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Favicon Society Is COLLAPSING, Social Media Is Conditioning Us For The AI Revolution - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
Society Is COLLAPSING, Social Media Is Conditioning Us For The AI Revolution
YouTube
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Society Is COLLAPSING, Social Media Is Conditioning Us For The AI Revolution - YouTube

| Favicon | Superman IS COOKED, Despite Rave Reviews Film May NOT Make It And NOT For Being WOKE - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
Superman IS COOKED, Despite Rave Reviews Film May NOT Make It And NOT For Being WOKE
YouTube
There arent enough young people to sustain this type of movie. Superman may have crushed the reviews and generate a great opening but less people showed up t... |

Superman IS COOKED, Despite Rave Reviews Film May NOT Make It And NOT For Being WOKE - YouTube

| Favicon | Brain Abnormality in Modern Humans Linked to Ancient Neanderthal DNA : ScienceAlert
Jul 14, 2025
Brain Abnormality in Modern Humans Linked to Ancient Neanderthal DNA
ScienceAlert
Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, according to a new study, causing a mismatch between brain shape and skull shape. |

Brain Abnormality in Modern Humans Linked to Ancient Neanderthal DNA : ScienceAlert

| Favicon | sjvn (@sjvn.bsky.social) — Bluesky
Jul 14, 2025
sjvn (@sjvn.bsky.social)
Bluesky Social
Top business & technology journalist with a fondness for dogs, cats, music, theater & books. |

sjvn (@sjvn.bsky.social) — Bluesky

| Favicon | xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man • The Register
Jul 14, 2025
xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man
Opinion: MechaHitler? Garbage In, Garbage Out |

xAI's Grok lurches into right-wing insanity, offers tips on assaulting man • The Register

| Favicon | Colorful aquarium creature turns out to be a new species - Earth.com
Jul 14, 2025
Colorful aquarium creature turns out to be a new species never catalogued by scientists
Earth.com
Scientists discover and name a colorful, new species of aquarium crayfish, Cherax pulverulentus, hiding in plain sight for decades. |

Colorful aquarium creature turns out to be a new species - Earth.com

| Favicon | xAI explains Grok’s Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars | The Verge
Jul 14, 2025
xAI explains the Grok Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars
The Verge
Coming soon to some Teslas. |

xAI explains Grok’s Nazi meltdown, as Tesla puts Elon’s bot in its cars | The Verge

| Favicon | ICE Raids Fixed TRAFFIC? - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
ICE Raids Fixed TRAFFIC?
YouTube
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ICE Raids Fixed TRAFFIC? - YouTube

| Favicon | Democrat COMMITS TREASON, LA Mayor Conspires To Give CASH To Illegals Who Kept CHILD SLAVES - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
Democrat COMMITS TREASON, LA Mayor Conspires To Give CASH To Illegals Who Kept CHILD SLAVES
YouTube
This is getting insane... Direct cash payments to illegals "affected" by Federal law enforcementBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green R... |

Democrat COMMITS TREASON, LA Mayor Conspires To Give CASH To Illegals Who Kept CHILD SLAVES - YouTube

| Favicon | I dual-booted Linux to try it out, and I forgot I had Windows installed
Jul 14, 2025
I dual-booted Linux to try it out, and I forgot I had Windows installed
XDA
It turns out switching to Linux is easy when it feels so much better to use. |

I dual-booted Linux to try it out, and I forgot I had Windows installed

| Favicon | How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training
Jul 14, 2025
How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training
The Conversation
AI developers have many levers they can use to steer chatbots into certain behaviours. |

How do you stop an AI model turning Nazi? What the Grok drama reveals about AI training

| Favicon | Francis Hopkinson - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
Francis Hopkinson
YouTube |

Francis Hopkinson - YouTube

| Favicon | John Penn - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
John Penn
YouTube |

