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Matthew Gault
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Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com

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more on that here:
Which Way to Armageddon?
Thinking about the mix of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons while staring at the Chicago skyline.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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People who don't think audiobooks count as "reading" are stopping themselves from getting through their TBR
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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“The thing that is most troubling about this is that the nuclear weapons that we, as Americans, witnessed 80 years ago are still being proliferated and modernized without question.”

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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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what, exactly, the data center would be used for is vague. The University has promised it won't be for the "manufacture" of nuclear weapons. But that wording leaves a lot of wiggle room for other nuclear projects
LANL is going all in on AI. It partnered with OpenAI to use the company’s frontier models in research and recently announced a partnership with NVIDIA to build two new super computers named “Mission” and “Vision.” It’s true that LANL’s scientific output covers a range of issues but its overwhelming focus, and budget allocation, is nuclear weapons. LANL requested a budget of $5.79 billion in 2026. 84 percent of that is earmarked for nuclear weapons. Only $40 million of the LANL budget is set aside for “science,” according to government documents. “The fact is we don’t really know because Los Alamos and U of M are unwilling to spell out exactly what’s going to happen,” Fellows said. When LANL declined to comment for this story, it told 404 Media to direct its question to the University of Michigan.
November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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a recent city council meeting had a lot of impassioned testimony
“My grandfather was a rocket scientist who worked on Trinity,” Pedri said at a recent Ypsilanti city council meeting, referring to the first successful detonation of a nuclear bomb. “He died a violent, lonely, alcoholic. So when I think about the jobs the data center will bring to our area, I think about the impact of introducing nuclear technology to the world and deploying it on civilians. And the impact that that had on my family, the impact on the health and well-being of my family from living next to a nuclear test site and the spiritual impact that it had on my family for generations. This project is furthering inhumanity, this project is furthering destruction, and we don’t need more nuclear weapons built by our citizens.”
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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holy shit, it's a remake?
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 PM