Yes, We Need a $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget
Trump’s taste for gilding everything can be over the top. It’d be a national service, though, if he manages to make the U.S. defense budget golden. Source link
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Musk’s Grok chatbot is now restricting image generation after wave of sexualized deepfakes
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing most users from generating or editing any images after a global backlash that erupted after it started spewing sexualized deepfakes of people. The…
X Didn’t Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with Grok. However,…
NASA to make its first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station. Here’s why
In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew…
I Am a Minneapolis Mother and Pastor, and I Know Where I Stand
In 2026 America, we are being sold a cheap, brutish, ugly, superficial, violent view of the world. We are told that our world is one in which you #FAFO. One in which failure to obey a man…
In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America
First: I do not understand why the Democrats haven’t been shouting about Grijalva nonstop, making sure America knows how many days it’s been since her election, and why this is happening…
New Video Wrecks Trump Team’s Claims About Minnesota ICE Shooting
A new video shows the minutes leading up to the killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration officer from a new angle—and further casts doubt on the Trump administration’s smears. The…
Trump Casually Admits He Was Going to Attack Venezuela Again
“Before I knew it, I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic, and so I approached her, and we were at that point chanting, ‘We are not afraid, we are not…
Meta signs multi-gigawatt nuclear deals for AI data centres
The agreements could end up totalling more than six gigawatts, enough to power a city of about five million homes Meta Platforms agreed to a series of electricity deals to power data…
12 Hiroshima bombs every second: Here’s how much Earth’s oceans warmed in 2025
The world’s oceans once again hit a record high temperature in 2025, storing more heat than during any previous year since modern recording began. That heat is so extreme that it’s…
Philippines central bank sees inflation rising toward target
The Philippines’ central bank will keep weighing a feeble growth outlook against gradually rising inflation to set monetary policy in a balancing act that could bring an end to its easing…
Brick-and-mortar bookshops look better than ever in the Amazon age
Welcome to the first Fast Company’s Plugged In of 2026, and Happy New Year to you. More than 18 years ago, as the internet was transforming how we consume everything from news to music,…
Ikea’s best-selling donut lamp is getting a colorful upgrade
One of Ikea’s most popular lamps of the past several years—nicknamed the “donut lamp”—is about to get a smart, colorful upgrade. The original donut lamp debuted back in 2023 as part of…
Transcript: Can Trump’s Thugs Be Reined In? These Dems Have an Idea.
And so therefore I think that Attorney General Ellison needs to be much more aggressive in considering this because it was not properly investigated and will not be properly investigated…
The Better-Than List for 2025, the Year of Sedition
The movies that saved movies from themselves. Source link
The Week: A Tragedy in Minnesota
Plus: Trump captures Maduro. Source link
The Supreme Court Is Getting Presidential Power All Wrong
The nation’s highest court is distorting the Framers’ intent on the power of the presidency. Source link
Newsom Has His Own Massive State Fraud Problem
California’s scandal dwarfs Minnesota’s. Source link
TSMC Q4 revenue jumps more than 20%, beating forecast
Demand for the company’s products leaps in response to surging interest in AI applications Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, on…
The biggest brand trends coming in 2026
2025 was a year defined by buttholes and fury. AI companies, fueled by unlimited piles of cash, got in line with the same approach to branding: what’s been scatalogically dubbed a…
The End Goal of Trump’s Cringey, Nonsensical Videos
We’ve come to expect such aesthetic absurdity from him. Heck, that wasn’t even his first time using “Fortunate Son” as a soundtrack to military spectacle; it played during his June 2025…
What a Lobster Heist Tells Us About Government Failure
On December 12, criminals made off with a $400,000 shipment of lobster meat from a freight hub outside of Boston. It was the latest and most costly in a spate of striking seafood robberies…
Mamdani Is Actually a Social Democrat. Here’s Why That Matters.
Hizzoner wants instead to make transportation, childcare, and housing more “affordable” for every New Yorker. That makes him not a democratic socialist but a social democrat. What’s the…
Trump’s Foreign Policy Madness Will Haunt Us for Generations
“Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose,” Lincoln continued. “If, today, he should choose to say he thinks it…