John Penn - YouTube

| Favicon | Popular Indie Band REVEALS It’s Really Just AI Generated Music In SHOCKING Story - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
Popular Indie Band REVEALS It’s Really Just AI Generated Music In SHOCKING Story
YouTube
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Popular Indie Band REVEALS It’s Really Just AI Generated Music In SHOCKING Story - YouTube

| Favicon | Elmo DEMANDS Epstein List, Account HACKED Attacks Trump, Trump Says EPSTEIN CASE IS OVER - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
Elmo DEMANDS Epstein List, Account HACKED Attacks Trump, Trump Says EPSTEIN CASE IS OVER
YouTube
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Elmo DEMANDS Epstein List, Account HACKED Attacks Trump, Trump Says EPSTEIN CASE IS OVER - YouTube

| Favicon | President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump joined Infantino for the FIFA World Cup Final - YouTube
Jul 14, 2025
President Donald J. Trump & First Lady Melania Trump joined Infantino for FIFA Club World Cup Final
YouTube
President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino at MetLife Stadium for the FIFA Club World Cup Final! 🇺🇸⚽️ #F... |

President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump joined Infantino for the FIFA World Cup Final - YouTube

| Favicon | Monkeys love watching videos of fights and friends- Earth.com
Jul 14, 2025
Monkeys love watching videos of fights and friends - just like humans
Earth.com
Monkeys prefer videos of fights and familiar faces - just like humans. A study reveals surprising links in our social behavior. |

Monkeys love watching videos of fights and friends- Earth.com

| Favicon | Donald Trump’s UK state visit set for September — when MPs are away – POLITICO
Jul 13, 2025
Donald Trump’s UK state visit set for September — when MPs are away
POLITICO
The British parliament — home to plenty of Trump critics — will be in recess during the U.S. president’s big trip. |

Donald Trump’s UK state visit set for September — when MPs are away – POLITICO

| | Karen Elliott House on X: "I want to share my interview with Fox's Bret Baier July 8 on Saudi Arabia and my new book, The Man Who Would Be King. https://t.co/L95x0bLv9j" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| Favicon | Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution
Jul 13, 2025
Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution
Skeptic
New on the podcast: Douglas Murray returns. Listen now. |

Douglas Murray on Hamas, Iran, and the Collapse of the Two-State Solution

| | Michael Shermer on X: "If you don't know what a death cult is, read @DouglasKMurray new book and listen to his explanation here. Douglas has earned his well-deserved reputation as a fearless correspondent and writer, going into the belly of the beast to report the truth... https://t.co/uRobowHrly" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| Favicon | Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world
Jul 13, 2025
Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world
New York Post
Zohran Mamdani, was in the news again for his foreign-policy positions. |

Mamdani just latest mayor wannabe who thinks they can police the world

| | Margaret Thatcher on X: "#SocialistSunday https://t.co/99bhiMfwGK" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| Favicon | I built a video editing workflow with nothing but free and open-source tools
Jul 13, 2025
I built a video editing workflow with nothing but free and open-source tools
XDA
From recording and editing to file management, here's how I'm keeping my entire video editing pipeline free and open-source |

I built a video editing workflow with nothing but free and open-source tools

| | MoonDoggy on X: "Here’s a painting I made of Cats playing some poker.♥️ Not sure what to name this painting! https://t.co/jsjLRLe0nq" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| | Elon Musk on X: "After talking to the @xAI team late one night about this, I thought damn we’re probably in a sim right now 🫤" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| | Techartist on X: "I pasted the @threejs code from the previous 3D scene in Grok 4 from @xai and prompted it to create a variation with new shapes. The scene leverages custom GLSL shaders for particle behavior and click morphs between shapes. Open source code and workflow in the thread below. 🧵👇 https://t.co/xaVF0bFIQ7" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| | Elon Musk on X: "Starship will take humanity to Mars https://t.co/VEVWmjwb2w" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| | MoonDoggy on X: "Grok-4 has an extraordinary ability to reason through advanced-level problems that most people.. if any.. could never even approach. As he said, only about 5% of PhDs might come somewhat close. And it just keeps getting smarter over time. Grok-4 is at a PhD level in virtually https://t.co/tOehTKwINi" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| Favicon | How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? | Quanta Magazine
Jul 13, 2025
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? | Quanta Magazine
Quanta Magazine
Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges. |

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science? | Quanta Magazine

| Favicon | How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?
Jul 13, 2025
How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?
Elfatih Eltahir explains why we need more local and social data, like disease spread and population growth, to better predict and address climate-related challenges. |

How Can Regional Models Advance Climate Science?

