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  • Anti-Trump Channel Tops YouTube Charts

    03/12/2025 11:45:56 AM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 39 replies
    Newsweek ^ | March 12, 2025 | Ewan Palmer
    MeidasTouch, a progressive media network that is highly critical of President Donald Trump, has been named YouTube's most popular news and politics channel over the past three days, just ahead of Fox News. On Sunday, MeidasTouch accumulated more than 9.6 million views and 543,000 likes on its channel. These figures increased to more than 11.6 million views and 672,000 likes on Monday. On Tuesday, MeidasTouch uploaded multiple videos with titles such as "Fox News COLLAPSES ON AIR as Trump CRASHES ECONOMY" and "Trump holds DISASTER PRESSER with Musk as MARKETS CRASH." MeidasTouch co-founder Brett Meiselas told Newsweek in February: "People...
  • New Ideas from the Inventors

    03/12/2025 12:42:43 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 26 replies
    Popular Science Magazine ^ | January 1961 | Anonymous
    Straight from the "What will they think of next?" archive in January 1961...
  • Biden Didn't Sign the PARDONS!!

    03/12/2025 9:53:49 AM PDT · by Racketeer · 59 replies
    X ^ | March 11, 2025 | Kyle Becker
    BREAKING: @OversightPR finds that former President Biden’s pardons all have the same “autopen” signature: -Biden Family Members -Anthony Fauci -General Milley -J6 Committee The autopen findings could open up legal challenges to the validity of Biden’s pardons in a court of law. The U.S. Constitution requires a president be “present” for all legal signatures.
  • Oscars 2025 : Barron & Donald Trump's Live Singing–America will be Great Again with Jesus (Fake but beautiful AI video)

    03/11/2025 6:24:29 PM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 104 replies
    Just stumbled upon this. It is fake, of course, but beautiful.
  • USAID employees told to burn, shred and destroy classified documents

    03/11/2025 4:07:14 PM PDT · by Libloather · 59 replies
    Msnbc ^ | 3/11/25 | Vaughn Hillyard
    Vaughn Hillyard, NBC News Correspondent joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the breaking news that the Department of Education has mandated all employees out of headquarters by 6pm today, citing security concerns. Along with news that USAID is now instructing staff to shred or burn all classified documents.
  • 24-year-old ‘mukbang’ streamer dies from obesity-related issues: report

    03/11/2025 3:26:46 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 29 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 11, 2025 | Shane Galvin
    A 24-year-old extreme eater, who gained fame on TikTok, died due to complications from obesity, according to a report. Efecan Kultur, 24, well known in his native Turkey for his ‘mukbang’ streams, in which he would gorge on massive amounts of food — died on Mar. 7 after spending three months in the hospital due to obesity-related health problems, according to Turkiye Today, citing a post on TikTok. Amassing both a mammoth weight and following, with millions of views on TikTok, Kultur was forced to stop streaming due to being bed-ridden with health issues, such as bruising and breathing difficulties....
  • A Dev Built a Kill Switch That Activated When He Got Fired. Now He’s Convicted of Criminal Sabotage

    03/11/2025 11:59:28 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 60 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | 10 March 2025 | AJ Dellinger
    We all, at some point, have fantasized about giving our employers a big middle finger on the way out the door, whether we leave on our own volition or are pushed out. Well, a 55-year-old Texas man allegedly built an automated bird flipper in the form of a kill switch that crashed his company’s systems and locked people out of their accounts when he was fired. Satisfying as that may have been, he now faces up to 10 years in prison, according to the Department of Justice, for setting the trip wire on his way out the door. Here’s the...
  • Arc Institute’s new AI can read and write the code of life...By training an AI on DNA, they've laid the foundation for "an app store for biology."

    03/11/2025 11:51:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    FreeThink ^ | March 01, 2025 | Kristin Houser
    It’s 2040. You’re at your doctor’s office, going over the results of your genome analysis. An advanced AI has identified patterns in your DNA code that suggest you’re at high risk of developing a certain disease in the future. Thankfully, the same AI can be used to design a treatment. Generative biology Biology—the study of living things—has been going on since prehistoric times when our ancestors first determined through trial and error which plants were food and which were poison. Over the next tens of millennia, scientists would develop increasingly advanced new tools to help them in their quest to...
  • The BACKLASH is so BAD The View Turns off all Comments for New Dylan Mulvaney Interview Our Reaction

    03/11/2025 11:15:18 AM PDT · by Morgana · 25 replies
    Conservative Twins ^ | March 10, 2025 | Conservative Twins
    The Spew turned of their comments on their Dylan Mulvaney interview, but we don't do leave your thoughts and opinion below.
  • "In the Air Tonight" by the Trump Team

    03/11/2025 9:03:55 AM PDT · by Tom Tetroxide · 5 replies
    I came across this video clip posted on Facebook that was originally published on TikTok. It is a cover of Phil Collins' song, "In the Air Tonight," played by the rock band, State of Mine, with the video of them playing it live at a concert. The group, Green Frog Labs, used A.I. to replace the band members' faces with Trump, Melania, Baron, and those on Team Trump with special guest appearances by Sandy (aka AOC), Schiff, and Geraldo. The video is titled.... "Justice is Coming!"
  • Signs of Things to Come: A Startup Has Created a Lab Where AI Runs Its Own Experiments

    03/10/2025 6:36:10 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/10/2025 | John Sexton
    We really do live on the verge of a new era of scientific progress. Case in point, a company called Lila Sciences was started two years ago with about $200 million in seed funding, but until very recently all of its activities have been kept under the radar. So what is Lila Sciences doing? They are training an AI in the scientific method and then prompting it to create new things using a special automated laboratory that the AI itself can operate. Lila’s mission is to achieve “scientific superintelligence” that is able to help scientists generate ideas and hypotheses and...
  • (New self deportation app) The Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden era CBP One cell phone app into a self deportation app called CBP Home

