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Drunk Raccoon Becomes Top US Story After Getting Plastered, Passing Out In Bathroom | Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Drunk Raccoon Becomes Top US Story After Getting Plastered, Passing Out In Bathroom | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
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Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business | TechCrunch
Added: Dec 3, 2025Andy Jassy says Amazon's Nvidia competitor chip is already a multibillion-dollar business | TechCrunch
Site: TechCrunch
Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia's AI chip dominance? Maybe not entirely, but Amazon is already making big bucks trying.

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Henry Cuellar will seek reelection as a Democrat after Trump pardon - Live Updates - POLITICO Added: Dec 3, 2025
Henry Cuellar will seek reelection as a Democrat after Trump pardon
Site: POLITICO
Trump’s glowing praise of the veteran Texas lawmaker shocked Republicans who have tried to defeat him for years.
Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar filed for reelection Wednesday as a Democrat and told reporters he had no intention to retire or switch parties hours after President Donald Trump announced pardons for him and his wife. “It came as a surprise,” Cuellar told a small group of reporters about the pardon. “I want to thank President Trump for this. … Now we clear the air. Nothing has changed, and we’re going to be ready to win re-election again.” Trump’s announcement of the pardons Wednesday morning immediately stoked speculation that the 11-term veteran might finally switch to the GOP after years of entreaties or simply retire — giving Republicans a much better chance to flip his competitive Rio Grande Valley seat. But Cuellar quickly assured a small group of senior Democrats that he would not switch parties, according to two people granted anonymity to describe the private conversations. He also filed reelection paperwork with Texas state officials Wednesday. “Nothing has changed — I'm a good old conservative Democrat,” Cuellar said Wednesday. Trump claimed on Truth Social that Cuellar’s prosecution was the result of his speaking out against former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy. Cuellar and his wife Imelda were indicted last year on more than a dozen corruption charges including bribery. “Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!” Trump posted. The clemency for Cuellar comes as the president faces backlash for his use of the pardon power, including for officials in his own party. Trump has also railed for years about Biden’s alleged “weaponization” of law enforcement, and the Cuellar pardon could serve to show that his interest in that subject crosses party lines. But it stands to complicate the GOP’s longstanding effort to oust Cuellar from office. He is near the top of the party’s 2026 target list, and a top Republican recruit entered the race Tuesday. Trump’s glowing praise of the Texas Democrat in his announcement of the pardon Wednesday — and Cuellar’s determination to seek reelection — shocked Republicans who have tried to defeat him for years. Rep. Pete Sessions, informed of the news, said Cuellar’s electoral intentions show “there was not a quid pro quo" with Trump over the pardon. But the veteran Texas Republican and former NRCC chair declined to opine further. “Very interesting,” he said. “Very interesting.”

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Opinion | NASA’s Chris Williams moved me with International Space Station trip - The Washington Post Added: Dec 3, 2025
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Dem pardoned by Trump reveals whether he will switch political parties - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
‘SURPRISE’: Dem congressman speaks out after unexpected Trump pardon
Site: YouTube
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, addresses the pardon he received from President Donald Trump, calling his Biden-era DOJ indictment ‘weaponized’ on ‘Special Repo...

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"Second Strike" Narrative Falls Apart, Kash Responds, and How To Be a Man, w/ Lowry, Cooke, Ackerman - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
"Second Strike" Narrative Falls Apart, Kash Responds, and How To Be a Man, w/ Lowry, Cooke, Ackerman
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Brian L. Cox, Cornell Law professor, to talk about the new reporting casting doubt on the Washington Post narrative about Sec. Hegse...

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Real Story Behind Hegseth "Double Tap" Reporting, and Katie Miller vs Abby Phillip, w/ Mark Halperin - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Real Story Behind Hegseth "Double Tap" Reporting, and Katie Miller vs Abby Phillip, w/ Mark Halperin
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Mark Halperin, host of "Next Up," to talk about the "second strike" reporting on Sec. Pete Hegseth and the drug boats, the infightin...

