Is AI inherently bad? Of course not.

The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose?

Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming?

I doubt it.

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On the left: an image of a white star inside the red maple leaf. The background is gold and has a circuit board pattern. On the right: text that reads “Cohere is Canada’s biggest AI hope. Why is it so American? The company touts homegrown roots but leans on US hardware and partners.”

Fourteen publishers are suing Cohere for allegedly stealing their work to train AI that produced fake articles. Cohere says the lawsuit is “frivolous," but whether or not the case moves forward, it underscores how urgently Canada needs real AI oversight. thewalrus.ca/cohere-is-canada...

Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.

“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.”

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Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research Two long-lost organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach have been performed in Germany, roughly 320 years after the composer wrote them as a teenage music teacher. Entitled Chaconne in D minor BWV 1178 and Chaconne in G minor BWV 1179, the pieces were added to the official catalogue of Bach’s works on Monday and played in public for the first time in three centuries inside Leipzig’s St Thomas Church, where Bach is buried. Continue reading...

Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation

White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It. Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.

The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Knowledge Under Siege At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgentFor decades, efforts to quantify the value of u...

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Masked Israeli settlers destroyed property belonging to a dairy farm in Beit Lid in the occupied West Bank.

The U.N. humanitarian office said there were the most Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank in October since 2006. https://wapo.st/3WU0oDa

Militarism's Violence Poisons Everyone--Even Soldiers The systematic violence of American militarism has shaped all our lives, including the soldiers who have come to realize that they were used to perpetrate it.

We’ve become accustomed to believing that there is no other way except through violence. But that is patently false.

Senate Democrats Defect to Open the Government on Republican Terms Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex

We are joined by @jeetheer.bsky.social to discuss how 8 Senate Democrats defected to end the government shutdown, with very little in return from Republicans. We discuss the growing calls inside the party for Chuck Schumer to step down from leadership. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Trump threatens BBC with lawsuit amid editing scandal fallout Lawyers for Trump say the British government-supported broadcaster defamed the president in its report about Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021.

The BBC faces legal threats from President Trump after a documentary allegedly misrepresented his Jan. 6, 2021, speech, leading to two top network officials' resignation.

Ontario’s Post-Secondary Education Crisis in Five Figures | The Local Stagnant provincial funding, a domestic tuition freeze, cuts to international students, and expensive capital projects—the numbers behind the emergency in higher education.

Nearly two decades of stagnant provincial funding, a seven-year freeze on domestic tuition, and federal cuts to international student visas have left many of Ontario's colleges and universities in dire financial straits.

‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard Karin Immergut said earlier she ‘found no credible evidence’ that protests in Oregon city were out of control A federal judge in Oregon on Friday blocked Donald Trump from deploying national guard troops to Portland, ruling there was no evidence of widespread violence to justify federal intervention. The US district court judge, Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, delivered her final order in the case on Friday. She found that protests near Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility were “predominately peaceful, with only isolated and sporadic instances of relatively low-level violence”. Continue reading...

‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard

Israel carries out wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon Three towns attacked despite truce with Hezbollah in what Israeli military says was effort to prevent group rearming The Israeli military has carried out a wave of airstrikes in southern Lebanon in what it described as an attempt to prevent Hezbollah rearming. Israeli warplanes struck the towns of Kfar Dounine, Tayr Debba and Zawtar al-Sharqiya on Thursday, about an hour after issuing evacuation warnings to residents. No deaths had been reported at the time of publishing. Continue reading...

Israel carries out wave of airstrikes on southern Lebanon

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Professor explaining Islamophobia in our Post 911 world. He grew up in NY.

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His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

YouTube video by Cultural Logic The Right Wing Facade; William F. Buckley, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes.

A video I made about the facade of the respectable right, tying in William F. Buckley with the recent escapades of Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes. youtu.be/jmZ-jOiB9ZQ

UK rule change allows Palestinian scholars to bring families from Gaza The university students had been barred from bringing children or dependents by previous visa policies Palestinian students taking up scholarships at UK universities will be allowed to bring their families from Gaza with them after the government said it would consider case-by-case exemptions. The students had previously been unable to take up their scholarships because they were barred from bringing their children or dependents by existing student visa policies. Continue reading...

UK rule change allows Palestinian scholars to bring families from Gaza

Senate votes to block tariffs on Canada While symbolic, it is the Senate’s second rebuke of Trump’s trade policies in as many days.

The Senate has voted to end the national emergency that President Trump declared to impose tariffs on imports from Canada.

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The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”

In ‘historic moment,’ King Charles prays with Pope Leo at Sistine Chapel The royal visit to the Vatican marks the first time in nearly 500 years that a British monarch, head of the Anglican church, has prayed with a Roman Catholic pope.

Pope Leo XIV prayed with King Charles III and Queen Camilla in the Sistine Chapel, marking a first time a British monarch publicly worshipped with a sitting pontiff since Henry VIII broke with the Vatican and formed the Church of England in 1534.

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Today is the official pub day for VOICES OF RESISTANCE, a collection of diaries from four Gazans, offering a rare, deeply personal window into daily life under genocide. It's an essential record of lives lived amidst terror—and their resilience in the face of it.
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Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence. Continue reading...

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst