NPR “Fresh Air” October 15, 2026 A fascinating interview with Atlantic writer Josh Tyrangiel by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air. Terry Gross mentions how Elon Musk cut Ukraine off from Starlink satellites and how both Musk and Bezos want to colonize the moon, including putting data centers in space. A very high brow, stimulating […]
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Awaiting the Crash?
Frédéric Lordon 09 July 2026Economics What is a bubble? It is a collective belief. What is a crash? It is the collapse of that belief. AI has given rise to two bubbles. There is a stock market bubble – the two highest-profile players, OpenAI and Anthropic, are expected to launch IPOs heralding astronomical market capitalizations […]
Best reader comment of the week of October 1, 2026
Cut and pasted from Moon of Alabama blog: While nearly a dozen incidents have been reported in total, the “escapes” reported by Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic happened during tests designed to measure the capabilities of the AI bots. Each of those tests was being conducted by a company known as Irregular, an Israeli AI […]
Peter Thiel tells Mathias Döpfner the only real way to slow AI is a one-world government, and that cure may be worse than the disease (via @mdmeets).
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Why I Am an AI Doomer
Greg Johnson • September 23, 2026 In Part: It is madness to create an Artificial Super Intelligence and hubris to think we can control it. To such an entity, the human race and all lesser life forms would be as primitive and trivial as gnats are to us. Sure, maybe such a being would be benevolent […]
Jeff Rense on AI – Yampolski And Coxon In New Warnings That AI Could ‘Kill Us All’ Soon
Why do these AI spokesholes sound like a hybrid of Ben Shapiro and some South Park character? The fast, clipped style of speaking seems affected. They seem desperate to tell us that their research into AI will kill billions of people. Why don’t they stop themselves from creating what they tell us will lead to […]
Israel wants ChatGPT to push its Gaza narrative – Politico
RT Published on August 16, 2026 Israel has spent tens of millions of dollars to boost its image in the US by seeking to influence how AI platforms portray the country, Politico has reported. US public attitudes toward Israel have deteriorated in recent years, first over its response to the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks […]
How the Epstein Network is Privatizing Government and Building the Surveillance State (w/Whitney Webb) |TCHR
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel August 6, 2026 Whitney Webb explains how Leslie Wexner privatized Ohio’s state government, and is using his position between the markets and the state to build out the ‘Silicon Heartland’.
Best reader comment of the week ending July 18, 2026
Cut and pasted from Moon of Alabama blog . . . . At the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war, we recalled a poem “To the common Man” by Julian Tuwim from almost 100 years ago, which serves as an anti-war manifesto warning against the involvement of ordinary people in a war of aggression: “(…) O […]
‘Strategic entrapment’: Dennis Kucinich on disastrous US-Israeli military merger
Jul 16, 2026 #TheGrayzone Former US Rep. Dennis Kucinich joins The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal to discuss Section 219, a measure insidiously inserted into the NDAA bill which will effectively merge the US and Israeli militaries across areas including AI, cyberwarfare, biotech, missile defense, and defense industrial production. Kucinch explains why the bill will shatter what’s […]
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