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The Invisible LeashOpenAI’s $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s io Products isn’t just the largest deal in the company’s history—it’s the ritual completion of what I warned about in “Node Without Consent.” Ive, the legendary designer behind the iPhone, iPad, and Apple’s most iconic products, is now building something far more insidious. If “Node Without Consent” revealed the architecture of biodigital control, this moment represents its activation—where the theoretical framework snaps shut and the dream of human agency must now be fought for at the level of metaphysics itself.The philosophical sleight-of-hand is breathtaking. Ive frames their goal as building “a...

The person many regard as the dumbest senator in America ended up red-faced after trying to humiliate the nation’s secretary of defense with an inane question at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. As NBC News reported, Pete Hegseth testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the Pentagon’s budget request. During the hearing, he was hit with multiple questions regarding the Iran-Israel conflict and military deployments in Los Angeles. The latter became particularly fiery once dim-witted Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) got her chance to interrogate the defense secretary. Hirono decided to try to humiliate Hegseth with a sick question designed...

Police are on scene and investigating a break-in and attempted burglary at the home of slain Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman. Vance Boelter, 57, shot and killed Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband early Saturday morning. Boelter also shot and wounded Democrat State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. Hortman’s home had been boarded up with plywood after investigators moved out all of the evidence of the homicide. Late Tuesday evening and overnight into Wednesday, an individual pried off the plywood on a back window of the Hortman home. Investigators are unclear whether the individual stole anything. The...

'Let's talk about basketball!' Caitlin Clark bristles in news conference Fever star Caitlin Clark gets frustrated with reporters for asking about scuffles with the Sun despite Indiana advancing to the Commissioner's Cup championship.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.

Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC · 🚨NEW: Jim Acosta drags Trump's deceased ex-wife Ivana into *UNHINGED* rant about immigration raids🚨 "How many immigrants has he married? He's got one buried at his golf course in New Jersey!" "Immigrants always doing the jobs that Americans don't wanna do!" @DailyCaller Show more 11:26 AM · Jun 17, 2025

University of Seville professor José María Martín-Olalla has published a new solution to a 120-year-old problem regarding matter states at absolute zero that disproves a previous solution offered by famed scientist Albert Einstein. The controversy originally arose in 1905 when Walther Nernst proposed a new approach to the properties of matter as entropy causes them to approach absolute zero (minus 273 degrees Celsius). Dubbed Nerst’s theorem, the concept argued that absolute zero must be inaccessible, or one could theoretically construct an engine that uses absolute zero as a coolant to convert all heat energy into work. This idea goes directly...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin should first end the war that Russia started in Ukraine before talking about mediating in the Middle East, stated US President Donald Trump during a conversation with journalists, APA reports citing RBC Ukraine. "I spoke to Putin yesterday, he offered to help mediate. I said, do me a favor — mediate your own. Let's mediate Russia first, OK? I said, 'Vladimir, let's mediate Russia first, you can worry about this later," Trump said. According to the US President, he told Putin that he should deal with Russia first before involving himself elsewhere. "So many people have...

Democrats left a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday after delivering their opening statements, refusing to participate in an inquiry into whether their party helped conceal President Biden’s cognitive decline. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Peter Welch (D-VT) attended the opening statements of Wednesday morning’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on President Biden’s cognitive fitness. Durbin walked out shortly after delivering remarks, during which he played a video montage attempting to portray former President Donald Trump as mentally unfit. He had already dismissed the hearing, stating, “It a waste of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s time.” Senator Welch echoed those concerns, saying:...

The Federal Reserve delivered an unexpected blow to hopes for lower borrowing costs in the future, projecting higher inflation and higher interest rates in updated forecasts released Wednesday. While policymakers left their benchmark rate unchanged and signaled that they may cut in the second half of this year, forecasts of officials showed they expect fewer cuts next year and the year after that. The central bank held the federal funds target at 4.25 to 4.50 percent, its level since the December rate cut. But the accompanying economic projections revealed rising concern that inflation is not receding fast enough—and that rates...

Anti-Israel journos with the intelligence quotient of a moth flying face-first into a bug lamp are just inventing stupid new ways to stir up furor at the Jewish State for daring to defend itself against terrorists obsessed with its obliteration. The Guardian’s climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani put out a staggering piece of mind-numbing, fallacious eco-drivel May 30 that insults common sense. “Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries,” cried Lahkani. Writing as if she found some kind of proverbial silver bullet, she flexed a new bonkers study to claim that the “carbon footprint...

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Texas is slated to capture a massive chunk of a $60 billion semiconductor investment by Texas Instruments, and plants in Sherman and Richardson are poised to get the lion's share of the spending. Dallas-based TI (Nasdaq: TXN) revealed June 18 it has committed more than $60 billion across three semiconductor complexes in Richardson and Sherman, Texas, and Levi, Utah. The funding appears to be the largest semiconductor investment in the U.S. and would support more than 60,000 jobs across the country. The company has dedicated about $40 billion of the investment to its Sherman campus, $6 billion to its Richardson...

Tens of thousands of animals found dead, mutilated, and gutted. Who is doing it and why? In this shocking episode, Tucker searches for answers to the cattle mutilation mystery.

Explanation: What's that unusual spot on the Moon? It's the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous Moon in 2019. The featured image was taken from Palo Alto, California, USA with an exposure time of only 1/667 of a second. In contrast, the duration of the transit of the ISS across the entire Moon was about half a second. A close inspection of this unusually crisp ISS silhouette will reveal the outlines of numerous solar panels and trusses. The bright crater Tycho is visible on the lower left,...

The trust fund Social Security relies on to pay retirement benefits may be depleted in 2033, according to an annual report released by the Social Security Board of Trustees on Wednesday. That is unchanged from last year’s projections. At that time, 77% of those benefits will be payable, according to the report. Social Security’s combined trust funds — the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance trust funds — will have enough revenue to pay scheduled benefits and administrative costs until 2034, according to the report. That is one year earlier than projected last year. At that time, 81% of...

Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, a confidential report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog said Saturday. In a separate report, the agency called on Tehran to urgently change course and comply with its years-long probe. The report comes at a sensitive time, as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to reach a deal with Tehran to limit its nuclear program. The two sides have held several rounds of talks, so far without agreement. The report by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency — which was seen by The Associated Press —...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson President Trump’s massive new American flag is officially up and flying high at the White House 🇺🇸 From Margo Martin 12:16 PM · Jun 18, 2025

In a rare display of bipartisanship, Representatives Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) have introduced a concurrent War Powers Resolution directing President Trump to withdraw U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities involving Iran unless expressly authorized by Congress. The measure comes in the wake of Operation Rising Lion — the name given by Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu for Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities on June 13, which has quickly escalated into a tit-for-tat exchange of missiles between the two nations.Massie and Khanna’s resolution invokes the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and asserts that the president must terminate any...

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