"It turns out that the kinds of career pressures familiar to employees everywhere — the desire to revive a stalled career or obtain a minor promotion — can be enough to incentivize lower- and midlevel officials to violate professional obligations, fundamental norms and even basic morality."
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Trae Stephens est absolument méconnaissable en cosplay de drone autonome modulaire à double propulsion turbojet Roadrunner-M d'Anduril.
Mindset impeccable.
"Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to the $400 million project, which would replace the East Wing that Trump demolished in October, have seen their government business grow in that window, according to the report from Public Citizen, a nonprofit."
"Misinformation was nearly three times more common in areas with little or no recognised local journalism, according to a study of tens of thousands of posts seen by the Guardian. Immigration and Islamophobia were the most common topics of misinformation across Facebook and X."
The Great AI Media Delusion : a case study
« Ces jeunes sont français. Nés ici, scolarisés ici. Leur joie d’un soir de victoire est une joie patriote, au sens le plus simple et le plus pur : l’attachement charnel à un lieu, à une équipe, à un nom. Leur refuser cette joie, c’est leur refuser le pays.»
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By praising the genocidal Dutch East India Company (VOC in Dutch) and “capitalism’s full potential,” never before has an AI booster made the neocolonialist, exploitative nature of the AI industry as explicitly clear as Milei does in his FT article. www.ft.com/content/f930...
The rise of AI App-slop. Or slopapps, perhaps.
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"They’ve tried everything else, these men, from writing screenplays to investing in crypto. It’s AI or bust. Their partners, meanwhile, have quietly taken on a second job: emotional support. Chief Existential Officer, uncompensated."
Behind every Toxic AI Husband lies a Sad Wife of AI, exhausted.
Tracking cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industry influence on 2026 elections in the United States.
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President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for co...
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Investigation reveals more than 4.4 million people live in ‘news deserts’ that lack dedicated local reporting
Du sacre du PSG au visage d’Aya Nakamura, l’extrême droite transforme la joie populaire en machine à exclure les « jeunes issus de l’immigration ». La romancière Chouf rappelle que le drapeau brandi …
Anthropic Institute, the research arm of Anthropic, published a report speculating on what it sees as potential future trends in AI development, and media literacy took an absolute beating from it.
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