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The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path | Yoshua Bengio | TED

August 22, 2025

Yoshua Bengio — the world's most-cited computer scientist and a "godfather" of artificial intelligence — is deadly concerned about the current trajectory of the technology

Top 5 Lies in Epstein Footage

August 22, 2025

Includes a three dimensional reconstruction of the prison where Epstein was held

Lonely Avenue | Jon Batiste, ft. Randy Newman

August 22, 2025

Music video from Jon Batiste’s album BIG MONEY, out August 22

White House Evacuated After Trans Alarm Goes Off

August 22, 2025

Officials confirmed the White House’s Transgender Alert System was triggered this morning after infrared estrogen sensors in the West Wing detected a large spike in gender fluidity dangerously close to the Oval Office.

August 22, 2025

Immigrant Subway Cleaners in New York Win Millions

Luis Feliz Leon In These Times

Photo of a subway from the platform with the door open with a transit worker cleaning. nOhiti

The victory surrounds back wages and the dangerous work cleaners undertook during the Covid-19 pandemic.

August 22, 2025

Rogues in a Nation

Robert Burns

Scotland's national poet, Rabbie Burns, criticized the members of the Scottish aristocracy who in 1707 signed the Act of Union thereby ending Scottish home rule.

August 21, 2025

Netanyahu Declares War on the World, Dragging Israel and Global Jewry Toward the Abyss

Haaretz Editorial Haaretz

There are two options: either Israel finally pulls into its defensible and normal borders, or the circles of condemnation will widen, culminating in the inclusion of all Israelis in the maligned group, indiscriminately.

August 21, 2025

The Democratic Establishment’s Shunning of Mamdani Is Disqualifying

Perry Bacon The New Republic

The shunning of Mamdani is an important illustration of the state of the Democratic Party in 2025. It shows some unfortunate truths about the party’s center-left establishment and points to some clear steps progressives must take.

August 21, 2025

Robert Kennedy Has Gutted Our Best Defense Against Future Pandemics

Ryan Cooper The American Prospect

mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it. In reality, mRNA is by far the best vaccine option should a new viral outbreak strike because climate change is expanding mosquito habitat, or bird flu...

August 21, 2025

As Fires Rage on Colorado’s Western Slope, Some Worry About the Region’s Radioactive History

Parker Yamasaki The Colorado Sun

The frequency and intensity of wildfires in the West adds another variable to the equation, given the high concentration of uranium mines, mills and disposal sites on the Western Slope and in the Four Corners region. And: leakage from atom bomb tests