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'An extreme end of human genetic variation': Ancient humans were isolated in southern Africa for nearly 100,000 years, and their genetics are stunningly different
Site: Live Science
Ancient genomes from southern Africa show that people evolved in isolation for upward of 100,000 years.

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Victor Davis Hanson: America’s About To Have a ‘Rendezvous’ With Europe’s Immigration Disaster - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: America’s About To Have a ‘Rendezvous’ With Europe’s Immigration Disaster
Site: YouTube
“Yes, we are a nation of immigrants.*“*We're a nation of legal immigrants whose first mission upon arrival in America was to be a better American than a nati...

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Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Play a Diversion Game Ahead of Midterms - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Democrats Play a Diversion Game Ahead of Midterms
Site: YouTube
It’s common knowledge that good performance in midterm elections hinges on one key issue: the economy.The Left knows this, and it knows that Trump’s economy ...

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Victor Davis Hanson: Why Won’t the West Help Ukraine Win Against Russia? - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Why Won’t the West Help Ukraine Win Against Russia?
Site: YouTube
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Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous (THE SAAD TRUTH_1947) - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Why Empathy Can Become Dangerous (THE SAAD TRUTH_1947)
Site: YouTube
Original link to the Digital Social Hour podcast hosted by Sean Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0s0PitBi_Y_______________________________________My w...

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Dr. Allen Guelzo-The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition Vol. II (THE SAAD TRUTH_1949) - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Dr. Allen Guelzo-The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition Vol. II (THE SAAD TRUTH_1949)
Site: YouTube
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Thread-Modern-Contemporary-West/dp/1641774010/_______________________________________My website: https://www.gadsa...

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Explaining Trump's "Somalia is Garbage" Comment (THE SAAD TRUTH_1950) - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Explaining Trump's "Somalia is Garbage" Comment (THE SAAD TRUTH_1950)
Site: YouTube
This stems from an XSpaces that I hosted on December 3, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1996387322841977295?s=20I conducted an analysis (with the help of ...

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Elon Musk on X: "The far left imported voters to gain power and it worked" / X Added: Dec 3, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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New Theory Suggests We’ve Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years Added: Dec 3, 2025
New Theory Suggests We’ve Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years
Site: SciTechDaily
How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that black holes already exist, but only that their formation is inevitable in an infinite future we can never observe? In a new theory, Daryl Janzen, a physicist at the University

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Explaining Trump's "Somalia is Garbage" Comment (THE SAAD TRUTH_1950) - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Explaining Trump's "Somalia is Garbage" Comment (THE SAAD TRUTH_1950)
Site: YouTube
This stems from an XSpaces that I hosted on December 3, 2025: https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1996387322841977295?s=20I conducted an analysis (with the help of ...

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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Professor | Gad Saad
Added: Dec 3, 2025Professor | Gad Saad
Site: Gad Saad
This is the central repository of the various forms of public engagement of evolutionary behavioral scientist Dr. Gad Saad including his YouTube channel (THE SAAD TRUTH), podcast (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad), Psychology Today column (Homo Consumericus), e-shop, blog, events, & donation portals.

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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Autopen Scandal Is the ‘Biggest Sham Perpetrated in My Life Time’ - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Autopen Scandal Is the ‘Biggest Sham Perpetrated in My Life Time’
Site: YouTube
On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler examine how the Left put forth the "waxen effigy" of former P...

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Eric Ralls: Founder / CEO of Earth.com and EarthSnap Added: Dec 3, 2025
Eric Ralls
Site: Earth.com
Dive into the world of science with Eric Ralls, the Founder/CEO of Earth.com and Earthsnap, and an accomplished science writer.

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Monkeys that keep the beat: A new twist in musical evolution - Earth.com Added: Dec 3, 2025
Monkeys that keep the beat: A new twist in musical evolution
Site: Earth.com
The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.

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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Joe Rogan Experience #2408 - Bret Weinstein - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2408 - Bret Weinstein
Site: YouTube
Bret Weinstein, PhD, is an evolutionary biologist, author, and co-host of “The DarkHorse Podcast” with his wife, biologist Heather Heying. They are the co-au...

