Articles by zzzeek
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Here's Everything Elon Musk promised in 2025 – and failed to deliver (mashable.com)

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U.S. Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast, Escalating Pressure on Maduro (nytimes.com)

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Retracted: Safety Eval and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup for Humans (sciencedirect.com)

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ICE Offers Up to $280M to Immigrant-Tracking 'Bounty Hunter' Firms (wired.com)

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CDC to end all monkey research; will phase out HIV, infectious disease studies (science.org)

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Mark Zuckerberg's hate-speech gamble fuels Gen Z radicalization on Instagram (fortune.com)

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Indiana Professor Removed from Class over White Supremacy Lesson (nytimes.com)

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[flagged] Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls his company the first to be 'completely anti-woke' (businessinsider.com)

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Tennessee man arrested, accused of threatening a shooting, after posting meme (reason.com)

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Peter Thiel in 'Antichrist' talk says he told Elon Musk not to give to charity (reuters.com)

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Apple Takes Down ICE Tracking Apps Amid Trump Pressure Campaign (nytimes.com)

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White House ballroom construction to continue through shutdown, official says (go.com)

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Peter Thiel Wants Everyone to Think More About the Antichrist (wsj.com)

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US Gov acknowledges that 100K fee does not apply to existing H-1B visas holders [pdf] (uscis.gov)

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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After FCC Pressure (nytimes.com)

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NASA workers plan 3rd protest at D.C. headquarters on Sept. 15 to decry cuts (space.com)

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NASA: 'Clearest Sign' yet of Ancient Life on Mars in Rock Found by Perseverance (smithsonianmag.com)

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Peter Thiel and the Antichrist: Silicon Valley Apocalypse Hype (thenerdreich.com)

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OTC nasal spray seemed to cut Covid infections by 67% in mid-sized trial (arstechnica.com)

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Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel to lead 4-part series on the Antichrist (christianpost.com)

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Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump's Attacks on Science (nytimes.com)

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mRNA vaccines hold promise for many diseases. Now the tech is under fire (sciencenews.org)

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By opening this can of protein powder, you agree to our TOC / arbitration clause (bsky.app)

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The Playbook Used to 'Prove' Vaccines Cause Autism (nytimes.com)

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More National Guard Soldiers Head to D.C. and Prepare to Carry Weapons (wsj.com)

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Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study (reuters.com)

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Trump Has Made Himself Commander in Chief of the Chip Industry (nytimes.com)

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AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study (bloomberg.com)

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HHS cites list of studies as scientific justification for mRNA cancellation (statnews.com)

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Sony sues Tencent for allegedly ripping off 'Horizon' video games (reuters.com)

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Linode is freekin down today:( (linode.com)

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Instagram Temporarily Suspends Zohran Mamdani's Account (nycjournals.com)

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Smithsonian Fights Back Against $85M Space Shuttle Kipnapping to Texas (jalopnik.com)

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data (technologyreview.com)

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Grok Rolls Out Pornographic Anime Companion, Lands Dept of Defense Contract (rollingstone.com)

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'Tremendous uncertainty' for cancer research as US gov target mRNA vaccines (theguardian.com)

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Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows (nytimes.com)

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Alligator Alcatraz detainees allege inhumane conditions at detention center (cbsnews.com)

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Trump's BBB has $85M to move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Texas (space.com)

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Scientists tracking 'interstellar' object that's come from another solar system (independent.co.uk)

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[dupe] Make Fun of Them (wheresyoured.at)

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Strike Set Back Iran's Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says (nytimes.com)

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Officials concede they don't know the fate of Iran's uranium stockpile (nytimes.com)

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Trump says US forces bombed Iran nuclear sites (reuters.com)

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Ever-rising height of car bonnets a 'clear threat' to children, report says (theguardian.com)

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Projected Outcomes of Removing Fluoride from US Public Water Systems (jamanetwork.com)

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Louisiana lawmakers push 'chemtrail' ban legislation through the House (fox8live.com)

