Earlier this week, president Donald Trump staged an impromptu infomercial in front of the White House in a desperate bid to prop up Elon Musk’s embattled carmaker, Tesla. The bizarre appearance demonstrated Trump’s unprecedented willingness to debase himself, putting on his best impression of a Tesla car salesman. The stunt wasn’t just an unprecedented display… Continue reading Trump: “Crooked Joe Sold Them Down the River With His Ridiculous All Electric Car Hoax”
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Elon Musk Has a Gaming Rig in His Government Office Where He’s Firing Workers for Being Lazy
Centibillionaire Elon Musk has been tearing through the federal government, operating under the theory that many of its workers have been doing little at work as they cash paychecks on the taxpayers’ dime. But it sounds like he may have been indulging in exactly the type of lazy misuse of the workday he’s weaponized in… Continue reading Elon Musk Has a Gaming Rig in His Government Office Where He’s Firing Workers for Being Lazy
Elon Musk Defends Hitler, Mao and Stalin
Unelected White House advisor Elon Musk retweeted a post on Thursday that blamed the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong on — we are not making this up — public sector workers. “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people,” the post, which he shared to his over 200 million… Continue reading Elon Musk Defends Hitler, Mao and Stalin
Trump Changes EPA Rules to Allow Vastly More Pollution
The Trump administration is massively rolling back environmental protection policies, accelerating an already heated race to the bottom. Trump’s appointed Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin announced 31 regulatory changes — allegedly the “biggest deregulatory action in US history” — in an apparent effort to maximize the amount of harmful pollution generated in the United… Continue reading Trump Changes EPA Rules to Allow Vastly More Pollution
Anthropic CEO Suggests That AI Deserves Workers’ Rights
Let’s assume that AI technologies have progressed to the point where models become near-indistinguishable from humans. In that situation, what would happen if we were to give a highly-advanced AI model a job that it didn’t want to do? Would it suck it up and just do it? Would it revolt? Or would it ask… Continue reading Anthropic CEO Suggests That AI Deserves Workers’ Rights
Facebook Is Desperately Trying to Keep You From Learning What’s in This Book
Facebook’s parent company Meta is desperately fighting to stop you from reading some bombshell allegations made against it in a new memoir — and right now, it’s winning. On Wednesday, the Mark Zuckerberg-owned company prevailed in an arbitration case, the outcome of which temporarily prohibits the memoir’s author, former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, from promoting or… Continue reading Facebook Is Desperately Trying to Keep You From Learning What’s in This Book
What Are the Ethics of Strapping VR Headsets on Inmates in Solitary Confinement?
Right now in the US, the total population held in prison is nearly 2 million people, which is over 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people… Continue reading What Are the Ethics of Strapping VR Headsets on Inmates in Solitary Confinement?
Elon Musk’s Grok AI Determines Which Political Party Has Performed Better for the Economy
Elon Musk’s “anti-woke” AI chatbot Grok is now apparently a Democratic operative. That’s our takeaway, at least, from Grok’s response to progressive activist Alex Cole after he tagged the chatbot on X and asked it whether Republicans or Democrats were “better for the economy in the last 30 years.” Grok was so eager to shill… Continue reading Elon Musk’s Grok AI Determines Which Political Party Has Performed Better for the Economy
An Entire Country Switched Over to Bitcoin and It’s Turned Into a Disaster
As the United States struggles to get even basic crypto legislation off the starting line, one small nation went all in on blockchain — and it’s going about as well as you’d expect. That country is El Salvador, home to the native Pipil people of Cuscatlán, ancient mangrove forests, and for four wild years, the crypto… Continue reading An Entire Country Switched Over to Bitcoin and It’s Turned Into a Disaster
JPMorgan Says Tesla’s Outlook Is Grim
America’s biggest bank is sounding the alarm on Tesla’s historic value loss under Elon Musk. As Forbes reports, JPMorgan said in a new note to clients that it’s never seen anything quite like the massive value plummet at Tesla, which lost $127 billion in a single day this week as its CEO’s politics become more… Continue reading JPMorgan Says Tesla’s Outlook Is Grim