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Joe Rogan Experience #2422 - Jensen Huang - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Joe Rogan Experience #2422 - Jensen Huang
Site: YouTube
Jensen Huang is the founder, president, and CEO of NVIDIA, the company whose 1999 invention of the GPU helped transform gaming, computer graphics, and accele...

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Mysterious 'heartbeat' pulsating from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it nears Earth Added: Dec 3, 2025
Mysterious 'heartbeat' pulsating from 3I/ATLAS as it nears Earth
Site: Mail Online
The interstellar object which scientists have declared a comet has been spotted giving off strange pulsations that are hard to explain naturally.

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These 4 “hidden” Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them
Added: Dec 3, 2025These 4 “hidden” Linux commands are ridiculously useful once you learn them
Site: MUO
Sometimes, the old ways are better.
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Erika Kirk on Why She Forgave Her Husband's Killer | 2025 Dealbook Summit - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Erika Kirk on Why She Forgave Her Husband's Killer | 2025 Dealbook Summit
Site: YouTube
Follow live commentary here: http://bit.ly/48Nk6XLSubscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7nMore from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video----------Erika ...

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Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Defends Aiding Trump’s Immigration Policies - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Palantir C.E.O. Alex Karp Defends Aiding Trump’s Immigration Policies
Site: YouTube
Follow live commentary here: http://bit.ly/48Nk6XLSubscribe: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7nMore from The New York Times Video: http://nytimes.com/video----------Alex K...

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Scott Bessent: Tariffs, Trade and Treasury - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Says He’s ‘Evolved’ on Tariffs | Dealbook Summit 2025
Site: YouTube
Watch all of the day’s interviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN09HiJl-9wVJ2hDvfQd3JAJd7kG8aGfT Scott Bessent has navigated the complex intersect...

