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There was no reason for the president to start publicly scolding the pontiff again, but he apparently couldn’t help himself. Source link

We Could Use His Spirit Now Source link

And what you can do about it(besides complaining). Palantir dropped a manifesto last weekend. 22 bullet points distilled from Alex Karp’s book The Technological Republic, posted to X with the casual framing of “because we get asked a lot.” I haven’t seen a reaction so widespread, unanimously opposed and viscerally aghast since James Damore’s infamous “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”. The usual suspects lost their shit. Engadget called it “the ramblings of a comic book villain.” TechCrunch clutched its pearls at the bits about “regressive” cultures and “vacant and hollow pluralism.” Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins observed, (via Bluesky, of course), that these aren’t philosophical musings…

The report that Rudy Giuliani has turned a corner in his battle with pneumonia and is breathing on his own in a Florida hospital is certainly worth cheering. Source link

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued The New York Times on Tuesday, escalating a months-long investigation into the newsroom and advancing a discrimination case the paper has cast as politically motivated. Source link

Old-growth forest in the Columbia Wilderness Area, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. In a letter to the Forest Service Chief, conservation organizations, trail groups, and retired agency wilderness specialists express strong opposition to requests from commercial outfitters and guides for chainsaw use in designated Wilderness MISSOULA, MONTANA—Nearly 100 conservation organizations, trail groups, and respected U.S. Forest Service specialists with decades of wilderness administration expertise have written a letter to U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz expressing strong opposition to requests from commercial outfitters and guides for chainsaw use in designated Wilderness. The letter comes on the heels of a Wilderness…

“Journalism still f— matters!” screams investigative reporter Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway) after she and her entire team get fired by their local newspaper over text message due to budgetary issues. “Everyone I know is going through this,” one of her colleagues confesses. Read Full Article ⟶ Source link

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to crack down on ultra-processed foods, a key policy priority of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. The biggest obstacle standing in his way? Figuring out what an ultra-processed food is. “By April, we will have a federal definition of ultra-processed foods,” RFK Jr. promised on The Joe Rogan Experience in February. “Every food in your grocery store will have a label on it—it’ll have maybe a green light, red light, or yellow light, telling you whether or not it’s going to be good for you.” The agency…

As the Education Department tries to reform the opaque accreditation world, stakeholders worry that the Trump administration will go too far. Source link

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 of…