Do you remember when we were told that the “Reagan deficit” was going to destroy the economy? In the past two and one-third months ending October 15 the US national debt increased by $1 trillion.
Category: 28 October 2025
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WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
For a man supposedly intent on winning a Nobel Peace Prize, Donald Trump spends an extraordinary amount of time waging war, threatening to wage war, and fantasizing about waging war.
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SAME AMOUNT OF LAND, SAME NUMBER OF PLANTS, TRIPLE THE WHEAT
Globally, about one person in every 11 doesn’t have enough to eat and fully one-third of the world’s people are at risk of hunger, according to the United Nations.
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HOW LOSING CHANGES YOUR BRAIN – AND YOUR BEHAVIOR
Losing something—a game, a love, a parent, a job, money—is an experience we all have at some time. Now scientists at Japan's Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have isolated the impact that losing has on the brain and how it can change our behavior.
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THE LATEST CANDIDATE TO REPLACE PETRO-PLASTIC: BAMBOO
Science is producing a longer and longer list of candidates to replace plastics made from petroleum and natural gas. Thanks to work by scientists at Northeast Forestry University in Harbin, China, bamboo’s version has just moved up in the rankings.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: PARASITE AI COMPANIES CONTINUE BLEEDING GEN Z
Whether by scraping their content and data without compensation, or by replacing them on entry rungs in the work world, AI companies are accelerating the exploitation and functional destruction of young workers.
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CHINA’S AI INDUSTRY TARGETS AFRICA
Two Chinese tech powerhouses have combined to stake their country’s claim to Africa’s AI industry.
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WALMART SIGNS WITH CHATGPT
Walmart has become the latest retailer to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT without leaving the app.
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AI’S VOICE NOW SOUNDS ALL TOO HUMAN
On July 9, a woman sent $15,000 to someone she thought was her daughter, who was on the phone crying that she’d been in an accident and needed the money to stay out of jail.
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AN AI BECAME SELF-REFLECTIVE AND IMPROVED ITS PERFORMANCE
A coalition of AI scientists has trained an AI by Mistral, a French developer, to think before it speaks. Taking that pause has improved the AI’s ability to use common sense and doubled its score on a math test.