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Whale That Swam 20 Miles Up Washington River Is Found Dead
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in GeneralEach year, from mid-February to May, eastern North Pacific gray whales migrate northward along the West Coast, but in recent years more have been dying on the journey. Last year, 179 gray whales died during migration season, 18 of them in Washington State, said John Calambokidis, a research biologist with the Cascadia Research Collective, which had been…
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Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals
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in GeneralAs the war enters its fifth year, it’s time for Europe to take the fight to Putin on its own terms and tell Trump to get lost. “The question of how this war is going to end is actually an existential question for Europe,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, chair of this month’s Munich Security Conference. “It…
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Will Trump push the US and the world to breaking point?
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in GeneralTrump is also wrestling with another extraordinary potential adventure abroad. Aides have offered him options to enforce his red line with military action against Iran after he warned the US will “start shooting” if the regime cracks downs on rising protests. Despite his threats, hundreds of demonstrators have been killed.
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How a ‘polluted, dysfunctional’ farm let wildlife back in
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in GeneralA walk through the Knepp Estate, in southern England, could lead you past beaver wetlands, breeding herons and free-roaming Exmoor ponies — all accompanied by the distinctive cooing of a turtle dove. “It’s a sound that used to be part of our culture. Every person’s summer in England would have been characterized by that sound,”…
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Right-wing media silos leave MAGA flailing on ICE
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in GeneralThe Trump administration made a catastrophic miscalculation: They thought they could control the narrative through sheer force of lying. Now the cracks are showing everywhere. The great irony is that Trump’s 2024 achievement — expanding the Republican coalition — is being destroyed by his signature campaign promise of mass deportation executed with maximum cruelty. The…
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MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
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in GeneralThe federal government has released multiple recruitment videos featuring scripture verses. “What’s striking is less that the federal government is using Bible verses in its promotional videos than that the agency doing the recruiting is Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” Wehner argues. “The message the Trump administration is sending is not subtle: ICE is doing the…
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Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis
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in GeneralThe legacy of structural racism in Minneapolis was laid bare to the world at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street, the location where George Floyd’s neck was pinned to the ground by a police officer’s knee. But it is also imprinted in streets, parks and neighborhoods across the city – the result of…
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Trump e i miliardi dietro la «pace» Ucraina-Russia: dal petrolio di Lukoil alla centrale di Zaporizhzhia
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in GeneralGli affari di grossi investitori americani, in stretta collaborazione con la Casa Bianca e d’intesa con il Cremlino, stanno diventando sempre più leggibili
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AI data centers are swallowing the world’s memory and storage supply
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in GeneralAI data centers are swallowing the world’s memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years.
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Understanding why America’s biggest solar thermal project is coming to an end
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in GeneralWhy did Ivanpah fail despite massive investment, political support, and cutting-edge engineering? Ivanpah has become a cautionary example about timing, technology bets, politics, and the unforgiving realities of engineering at scale. Its closure is not the end of solar power, but it does show how quickly an industry can change, and how even bold ideas…
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Bannon: With MAGA Maximalism, The Civil War Will Play Out Inside The Democratic Party
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in GeneralThis is the age of Trump. He’s totally redefined politics and power in America with no political training because he was a populist and nationalist at the moment when populist nationalism was needed to stop the managed decline of the country by the elites,” Bannon said. “Does he need a third term to see that…
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Trump Is Wrong About Fentanyl in Almost Every Way
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in GeneralThe fentanyl story is based on an argument about history: The United States went from greatness to crisis because open-border Democrats betrayed the honest, hardworking people of America by exporting jobs and allowing in foreign drugs. Stopping the drugs, Mr. Trump wants us to believe, will let the wholesome, traditional American culture that he idealizes…
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US nuclear weapons testing can forever scar a nation. Just ask the Marshall Islands
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in GeneralFew people know the harm nuclear testing can do better than inhabitants of the Marshall Islands, a country of 1,200 islands and atolls in the Pacific, which was a US-administered trust territory of the United Nations from 1947 to 1986. As it developed its nuclear arsenal post-World War II, the US exploded 67 nuclear bombs…
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Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal
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in GeneralOpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further highlights just how power intensive the AI boom has become. It’s the latest partnership between OpenAI and a high-profile chip…
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Is AI really making electricity bills higher?
