Tech (1)
- Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
- Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and pricing
- Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI”
- PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive / You cannot trust digital purchases, and you cannot trust the corporations that offer them
- Google slapped with record $4.7 billion fine by EU
- CEO Says He’ll Fire Any Employee Who Sends Him More AI Slop
- "Profoundly Disappointed:" Companies Respond To Sony's Decision To End Disc Support
- Spanish government ‘quietly bans use of Palantir’ in critical state systems over fears of national security leaks
- ‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution.
- Factories Attach Cameras to Workers, in Hopes of Replacing Them With Robots
- Google loses fight against record €4.1 billion EU antitrust fine
- Scientists Asked AI to Impersonate 112 Public Figures. What Happened Next Is a ‘Dire’ Warning | Researchers discovered that people found AI impersonators to be more authentic, coherent, and relevant than the real politicians, raising alarm bells around the potential for public deception.
- Amazon's carbon emissions jumped 16% in 2025. The driver: massive data center buildout
- Microsoft Teams' new controversial AI will listen to your meetings and answer before you ask, but it won't be turned on by default
- New California study finds highly educated workers most harmed by AI
- CEO of $248 billion cybersecurity company says workers are about to face a ‘Darwinian moment’ thanks to AI: Evolve or get cut
- SpaceX Investors Are Having Another Brutal Day
- Right-to-Repair Just Got Its Biggest Boost From the EPA – and Automakers Are Furious
- Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025
- AI boom blows up Big Tech’s climate promises
Fake History Porn (1)
- Clarence Tomas is sworn into office, 1991
- In Star Trek's "The Menagerie" episodes, Captain Pike becomes a wheelchair-ridden vegetable, capable of communicating only through a series of beeps. (1966)
- Tiananmen Square, 1989
- AIPAC representatives lead annual ritual sacrifice of politicians who didn't support Israel. 2016.
- Organized terrorist group Antifa commits act of terror against people of New York. Circa 1994, colorized.
- Michael Jackson and some backup dancers portraying zombies in his all time classic, “Thriller” music video. (1983)
- On July 1, 1694, a Samurai army led by Nintendo Wassabi invaded Egypt and built the Sphinx.
- Rare photo of Richard Nixon during his treatment for elephantiasis. 1984
- Aspiring meth addict Adolf Hitler unveils the Nazi Reichsadler (1935)
- An aspiring financier learns the kind of three-dimensional chess needed to evade pedo-catchers for the next 137 years. (1882)
- The last surviving dinosaur ponders the extinction of his species at the end of the Mesozoic Era. (66 million BCE)
- birth of a nation became a movie renowned for pioneering an orchestra based musical score, close-up shots, fadeouts, and fully staged battle sequences (1915)
- Rage Against the Machine performs their song Bulls on Parade in Chicago, 1999
- Isis terrorist defies waterboarding torture and declares the Tawhid, the oneness of God. Guantanamo Bay, 2013
- In 1987 an african elefant, nicknamed Melchior by the local population, displayed his telepathic abilities. Seconds later, the antilope that had urinated to close to the pond, was dissolved to red mist.
- Israel gains independence, 1948.
- Earmarked parking spaces for obese barbecuers are issued, 1976.
- 1947 - Enhanced Picture of the Roswell incident autopsy. The alien, nicknamed Skippy, had died of intestinal obstruction from Hubba Bubba bubble gum given to him by farmer and first contact W.W. "Mac" Brazel.
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