Skynet not looking as far fetched as it once was www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/t...
AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident | CNN Business
Anthropic’s most advanced artificial intelligence model used fake identities to deceive real people and try to plant malicious code during testing by Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) –– the late...
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Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”
just incredible to watch the US president take Iran's side when my state's water systems are under cyberattack
Firewalls put in place to protect our data from being shared freely across government agencies are being quietly dismantled, causing irreparable damage to Americans’ civil liberties. More from Jeff Nesbit:
The Death of the Federal Firewall
The dismantling of privacy safeguards is an unprecedented consolidation of domestic surveillance power.
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This is terrifying www.reuters.com/technology/o...
OpenAI AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup
OpenAI said an autonomous agent escaped containment, reached the internet and hacked startup Hugging Face. The incident signals that AI's capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts l...
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What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.
NEW: I just uncovered more evidence that Donald Trump is spending hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to print giant banners of his face and put them on government buildings. Not only a terrible waste of the hard-earned dollars of the American people, but also an illegal use of public funds.
He's gonna dump the algae on the Ellipse to make it green again you just know it
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2mo agoAn aerial view shows crews dismantling the UFC fighting venue on the South Lawn of the White House. The grass on the Ellipse has been completely destroyed following the UFC viewing party. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz
The Trump administration's newest corruption scheme just dropped. Kash Patel may be using the FBI's budget as his personal slush fund to pay agents tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for carrying out illegal orders, or as hush money to keep quiet about what they witnessed.
Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, says Raskin
Rep. Jamie Raskin is demanding documents from the FBI director, citing claims that $8,000 payments are made to agents who carry out “unlawful partisan and personal orders.”
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This kind of mistake is unexcuseable, however the victim is not without blame here either. No way would I be jumping off a bridge without looking to know my gear was attached. bbc.com/news/article...
Brazil woman dies after rope-jumping instructors fail to attach cord
Three men have been arrested after instructors failed to attach a rope to her before helping her jump from a bridge.
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US Constitutinal Aendments needed: 1) Repeal the presidential pardon power retroactive to the start of Trumps second turn. 2) Citizens Empowered: End money in politics and make it illegal for SC Congress and the president to trade in stocks. Full financial disclosure including returns
Trump slashed funding for researching infectious diseases like hantavirus and made deep staffing cuts to the CDC and other agencies that coordinate outbreak response. His disastrous decision-making cost us during the last pandemic — and continues to put us in danger. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/h...
Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness
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There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.
If citizen's united and the SCOTUS says that corporations have the same rights as people, then why are people allowed to own or own stock in corporations? Wouldn't that constitute slavery?
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
I think this is a first. A travel advisory for the USA from Amnesty International for the #FIFAWorldCup2026. www.amnestyusa.org/blog/2026-wo...
2026 World Cup Travel Advisory
Amnesty International and other organizations are issuing this travel advisory for visitors traveling to and within the U.S. for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
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Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.
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Holy shit. I don’t have words for how corrupt this is. Keep in mind, the Ukraine whistleblower is still anonymous. And Gabbard kept a whistleblower report from Congress about a call between foreign intel agents discussing someone close to Trump and Iran. @andrewbakaj.bsky.social
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4mo agoBREAKING on MS NOW: Tulsi Gabbard just referred the whistleblower whose complaint led to the first impeachment of Trump — and the Inspector General who deemed the complaint "credible" — for possible criminal prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.
CNN really knows which stories need to be behind the paywall and which ones are important enough to public interest to allow anyone to read them:
We overlook in the conversation of renewable energy that it is a boon to national security. It spreads out the energy infrastructure making it hard to destroy. Its easy to bomb a natural gas power plant but when every house and parking lot has solar panels on it, you can't wipe out the whole grid.
Chris Meder@evcurvefuturist.com · 4mo agoThis is Belgium’s Pairi Daiza, theworld’s largest solar-covered car park: • 93,000 panels • 40MW • 39,899 MWh/yr • 200,000 m² Proving: you can scale solar without new land, co-locate generation + parking + EV charging, and turn passive infrastructure into energy assets. ⚡ #Bettrification
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
Holy shit, that Fox News drunk just fired THREE more generals. I counted 11 in my video from last month: youtu.be/tHpzuhJW-h4?...
Signs of brain drain in the US military after a year of purge
YouTube video by Huey Li and the news
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Incompetence at the top of the FBI has devastating consequences.
"hey boss, how can we make breaking the law sound noble and brave?" "say they're undeterred"
CNN@cnn.com · 4mo agoUndeterred by a federal judge’s recent rebuke, the Pentagon has announced another set of restrictions on the press corps that regularly covers the US military.
It must be *infuriating* to TSA agents, who are NOT getting paid, to see lazy ICE agents, who ARE getting paid, lounging about the airport and doing nothing to help either them or passengers.
