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“To put it simply, Elon Musk’s brief time in Washington made American life worse, with actions that will continue to reveal the true extent of their immense damage for years to come.” “Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump … Continue reading →

“Even Where Abortion Is Still Legal, Many Brick-and-Mortar Clinics Are Closing“. “The options for paying tribute to the president, his kin, and the MAGA movement are now legion. There are even exciting new opportunities to protect your business by reaching … Continue reading →

“A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch Wednesday when it repeatedly brought up white genocide in South Africa in response to user queries about unrelated topics on X.” “How … Continue reading →

“Companies have long fought off attacks from hackers hoping to exploit vulnerabilities in their software, employees or vendors. Now, another threat has emerged: Job candidates who aren’t who they say they are, wielding AI tools to fabricate photo IDs, generate … Continue reading →

“Since its publication last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine article “Have We Been Thinking About ADHD All Wrong?” has been called provocative and controversial. We would like to add a few adjectives: misrepresentative, biased, and dangerous.” “Doxxing the Secret … Continue reading →

Happy Star Wars Day to all who celebrate. Please enjoy this sprawling space saga of romance, rebellion, and household appliances. “Critics warned that the Biden administration put so many conditions on the grants it offered to semiconductor manufacturers that the … Continue reading →

“It’s become this thing that I wish it was not there. What’s going through this guy’s mind? He said I was lying. I’m not lying. He said I begged him to be in the movie, but there’s no world I … Continue reading →

“All in all, this is Trump’s formula for reviving stateside manufacturing: punishing tariffs on other nations, more expensive input parts for the factories and machines needed here, fewer government supports for existing facilities, an overall climate of uncertainty and distrust … Continue reading →

“Researchers have proposed studying sex in space, but so far, the only documented case is a pornographic science-fiction film called The Uranus Experiment. If NASA wasn’t so uptight, I could provide more specifics. But as an insider, I’m now convinced … Continue reading →

“Two, even if there were no government guidance on Signal usage, it doesn’t change the fact that the error that led to Signalgate is not Signal’s fault. To imply otherwise, as Trump did, is not just to deny reality—it is … Continue reading →

“J.D. Vance Is the Most Disliked New Vice President in History”. “The leading Chinese electric carmaker BYD has soared in value after it said its latest batteries charge fast enough to add 400km (249 miles) of range in only five … Continue reading →

“But as delegates gathered for the opening of the 69th Commission on the Status of Women this week, they faced one major obstacle: an American administration that is dead set against a gathering like this and instead sees fighting gender … Continue reading →

“The history of the present King of Great Britain President of the United States is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let … Continue reading →

“Speaker Johnson, do you believe there should be a multi-story golden statue of Donald Trump in Gaza?” “A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”” I assure you, the … Continue reading →

“Refusing vaccines is withdrawing from the community health bank without depositing anything back into it. A lot of people think that choosing not to vaccinate will only affect their own children, but this is not true.” “Too many male contestants … Continue reading →

“The vice president has been very publicly pontificating — condescendingly lecturing others about the proper understanding of Catholic doctrine. Vance has been aggressively telling anyone who would listen that they just don’t understand that church teaching the way that he … Continue reading →

“Daisy is, of course, not a real grandmother but an AI bot created by computer scientists to combat fraud. Her task is simply to waste the time of the people who are trying to scam her.” “Stories of Resistance: Lessons … Continue reading →

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all who celebrate! “Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado, a Democrat, just became the 13th voting member of Congress to give birth in office. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, a Republican, was the 12th when … Continue reading →

“The Jan 6 Pardons Are A Huge Liability for Trump”. An oral history of Twin Peaks. “Thousands of transgender service members serve in the military, though the exact number is unclear. Estimates from two research centers, the Williams Institute at … Continue reading →

“Ultraprocessed Foods Have a Terrible Reputation. They Don’t Deserve It.” “An AI app for creating nonconsensual nude images of anyone is getting the vast majority of its traffic directly from Meta platforms, where the app is buying thousands of explicit … Continue reading →

“The Rio Treaty’s Security Pact and Unintended Consequences of Threatening Canada, Greenland, and Panama”. “Bringing this all together, the technologies through which we see the public shape how we understand it, making it more likely that we end up in … Continue reading →

“It may be a foolish optimism, but if Trump can be nudged in the right direction and convinced, he came up with the idea, as he did with the successor to NAFTA, he might not be quite the disaster so … Continue reading →

“Election Day Went (Relatively) Smoothly Because States Prepped For Violence Like 2020″. “I mean, no, I don’t know what to do about 20 million aggrieved and anti-social young men. But what to do about just one such young man? I’d … Continue reading →