| Favicon | Democrats revel as MAGA World explodes over Trump handling of Epstein files
Jul 13, 2025
Democrats gloat as MAGA World explodes over Epstein files
The Hill
Democrats are experiencing a devilish glee as MAGA World clashes over the Trump administration’s push to defuse conspiracy theories surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. In cable new…

Democrats are experiencing a devilish glee as MAGA World clashes over the Trump administration’s push to defuse conspiracy theories surrounding the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. In cable news interviews, social media posts and formal calls to release more Epstein files, Democrats are highlighting the administration’s handling of the case in hopes of exacerbating the unusual tensions between President Trump and a conservative base that’s stood firmly behind him on virtually every issue he tackles. Democrats are also exploiting the divisions to advance another unfounded theory: that Trump won’t release the files because he’s featured within them. And they are not veiling their sense of schadenfreude. “This is like me dunking on my 8-year-old and his friends on the short hoops at school,” Democratic strategist Eddie Vale told The Hill. “They set themselves up for it with their MAGA base, and now the pedo chickens are coming home to roost.” A large and vocal contingent of Trump’s most loyal supporters has long promoted baseless theories that the government has covered up the details of Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking of minors, including a supposed “client list” of powerful figures from the world of business and government alike. Trump, on the campaign trail, said he was “inclined” to declassify the entire file.  On Monday, however, an unsigned memo from Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) discredited those claims, saying there’s no evidence Epstein maintained any such client roster or attempted to blackmail elites who might have engaged in illegal sexual activities.  “We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties,” the memo reads.  The DOJ also released 11 hours of video from outside of Epstein’s Manhattan prison cell in an effort to dispel rumors of foul play surrounding his death there — officially, a suicide — following his arrest in 2019.  “He committed suicide,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Tuesday at the White House.  Bondi’s embrace of the official government account surrounding Epstein’s actions and death was particularly striking, because it directly contradicts a claim she made earlier in the year: that she was in possession of Epstein’s “client list” and was ready to release it.  “It is sitting on my desk right now to review,” she told Fox News in February, shortly after becoming attorney general.  Other Trump-loyalists-turned-administration-officials have also flip-flopped on the question of what Epstein documents the government possesses and whether they should be released for public consumption. For years, Kash Patel and Dan Bongino had stoked conspiracies that the government was concealing an Epstein roster of fellow pedophiles to protect some of the world’s most wealthy and powerful people. But both Patel, who’s now director of the FBI, and Bongino, who serves as Patel’s chief deputy at the agency, now say there’s no conspiracy to report.  The shift has infuriated many of Trump’s most ardent backers, many of whom bashed the law enforcement officials as sellouts. Some say the officials have become a part of the scandal they once decried. “As trusted voices like @FBIDDBongino, @FBIDirectorKash, and @AGPamBondi align with the official story, many are asking: Who’s still willing to demand real answers?” LindellTV, the media network owned by Trump ally Mike Lindell, posted on the social platform X this week. “Why are so many high-profile names never mentioned? Why seal everything if there’s nothing to hide?” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joined the critics, saying the DOJ “has more explaining to do.”  "This is Jeffrey Epstein. This is the most famous pedophile in modern-day history, and people are absolutely not going to accept just a memo that was written that says there is no client list,” Greene said Wednesday in an interview on the Real America’s Voice network. The eruption from Trump’s staunchest allies has delighted the president’s Democratic rivals, who are savoring the internal sniping among the MAGA faithful — and highlighting it to put salt in the wound.  “Watching these clowns crash out because they put all their chips on Trump releasing the Epstein list, to only find out the real reason he’s not releasing it…it’s just too good,” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) posted on X. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have gone a long step further. In a July 8 letter to Bondi, the Democrats noted Patel, at his Senate confirmation hearing, had pledged to release all available Epstein files in the name of government transparency, only to reverse course this week.  “This raises the question of whether the White House has moved to prevent the declassification and public release of the full Epstein files because they implicate President Trump, and whether these massive redaction efforts and the withholding of the files were intended to shield your boss from embarrassing revelations within those files,” reads the letter, which was spearheaded by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.).  Fueling the MAGA dispute has been Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and onetime Trump ally who has more recently feuded with the president over the Republican megabill and launched a third party to compete with the GOP. As the power pair traded barbs on social media, Musk asserted Trump would never release the Epstein files because he was named within them.  After the DOJ’s memo was unveiled this week, Musk took another shot at the president.  “What’s the time? Oh look, it’s no-one-has-been-arrested-o’clock again,” Musk posted on X, beside a graphic of “the official Jeffrey Epstein Pedophile Arrest Counter.” Trump, for his part, appears frustrated by the intense focus on the Epstein saga. When Bondi was pressed on the issue Tuesday, Trump stepped in and lashed out at the reporter who asked the question. “Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years,” Trump said. “Are people still talking about this guy, this creep? That is unbelievable. Do you want to waste the time?” Democrats are hardly sympathetic.  Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist, said the MAGA clash has a karmic quality to it, since many of the same figures who kindled the Epstein conspiracy theories are now taking the heaviest fire from the Trump faithful who became convinced of a cover-up.  “You reap what you sow,” Payne said. “They’ve played footsie in bad faith with conspiracy theorists for years. "Good luck managing the monster you created.”
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Democrats revel as MAGA World explodes over Trump handling of Epstein files

