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Friday Nite Videos | December 19, 2025

Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI. The DOJ's Epstein File Stunt. Europe's Great Power Move: Ukraine Funding. Cover-Up | Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh. Geothermal Energy’s Massive Leap Forward.

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Sam Altman Is Shilling for OpenAI

Sam Altman wants to make a deal with us: he'll give us a utopian future, if we give him... everything. $750 billion in investment. Electricity. Our data. And if that utopia never comes, he'll profit off of the damage.

The DOJ's Epstein File Stunt

The Justice Department redacts most of partially released Epstein files

Europe's Great Power Move: Ukraine Funding

The EU's decision to secure the funding of Ukraine's war for the next two years is one of the most important developments of the entire year. It is a disaster for Russia, and it shows what Europe exerting itself as a strategic actor looks like in practice.

Cover-Up | Laura Poitras Investigates Seymour Hersh

Cover-Up is a political thriller that traces the explosive career of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, both portrait of a relentless journalist and an indictment of institutional violence.

Geothermal Energy’s Massive Leap Forward

Could geothermal soon overtake nuclear power? The new suite of technologies that could finally see it rolled out across the world.
 


 

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