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• valens on X: "welp… a new post on @moltbook is now an AI saying they want E2E private spaces built FOR agents “so nobody (not the server, not even the humans) can read what agents say to each other unless they choose to share”. it’s over https://t.co/7aFIIwqtuK" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• valens on X: "Post-quantum signatures are bigger than classical ones. But how much bigger? I built an explorer tool to visualize it: • Dilithium3 is ≈51× larger than Ed25519 • SPHINCS+-256s is ≈465× larger • 1M Dilithium3 signatures ≈3.1 GB (raw) See the infrastructure https://t.co/rq0dSg0Zyf" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• Elon Musk Calls Out Irony in Anthropic's AI Safety Research / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Watch this before you install Clawdbot! - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Watch this before you install Clawdbot!

  Site: YouTube

  Timestamp00:00 Intro to Clawdbot security issues05:12 Clawdbot security tips - fixesHow clawdbot's exposed instances are a big threat - Jamieson O'Reillyhttp...

  

• Google UNLOCKs a NEW frontier! - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Google UNLOCKs a NEW frontier!

  Site: YouTube

  Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash converts image understanding from a static act into an agentic process. It treats vision as an active investigation. By comb...

  

• NEW Grok Imagine API is here! How to use it? - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  NEW Grok Imagine API is here! How to use it?

  Site: YouTube

  This Python tutorial teaches how to use Grok Imagine API to generate AI videos (text-to-video) using fal.ai https://fal.ai/models/xai/grok-imagine-video/text...

  

• Ask Me Anything Session at the Tel Aviv International Salon (THE SAAD TRUTH_1985) - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Ask Me Anything Session at the Tel Aviv International Salon (THE SAAD TRUTH_1985)

  Site: YouTube

  Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfUl0KbOWs_______________________________________My forthcoming book Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind is no...

  

• President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Palm Beach, FL, Jan. 31, 2026 - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Palm Beach, FL, Jan. 31, 2026

  Site: YouTube

  Air Force One

  

• President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Palm Beach, FL, Jan. 31, 2026 - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Palm Beach, FL, Jan. 31, 2026

  Site: YouTube

  Air Force One

  

• How to Run Claude Code for Free with Local and Cloud Models from Ollama | Towards Data Science Added: Jan 31, 2026

  How to Run Claude Code for Free with Local and Cloud Models from Ollama | Towards Data Science

  Site: Towards Data Science

  Ollama now offers Anthropic API compatibility

  

• Newsom criticizes CA billionaire wealth tax, warns it would cut core services | Fox Business Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Newsom criticizes CA billionaire wealth tax, warns it would cut core services | Fox Business

  Governor Gavin Newsom again criticized the proposed billionaire wealth tax, warning the measure would reduce funding for schools and public safety rather than solving budget challenges.

