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All the articles I've posted.
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The White House is airing Trump's campaign ads with your tax money
There is a 30 second commercial running on television right now. It opens with a moody black and white shot of Donald Trump staring into the camera. The audio comes from one of his rally speeches:…
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Secular life still needs a congregation
There is a hole in the week where church used to be.
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The D.C. Circuit made an AI company's lethal autonomous weapons ban a national security threat
On September 25, the D.C. Circuit upheld the Pentagon's decision to blacklist Anthropic after the company refused to let Claude be used for lethal autonomous warfare or mass surveillance of…
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Republicans keep voting for the Iran war they promise to end
Eleven votes. Two hundred and eight days. Congress still has not authorized the war Donald Trump started on February 28.
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Discord is now guessing your age from how you behave
Discord started assigning age groups to users this week, and the company says more than 90 percent of them will never have to show an ID, scan a face, or enter a credit card. That convenience has a…
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Interior pledged nearly $4 billion to kill offshore wind
The Associated Press reported that Donald Trump has said his goal is to stop any "windmills" from being built. In December 2025, his administration tried to make that happen by ordering five offshore…
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Apple built an unfixable eye into its flagship camera
There are six overlapping blades inside the new iPhone 18 Pro's main camera. Each is about the width of a human hair. Together they open and close to control how much light reaches the sensor. It is…
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The EPA asked Bayer to choose its own dicamba restrictions
The Environmental Protection Agency had to decide how to contain a weedkiller that escapes soybean and cotton fields, damages neighboring crops, and has twice lost federal approval in court. Its…
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Heaven is a bad answer to a real problem
Death is a problem. It cuts off unfinished lives and takes every future experience a person might have had. Calling that loss harmless empties the word harm until it means pain felt in the moment and…
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A chatbot made up a Chinese ship's cargo and the Pentagon nearly started a war over it
This spring, in the middle of the war with Iran, an analyst at US Special Operations Command asked a chatbot about a Chinese ship in the Middle East. The chatbot fused open-source information with…