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🍭 Someone Deepfaked Rubio and it Worked 🕵️
AI voicemails hit DMs of foreign ministers and an "Ethics-first" AI video-gen just dropped
Snack Prompt
July 09, 2025
Good morning. The intern just asked Eder if we could expense a film school degree as “market research.”
He told him: no, but I did expense a 5-second AI movie about a sloth with perfect posture.
Corporate innovation at its peak.
Let’s dig in.
🍭 What’s Cookin’:
Moonvalley drops an “ethical” AI video model
Unknown actor deepfakes Marco Rubio on Signal
The Designer Who Almost Quit: Part 3/5
Steal This Prompt: Social Media Content Calendar
5 AI Tools to write cold DMs while having perfect posture
Everything Else to stay smarter than your competition
Deep Fakes
🕵️ Someone Faked Rubio with AI.
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The Bite: A Signal account impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio used AI voice and text to contact high-level U.S. and foreign officials, according to a leaked State Department cable.
Snacks:
Target list: 3 foreign ministers, a governor, a member of Congress
Tactic: Voicemails + Signal messages from Rubio’s real email
Status: State Department is “investigating”
Security: Likely a deepfake voice + spoofed account combo
Origin: Labeled as “unknown actor”
Why it bites: This is a bit bigger than catfishing a VC on LinkedIn…
It’s using AI to infiltrate international diplomacy.
If this playbook scales, you don’t just get disinfo campaigns… you get policy whiplash, fake alliances, and war games built on AI impersonations.
Buckle up.
This is a developing story — updates may have surfaced since writing.
🍭 Steal This Prompt
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AI Video
🎬 Moonvalley’s AI Gives Indie Filmmakers a Shortcut
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The Bite: Moonvalley just opened access to Marey — its 3D-aware, ethics-first AI video model trained entirely on openly licensed data.
The goal?
Empower indie creators to generate cinematic clips without dancing on copyright landmines.
Snacks:
5-second clips, credit-based pricing ($14.99 to $149.99)
Trained only on open-license data
Co-founded by ex-DeepMind researchers
Moonvalley recently acquired Asteria, Soto's HBO studio partner
Soto: “No more asking permission to tell your story”
Why it bites: Eder grew up begging to borrow a Canon 7D from the rich kid three blocks down.
Now, you can render a cinematic fight scene in your garage using pixels and spite.
Marey won’t replace your vision.
But it might finally make your short film budget look like Spielberg money.
Tool Box
🧰 Trending AI Tools
🎬 Clueso
→ Auto-edits your screen recordings into studio-grade product videos.
📩 Howdy
→ Send cold DMs that feel warmer than your ex’s “just checking in” texts.
📲 Tile
→ AI agents build App Store–ready apps while you eat ramen.
🦥 Straighty.app
→ Your webcam becomes a posture coach. Slouch no more.
The Designer Who Almost Quit
👨💻 Part 3: The Tab That Changed Things.
The Bite: Somewhere deep in his browser hell, he found it — an old reference board he forgot he made.
It was messy.
Cropped screenshots.
Half-dead links.
A color swatch that looked like regret.
But something sparked.
Not because it was good — but because it was real.
That board reminded him:
- He didn’t have a creativity problem.
- He had a workflow problem.
Snacks:
Tools that collect, but don’t convert
Visual ideas, stuck in limbo
Old work, emotionally out of reach
Why it bites: You can’t connect the dots if you can’t even see them.
Creative energy needs a way to flow.
Not just hide in a folder and rot.
Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know
🐘 Mastodon gets ready for Quote Posts
→ You’ll finally be able to dunk. But gently.
🔐 OpenAI beefs up internal security
→ Fingerprints, tenting, and Wi-Fi bans. No more hallway leaks.
📱 Meta poaches Apple’s AI boss
→ Apple’s AI team is bleeding. Zuckerberg’s got the mop.
💸 Cursor apologizes for Pro plan mess
→ Pricing changes confused users and burned wallets. Refunds incoming.
📉 AI layoffs are probably undercounted
→ Companies call it “tech upgrades” — Challenger calls BS.
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