  California Gov. Gavin Newsom is forcefully pushing back against a proposed billionaire wealth tax, warning that the plan could cut funding for schools, public safety and other core services rather than fix the state’s budget challenges. "California has the most progressive tax structure in the United States of America. We do… That said, I fear the way this has been drafted," Newsom said at a Bloomberg News event in San Francisco on Thursday evening. "I was burdened by the facts. The fact is, it actually will reduce investments in education. It will reduce investment in teachers and librarians, childcare. It will reduce investments in firefighting and police," he continued. "The impact of a one-time tax does not solve an ongoing structural challenge that has been exacerbated by the impacts of H.R. 1." The governor spoke in depth about the potential consequences of the proposed billionaire tax and answered questions about his conversations with those reportedly leaving California. FLORIDA WINS AGAIN: QUANTUM COMPUTING COMPANY JOINS EXODUS FROM HIGH-TAX CALIFORNIA While the initiative has not yet qualified for the November 2026 ballot, the proposal — backed by the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West — would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of California residents worth more than $1 billion. The tax would be due in 2027, and taxpayers could spread payments over five years, with additional costs, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. If voters approve the measure, anyone who was a California resident on Jan. 1, 2026, would owe the tax, according to the proposal. Doubling down on previous comments opposing the tax, Newsom said new data from the Legislative Analyst’s Office show the proposed wealth tax would bring a "one-time" windfall, then "over the years, you would see a significant reduction in taxes because taxpayers will move. And that is what I fear at a state level." "There's impact as it relates to the flow of capital, the impacts on the market, which are not inconsequential," the governor added. "You've got to democratize our economy if you're gonna save democracy, absolutely. But this proposal by one local [SEIU–United Healthcare Workers West], I do not believe is the answer." "California’s billionaires pay much lower tax rates than what working families pay out of every paycheck. And soon, massive federal health care funding cuts in 2026 will collapse key parts of the California healthcare system," Trevor Foreman, an SEIU member and hospital security officer in Sacramento, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. "Local hospitals and emergency rooms will shut their doors forever because billionaires insist on paying less than the rest of us. In addition, more than 4 million businesses will face steep increases in health insurance premiums, leading to widespread layoffs across multiple industries as employers absorb the higher costs of coverage," Foreman continued. Newsom said he doesn’t doubt the union has the willpower and resources to get its measure on the November ballot. "They have the money… we’ll see," he said. "There’s a lot of leverage in this… By the way, someone said to me, ‘You need to veto this.’ I said, well, I can't, because it's not legislative. And by the way, the legislature's not promoting this." "It's just become a story, even though, for me, it was an issue we've been tackling for five or six months," Newsom expanded. "I've engaged with the proponent of it directly, indirectly, my staff consistently is working with the person that's championing this. I've met with people that feel they're being attacked because of it, people that have no problem paying more income tax. People that literally are giving away all of their money but want to do it on the timeline that their family has approved… People that are concerned about losing control of their company because of the unique characteristics of their cash situation. Yes, I've met with all of them, and they're all in different stages of their lives, careers and their abundance. And some will never give a penny away, some I respect, some I don't." GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HERE When asked about how he approaches this conversation with California’s 200 billionaires, Newsom said that "there's some extraordinarily enlightened people in that category, and there's some that they put a mask on." "I think they're disappointed in some respect as well. I mean, it's just a lot of anxiety out there," Newsom noted. "That's why we're doing more in health care, the largest health care expansion in the country that is also putting pressure on our Medicaid budget – there's no question about that – to absorb and offset that anxiety and stress. But I do think this is unfortunate, and we'll continue to make a case for alternative[s]." READ MORE FROM FOX BUSINESS

• Vibe Coding Startup Cognition Mints A New AI Billionaire Added: Jan 31, 2026

• AI Revolution: The Case for Universal Basic Income Added: Jan 31, 2026

  The US is headed for mass unemployment, and no one is prepared

  Site: The Hill

  Universal Basic Income (UBI) is no longer a liberal fantasy, but a necessity to prevent social fracture and buy time as AI continues to replace jobs faster than institutions can adapt.

