The budding bromance between authoritarianism and tech
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/29/mbs-saudi-arabia-big-tech-authoritarian-embrace/

So busted.
The MAHA Report’s AI fingerprints, annotated https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/30/maha-report-ai-white-house/

AI is a robotic brainworm, hallucinating academic citations as much as RFK Jr. hallucinates everything he says.
White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/29/maha-rfk-jr-ai-garble/

Here is good Times reporting on the impact of Trump's moves on every American. More of this, please.
How Trump’s Regulatory Rollbacks Are Increasing Costs on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/doge-cuts-elon-musk-trump.html?smid=tw-share

A taco Trump on every corner.

And David French joins the Jordan Peterson fan club:
The Democrats’ 20-Million-Dollar-Man Problem
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/opinion/manosphere-democrats-peterson-men.html

Loser wants sympathy. Ha! FAFO, asshole.
Back at SpaceX, Musk says in interview DOGE became D.C.’s ‘whipping boy’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/27/elon-musk-spacex-starship-doge/

He is militantly, dangerously ignorant.
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/

China steps in for the US... This is humiliating....
China to donate $500 million to WHO, stepping into gap left by U.S. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/china-who-donation-500-million/

Training the fascist Trump Jugend, state by state.
Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories

Good news.
Pro-European centrist beats right-wing nationalist in Romanian vote https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/18/romania-election-nicosur-dan-george-simion/

Make up your damned minds.
HBO Max Lives! Max to Change Its Name Back After Two Years https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/max-changes-name-hbo-max-1236397399/

Grift and more grift.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/technology/elon-musk-boring-company-amtrak.html?smid=tw-share

Readers are breaking up with The Washington Post. It is surprisingly easy.
I broke up with Google search. It was surprisingly easy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/09/quit-google-search/

A critical examination of what underlies the faux philosophies that guide the extremists in charge--here, Thiel and his acolyte, Vance.
How a little-known French literary critic became a bellwether for the US right
https://www.ft.com/content/d3328872-a826-4dcf-ba51-3f8ddcf9e8ff

Maybe because he's and idiot and he's in the pocket of Putin and Netanyahu. But we're supposed to worry that he's frustrated.
Trump Promised to End Two Wars Quickly. In Private, He Admits He’s Frustrated. https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-israel-gaza-russia-ukraine-war-f847b04a?st=iUVvCX via @WSJ

No, Guardian, please do not fall for the doomers' AGI/ASI bullshit as if it were news just because they posted on the internet. Google #TESCREAL first, please.
AI firms warned to calculate threat of super intelligence or risk it escaping human control
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/10/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control

They are not welcome.
Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-refugees.html?smid=tw-share

Justice Sotomayor Says Lawyers Must ‘Stand Up’ and ‘Fight This Fight’ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/us/justice-sotomayor-talk.html?smid=tw-share

Good that The Guardian is covering the Trump era's eugenics. Now cover the hard eugenics of the AI boys....
Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics