial in this brutal unlawful aggression. Those who provided their territories, military bases, and infrastructure to enable the aggression cannot evade responsibility for their contribution to an unprovoked aggression and its grave consequences.

Yet @SecGenNATO's relentless self-congratulation for serving an illegal war of choice does not reflect strength — it exposes the servile mindset of a fawning courtier who fancies that flattery can erase a king’s contempt. In Washington’s eyes, an ineffective Organization cannot be rendered effective through sycophancy — nor can such manipulative flattery ever restore the flatterer’s own self-respect and personal integrity.

https://nitter.net/IRIMFA_SPOX/status/2075046765552603541#m

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President Donald Trump switched his new Qatari-gifted Air Force One for his flight from the NATO summit to the United Kingdom over concerns that the gifted aircraft lacks the secure communications systems and military defenses needed to safely manage a rapidly escalating conflict with Iran, according to two former national security officials familiar with the matter.

Instead, Trump flew from Ankara to a U.S. base in the United Kingdom in his original Air Force One. It was during that flight that Trump authorized additional strikes against Iran, following through on a threat he had made earlier that day to end the on-again, off-again ceasefire.

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The US still hasn't learned that bullying and breaking its commitments no longer come without a cost. Let me be clear: If you strike, you will be struck back.

Don't struggle in vain. You will only sink deeper. The Strait of Hormuz will be reopened only under Iranian arrangements, not through US threats.

https://nitter.net/mb_ghalibaf/status/2075030287071785174#m

https://nitter.net/PressTV/status/2075033796903149813#m

the tweet text is in persian/farsi. I changed the text to the english translation provided by PressTV

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Commentary on Dangerous Japan-ROK Military Nexus

Pyongyang, July 9 (KCNA) -- Kang Chol Su, section chief of the DPRK Institute of Enemy State Studies, on July 8 issued the following commentary titled "Dangerous military nexus courting self-destruction":

The military nexus between Japan, a war criminal state dashing toward a military giant, and the ROK has recently got more undisguised, further endangering the security situation in the Korean peninsula.

Early this year, the ROK air-force squadron got refueling from the Japan Air Self-Defence Force at a Japanese military base, which was something unprecedented in history. In June, a search and rescue drill between Japan and the ROK was resumed in nine years and the Japanese defense minister flew to Seoul to have a confab on the issue of security cooperation between the two countries.

It is by no means fortuitous that the word has spread in Japan and the ROK that the level of military cooperation between Japan and the ROK has jumped one step.

What should not be overlooked is that the security cooperation between Japan and the ROK is directed to concluding the "logistic support agreement" which provides each other with munitions including ammunition in contingency.

Japanese media reported that the Japan-ROK security policy council held in May was aimed at concrete successes for the conclusion of the "logistic support agreement" between the two sides, and the chief executive of the ROK openly talked about the need to conclude the "logistic support agreement" with Japan.

The international community has already sounded a note of warning against the nature and danger of the conclusion of the "logistic support agreement" between Japan and the ROK that it is the final stage of the establishment of military alliances and the substantial integration of military systems.

The U.S. ambition for hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region has become more undisguised and the confrontation maniacs of the ROK are hell-bent on arms buildup, modernization of armed forces and war drills for aggression against the DPRK, unhesitatingly spitting out the provocative remarks that the "DPRK regime and the Korean People's Army are their enemy". Timed to coincide with such moves, Japan and the ROK are strengthening the military nexus. Their purpose is as clear as noonday.

Japan's security cooperation is precisely a confrontation cooperation targeting the DPRK and part of the establishment of the "triangular cooperation system over the nuclear issue" to militarily contain neighboring countries by taking advantage of the U.S. strategy for hegemony.

It is also revealed in the fact that Japan and the ROK are talking about the "importance of the U.S.-Japan-ROK cooperation", deploying long-range missiles far beyond their defense sphere and attempting to possess nuclear-powered submarines.

The reality goes to prove once again that the DPRK's continuous development of nuclear force and thorough exercise of its position as a nuclear weapons state are the only way to actively cope with the acute and unpredictably changing international situation and defend peace and security in the Korean peninsula and the region.

No matter what military alliance Japan and the ROK may conclude, there will never be a change in the absolute mechanical structure of no retreat built in the Korean peninsula by the strongest nuclear weapons state.

The reckless military nexus of the enemy states under the eyes of the nuclear weapons state is nothing but a foolish act of courting self-destruction. -0-

http://kcna.kp/en/article/detail/35913024cf4f37ed6eb03d40951db785

https://archive.is/glt7z (kcna)

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260709001000315

[-] dead@hexbear.net 50 points 2 days ago

Here's the resignation video. It's 11 minutes long. He's still denying any wrongdoing. He says that he's suspending the campaign at 7 minutes into the video. He claims that he's resigning because the Democrat Establishment won't let him win and not because of the allegations. It reminds me of the Trumpism: "They're not coming after me. They're coming after you and I'm just standing in their way".

https://nitter.net/grahamformaine/status/2075009677495058687#m

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