Gio Silva

A former capoeira instructor turned biohacking enthusiast, Gio spent his early years bouncing between São Paulo and Miami before settling in Austin. With a master's in sports physiology and a penchant for experimenting with traditional Brazilian herbs, he's become Rude Vulture's go-to expert on movement optimization and plant-based performance enhancement. When not writing about the intersection of martial arts and ancestral living, he runs an underground fight gym where participants are required to follow strict circadian rhythm protocols.

Olive Garden Allegedly Fires Waitress Over $700 Tip

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A waitress at an Olive Garden in Georgia has been fired after receiving a $700 tip, setting off a wave of backlash against the restaurant chain across social media. The waitress, Brooke Skyes, also known as Kayla Skye Benjamin, was serving a customer when she received the large tip on a $32 check. A handwritten … Read more

Tiktokers Claim No Man’s Land And Launch Crypto Play

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A group of Gen Z TikTokers has declared their own country, and the story is stranger than it sounds. What began as an imaginary nation dreamed up by a teenager has evolved into a self-declared state complete with a president, a parliament, an intelligence agency, passports, and a cryptocurrency controversy. The country calls itself the … Read more

Physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Why Terrence Howard Told Joe Rogan He Was Mean

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On a recent episode of Club Shay Shay, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson revisited his now-viral exchange with actor Terrence Howard, walking through how what began as a casual invitation spiraled into a public back-and-forth. Tyson explained that the initial connection actually came through his mother. “My mother heard Terrence Howard on NPR,” Tyson recalled. “He … Read more

Cop Tickets TikToker For Phone In Non-Existent Hand, Regret Sets In When Video Breaks The Internet

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Katie, a Florida-based adaptive athlete and influencer who posts on TikTok and Instagram under the handle @slightlyoff.balance, went viral after sharing body cam footage of a traffic stop that quickly became one of the more widely viewed law enforcement encounters on the internet. On the morning of February 11th, around 8:04 a.m., Katie was driving … Read more

As Much As 20% Of YouTube Is Already Overtaken By AI Content

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YouTube, the world’s largest video platform, is quietly becoming a dumping ground for low-effort, AI-generated content. A study conducted by Kapwing found that for a fresh, unsigned-in account, YouTube is already 20% AI slop, with 104 of the first 500 videos, or 21%, confirmed as AI-generated, and 165 of those 500, or 33%, classified as … Read more

Politician Forced Out After It Was Revealed He Was 16, Not A 30-Year-Old Man With Dwarfism

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A political aspirant in Nigeria who presented himself as a 30-year-old man with dwarfism has stepped away from an upcoming election after documents emerged suggesting he is actually a teenager. Mahmud Sadis Buba, from Kaduna State, had been campaigning to represent the Sabon Gari Federal Constituency in the Nigerian House of Representatives ahead of the … Read more

Venture Capitalists Are Unhappy With The Pope’s Anti AI Crusade

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Pope Leo XIV‘s first encyclical landed like a theological thunderbolt over Silicon Valley. Titled “Magnifica Humanitas,” the 235-page document stretched beyond 42,000 words, making it nearly the length of a full book. In it, the Pope warned business leaders to safeguard humanity from artificial intelligence. He argued that “technology is never neutral” and that it … Read more