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in GeneralResidential electricity costs are on the rise, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The average price of electricity in America has increased 13% since 2022, with the cost of retail electricity expected to grow faster than the rate of inflation, the report says. Some regions, like the Pacific, Middle Atlantic and New England,…
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Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?
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in GeneralFrom brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently … […] The fundamental issue, Kosmyna says, is that as soon as a technology becomes available that makes our lives easier, we’re evolutionarily primed to use it. “Our brains love shortcuts, it’s in our…
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A history of Croke Park, Dublin
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in SportEmerging from Dublin airport, just-landed NFL fans will see glimpses of Croke Park on the horizon of the city’s northside. One of Dublin’s assets is that its skyline has not — yet — been disfigured by the mania for glass skyscrapers afflicting so many cities, so the top of Croke Park can be seen peeking…
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Population Decline Will Change the World for the Better
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in GeneralA future with fewer people offers increased opportunity and a healthier environment
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Nakba, la «catastrofe»: la storia (violenta) della cacciata dei palestinesi, nel 1948
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in GeneralQuello della «Nakba» è stato un capitolo ignorato per trent’anni dalla storiografia occidentale: ecco che cosa accadde, e come, tra gli ultimi mesi del 1947 e l’inizio del 1949
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AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
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in GeneralArtificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic says testing of its new system revealed it is sometimes willing to pursue “extremely harmful actions” such as attempting to blackmail engineers who say they will remove it.
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The hill where the idea of a Palestinian state may die
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in GeneralAtop a Palestinian village overlooking Jerusalem, Atallah Mazara’a ruminates about his long-held dream. His Bedouin village of Jabal al-Baba sits near the geographical center of the occupied West Bank, balanced between the north and south of what a future Palestinian state would be made up of. But with each passing day, that dream seems to…
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America’s Nuclear War Plan in the 1960s Was Utter Madness. It Still Is.
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in GeneralNuclear war is madness. Were a nuclear weapon to be launched at the United States, including from a rogue nuclear-armed nation like North Korea, American policy dictates a nuclear counterattack. This response would almost certainly set off a series of events that would quickly spiral out of control. “The world could end in the next couple…
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Carl Sagan Issues a Chilling Warning About the Decline of Scientific Thinking in America
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in GeneralNearly 20 years later, we have reached that point. Under the second Trump administration, DOGE has rushed to dismantle the scientific infrastructure of our government, haphazardly cutting the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Next, they’re going after our leading research universities, intentionally weakening the research engine that has fueled the…
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Trump announces new auto tariffs in a major trade war escalation
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in GeneralThe move didn’t come as a huge surprise to automakers. An executive at one of the automakers, who spoke on background to CNN on Wednesday, said they had already been working with the assumption that auto tariffs would take effect next week. “We were all kind of expecting April 2 to be our day,” said…
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Keep the lights on or mine Bitcoin? How crypto is starting to suck up clean energy
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in GeneralTo “mine” for digital currencies, powerful computers perform trillions of calculations per second. The more computer power miners have, the more profitable mining will be. This all adds up to huge amounts of electricity use. Where once Abkhazia was powered almost entirely by renewable hydropower, it’s now increasingly reliant on subsidized energy from Russia to help reduce…
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Jeff Koons Doesn’t Get It
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in GeneralWhile Koons may be a man on the moon, he’s looking back at Earth, oblivious to the vastness behind him, if only he would turn around. But perhaps I’m missing the point — after all, why would Koons turn around to face the chill of the infinite universe, when he has the whole world in the…
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The Ceaseless Optimism of Woody Guthrie’s Activist Life
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in GeneralSomehow, the poisonous American anger that swirled around Guthrie never corrupted that innate creative optimism. Empathy was his reliable muse.