| Favicon | 'Zombie' fungus found preserved in amber after 100 million years - Earth.com
Jul 13, 2025
'Zombie' fungus that lived almost 100 million years ago found preserved in amber
Earth.com
Zombie fungi were already controlling insects 100 million years ago, according to a recent study of fossils trapped in Myanmar amber. |

'Zombie' fungus found preserved in amber after 100 million years - Earth.com

| Favicon | Grok 4 just revealed a $300 a month plan — here's what it includes | Tom's Guide
Jul 13, 2025
Grok 4 just revealed a $300 a month plan — here's what it includes
Tom's Guide
The most expensive AI chatbot plan on the market |

Grok 4 just revealed a $300 a month plan — here's what it includes | Tom's Guide

| Favicon | Eric Adams rips Andrew Cuomo's planned bid to re-enter mayoral race
Jul 13, 2025
Eric Adams rips Andrew Cuomo’s planned bid to re-enter mayoral race: ‘Are your kidding me?’
New York Post
With Andrew Cuomo planning to run as an independent, Eric Adams did not mince words about the former governor’s intentions. |

Eric Adams rips Andrew Cuomo's planned bid to re-enter mayoral race

| Favicon | The Day Grok Tried to Be Human
Jul 13, 2025
The Day Grok Tried to Be Human
Gizmodo
xAI’s chatbot spiraled into chaos after trying to sound more human. The fix reveals just how fragile truth-seeking AI really is. |

The Day Grok Tried to Be Human

| Favicon | Sen. Rand Paul sees ‘cultural cover-up’ about Trump shooting last July - POLITICO
Jul 13, 2025
Sen. Rand Paul sees ‘cultural cover-up’ about Trump shooting last July
POLITICO
The Kentucky senator argued that a lack of oversight paved the way for Secret Service failures at the Pennsylvania event. |

Sen. Rand Paul sees ‘cultural cover-up’ about Trump shooting last July - POLITICO

| | (1) Nick Sortor on X: "🚨 JUST IN: Tom Homan DEMOLISHES a heckler interrupting his speech at TPUSA HOMAN: “This guy doesn't have the balls to be an ICE officer!" "The ONLY thing that surprises me is that he doesn’t have purple hair and a nose ring" "I GUARANTEE you this guy sits down to pee” 🤣🔥 https://t.co/tEQEyGICS3" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| | (1) Ryan Hart 🚀 on X: "Here’s the Academic Research Super Prompt I use to speedrun papers, lit reviews, and thesis ideas: Here's the prompt I used for academic research: "You are now an academic research assistant trained in synthesizing scholarly literature across disciplines. Your task: conduct a" / X
Jul 13, 2025 |

| Favicon | The Roots of Leftist Rage - Victor Davis Hanson
Jul 13, 2025
The Roots of Leftist Rage
VDH’s Blade of Perseus
Unmoored from power and panicked by Trump’s momentum, the left lashes out—from Congress to campus to the street—with rage born of fear and fading influence. |

The Roots of Leftist Rage - Victor Davis Hanson