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The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn't Hear
Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. "All of this preparation, all of this work--it's actually come together and we're sailing east, finally," said Dane Hunter. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Last fall, hundreds of activists from all over the world crowded onto several dozen boats and set sail for Gaza. They thought that by sharing their journey through social media, they could capture the world's attention.
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Sam Altman's ChatGPT Couldn't Stop Obsessing Over Goblins
OpenAI desires less regulation, but it still doesn't know how its chatbot works. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. OpenAI admitted it had to develop a specific instruction in the code of its latest model of ChatGPT to stop it from repeatedly referencing "goblins, gremlins, and other creatures." In an explanation posted Wednesday, the company said the "strange habit" came from its chatbot personality feature --specifically for users who chose the "Nerdy" personality. You are an unapologetically nerdy, playful and wise AI mentor to a human.
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Victims Allege OpenAI Is Responsible for Mass Shooting
A new lawsuit underscores key questions about the Tumbler Ridge killer's use of ChatGPT. A community vigil in Tumbler Ridge two days after the rural community experienced one of Canada's deadliest shootings Paige Taylor White/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Victims of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting and their families sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US district court in San Francisco on Wednesday, claiming various negligence, product liability, and other violations. The civil complaints are the latest in a wave of litigation against OpenAI alleging that its globally popular chatbot, ChatGPT, helped people commit lethal violence. The complaints were filed by families of multiple victims wounded and killed at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada, where a suicidal 18-year-old opened fire on February 10.
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The Oligarchy Is Afraid of Itself Too
Musk v. Altman is a fight over how much power is too much in Silicon Valley. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. In May 2016, Elon Musk did something out of character that he has now spent years of his life trying to undo: He made what he believed to be a charitable donation. The world's richest man is also among its stingiest. Musk's private foundation often doles out less than the minimum percentage required by law.
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Trump's DOJ Indicted the SPLC. His Supporters Are Already Looking for the Next Target.
His Supporters Are Already Looking for the Next Target. "Grok has thoughts on who to look at next." Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel hold a press conference on their prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Justice Department this week announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging that the longtime civil rights watchdog had defrauded its own donors by secretly paying large sums of money to informants within various hate groups.
The US Military Is 3D Printing Warheads
Army infantry drone operators successfully test the bunker rupture and kinetic explosive round, delivered by an unmanned aerial system, during a live-fire demonstration at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., March 26, 2026. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The US Army announced this week that it has successfully 3D-printed a drone-based warhead prototype, and successfully used that weapon to make something explode. In a press release, the military called the weapon "a lightweight, powerful, and lethal warhead that could be deployed from a small, agile drone." In a video posted April 21 and captioned only "Multi-Purpose," a drone blows up a makeshift bunker on a military testing site.
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The Working Families Party Is Riding The Anti-AI Wave
Maurice Mitchell of the Working Families Party spoke at a press conference in Washington, DC on April 21, 2026. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Voters are anxious about losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, and key players across the political spectrum have started to notice. Now, the Working Families Party has rolled out a slate of policy proposals for the midterms, backed by more than two dozen Democratic candidates and representatives, that aims to address that anxiety. Their plan to counter AI-related job losses?
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Palantir Wants to Bring Back the Draft
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. On Sunday afternoon, Palantir, the defense-tech company that sells software to clients like ICE, the US military, and the Israeli military, decided to give us all a piece of their mind. The company's official X account published a list of excerpts from co-founder Alex Karp's 2025 book The book frames Silicon Valley's move into military technology as the righteous repayment of a "moral debt" owed to the country that built the tech billionaire class. "The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation." If you read past the post and dig into the book itself, you'll find that this sentence continues: "the engineering elite must also, Karp said, participate in "the articulation of a national project--what is this country, what are our values, and for what do we stand." That is to say: Men like Karp should decide what this country is. "If a US Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software," Palantir's Bill-Ackman-esque digression continued. It asserts that the future of American military dominance will not depend on nuclear deterrence, but on AI weaponry--possibly like the Palantir AI product that is reportedly used to help generate'kill lists' for the Israeli military in Gaza. Then, after arguing for the primacy of its own products--called " spy tech " by Palantir's critics--Karp suggests the remilitarization of the Axis Powers. "The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone," Karp's company account asserted. "The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price.
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I Believe in one God, and It's Not a Computer
How the data center boom plunged one small Pennsylvania town into chaos. Valley View Estates is set to be surrounded by data centers. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. "I don't like to see anyone upset," said Nick Farris of Provident Real Estate Advisors. He was sitting in the front of a crowd of roughly 150 inside Valley View High School's auditorium in Archbald, a town of about 7,500, huddled between two mountain ranges in Pennsylvania's Lackawanna Valley. Farris was there to represent the developer for Project Scott, one of many data center campuses coming to town. "I think that this is the best data center site in this area of the country, by far." The audience had been fairly quiet, bundled in thick coats against the late January cold. But as Farris spoke about data centers as a boon for communities, they began to laugh, drawing a rebuke from town officials. "What about the children?" someone shouted from the crowd. The children were watching from the walls; long banners of Valley View Performing Arts students hanging around the auditorium like championship pennants. Project Scott and four other data facilities will sit just a few thousand feet from the middle and high schools. He was referring to Lockheed Martin's 350,000-square-foot Missiles and Fire Control facility directly next to the high school, parts of which are highly contaminated . "That sucks too!" another attendee yelled back.
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A Clarinetist, a High School Student, and Some Climate Deniers Write a Science Paper
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