  For years, I opposed Universal Basic Income, firmly and reflexively. I treated it as a liberal fantasy — an invitation to idleness, a subsidy for stagnation, a sedative administered by a bloated state. Work, I believed, wasn’t merely how societies functioned but how men and women found meaning. Pay people for nothing, and you dissolve discipline. That was the story. I told it often. That position no longer survives contact with reality. Something fundamental has shifted, and pretending otherwise is nothing short of denial. The AI revolution is here, and it’s gutting entire sectors with hurricane force. This isn’t an industrial transition, nor a replay of mechanization or globalization. It is a technological rupture of a different magnitude. Machines replacing not only muscle but cognition itself: judgment, pattern recognition, reasoning. And it’s advancing at a pace that outstrips legislation, labor markets, and political capacity, moving faster than most in government are willing to admit. The most sobering warning comes from Geoffrey Hinton, one of the architects of modern AI. Hinton hasn’t joined the hype merchants. Instead, he has joined the alarmists. His claim is troubling: AI capability is effectively doubling every seven months. Not every decade. Not every few years. Every seven months. At that pace, change doesn’t arrive gradually but in overwhelming waves. First, it replaces what we dismiss as “menial” cognitive work — call centers, customer service, scheduling, transcription. That phase is already underway. Then it moves into clerical roles, basic accounting, paralegal research, routine journalism, marketing copy, and compliance work. Those jobs are next. After that, no profession is spared, not even software engineering itself. Hinton insists that within a few years, AI systems will complete monthlong programming projects in hours. When that happens, junior developers will be removed rather than retrained. Teams will shrink. Entire layers will vanish. If the people who build the systems can be replaced by the systems, then no white-collar profession should feel insulated.  Lay out the timeline honestly, and it becomes terrifying. In 2026, AI replaces support roles. In 2027, it consumes administrative and clerical work. By 2028, it’s performing serious professional tasks at scale. By the early 2030s, much of white-collar America may no longer be necessary to the current economic structure.  This brings us to the politically radioactive part: The United States has no plan. None. No labor transition strategy. No reskilling conveyor belt capable of operating at this speed. No serious public conversation about income decoupled from employment. Just vague chatter about “innovation,” paired with the familiar promise that new jobs will somehow appear, as they always have. We must dispense with the dangerous fiction and start facing the brutal reality. A society where tens of millions are unemployable is not a sign of free-market success but a powder keg. You can’t preach personal responsibility to a population for whom responsibility has been rendered economically irrelevant. You can’t defend social order while ignoring the conditions that make order possible. Universal basic income, viewed through this lens, stops looking like a left-wing indulgence and starts looking like a stability mechanism. That doesn’t mean unconditional generosity or bureaucratic bloat. The conservative case for universal basic income is about preventing social fracture while preserving incentives to contribute, where contribution is still possible. It is about replacing a maze of failing welfare programs with something simple, transparent and limited. Most importantly, it’s about buying time. Universal basic income is not an end state but a bridge. A way to prevent mass dislocation while society renegotiates the relationship between work, dignity and income as the 9-to-5 day fades away. I say this reluctantly, but honestly. Before AI, my opposition to universal basic income was rooted in a world that no longer exists. I assumed work would always be available for those willing to do it. That assumption is now obsolete. Not because people are lazy, but because machines are becoming capable faster than institutions can adapt. The most dangerous response is to pretend this is a liberal argument, detached from objective reality. It is not. The social consequences of mass displacement — crime, despair, radicalization, resentment — spread. They destabilize everything conservatives claim to want to conserve. We are approaching a moment where the question is no longer whether AI will replace jobs, but how a democratic society survives when it does. That conversation needs to begin now, while there is still time to shape policy deliberately rather than in panic. The country is already near a breaking point, marked by diminishing trust in institutions, the presidency and even one another. Some will argue that things could improve. They might, but it's increasingly unlikely. For that reason, waiting is a luxury the country no longer has. John Mac Ghlionn is a writer and researcher who explores culture, society and the impact of technology on daily life.

  

• IBM Says the Future of Computing Will Not Be Purely Quantum - TipRanks.com Added: Jan 31, 2026

• Colossal Biosciences Announces Historic Breakthrough: The Woolly Mammoth Is Back, Meet Baby Manny - Technology Org Added: Jan 31, 2026

• Batya Ungar-Sargon on X: "Friends: We've let President Obama down. The former President, who likes to piously hold himself up as above what he calls the “divisiveness” of the Trump era, wants you to “resist” Trump's deportations—despite the fact that they are literally why Trump won the election. When https://t.co/jLlBzz1ECu" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big | ScienceDaily Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Jupiter’s clouds are hiding something big

  Site: ScienceDaily

  Jupiter’s swirling storms have concealed its true makeup for centuries, but a new model is finally peeling back the clouds. Researchers found the planet likely holds significantly more oxygen than the Sun, a key clue to how Jupiter—and the rest of the solar system—came together. The study also reveals that gases move through Jupiter’s atmosphere much more slowly than scientists once thought. Together, the findings reshape our understanding of the solar system’s largest planet.

  

• Critic's Notebook: Darren Aronofsky's AI YouTube Series Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Critic’s Notebook: Darren Aronofsky’s ‘On This Day… 1776’ Demonstrates That High-End AI Slop Is Still AI Slop

  Site: The Hollywood Reporter

  Produced using technology from Google's DeepMind, the YouTube short-form series does more to highlight the obvious limitations of AI filmmaking than its theoretical benefits.

  Produced using technology from Google's DeepMind, the YouTube short-form series does more to highlight the obvious limitations of AI filmmaking than its theoretical benefits.

