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Scoop: The State Department is swapping the model powering its in-house chatbot, StateChat, from Anthropic's Claude to OpenAI's GPT - the latest U.S. government department to kick Anthropic to the curb.

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Members of DePaul faculty publishes open letter opposing the closure of art museum The letter has more than one thousands signatures from people hoping DePaul will reconsider its decision

Days after top administrators at DePaul University announced it would be “re-imaging the arts” by permanently closing its on-campus museum at the end of June, a number of DePaul faculty members have signed an open letter asking the university to reconsider.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

Labor Secretary Is a Rare Presence at Department in Turmoil

“Over the past few weeks we’ve learned that not only is she not doing her job, she’s embroiling the department in scandal and possible criminal activity. It’s frankly embarrassing...”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

www.cnn.com/2026/03/02/b...

Wynn Resorts confirms data stolen after ShinyHunters threats : Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring

Wynn Resorts confirms data stolen after ShinyHunters threats www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/w...

Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

New Protein Menus Brands like Chipotle, Dunkin, and Starbucks have started offering new protein-dense menu items. Here are more companies making exciting protein-bas...

"Every Nvidia GPU will now have a core of raw turkey chili. As you use your computer for work or to play video games, the heat from the processing unit will boil the chili."

Charge them all. Not just medical licenses, prison. There is no plausible deniability here.

Shaq Warns Young Players Not To Do Movie About Genie

Shaq Warns Young Players Not To Do Movie About Genie https://theonion.com/shaq-warns-young-players-not-to-do-movie-about-genie/

The guy whose full-time job is renaming and un-renaming the HBO Max app is thrilled by the merger news.

Kuwait's air defense system, which it buys from US companies, shot down 3 American planes. My tax dollars just shot down my tax dollars.

Jesse Jackson told me why he really ran for president He insisted it wasn’t a vanity project. History proved him right.

Jesse Jackson insisted his run for the presidency wasn’t a vanity project. History proved him right.

“I know what my job is. It’s to bang on the door. Kick at the door. Bang on the door harder and push harder still. Someday, someone else will walk through it.”

Saudi Arabia has shut down one of the world's largest oil refineries, Ras Tanura, following an Iranian drone strike.

Spain Denies U.S. Military Use of Its Bases for Iran Attack

"Spain’s defense minister, Margarita Robles, said on Monday that while there was an agreement with the United States on the use of the bases, Spain believed it only extended to use within the framework of international law."

Spain views US war on Iran as illegal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”

From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

New Worm record fucking rips

YouTube video by The Drey Dossier The Merger That Needed A War

While the war with Iran... Oracle is cleaning up in the US, including Medicare.

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YouTube video by The Drey Dossier The Merger That Needed A War

The Merger That Needed A War

#Oracle #Grok #Medicare #GenerativeAI #DoD #Israel #Iran #MiddleEast #USA #Trump

youtu.be/-TlYoVsW5ko?...

YouTube video by The Drey Dossier The Merger That Needed A War

Came here to say the same thing!! "Yesterday #Oracle got authorization to run generative AI #Grok on federal government data. The highest civilian security clearance + Department of Defense clearance + Medicare records + Military systems." WTAF!!! It's time to take #Ellison and his companies down ⚡

🚨 LOUD EXPLOSIONS HEARD FROM AREA OF NUCLEAR FACILITY AND AIR BASE IN CENTRAL CITY OF ISFAHAN - IRANIAN NEWS SITES REPORT

HBO Max and Paramount+ will merge into one streaming app as part of the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal.

(variety.com/2026/streami...)

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

There have been more than $20.9 billion in consumer losses tied to identity theft connected to four major breaches involving data broker firms.

#Comscore #Findem #IQVIADigital #Telesign #6SenseInsights #databreach #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking #hacked

This is monstrous.

Imagine how bad it’s going to be if this guy is already worried

Three US F-15E Strike Eagles were downed over Kuwait, shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses. All six aircrew ejected.

DAILY REMINDER: SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE = OUR MONEY!

Starting a war so you could invoke emergency war powers

punk this week: station model violence, draümar, landowner + 15 more Mark Ryan’s odex unleashes a full-length while Blood Cannery gathers the egg punk Justice League to defeat hunger.

the first new album to make me cry in 2026 is the self-titled debut by station model violence. I wrote three paragraphs about it. play it loud.

there's a ton of great new stuff this week. two absolutely stellar records on Static Shock Records, the return of Mark Ryan's odex? read all about it.

By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.