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The Unknown Toll Of The AI Takeover As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed?

www.levernews.com/the-unknown-...

11.03.2026 10:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Turns out fighting fascism helps you live longer Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.

Retirees are mobilizing to defend democracy—and the benefits literally show up in their DNA.

10.03.2026 22:00 👍 459 🔁 155 💬 7 📌 12

Don't think it's because we've learned our lesson and learned to fail faster.

10.03.2026 13:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m not sure what the best metaethical stance is for human beings, but LLMs definitely seem to do best with virtue ethics.

10.03.2026 13:09 👍 56 🔁 6 💬 10 📌 1

This should be a wake up call to corporate America showing them how vulnerable this slop makes them. They're all consuming desire to reduce their workforce blinds them.

10.03.2026 13:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump is in over his head. Bit of an understatement.

09.03.2026 12:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Good read. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

09.03.2026 12:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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America’s Holy War in Iran For roughly half a century, a certain strain of American evangelical theology has taught millions of believers to read conflicts like Trump’s war with Iran not simply as geopolitics in action but as p...

jacobin.com/2026/03/evan...

07.03.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Evangelicals love Donald Trump for many reasons, but one of them is especially terrifying End Times.

“If it brings the end of the world, it brings the end of the world. They’re ready. They can’t wait for the Rapture to happen."

If you want to understand how Trump's self-created crisis in Iran fits into his foreign policy, revisit our deep-dive into our End Times president.

07.03.2026 19:00 👍 323 🔁 155 💬 50 📌 24
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It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show.

Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground:

“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”

07.03.2026 05:59 👍 5398 🔁 2124 💬 152 📌 121

So much for imminent danger. They knew months ago.

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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

This is absolutely the case. AI is funding authoritarianism at home and abroad.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

06.03.2026 22:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inside the latest, and scariest, iteration of America’s endless abortion wars After Trump’s mass pardons of anti-abortion activists, threats and harassment at clinics have surged.

After Trump was reelected, he quickly pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of harassing and threatening clinic patients and staff. Federal investigations into bomb threats against clinics suddenly vanished.

@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social reports on a newly emboldened abortion protest movement.

06.03.2026 13:00 👍 171 🔁 95 💬 4 📌 5

Exactly.

06.03.2026 12:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Mass surveillance being developed.

05.03.2026 23:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So proud to live here. Boston, you are the only, only, only.

05.03.2026 23:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Donald Trump has said almost nothing to justify going to war against Iran. The real reason may be something he dare not speak of.

trib.al/wBH0PCo

03.03.2026 21:46 👍 93 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 2

and why did you kill the investigation into Epstein during your first term?

03.03.2026 22:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember that they just signed a contract with the Pentagon to do mass surveillance.

03.03.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remember that they just signed a contract with the Pentagon to do mass surveillance.

03.03.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why America is at war A few weeks back, Pete Hegseth brought his extremist pastor Doug Wilson to the Pentagon to lead a prayer service.

“There have been many reasons offered about why America is at war over the last few days. For sure, many of them are not as dramatic as triggering the rapture, Armageddon and Christ’s return.”

steveschmidt.substack.com/p/why-americ...

03.03.2026 15:54 👍 72 🔁 30 💬 12 📌 6

We need more historians to run for office.

03.03.2026 14:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The miracle of the loaves and missiles

03.03.2026 13:51 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...

www.rawstory.com/military-267...

03.03.2026 13:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Good morning. What a beautiful dog.

03.03.2026 13:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trump probably has nothing to hide, right?

03.03.2026 13:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And terrible for OpenAI who have told the world that are fine with the mass surveillance of Americans by swooping in and taking the contract.

03.03.2026 13:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Most of the lower ranks of the military are MAGA supporters.

03.03.2026 13:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0