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The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 13-page answer did not deny whether the Trump administration has considered such plans, identify whether responsive records exist or offer a timeline for producing th...

When Elon first took over Twitter with grand plans to “bring back free speech,” I tried to help him run through the standard content moderation learning curve that basically every site …

I love everything about this. I love the way this ICE officer was picked up. I love the fact that his lawyer claims an arrest is the same thing as “surrendering.” And I especially love …

This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the…

Contrary to the “worst of the worst” posturing presented by the Trump administration, it’s long been known that immigrants (both legal or otherwise) commit fewer crimes than natur…

By now it’s old hat to point out that the mainstream media bends over backwards to pretend that Donald Trump is a “normal” president. The number of times you could point to the co…

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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Grim Look Toward 2028 JD Vance got what he wanted: a bunch...

Communities are different online and off, and pluralism that thrives in the real world can turn toxic in the digital world.

Across Europe, public administrations have already decided what their digital infrastructure runs on, and it is PHP

A routine John Doe lawsuit could become part of Strike 3 Holdings' $446 million AI training case against Meta.

A whistleblower complaint released this morning by the office of Sen. Richard...

As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don’t know any better, it has had to lower hiring standar…

The “worst of the worst” are coming for the “worst of the worst.” Of course, this administration has completely given up on this pretense, despite sending out lots of noisy …

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Po…

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After the bruising Michigan Senate primary, a new Fox News poll was...

FDA’s investigation is ongoing.

Austin City Limits mourns the loss of Dolly Parton, the legendary singer, songwriter, musician and cultural icon. When Dolly Parton made her long-awaited ACL debut on December 5, 2000 for a Season…

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More websites don’t create more reach. They dilute authority, clarity and investment. Every digital boundary must earn the cost of its existence.

Hasan Piker rejects criticism of his views on pro-Israel, Jewish institutions.

The conservative justices are reserving for themselves the power to decide whether Trump can hijack the 2026 midterms.

Thousands of acres of currently protected national forest land in Michigan could be opened to road construction and logging under a proposal from the U.S. Forest Service to rescind a 25-year-old rule.

Community Town Hall The University of Michigan welcomes members of the Ypsilanti Township community to a town hall to learn more about […]

Volunteers have been monitoring calls from eight amphibians in the Rouge River watershed for decades. Four frogs appear to be declining while three frogs and one toad may be increasing in numbers.

American tourists keep on riding the post-COVID travel wave.

MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it

Super El Niño continues to strengthen as new forecasts push toward record levels, with Fall and Winter 2026/2027 impacts emerging across the United States, Canada, and Europe

Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.

Exclusive: Companies that kept policies did just as well financially, even after Trump’s executive order, as those that didn’t

Lambchop and Shari Lewis talking about sex and singing a Johnny Cash song on an episode of Playboy After Dark. The episode first aired Merch 3, 1970. To see the full episode, go here:…

The median web page has grown 8% in one year. How does this affect your Core Web Vitals, your search rank, your business and your users?

On Oct. 18, 2025, ICE arrested and detained Jose Pedro Hernandez Lupercio in Brethren, Mich., along the Manistee River — and both records and official statements indicate that Michigan Department of…

Emails suggest a closer and longer relationship than previously known between the LinkedIn founder and the disgraced financier.

The letter revives the same mortgage-fraud allegations that formed the basis of Trump's earlier effort to remove Cook.