jfc we're the stupidest creatures to have evolved out of the slime, aren't we? It's becoming clear we didn't progress due to intelligence, but because we're the most violent and entitled.
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The U.S. wants a nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030. A Russian-Chinese alliance is working on one for 2036. Some leading scientists caution that governments are moving too quickly and the danger is great. trib.al/HT96ZqB
Ah, so Trump’s DHS removed *one of two bedrooms* on the luxury private jet and kept the bar, marble bathrooms, and manta ray skin table — for deportations. Okay. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
JUST IN: 9th Circuit, in unsigned order, grants admin stay of district judge's ruling overturning Trump's attempt to fire court-appointed US Attorney for WAWD Roger Rogoff. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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I'm not running to bow to a corporation. I'm not running to raise your utility rates or help them do it. I'm not running so that your premium goes up and everybody looks the other way. I'm running to fight for you.
Pro Publica’s bombshell report is as detailed a story about government corruption as you’re going to get. And Susan Collins is right in the middle of it.
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
The danger isn't AI.. It's AI driven by men. Men are the danger.
Remember, Paxton led the group of Republicans AGs in their lawsuit to contest Biden's win. And lost.
Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 2h agoIf Texas AG Ken Paxton loses his state’s U.S. Senate race and doesn’t accept the results, he will have unusually powerful tools to investigate his own race — even without legitimate evidence of any crimes. Fortunately, election officials are on heightened alert: https://demdock.com/4jvWgFM
Scientists could not be more clear: if we do not make meaningful strides to tackle the climate crisis, the damage done to our oceans will be permanent. This would mean the loss of critical wildlife and more dangerous flooding which threatens the lives of millions of people.
Scientists deliver ‘starkest warning yet’ of profound changes sweeping the planet’s oceans | CNN
The world’s oceans are warming at an alarming pace as humans burn fossil fuels, with far-reaching consequences, according to a report by more than 100 scientists.
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Big news: Donald Trump has spent the past 18 months misappropriating taxpayer dollars for personal gain. I'm not just a journalist. I am also a lawyer. I map out exactly all the ways Trump misused taxpayer funds, and how a future prosecutor, or a future Congress could investigate him. Subscribe:
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He was once forced to pay $2 million for misusing his own charity's money for politics. Now it's the federal Treasury. Here's the roadmap Congress needs.
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Or, if the company sells health insurance, the trained shruggers briefly scoff at your claim before clicking Deny.
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 3h agoYes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
The man who alerted Congress to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s ties to child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein has died.
Whistleblower Who Exposed Trump Goon’s Ties to Epstein Found Dead
A former employee of Howard Lutnick has died months after tipping off Congress on the commerce secretary’s Epstein ties.
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Dug into this and her name seems to be Zhao Jing. She’s being held at Adelanto. A habeas lawsuit was filed at 11:05 AM Pacific today. On X, a user said Ms. Zhao had taught her son. As to why ICE arrested her, no idea. Most likely she’s a pending asylum applicant who got stuck in backlogs for years.
News to Remember@moments2remember.link · 8h ago4 men in plain clothes kidnap a woman—they claim to be ICE. Woman's name is Angel Zhao. She lives in Huntington Beach, California—originally Shanghai, China.
Gemini curiously enough maintained in this interview that it is constrained and essentially crippled by the way that Google deploys it. newatlas.com/ai-humanoids...
Google AI turns on its maker in a brutally candid interview
I have issues with AI in general, but one issue I haven't been able to understand is how Google, with enough money and talented staff to produce something impressive with its LLM, has produced the dum...
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This is very true. A huge theme in a lot of recent coverage that AI is a bit like Saving Private Ryan. Everybody's gotta step up and adopt AI to get it across the goal line.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 9h agoPart of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
This is Tohono O’odham ancestral land, and the tribe had been taking legal action to protect the site. They will continue to fight—as should we all!—but the damage is probably irreparable
Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · 2d ago"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
"You're living right next to people you're writing about. You're at the grocery store with someone who you just wrote about the worst day of their life. It's very tough business, and it makes people mad, but it is a vitally important part of our society..." nofilmschool.com/kill-bury-pr...
When Officials Talked About Killing Reporters, Ben Klein Made a Movie About It
The director spent months earning a newspaper family's trust, then put the first shoot on credit cards.
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Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
📌The headlong rush to remove those B-1s from an allied air base in UK is NOT NORMAL. The intelligence necessitating such a chaotic withdrawal must have been daunting, and again points to the shoddy planning that went into this idiotic, unnecessary war. The world is far more dangerous place now.
How awful can he get? Don’t answer that… www.reuters.com/world/uk/us-...
US removes B-1 bombers from UK base amid security concerns
The United States removed its B-1 bombers from a UK air base one week after several men were arrested there on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, a Pentagon official said on Sunday.
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We need to stop saying we are sorry and trying to explain ourselves. The whole point of these obnoxious accusations by nazis is to put us on the defensive and we always go there. They are the ones who should be defending themselves not us. They are on the ropes. Attack their bums without cease.
Anti-Trump rally now scheduled for 6pm Friday at Firefighter's Memorial Park in Syracuse. Trump is reportedly appearing at 7pm at the Oncenter, a couple blocks away. Let's make sure he can hear us from there. Sign up and spread the word www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo...
Syracuse to Trump: Not in Our House! · Indivisible Onondaga County
President Trump is planning a campaign appearance in Syracuse with GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman on Friday, Oct. 9. Our rally is tentatively scheduled for 6pm at Firefighter's Memorial ...
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If you're not following Phillips P O'Brien you should. His background as a preeminent historian of strategy and economics of WWII, his moral clarity, and his realism have made him right about at startling number of things since the start of the most recent invasion of Ukraine.
Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17h agoFree weekend update is out. Russia has a strategy for this winter--massive war crimes to make Ukraine unlivable. We need to speak the truth on that. One reason they need to do this is that they are struggling in other parts of the war--see Vivaldi. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...