    03/10/2025 4:28:41 PM PDT · by dennisw · 5 replies
    Bill Melugin@X ^ | 3-10 | BillMelugin
    SCOOP: The Trump admin has repurposed the controversial Biden era CBP One cell phone app into a self deportation app called CBP Home that launches today. DHS tells me any migrants who had the prior CBP One app will have it auto update to this new app, & DHS can use data from prior CBP One registrations to track migrants for removal. The new app allows illegal aliens and migrants in the US to register with CBP to self deport. They fill out biographical information, including their countries of citizenship, which country they plan to return to, their alien registration...
  • Familiar faces of the internet's most-shared memes: What the 'success kid', 'disaster girl' and 'side-eyeing Chloe' look like now after going viral in the early 2000s

    03/10/2025 3:52:19 PM PDT · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | March 10, 2025 | Iwan Stone
    Their faces have become a byword for success, exasperation and drama after their photos were shared across the world. They say a picture says a thousand words, but in the early 2000s teenagers found that memes could become a new universal language. Connecting social-media users across the globe, the 'success-kid', 'disaster girl' and 'side-eyeing Chloe' became common fixtures in day-to-day life. But after the split-second image was captured, the real-lives behind iconic memes rarely leave the shadows of the internet. And now the childhood-favourites are all grown up - and while you may instantly recognise their internet personas they are...
  • How Do I Shut Down MS Edge?

    03/09/2025 5:20:00 PM PDT · by Angelino97 · 122 replies
    March 9, 2025
    Every time I boot up my Windows 11, I'm greeted by MS Edge. I can't seem to shut it down for good. I searched the internet, followed all the advice, but it doesn't work.I tried the following tips I found on the internet:1. Press Windows + R to launch the Run application. Type “regedit” in the dialogue box and press Enter.2. Once in the registry editor, navigate to the following file path: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet3. Now, look at the right side of the screen where different keys are listed. Search through them until you find “EnableActiveProbing”. Double-click it to open its properties.4....
  • How The Media Killed Itself

    03/09/2025 6:50:51 AM PDT · by Rev M. Bresciani · 57 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | March 9, 2025 | Daniel Greenfield
    Over the last twenty years, the media, an institution that had defined American politics in the twentieth century, began a decline that has wiped out its influence, its finances and its future. Ask anyone in the media what happened and they will blame the internet, social media, disinformation, echo chambers and other tired buzzwords directing the fault elsewhere. The reality is that the media killed itself.
  • Mar 9, 2025 - Daylight Saving Time Started

    03/08/2025 11:34:22 PM PST · by Morgana · 39 replies
    Time and Date .com ^ | March 8, 2025 | staff
    When local standard time was about to reach Sunday, March 9, 2025, 2:00:00 am clocks were turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00:00 am local daylight time instead. Sunrise and sunset were about 1 hour later on Mar 9, 2025 than the day before. There was more light in the evening and less light in the morning.
  • Trump Creates U.S. Strategic Hawk Tuah Coin Reserve

    03/08/2025 11:13:38 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 19 replies
    The Babylon Bee ^ | March 7, 2025 | The Babylon Bee
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of an ongoing effort to lead America into a safer and more prosperous future, President Donald Trump announced on Friday the creation of a Strategic U.S. Hawk Tuah Coin Reserve. The announcement came on the heels of Trump's previous order to create a similar reserve of Bitcoin, with sources saying Trump wanted to do the same for Hawk Tuah Coin to diversify the country's cryptocurrency portfolio. "We are going to win bigly with the Hawk Tuah Coin," President Trump from the Oval Office. "America has the best memecoins in the whole world, and now our...
  • Does anyone use Sling TV Service?

    03/07/2025 7:07:59 PM PST · by Jamestown1630 · 99 replies
    Does anyone here use Sling? We 'cut the cord' many years ago, and have used Roku since then; but I would like to have one or two channels that are only available to cable subscribers. (We don't want or need cable.) I'm just wondering if anyone here has been happy with Sling, and what one needs to make it work. I'm not interested in movies, just cable news, documentaries, history, Thanks very much.
  • Intuitive Machine’s lunar landing goes sideways again

    03/07/2025 6:48:21 AM PST · by Red Badger · 234 replies
    The Verge ^ | March 07, 2025 | Jess Weatherbed
    The second lunar lander made by Intuitive Machines has touched down on the Moon, but like the private aerospace company’s first spacecraft, it may not be upright. The Athena vehicle for Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission landed yesterday just 100 miles from the lunar south pole, but there’s uncertainty around its orientation which may impact the mission’s duration. “We don’t believe we’re in the correct attitude on the surface of the Moon yet again,” Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus said during the post-landing news conference.“We’re going to get a picture from the lunar reconnaissance orbital camera from above and we’ll confirm...
  • Broke Hunter Biden is a grifter who’s run out of grifts

    03/07/2025 2:11:52 AM PST · by Libloather · 43 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/06/25 | Post Editorial Board
    Spare a thought for Hunter Biden, the grifter who’s run out of grifts. In a court filing, Hunter claims he’s “millions of dollars” in debt — so broke he can’t afford to keep pursuing his lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler for putting much of the content of his infamous laptop on the Internet. Part of Hunter’s woes came from the LA fires torching his rental home, but the far bigger issue is that his income has slowed to a trickle. Wow: Now that the “big guy” is no longer in the White House, suddenly no one wants to buy Hunter’s art....