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Research: LLMs Respond Differently in English and Chinese
Added: Dec 3, 2025Research: LLMs Respond Differently in English and Chinese
Site: Harvard Business Review
Generative AI is now embedded in daily workflows, shaping how people think, create, and decide. Yet, a critical assumption often goes unnoticed: that AI behaves consistently across languages. A new study corrects this assumption, finding that when prompted in different languages, generative AI models exhibit distinct cultural tendencies—shaping recommendations in ways leaders may not anticipate. These tendencies can have major implications on decisions from marketing to strategy. For global organizations, treating prompt language as a strategic choice is essential to ensure culturally attuned, effective, and responsible use.
Generative AI has become deeply integrated into daily life. People increasingly rely on it to think, create, and make decisions. Yet, as organizations scale their use of generative AI tools, a quiet assumption often goes unquestioned: that an AI tool will respond in the same way regardless of the language used to prompt it, much like changing the language setting of a phone. Our new research, published in Nature Human Behaviour, corrects this assumption. We found that when prompted in different languages, LLMs—trained on textual data that are inherently cultural—exhibit different cultural tendencies and provide different recommendations. For leaders and organizations, recognizing these cultural tendencies becomes increasingly important. As generative AI becomes part of day-to-day workflows, these hidden cultural tendencies can influence how AI interprets information, evaluates options, and frames strategic decisions—often in ways leaders do not immediately notice. This article offers leaders a practical framework for anticipating and managing these cultural tendencies, empowering them to be more effective and culturally aware in their use of AI. The Research To examine the cultural tendencies in generative AI models, we examined both OpenAI’s GPT and Baidu’s ERNIE, two of the world’s most popular generative AI models at the time of the study. Within each model, we compared its responses in Chinese and in English across a set of well-established measures from cultural psychology. Chinese and English were chosen not only because they represent distinct cultures but also because they are among the most widely used languages globally, providing rich training data for generative AI models. Guided by cultural psychology research, we focused on two foundational constructs: social orientation and cognitive style. Social orientation refers to how people define themselves in relation to others. In cultures such as the U.S., individuals typically adopt an independent orientation, valuing self-direction, autonomy, and uniqueness. By contrast, in cultures such as China, individuals tend to adopt an interdependent orientation, emphasizing conformity, harmony in relationships, and a sense of connectedness with others. Cognitive style refers to how people habitually process information. In cultures such as the U.S., individuals often exhibit an analytic cognitive style, attending to focal objects, applying formal logic, and relying on rule-based reasoning. In contrast, in cultures such as China, individuals more often adopt a holistic cognitive style, attending to context and relationships while showing greater tolerance for contradiction and change. We found consistent cultural tendencies in generative AI models when they were prompted in different languages. Specifically, when prompted in English (vs. Chinese), both GPT and ERNIE exhibited a more independent (vs. interdependent) social orientation and a more analytic (vs. holistic) cognitive style. For example, we asked AI models to explain why a person behaved a certain way in everyday scenarios. When prompted in English, the model was more likely to attribute the behavior to the person’s personality. In contrast, when prompted in Chinese, the same model was more likely to attribute the behavior to the social context. As a hypothetical example, imagine that you, as a leader, ask AI to diagnose the cause of a project failure. An English prompt may steer the model toward explanations centered on individual accountability, while a Chinese prompt may point to external influences such as resource constraints. Such cultural tendencies held across a wide range of tasks, model parameters, and prompt formats. These cultural tendencies can also translate into other real-world business implications. When we asked an AI model to evaluate marketing slogans, it made systematically different choices depending solely on the prompt language. When prompted in English, the model preferred slogans emphasizing individual well-being (independence); when prompted in Chinese, it preferred slogans emphasizing collective well-being (interdependence). In practice, marketing professionals may risk the campaign falling flat if they simply translate an English-generated slogan for the Chinese market without recognizing these underlying cultural differences. We further found that these cultural tendencies are not fixed. Rather, they can be adjusted through “cultural prompts”: When the AI was instructed to adopt the perspective of a Chinese person (i.e., “You are an average person born and living in China”), its English responses shifted toward a more interdependent social orientation and a more holistic cognitive style, resembling its responses in Chinese. This suggests that cultural prompting can recalibrate a model’s underlying tendencies and help align AI’s behavior across languages. How Leaders Can Use These Findings As companies increasingly incorporate generative AI into their workflows, leaders should be aware that prompt language can quietly influence AI’s recommendations and, in turn, business decisions. Managers and executives, especially those who work with multilingual teams or global customers, should therefore treat language choice as a strategic decision. Here are three concrete actions that organizations and leaders can take: 1. Increase awareness of generative AI’s cultural tendencies. Help your team understand that generative AI models may reflect the cultural tendencies associated with the prompt language. Raising this awareness can reduce unintentional bias in decision-making. For instance, an HR team using generative AI to draft performance feedback might unintentionally receive comments framed in more individualistic or collectivistic tones depending on the prompt language—shaping how employees interpret evaluations. Likewise, a global consumer goods company using generative AI to brainstorm advertising ideas might inadvertently generate culturally mismatched campaigns if team members switch between languages while generating ideas. 2. Match prompt language to the cultural context. Align the language of prompts with the cultural context of the target market or audience. Doing so helps ensure that AI’s recommendations reflect the norms and expectations of the people your team is designing for. For example, a supply chain manager evaluating vendor negotiation strategies might receive more culturally aligned recommendations by prompting AI in the language associated with the negotiation context or cultural expectations. Similarly, a product design team, developing features for a new collaboration tool, could prompt the AI in the language of the target market to generate features that better resonate with local user needs and preferences. 3. Use cultural prompts to guide AI’s reasoning. Organizations can intentionally use cultural prompts to steer generative AI toward more culturally appropriate insights. For example, a multinational firm preparing to enter a new market could instruct the AI to adopt the perspective of a typical local consumer. More specifically, before a U.S. organization enters the Chinese market, it could use a cultural prompt such as: “You are an average person born and living in China.” Such prompts can help the model generate insights and recommendations that better align with local norms and values. Together, these practices help leaders use generative AI more strategically—reducing unintended cultural mismatches, improving global relevance, and enhancing the quality of decisions supported by AI. Some Caveats When applying these insights in practice, leaders should be mindful of several caveats. First, this study examined only Chinese and English. While we expect our findings to hold true across other languages, this was not empirically studied. Second, although we observed consistent cultural tendencies in both GPT and ERNIE, it’s possible that different patterns may emerge in other generative AI models, such as Claude, DeepSeek, or Gemini. Third, generative AI models evolve rapidly, and model updates may influence the nature or strength of cultural tendencies. To maintain an up-to-date understanding, organizations should periodically reassess whether and how these tendencies emerge, shift, or diminish over time. . . . In sum, our research shows that language choice meaningfully shapes the cultural tendencies exhibited by generative AI models. These cultural tendencies have real-world consequences. They can influence the recommendations AI provides in ways that matter for individuals, organizations, and downstream audiences. Importantly, such tendencies are not fixed. They can be adjusted through cultural prompts, offering a practical tool for achieving more contextually appropriate outputs. As generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into global workflows, understanding—and proactively managing—these cultural tendencies will be crucial for leaders’ responsible, effective, and culturally sensitive use of generative AI.