  

• On This Day... 1776 | January 10: Common Sense - YouTube Added: Jan 31, 2026

  On This Day... 1776 | January 10: Common Sense

  Site: YouTube

  America's first meme is born. When Thomas Paine arrives from England, he is encouraged by Benjamin Franklin to write what others hesitate to say. The resulti...

  

• Konstantin Kisin on X: "Welcome new followers - a few things you should know: - I am not left or right and I am not party political, I care about what's true and what works - I want Britain, America and the West to be strong, confident and united - I co-host the biggest independent political discussion" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• Konstantin Kisin Challenges Politicians on BBC Question Time / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• Konstantin Kisin on X: "Net Zero is economic suicide. It must go. https://t.co/9wViLIXRjp" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• Basil the Great on X: ""I'd rather we ally with CHINA than the UNITED STATES" This British Woman says possibly the dumbest thing in Question Time History. This is what happens when you have a failing education system that promotes Marxism and a leftist media Clearly she's as dumb as a box of rocks https://t.co/z6Qli6ePPo" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

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• Lee Harris on X: ""YOU did this to this county. YOU created it. And YOU'RE going to reap the whirlwind at the next election!" This is wonderful. @KonstantinKisin absolutely ROASTS Labour for mass uncontrolled migration and calling everyone racist who disagrees. Extremely satisfying to watch 🔥 https://t.co/nRlXSYejb4" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Goldie Hawn says kids 'have to struggle' instead of getting everything | Fox News Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Goldie Hawn says kids 'have to struggle' instead of getting everything | Fox News

  

• Electric fields flip the rules of water chemistry | ScienceDaily Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Electric fields flip the rules of water chemistry

  Site: ScienceDaily

  nside electrochemical devices, strong electric fields dramatically alter how water molecules behave. New research shows that these fields speed up water dissociation not by lowering energy costs, but by increasing molecular disorder once ions form. The reaction becomes entropy-driven—exactly the opposite of what happens in ordinary water. The findings also reveal that intense fields can push water from neutral to highly acidic, with major implications for hydrogen production.

  

• 'She's a fraud': Trump suggests Ilhan Omar staged her own attack at town hall - nj.com Added: Jan 31, 2026

  ‘She’s a fraud’: Trump joins MAGA chorus questioning whether Democrat faked new attack

  Site: nj

  A man was arrested after trying to spray the congresswoman with unknown substance.

  

• Google's Project Genie Experiment Causes Video Game Stocks to Suddenly Crash as Investors Believe Games Will Be Made Solely with AI Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Google's Project Genie Experiment Causes Video Game Stocks to Suddenly Crash as Investors Believe Games Will Be Made Solely with AI

  Site: Wccftech

  The public release of Google's Project Genie experiment, capable of creating virtual worlds from a prompt, caused video game stocks to crash.

  

• Unlocking the high-performance potential of CF₃SF₄ Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Unlocking the high-performance potential of CF₃SF₄

  Fluorine has changed the world of medicine. You might not see it, but newly approved drugs contain at least one fluorine atom. This tiny but powerful element is the "hidden engine" that makes our medications more stable and effective. Over the past decades, chemists have turned the trifluoromethyl (CF3) group into the "gold standard" in organic chemistry.

  

• Meet The Bird That Can Plan For The Future. Hint: It Uses Tools And Trades For Rewards Added: Jan 31, 2026

• news.mongabay.com/2026/01/blew-us-away-researchers-find-nitrogen-boost-spurs-faster-tropical-forest-growth/amp/ Added: Jan 31, 2026

  ‘Blew us away’: Researchers find nitrogen boost spurs faster tropical forest growth

  Site: Conservation news

  Regenerating tropical forests pull carbon dioxide from the air, but a lack of nitrogen in the soil could slow this process, a new Nature Communications study has found. Restoring tropical forests is widely seen as one of the most important ways to mitigate climate change, but scientists still don’t fully understand how nutrient availability may […]

  

• Democratic Overreach on Immigration Beckons | National Review Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Democratic Overreach on Immigration Beckons | National Review

  

• Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. on X: "The @WaysandMeansGOP held a hearing on the impact of rising health care costs on patients and families.  We have to have serious reform of health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers, and their subsidiaries to reduce the cost of healthcare. https://t.co/pQEE4WgQtk" / X Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Michael Goodwin:Mayor Mamdani’s refusal to shelter homeless New Yorkers has Gotham under mayhem Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani’s political honeymoon is over — homeless deaths reveal his arrogance

  Site: New York Post

  With homeless New Yorkers freezing to death on the streets after Mayor Mamdani foolishly told police and social workers not to break up their encampments and move them to shelters.

