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Trump Administration Encouraging Development of Humanoid Robots
December 5th, 2025Running… https://t.co/tPmp2Hq1mw pic.twitter.com/VChAa8p7j9 — Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) December 4, 2025 Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7 — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025 Via: ZeroHedge: President Trump’s national industrial strategy centers on expanding U.S. dominance in semiconductors, AI, rare earth production, clean technology, space, and other emerging technologies expected to dominate the […]
Polarization by Design: How Elites Could Shape Mass Preferences as AI Reduces Persuasion Costs
December 4th, 2025Via: arXiv: In democracies, major policy decisions typically require some form of majority or consensus, so elites must secure mass support to govern. Historically, elites could shape support only through limited instruments like schooling and mass media; advances in AI-driven persuasion sharply reduce the cost and increase the precision of shaping public opinion, making the […]
Make Al Qaeda Great Again
November 11th, 2025The US fought the "war on terror" for more than 20 years — it's ongoing. It not only cost trillions of dollars and more than a million lives, but radically and permanently eroded core civil liberties for Americans. Now, someone the DOJ called an Al Qaeda terrorist less than a… https://t.co/efxKy1YqJ3 — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) […]
Trump: Keep Useless Universities from Going Bankrupt by Importing Hundreds of Thousands Chinese Students
November 11th, 2025Besides the mostly useless grant swindling and fraud, there’s a massive amount of military and other government agency related research that happens at universities. It’s too hard to try to clean up the mess, so just maintain the status quo with more Chinese money. NOW – Trump says 600,000 Chinese students coming to the U.S. […]
AI Arms Race: Trump Admin To Lend “Hundreds Of Billions” To Build Nuclear Power Plants
November 11th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: …who will fund the energy buildout that powers these data centers? … And at a cost of $50-60BN per GW of power, we can quickly add several more trillion dollar that will be needed in the next several years: money, which as this Bloomberg article makes painfully clear, is simply not available right […]
1X Neo Humanoid Robot for Housework vs Reality
October 29th, 20251X is trying to summon the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field… It’s not going well.
AI Has a Cargo Cult Problem
October 17th, 2025Via: Financial Times: Is it just a Ponzi scheme? That is the question that currently haunts American tech — and wider markets — as the valuation of artificial intelligence-linked groups soars to evermore eye-popping heights. Indeed, calculations by the FT suggests that ten lossmaking AI start-ups — such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Elon Musk’s xAI […]
Israel Paying US Social Media Influencers $7,000 Per Post
October 1st, 2025Via: ZeroHedge: Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting in New York on Friday with a group of pro-Israel influencers, we learn that Israel is likely paying them a whopping $7,000 per pro-Israel social-media post in a desperate drive to bolster plummeting support of Israel among America’s young conservatives. That’s the conclusion of Responsible Statecraft’s […]
U.S. Special Envoy To Ukraine: Trump Has Indicated That Kyiv Should Now Be Able To Conduct Long-Range Strikes On Russia
September 29th, 2025Now that Europe is paying for U.S. weapons that are headed to Ukraine… Via: Daily Mail: Donald Trump has indicated that Ukraine can conduct long-range strikes into Russia, according to America’s envoy to Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky has long asked the US to provide long-range missiles capable of hitting Russian soil as a way to take […]
The End of Critical Thinking in the Classroom
September 5th, 2025Via: The Atlantic: AI has transformed my experience of education. I am a senior at a public high school in New York, and these tools are everywhere. I do not want to use them in the way I see other kids my age using them—I generally choose not to—but they are inescapable. During a lesson […]
