The New Republic – Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling May 5, 2025 Trump Reportedly Told January 6 Militant and Hate Leader “I Love You” Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and his mother met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “He called me and my Mother over while we were at dinner and said he was sorry for […]
We all need to get up to speed on what AI really is AND what it ISN’T.
“What we have right now are self-driving cars that are monitored remotely in Mexico and get confused if you put an orange cone on their hood.” – Emily Bender on the podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast, AGI: “Imminent”, “Inevitable”, and Inane, 2025.04.21 We need to pull back the curtain for everyone on the […]
Elon Musk’s “temporary” (but actually permanent) AI power burner ruining the air in Memphis.
These data center power plants exist for no other purpose than to power the AI, or just cryptocurrency like in the case of Panther Creek in Pennsylvania.
Are the masked bandits in plain clothes that refuse to show badges even actual trained law enforcement hired through civil service?
Sheriffs are deputizing random citizens they know. Then ICE is deputizing sheriff’s deputies.
RFKJr connected anti-vaxxers have been profiteering from the Texas measles outbreak.
WIRED – By David Gilbert Apr 17, 2025 11:35 AM Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are selling a “measles treatment and prevention protocol” for hundreds of dollars, including supplements supposedly formulated by AI. Anti-vaccine activists with close ties to US health […]
Speaking up about losing history.
TIME – May 13, 2025 7:00 AM ET – Why I’m Resigning from Positions at the National Science Foundation and Library of Congress by Alondra Nelson Since January 2025, scientists and librarians, program officers and policy analysts at the National Science Foundation, the Library of Congress, and other federal offices and agencies have focused on […]
Pseudoscience eugenics conspiracy theory is what’s driving the push to keep vaccines from American children.
I really hope people voice support and interest in vaccines for children specifically to elected representatives and to the FDA VRBPAC in public comment.
Chatbot use is frowned upon, regardless of the hype.
Study: Your coworkers hate you for using AI at work – David Gerard – 10 May 2025 Today in science discovering the obvious, if you use chatbots to pump out the AI slop at work, your coworkers think you’re an incompetent and lazy arse. And they are absolutely judging you for it. [PNAS] This also […]
Others see the new pope and a potential ally in defending against AI hype.
Maybe it’s not as important that the pope understands what AI is…
Former CEO of the coal waste & tire burning crypto printing operation in PA named Trump’s Dept of Energy Loan Program Director.
This is the operation that’s relatively local to me…
Outdoor recreation is more popular than ever.
Parks are busier than ever, and we need more of them because people are often choosing them yes, to get away from other people and unwind.
Tricksters trying to sign people up for inappropriate hospice via a Medicare fraud scheme.
The commercials for Medicare beneficiaries advertising “free stuff” are often sketchy or outright fraud attempts.
Politicians say they care about people being harmed by drugs, but drop the life-saving Narcan program.
Whenever a politician mentions fentanyl they should be asked about the Narcan program.
Trump administration privatized ICE flights on airline with poor cybersecurity.
404 Media – GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked Joseph Cox , Jason Koebler · May 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of […]
Trump regime sticks it to the coal miners.
Trump NIOSH cuts will affect me and so many workers, disabled, and seniors.
USPS has been enlisted to assist with Trump deportation stuff.
The postal service is a public service and I don’t think it should be lending postal inspectors or enlisting postal carriers to help with deportation stuff
The American president shouldn’t be able to take envelopes full of cryptocurrency from moguls and foreign agents attempting to curry favour.
Moguls are polluting communities to print cryptocurrency while providing no power to the grid, some even get tax breaks or at least are promoted by politicians.
Crypto operations should all be investigated since they always seem connected to sketchy stuff.
Bitfarms is the crypto printing company that took over the Carbon County Pennsylvania power plant data center that’s burning coal waste and not providing any power to the grid.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s son launching a crypto investment vehicle.
Citation Needed Issue 82 – E-moluments – As Celsius victims detail their devastation even under the weak crypto regulations of the past, the Trump administration continues to dismantle those same rules while he pumps his personal memecoin with promises of private access – Molly White 24 Apr 2025 Brandon Lutnick, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s son who […]
Republicans attempt to mandate deregulation of AI for tech tycoons and fossil fuel.
They want to stop all the protections and oversight of automation completely in the country, and handcuff state and local efforts to protect communities and save lives.
Tech assisted fraudulent stuff is a reality.
“The bearded man, however, doesn’t really exist. Instead, he is a realtime deepfake created by a fraudster, likely to lure the woman as part of a romance scam and have her send money”
RFKJr called chronic illness “injuries” to invoke what has become a conspiracy anti-vax right-wing buzzword term.
David Pakman played a clip of RFKJr making inappropriate statements as usual, and noted the word “injury” being used being odd, but didn’t spell out why he used that word, when it’s obvious to anyone paying attention anti-vax misinformation and the online milieu of anti-vax activists.