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I distinctly remember the summer I turned 5 because my life changed drastically. Along with those changes, I started thinking very specifically about the kind of life I was going to build, who I was & who I was going to be, my purpose in life, life missions, my ‘life list’, & the realities of life.
The two-headed monster of government & big business isn’t invested in making life more affordable or sustainable, so do it yourselves. STOP FEEDING THE MONSTER your money, labor, & wasteful, destructive habits. Find more constructive, more sustainable, healthier, decent ways to live & interact.
Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening.
Trump is rolling out yet another key plank of Project 2025: privatizing airport security. History has shown us time and again this makes both workers and passengers less safe. Everything is for sale under Trump.
TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past - The American Prospect
The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companie
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BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.
These signs should be on every hiking trail in Oregon and across the US .
They’re just showing how much suffering they can squeeze out of people who already don’t have much left. And the worst part is they’re proud of it. The cruelty isn’t a side effect - it’s the whole damn point. Read here: prospect.org/2026/07/31/t...
NEW: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's willing to "micromanage" Corpus Christi's water crisis. But he's gone quiet on the financial troubles of an agency that could help expand the region's water supply — despite Abbott having appointed its entire board. With KRIS 6 News and @texastribune.org
Greg Abbott Blasted Corpus Christi for Its Water Crisis. A River Authority He Has Power Over Is Falling Apart.
The Nueces River Authority is working on a project that could expand the Corpus Christi region’s water supply. But the Texas governor has done little to address the agency’s financial problems, despit...
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"It is unconscionable that 'ChatGPT-assisted suicide' is becoming a recurring cause of death."
Public Horrified as OpenAI Pushes "Child After Child Into the Grave"
A new lawsuit alleging that ChatGPT encouraged the suicide of a young mother has sparked fury against OpenAI.
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"The head of strategic futures OpenAI seems a little rattled."
OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won't Be Able to Compete
Chinese open-weight model Kimi-K3 sent shockwaves across the tech industry. OpenAI executives are rattled by the threat.
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"The world's best AI training data is setting on a shelf."
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.
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"Loudly proclaim how dangerous AI is, and investors will hear how powerful it is."
Suspicion Grows About OpenAI's Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AI
Holes are beginning to form in OpenAI's story about a gang of rogue AI models busting out of the lab and hacking another company.
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"The operation of more than a million data center satellites threatens potentially catastrophic forms and quantities of atmospheric pollution, risking damage to the climate, to the ozone layer, to human health, and to the chemistry of the stratosphere itself."
The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
A group of concerned environmental groups has issued a formal petition calling on the FCC to investigate orbital data centers.
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NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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"If you're reaching out to us to apply for a job, you might want to take notes."
We Are Mildly Horrified by This AI Startup That Coerced People Into Getting Tattoos of Its Logo in Exchange for a Job Interview
A YCombinator-backed AI startup called LemonLime offered "instant interviews" to anybody who got the company's logo inked on their body.
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www.theguardian.com/environment/... The Trump administration killed proposed regulations on PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge used as fertilizer, despite its links to sickened farmers, dead livestock, polluted water and tainted food. The Guardian
Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer
EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public
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