Why the AI backlash has turned violent And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

Great piece

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The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

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It's open season for refusing AI There's been a wave of successful efforts to ban, reject and shut down AI.

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I wore Meta’s smartglasses for a month – and it left me feeling like a creep Content creators love the built-in camera; sceptics call them ‘pervert glasses’. Do we really need any more hi-tech wearables, even with a voice assistant that sounds like Judi Dench?

Has Zuckerberg ever backed a technology that wasn't either stupid or dystopian?

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Trump’s Iran war is holding him hostage | Sidney Blumenthal If there is any consistency to Trump’s policy, it is a series of frantic attempts to justify his original blunder and extricate himself from its dire consequences

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'Trump is acting out the “madman theory”, but without the theory.'

AI's aesthetics of failure On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

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A war of regression: how Trump bombed the US into a worse position with Iran Analysts fear Iran has played a weak hand well and the US has blundered into a defining strategic failure

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Here’s the news from Iran – Donald Trump is making America lose wars again | Simon Tisdall Humiliating failure now looms, as symbolically damaging to US global standing and national self-esteem as Afghanistan or Iraq, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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The world is run by a madman and it's driving us all nuts The president is obviously out of his mind. So why don't investors seem to care?

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The Post-Truth Hell of Trump's Iran War Is Iran the beginning of the end for Trump?

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"The neo-fascist clowning of Pete Hegseth is not a surface, it is the essence of US foreign policy."

This is the language of a psychopath. I don't understand how Americans have not removed him. He's demonstrably completely insane.

Worth remembering

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

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U.S. Military Announces Plan To Consolidate All Wars Into Final, Epic Battle

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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

Holy shit, literally

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Nothing trivial hopefully

Trump appears to link Iran attack to his 2020 election loss President says in social media post that Iran tried to ‘stop Trump’ and now ‘faces renewed war with United States’

This moron cannot be allowed to stay in power any longer.

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Never forget who you’re fighting for.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history The US president upended half a century of US foreign policy in an eight-minute video with another attempt at Middle Eastern regime change

Excellent headline. Also, impeach this pedo already

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Epstein Bury, more like

Shoddy People The redemption of disgrace.

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A Deep Dive Into 'I Feel Fine' A Two-Minute Microcosm of Twentieth Century Pop

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Trump threatens 10% global tariffs and rails against supreme court justices President called justices who blocked his tariffs a ‘disgrace to the nation’ while praising three justices who dissented

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Why on earth don't Americans just laugh at this idiot and then jail him?

‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever

This is great. Viva Tracey

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