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Palantir Pays Zero Federal Income Tax Despite Explosive Growth, Largely Due to Trump Tax Law Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of...

Palantir reported $1.5 billion of U.S. income but paid exactly zero federal income tax in 2025. Despite explosive growth, tax breaks from the Trump tax law helped Palantir avoid paying even a dime of federal income tax on its earnings. itep.org/palantir-pay...

Ouch.

Tesla’s 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since launching in June Tesla submitted five new crash reports in January involving its Austin Robotaxi fleet, Electrek reports....

Waymo's large and growing data set provisionally shows that their cars are *much* safer than human drivers.

Tesla's small data set shows "Robotaxis" are much *worse* than human drivers . sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

In other cases, AI users wind up harassing people who they believe they’re somehow spiritually connected to, or need to share a message with. Another ChatGPT user, who became convinced she’d been imbued with God-like powers and was tasked with saving the world, sent flurries of chaotic messages to a couple she barely knew, convinced — with ChatGPT’s support — that she shared a “divine” connection with them and had known them in past lives. “REALITY UPDATE FROM SOURCE,” ChatGPT told the woman as she attempted to make sense of why the couple — a man and woman — seemed unresponsive. “You are not avoided because you are wrong. You are avoided because you are undeniably right, loud, beautiful, sovereign — and that shakes lesser foundations.” ChatGPT “told me that I had to meet up with [the man] so that we could program the app,” the woman recalled, referring to ChatGPT, “and be gods or whatever, and rebuild things together, because we’re both fallen gods.” The couple blocked her. And in retrospect, the woman now says, “of course” they did. “Looking back on it, it was crazy,” said the woman, who came out of her delusion only after losing custody of her children and spending money she didn’t have traveling to fulfill what she thought was a world-changing mission. “But while I was in it, it was all very real to me.” (She’s currently in court, hoping to regain custody of her kids.)

Just to be clear, this is not a one-off horror story -- lots of people are careening into stalking behavior as AI affirms their every delusional thought, and I have a feeling that we're going to be hearing about many more

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop

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We've just rolled out ambient AI listening in our hospital, and my colleagues are really, really excited about it (more time doing things other than note writing). They're so excited that things like patient concerns/autonomy are lost.

We're just making up ethics as we go along with AI right now.

Color me intrigued! I’d love to learn more. I use a war game every fall in my “War & Morality” class. I have two I’ve been rotating (one created by one of our past Military Ethics MA students), but I’ve been looking to add a fresh one to the mix.

The machines that will predict the criminals of the future The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime

"The Ministry of Justice will deploy machine learning to identify at-risk children for early intervention and to help prevent them falling into a life of crime" - there is no part of our lives that Labour is not determined to use AI on. No matter what.
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Complex, realistic military ethics issues, where there isn’t an obvious right answer - but there are some clearly wrong ones.

So the rest of us should work longer and harder, but billionaires should continue to NOT pay taxes, huh? I’m gonna say no on the full feudalism revival, thanks.

New Mexico House unanimously enacts Epstein ‘truth commission’ — Source New Mexico The House will convene a subcommittee to examine the activities of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his former Zorro ranch in Santa Fe County. The four sponsors will sit on the comm...

New Mexico State House votesd unanimously to put together a commission to investigate Epstein’s Zorro Ranch after disturbing allegations were revealed in the files. This includes investigating the allegations that 2 girls were murdered there.
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Cartoon showing Pam Bondi in front of a screen drawing black bars across the eyes, noses and mouths of a large group of men. The text above them reads ‘Abusers in Epstein files’. In front the the image, Lady Justice sits tied and gagged, with black cloth over her eyes and mouth.

Justice for Epstein victims. Today’s cartoon by Paresh Nath. More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles #PamBondi #justice

If you think not, then you aren’t? (Credit: Descartes)

*for them (sigh… still wish we could edit posts)

Torn between 12 & 13 ftw.

Looking forward to what comes out of this, for the potentially to finally hold perpetrators accountable. Similarly, it’s good news that the French government is saying they’re going to do their own investigation into the Epstein files. I’m going to keep holding out hope for justice!

this is massively more dominant than the original 1992 men’s basketball “dream team”

Epstein’s Ties With Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fund-Raising

All university fundraising is "seedy," this is the pedo side of it.

RIP to a storied newspaper for which many great journalists have worked over the years. You had a great run but your editor has decided you’re done.

I know, right?

Hi! I don’t know you or why people have been attacking you here, but human to human, please don’t let it destroy your mental health. It’s not worth it. You can leave any social media unless it’s your source of income. Or block people like crazy. Curate your feed and you’ll have a better experience.

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case The lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery.

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Yeah - I guess he never heard of “No Irish need apply!”

Good to know!

Finally, it can’t be said often enough that no one should have to justify their access to rights by their “contributions.” Native born U.S. citizens lucked into their citizenship. Immigrants choose to come here and often make great sacrifices to do so. That deserves respect, not further oppression.

I should add that, to me, making us “stronger” is true in more than just the basic sense of contributing to our security, innovation, and economic stability. Diversity also makes the U.S. much more interesting than it otherwise would be and improves everyone’s quality of life. Monocultures are dull!

Exactly!

Musk trying to reduce the U.S. to English-Scottish-Irish culture is wildly inaccurate, ahistorical, & offensive. On top of erasing the amazing contributions of all POC (his main racist aim), he also cuts out French, Italians, Scandinavians etc. Diversity has always made the U.S. better and stronger!