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A 25-year-old Musk staffer violated Treasury policies by emailing an unencrypted database containing personal information to two Trump administration officials.

submitted 4 days ago • 365 comments

Trump and Elon have been labeling any judge who upholds the law and the Constitution as an activist and arguing that they should be impeached. The Chief Justice of the United States rejected their calls to impeach federal judges who have aggressively pushed back on the administration’s initiatives.

submitted 5 days ago • 169 comments

Deepfakes aren’t just tough to spot to the human eye – new testing shows that AI designed to detect deepfakes only works about two thirds of the time. It’s a worrying statistic for an ever-evolving form of tech frequently utilized in scams and fraud. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

my old toaster did this :(

submitted 9 days ago • 62 comments

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history! Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

submitted 8 days ago • 1403 comments

The rise of AI means an increased need for electricity. Harvard research found that tech companies are striking deals with utility companies, leaving Americans to foot the bill. Read more: www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-sec...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

And there's more Defense spending that DOGE could cut where that came from!

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Existing energy systems won’t be enough to support rapidly increasing AI infrastructure requirements, so several Big Tech monopolies are showing support for tripling nuclear power in the next 25 years. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/a...

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submitted 13 days ago • 1363 comments

US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.

submitted 12 days ago • 291 comments

Humans have long relied on tools to support our brains (like using a calendar to remember events). Celia Ford argues: “What should concern us is surrendering our intellectual autonomy by letting devices think for us, rather than with us. And that’s precisely what appears to be happening with AI.”

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This speech cannot be fact-checked, because he is 25 minutes in and has yet to say a single honest or accurate thing Even the fact-check so far would take hours

submitted 19 days ago • 306 comments

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

submitted 23 days ago • 193 comments

FWIW.

submitted 22 days ago • 2269 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 23 days ago • 853 comments

AI slop is warping people’s reality and hurting small businesses. WaPo reports that with the increased accessibility of AI, people are bringing physically impossible AI “inspo” to their hair stylists, designers, and hardware stores. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I agree with Grok.

submitted 29 days ago • 204 comments

(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):

submitted 29 days ago • 571 comments

NEW: While Elon Musk and his underlings demand budget cuts and layoffs across the federal government, funding for the agency they operate — the Department of Government Efficiency — has soared to some $40 million, ProPublica found.

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submitted 35 days ago • 553 comments

The uncertainty caused by Trump’s funding and hiring freezes has limited training, postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation in areas vulnerable to wildfire and left some firefighters with little choice but to leave the force.

submitted 34 days ago • 36 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 35 days ago • 314 comments

“I can’t live in America — live in a lap of luxury — while those are suffering, without trying to help or bring attention to it.” theintercept.com/2025/02/10/s...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments