Tech (1)
- The UK government is considering ending Palantir's involvement in a central NHS data platform after coming under fire from MPs, unions, and campaigners
- Maryland becomes first state to pass bill banning ‘surveillance pricing’
- EU Declared Age App “Ready” While GitHub Flagged it Unfit, Then Hackers Bypassed It in 2 Minutes
- The Onion Says It Has a Deal to Take Over Alex Jones’ Infowars, Plans to Relaunch It as Parody of Itself
- He spreads hate online — and fans pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars
- Scientists invent a plant-based serum that is proven to regrow hair in weeks
- Court To Bondi: Demanding Platforms Censor Speech And Bragging About It On Fox News Is, In Fact, A First Amendment Violation
- TikTok Skits Reveal ChatGPT, Gemini And Grok Are Confidently Wrong
- US draft update: Major tech company [Palantir] urges universal national service
- New NPR article about the Data Center boom and… woah. The scale of this is unprecedented
- AI chatbots could be making you stupider - As large language models take over more and more cognitive tasks, researchers are warning this mental outsourcing comes with a cost.
- Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago
- China Successfully Tests Cable Cutting ROV 11,400 Feet Below Sea Level
- US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties
- US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service
- Stop Killing Games delivers "absolutely incredible" hearing in European Parliament: "There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively": "There's a long road ahead but the momentum is real."
- Car Owners Are Revolting Over Tesla’s Self-Driving Promises
- eSIM was supposed to replace SIM cards, but carriers turned it into a trap
- Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters
- Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators
Fake History Porn (1)
- Wadiyan leader Admiral-General Aladeen drinking water directly from a pitcher while speaking at the UN, 2012
- A rare picture of the only astronaut who went into Uranus and returned, 2011
- Mel Gibson plays around with different ideas for the sequel to The Passion of the Christ (2005)
- Khmer Rouge soldier destroys religious iconography to enforce allegiance with the Communist government (1977)
- Orville & Wilbur Scoville conduct experiments while inventing the Scoville heat unit for measuring spiciness. (1912)
- Israeli soldier practices enhanced interrogation techniques on a dummy during a joint training exercise with US forces at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 2005.
- Oxi Clean tv salesperson Billy Mays shortly before passing away. (2009)
- Bernie Sanders & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the front lines of the 2nd Civil War. 2015. Colorized.
- Hugh Griffith’s 1959 Oscar winning performance as Sheik Iderim in Ben-Hur
- Midway Games releases the sequel to their hit, “Pac Man” game, “Ms. Pac Man”. (1982)
- April 19, 1960: Mad Mike Hoare personally smashes the Patrice Lumumba statue after the fall of Uende` the Congolese city was retaken from the Simba rebels by 5th Commando under Mike Hoare.
- The Egyptian cat goddess Bastet is informed that the Greeks are coming, 332 BC
- McDonald’s CEO promoting a new menu item during the 2008 housing crisis.
- Donald Trump presidential portrait 2017
- President Donald Trump mourns the loss of Stephen Hawking (2018)
- German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein on his 72nd birthday (March 14, 1951)
- A rare picture of Oppenheimer working on the Manhattan Project, 1942
- Final entry in the diary of Chris McCandless before his death from starvation and potential poisoning (likely from eating poisonous seeds) around August 18, 1992, after spending 113 days in the wild.
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