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How the Dune Universe sounds to an outsider
YouTube video by Sir Swag
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October 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just a few predictions:
-Trump fast-tracks de-naturalization proceedings against US citizens; new detention centers fill to capacity
-Golden Dome budget surpasses $100 billion; China accelerates nuclear buildup
-ICE recruitment surges with advertising on manosphere

apnews.com/article/what...
What's in Trump's big bill that passed Congress and will soon become law
Republicans in Congress have muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill to passage. At nearly 900 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Re...
apnews.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"...in a world where people no longer have agency and ownership over their data, their land, their energy, their water, they no longer feel like they can self-determine their future."

www.reuters.com/lifestyle/ka...
Karen Hao on how the AI boom became a new imperial frontier
The author of “Empire of AI” traces how OpenAI’s global reach is reshaping labor, energy and power — and why she sees echoes of empire in its rise.
www.reuters.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Better track record than what I would have guessed.

How often do ceasefires in the Middle East work?
www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
From The Economist
June 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
The 90s gave us the Dot Com bubble. Are we now in the AI bubble?

AI valuations are verging on the unhinged
www.economist.com/business/202...
From The Economist
AI valuations are verging on the unhinged
Unless superintelligence is just around the corner
www.economist.com
June 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I feel like everything useful that has been or will be said about AI was already covered in Dune. dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butleri...
Butlerian Jihad
We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate progra...
dune.fandom.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM