Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The team at the National Archives of Ireland have done a truly magnificent job on this. It is something meaningful that brings real joy to many.
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How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds
Historian @quinnslobodian.com tells Byline Times how governments have subordinated the future of political economy to the direction and desires of Silicon Valley.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
NEW:
Much of MAGA is now convinced that the Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA was staged
www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
Orbán’s defeat threatens to halt Hungarian support of populist right
Individuals such as Matt Goodwin and Lord Frost and Frank Furedi benefited from largesse of self-styled ‘illiberal democracy’
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cue Vance nailing the “95 Truths” to the door of the new ballroom.
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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
He’s not Mr Liberal, but this would definitely be a good outcome.
Reform activist suspended over racist and antisemitic comments remains election agent. Adam Mitula is acting as election agent for Reform candidates in three wards in Tameside area for 7 May polls
What could possibly go wrong?
“Are the reviewers with you now, Matthew?”
If the peer-review was anonymous, how could Goodwin be sure it was done by a world-leading demographer, as stated in the debate?
And if it was anonymous, how could you claim that some of the world’s leading experts reviewed it? How would you know?
How can peer-review for a self-published book be anonymous?
36 Use of Artificial Intelligence in Proceedings 72. The defendant used AI to prepare the written submissions, which she filed in support of her appeal. Unfortunately, and perhaps as was to be expected, given the nature of large word model Artificial Intelligence systems, the submissions included references to authorities which simply did not exist. These were hallucinations, so-called, generated by the AI system. There were no such cases, and they were not authority for the propositions which they purported to establish. This is an inherent and well-known risk of using AI to write legal submissions. The defendant did not apparently verify the existence of the authorities she cited, or that the cases relied upon actually supported the propositions advanced. Neither did she notify the solicitors for the plaintiff that she had prepared her submissions with the assistance of AI. Counsel for the plaintiff informed the Court that this added to their work in requiring them fruitlessly to attempt to locate the hallucinated authorities and thereby needlessly added to the costs of the plaintiff in the appeal.
Ireland: Court of Appeal criticises citation of fake cases by party in defamation case.
Gemma O'Doherty appeal fails.
AI hallucinations identified.
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