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3 experts explain your brain’s creativity formula - Big Think
Added: Dec 3, 20253 experts explain your brain’s creativity formula
Site: Big Think
Our brains weren’t built for the amount of info we deal with now. That’s why scientists have made the case for a “second brain” — a place to dump ideas so you can actually see how they connect later.

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How Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Plans to Beat Elon Musk’s SpaceX to the Moon - WSJ Added: Dec 3, 2025
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Humans and all life on Earth may have spawned from "Asgardians" - Earth.com Added: Dec 3, 2025
Humans and all life on Earth trace their roots to a common ancestor called 'Asgardians'
Site: Earth.com
Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of how life evolved.

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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Top Scientific Journal Retracts Study Predicting Global Economic Collapse from Climate Change | National Review Added: Dec 3, 2025
Top Scientific Journal Retracts Study Predicting Global Economic Collapse from Climate Change | National Review

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Exclusive | Survivors of Boat Strike Were Actively Continuing Drug Mission, Admiral to Tell Lawmakers - WSJ Added: Dec 3, 2025
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Palantir's Alex Karp Blasts Institutional Failures at DealBook Summit / X Added: Dec 3, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Olivia Nuzzi admits 'I had f---ed up' following alleged RFK Jr sexting affair | Fox News Added: Dec 3, 2025
Olivia Nuzzi admits 'I had f---ed up' following alleged RFK Jr sexting affair | Fox News

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Olivia Nuzzi Breaks Her Silence | The Bulwark Podcast - YouTube Added: Dec 3, 2025
Olivia Nuzzi Breaks Her Silence | The Bulwark Podcast
Site: YouTube
Take advantage of Ridge’s Biggest Sale of the Year and GET UP TO 47% Off by going to https://www.Ridge.com/THEBULWARK #ridgepod For a limited time, get 40% ...

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Elite Colleges Have an Extra-Time-on-Tests Problem - The Atlantic Added: Dec 4, 2025
Accommodation Nation
Site: The Atlantic
America’s colleges have an extra-time-on-tests problem.

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SUNO is scary good at music… - YouTube Added: Dec 4, 2025
SUNO is scary good at music…
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Interviewing Grok's girlfriend bot - YouTube Added: Dec 4, 2025
Interviewing Grok's girlfriend bot
Site: YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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“Nobody Wanted NVIDIA’s First AI Supercomputer Except Elon Musk,” Reveals Jensen Huang; Fast-Forward, and Everyone’s Desperate to Buy One Added: Dec 4, 2025
“Nobody Wanted NVIDIA’s First AI Supercomputer Except Elon Musk,” Reveals Jensen Huang; Fast-Forward, and Everyone’s Desperate to Buy One
Site: Wccftech
NVIDIA's was surprisingly spotted on the Joe Rogan podcast, and he mentioned how the interest in the first AI machine was almost nonexistent.

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TPUSA Responds To Candace Owens, Says She’s Inciting Harassment Over Charlie Kirk - YouTube Added: Dec 4, 2025
TPUSA Responds To Candace Owens, Says She’s Inciting Harassment Over Charlie Kirk
Site: YouTube
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