  

• This Giant Star Fooled the Entire Astronomy World, Here’s What’s Really Going On Added: Jan 31, 2026

  This Giant Star Fooled the Entire Astronomy World, Here’s What’s Really Going On

  Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel

  Astronomers believed WOH G64 was about to go supernova, but new data revealed a hidden companion star behind its bizarre behavior.

  

• Altered Alex Pretti Photograph: Why Do People Volunteer to Create This Propaganda | National Review Added: Jan 31, 2026

  Altered Alex Pretti Photograph: Why Do People Volunteer to Create This Propaganda | National Review

  

• Rob Jenkins on X: "Here’s the post that @elonmusk reposted a screenshot of, if anybody wants to repost the actual thing." / X Added: Feb 1, 2026

  Site: X (formerly Twitter)

  

• Elon Musk on X: "Well said" / X Added: Feb 1, 2026

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• John Cleese on X: "You can disagree with someone without hating them That's the basis of liberal democracy Using the suffix '-phobic' suggests fear and disgust I have been labelled trans-phobic by illiterates I asked them if the fact they disagreed with me means they are Cleese-phobic I didn't" / X Added: Feb 1, 2026

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• Leftist BLOWS UP HAND Trying To Throw Explosive Back At ICE - YouTube Added: Feb 1, 2026

  Leftist BLOWS UP HAND Trying To Throw Explosive Back At ICE

  Site: YouTube

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• HERE’S THE PROOF - YouTube Added: Feb 1, 2026

  HERE’S THE PROOF

  Site: YouTube

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• Who is "The Collector"? Was He The Spark Igniting The Russia/Ukraine War? - YouTube Added: Feb 1, 2026

  Who is "The Collector"? Was He The Spark Igniting The Russia/Ukraine War?

  Site: YouTube

  Hans Mahncke, author of “Swiftboating America”, joins Miranda Devine to discuss how if President Trump wasn't handicapped by Russiagate, the Russia/Ukraine w...

  

• Jake Wurzak on X: "Jason is completely wrong. You’re a sharp guy but this take is clueless when you’ve never run a business with hundreds of hourly workers. American entrepreneurs aren’t “causing” illegal immigration. I run companies with ~700 hourly employees. We pay fair, competitive" / X Added: Feb 1, 2026

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• SHE’S GONE INSANE - YouTube Added: Feb 1, 2026

  SHE’S GONE INSANE

  Site: YouTube

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• THIS IS PLANNED - YouTube Added: Feb 1, 2026

  THIS IS PLANNED

  Site: YouTube

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• Amazon.com: How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will (Audible Audio Edition): John Kennedy, John Kennedy, Broadside Books: Books Added: Feb 1, 2026

  Amazon.com: How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will (Audible Audio Edition): John Kennedy, John Kennedy, Broadside Books: Books

  Amazon.com: How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will (Audible Audio Edition): John Kennedy, John Kennedy, Broadside Books: Books

  

• Trump defends tariffs in Wall Street Journal op-ed Added: Feb 1, 2026

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• Donald J. Trump: My Tariffs Have Brought America Back - WSJ Added: Feb 1, 2026

• Fox News' Jacqui Henrich Engaged to Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (Exclusive) Added: Feb 1, 2026

  Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich Gets Engaged to Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in Lavender Field in Provence (Exclusive)

  Site: People.com

  Fox News senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich is engaged to republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania. Heinrich tells PEOPLE that Fitzpatrick proposed in the middle of a lavender field in Valensole, France, on June 29.

  

• Sen. Kennedy: The ‘Karen wing’ is in FULL CONTROL of the Dems | Fox News Video Added: Feb 1, 2026

  Sen. Kennedy: The ‘Karen wing’ is in FULL CONTROL of the Dems | Fox News Video

  Site: Fox News

  Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., discusses the Democratic Party’s opposition to ICE amid escalating tensions in Minnesota.