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Future Society

Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight

"My favorite thing about radium water is it pulls the vaccine toxicity out of the body."

Biology

Rag Tag Team of Biologists Who Lost Funding Because of Trump Turned a Motel Room into Makeshift Lab and Made a Groundbreaking Discovery

Talk about resourcefulness.

Privacy

Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera

"Given how the situation was with weapons and 4 o'clock in the morning, I mean, it's shocking."

Future Society

News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as “Journalism” Is a Deep Moral Disgrace

This needs to stop now.

Ethics

Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots

"Fabricating creator profiles (such as by using AI-generated headshots, made-up names, or false credentials to make content appear as if it was written by human experts) is a form of deception."

The Industrialists

An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires

"When you feel like you can't buy a home, or you feel like you can't get ahead, you will all of a sudden be attracted to policies you never thought you would be attracted to."

Education

The Tech Industry’s Aggressive Push to Integrate AI Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster

A "pipeline of future users."

Ethics

The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It

"Their testimony of pain is absolutely horrendous."

Ethics

Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a “Pet Incinerator”?

"My mind went to a more 'bad dogs get put in the pet incinerator' situation.'"

Ethics

AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand

"You can go line by line and it's like nope, nope, nope."

Ethics

Meta Is Using Its Massive AI Data Centers to Avoid Paying Billions of Dollars in Taxes

As if AI data centers alone weren't infuriating enough.

Robotics

Government Officials Order the Robot Cage Fights to Stop, Organizers Say

"We made it boys."

Ethics

Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project

It's "gross incompetence," or "gross disregard" for the law. Or both.

Biology

In Case You Still Have Faith in Humanity, Here’s an Influencer “Riding” a Sea Turtle While It Tries to Lay Eggs

"The desire for fame and viral views has pushed many to do evil and stupid acts."

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Was Reportedly Pushed Into Invading Venezuela by Conversation With Grok

The Emperor has AI psychosis.

Elon Musk

Mother of Elon Musk’s Children Says She Has Been “Let Go” by the Billionaire

"I will miss him dearly."

Boeing

NASA Has Been So Thoroughly Screwed by Boeing’s Disastrous Starliner That It’s Now Throwing Its Entire Access to Space Into Question

SpaceX is getting ready to pull the rug out.

Future Society

Horde of Obsolete Humanoid Robots Made to Hurl Themselves Into Vat of Liquid Steel for Total Obliteration

That's one way to get rid of old inventory.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Launched an America.org “Super Intelligence” Chatbot and It Immediately Disagrees With Him on Huge Topics, Including Whether He Won the 2020 Election

A "super intelligence" can't be wrong, right?

Ethics

The AI Chatbots That Tech Companies Are Aggressively Pushing to Billions of Users Appear to Be Causing Serious Psychological Harms, New Research Finds

Extensive AI use has been linked to "severe negative outcomes," researchers argue.