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[ad_1] When I arrived at last week’s AI Psychosis Summit in New York City, I found no group therapy sessions or zen gardens, only a DJ, a room full of builders, and a cooler of Diet Cokes.  The event was held in the remnants of a shuttered bank in Chinatown. While still outside, I could see through the graffiti-stained window white lines of code projected on a hanging screen. Pasted by the entryway were AI psychosis memes, their connections mapped with red string.   AI psychosis memes connected by red string were pasted by the entryway. (Meagan O’Rourke/Reason) Around the edges…

[ad_1] Pebble mosaic depicting the Greek hero Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasos killing the monster Chimera, c. 300–270 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Rhodes, Greece. Public Domain. Prologue According to Homer, Chimera was a hybrid monster made up of a lion, the head of a fire-breathing goat sprouting on the back of the lion and a dragon in the tail of the monster (Iliad 6.160-183). Such a monster of divine origins had no place in Greek society. Hero Bellerophon riding his winged horse Pegasos slayed Chimera. The symbolic significance of this myth is that the gods sometimes send monsters to…

[ad_1] Doctors told me I was transgender at 13, writes Jonni Skinner. I’m 23 now, permanently altered, and fighting to make sure it never happens to another child. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Framing the Indiana primary victories as ‘retribution’ from President Trump is all wrong. Voters side with Trump when he sides with us. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Supreme Court Judgments Have Slowly Erased Voting Rights [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Are Government-Run Grocery Stores Coming to D.C.? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] The U.S. war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of U.S. hegemonic power. By Chris HedgesThe Chris Hedges Report The global economic impacts of the American-Israeli war on Iran are already being felt, particularly in Asia, through shortages of fuel and other necessities, the closure of factories and the loss of jobs. We are now on a path heading for a global recession, or even worse, a global depression. To sort out what potentially lies ahead and the likelihood…

[ad_1] Morning in the Beartooth-Absaroka Range, Montana. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Alliance for the Wild Rockies,  Dr. Jesse Logan, Native Ecosystems Council, and the Gallatin Wildlife Association secured another significant win for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem after the Forest Service withdrew a deforestation project that would have affected one of the healthiest whitebark pine forests in the nation and thousands of acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas on the northeast border of Yellowstone National Park. Plaintiffs sued to stop this project in March, alleging, in part, that the project ignored legally-mandated protections for whitebark pine, grizzly bears, and lynx under both…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump vowed revenge when the Republican supermajority in the Indiana state Senate embarrassed him in December, voting down Trump’s demands to redraw the state’s congressional maps to help the party win two more seats. Read Full Article ⟶ [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Ultra low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines shut down May 2, citing rising jet fuel prices. The Trump administration, which had floated bailing out the airline, blamed the previous administration, saying Democrats blocked a deal that could have saved the company. “This is just more of the mess we inherited from the Biden administration,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Fox News interview the following day. He pointed to a letter Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent to the Transportation Department in 2022, calling on the agency to oppose a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit Airlines. Bessent said former Transportation…