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[dupe] Ukraine destroys more than 40 military aircraft in drone attack deep in Russia (npr.org)

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Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding Is the Punk Rock of Software [video] (youtube.com)

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Tesla shareholders demand Elon Musk commits to 40-hour week (thetimes.com)

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New system issues 48,000 speeding tickets to MD drivers in the last 2 months (wjla.com)

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The Cancel Culture Panic: How an American Obsession Went Global (amazon.com)

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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station (wired.com)

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Federal judge halts Trump admin ban on Harvard's ability to enroll intl students (cnn.com)

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Coinbase's substantial data breach coincides with convenient TOS update (citationneeded.news)

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Elon Musk's Grok AI Can't Stop Talking About 'White Genocide' (wired.com)

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Warners Reverses Course: Changes Max's Name Back to HBO Max (hollywoodreporter.com)

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Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible (arstechnica.com)

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Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years (wired.com)

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Why I Am Leaving the USA (damemagazine.com)

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing (reuters.com)

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Autism evaluations are being canceled over fears about a national registry (statnews.com)

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Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits (eenews.net)

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Microsoft Drops Law Firm That Made a Deal with Trump from a Case (nytimes.com)

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Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi is free after judge orders his release (nbcnews.com)

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Ups says it's cutting 20k jobs amid reduction in Amazon shipments (cbsnews.com)

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Doge Is Now in Charge of U.S. National Parks (fodors.com)

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Why Aspen Aerogels canceled its LPO loan – and its Georgia factory (latitudemedia.com)

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No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim (statnews.com)

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Tesla (TSLA) stock surges on Elon's lies despite disastrous earnings (electrek.co)

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U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google (nytimes.com)

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RFK Jr. Knows Amazingly Little About Autism (motherjones.com)

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Apple, Nvidia, Dell, and Others Get a Tariffs Exemption Under New Rules (barrons.com)

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[flagged] RFK Jr says Deep State 'is real,' called FDA employees 'sock puppet' of industry (politico.com)

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This is How You Get a Chinese EV into the United States (wired.com)

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The CDC Has Been Gutted (wired.com)

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Tips for Travelers Entering the U.S. Now: Check Your Visa, Turn Off Your Phone (nytimes.com)

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Trump's USAID Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar (nytimes.com)

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Vaxart lays off 10% of staff after HHS demands halt to Covid vaccine trial (fiercebiotech.com)

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$1.4B is a lot to fall through the cracks, even for Tesla (ft.com)

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Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Across White House Complex (nytimes.com)

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Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to fed funding cuts (apnews.com)

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Trump admin deports migrants even as judge orders removals stopped (apnews.com)

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NASA, SpaceX delay flight that was to retrieve stuck astronauts (reuters.com)

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[flagged] ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests (apnews.com)

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New U.S. Tariffs Will Impact Consoles, GPUs, and Physical Games, Say Analysts (ign.com)

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Trump to shut down all 8k EV charging ports at federal govt buildings (electrek.co)

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Musk, after spat with astronaut, calls for deorbiting the ISS (politico.com)

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A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto (nytimes.com)

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Why Silicon Valley is bringing eugenics back (disconnect.blog)

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With Attack on Consumer Bureau, Musk Removes Obstacle to His 'X Money' Vision (nytimes.com)

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Elon Musk implies the US Government does not use SQL (twitter.com/elonmusk)

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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately (washingtonpost.com)

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[dupe] DOGE Staffer Resigns over Racist Posts (wsj.com)

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To Stop the Coup, We Must Be Clear About the Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four (techdirt.com)

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When It's Not Just a Coup but a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Violation Too (techdirt.com)

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Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday (nytimes.com)

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Elon's Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits US Government, Is Even More Dangerous (techdirt.com)

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Trump hits NIH with 'devastating' freezes on meetings, travel, comms, hiring (science.org)

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OpenMoxie – a local network hub for Moxie robot (open sourced by Moxie devs) (github.com/jbeghtol)