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The hidden, horrifying world behind all those recruitment scam texts
If you own a cellphone, there’s a good chance you’ve gotten The Text: a random recruiter, sending a friendly message with an incredible job opportunity to make a lot of money for just a little bit of work. If it seems too good to be true, that’s because it is. It’s an employment scam. If […]
How AI might actually start a nuclear war
For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires nuclear missiles at America. WOPR from WarGames nearly starts a nuclear war because of a miscommunication. Kathryn Bigelow’s recent release, House […]
What the government shutdown means for air travel
Due to the longest shutdown of the federal government in American history, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced this week that he will be reducing the total number of flights by 10 percent at 40 major airports. The move begins on Friday morning, and will impact roughly 3,500 to 4,000 flights daily. “This is proactive,” Duffy […]
Voters signed up to deport criminals, not grandmas
When President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, many American voters wanted immigration reduced, and Trump quickly complied. He boosted funding for immigration enforcement, opened new detention centers, and pushed more Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as Customs and Border Patrol troops, into US cities. While American disapproval of immigration was key to Trump […]
The Democrats’ big election revealed a hidden constraint on Trump
So far, the biggest successes against President Donald Trump’s second-term assault on democracy have come not from Congress and the Supreme Court, but more unusual sources: lower-court judges, “No Kings” protests, a Disney+ subscriber boycott, and Trump’s own indiscipline and incompetence. After the 2025 elections, we can add the states to the list. And in […]