Musk’s Chatbot Started Spouting Nazi Propaganda. That’s Not the Scariest Part. (Zeynep Tufekci, New York Times) Last Tuesday, when an account on X using the name Cindy Steinberg started cheering the ...

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As President Donald Trump sends mixed messages about immigration enforcement, ordering new raids on farms and hotels just days after saying he wouldn’t target those industries, he has hardly mentioned ...

The alleged Minnesota assassin was known as a ‘deeply religious’ Christian man. That should be an alarm bell for all of us. Right-Wing Extremism: Brutally Young (Jan Heidtmann, Iris Mayer, and ...

“Some people believe that the term anti-vaxxer is a pejorative,” the physician Robert Malone wrote on June 9. “I do not — I view it as high praise.” “The term ‘anti-vaxxer,’” he continued, “it is not ...

MIDDLE EAST · Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him · 12 Days of Attacks Later, Could Iran Make an Atomic Bomb? · Trump Warns U.S. Will Strike Again if Iran Resumes High-Level Uranium ...

Trump’s Iran Deal Withdrawal Comes Back to Haunt Him (Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy) Experts say the 2015 nuclear deal constrained Tehran’s nuclear ambitions better than the recent U.S. strikes. 12 ...

One thing I think that this attack signals is that there’s a big distinction between nuclear and non-nuclear states in that you can do whatever you want to a non-nuclear state. It would be much harder ...

What America Can Learn from Iran’s Failure (By Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic) The Iranian regime’s predicament shows what happens when conspiracies, rather than reality, shape decision making. The ...

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“Some people believe that the term anti-vaxxer is a pejorative,” the physician Robert Malone wrote on June 9. “I do not — I view it as high praise.” “The term ‘anti-vaxxer,’” he continued, “it is not ...

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