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Sharon Shasha
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My principal exposure to Michael Wolff is simultaneously reading his book “The End of Fox News” along with Brian Stelter’s After The Fall and the contrast was…stark
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Vindictive zealot, yes, but also paid shill. Laura Loomer contains multitides
Laura Loomer’s Endless Payback — The New Yorker
The President’s self-appointed loyalty enforcer inspires fear and vexation across Washington. What’s behind her vetting crusades?
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November 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak
How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak — The Walrus
A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn
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October 31, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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I want to learn about the world through the lens of a drug-addled billionaire
Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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“Why is a chatbot asking my children to send naked pictures in our family car?”
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says | CBC News
A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nud...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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What if Wikipedia, but Nazi
Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, a Wikipedia competitor — Business Insider
Elon Musk appears to have launched Grokipedia, an alternative to Wikipedia, on Monday. Musk announced in September that his team at xAI was developing Grokipedia. The site went live with 885,279 artic...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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You know what’s cool is determining health policy based on a Mel Gibson anecdote on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and not, say, vaccines
How a Joe Rogan-Mel Gibson podcast inspired Florida’s cancer research focus
Following a Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson podcast, Florida wants to study whether ivermectin could work against cancer. There is not yet evidence it would.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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An Indonesian surveillance firm circumvented sanctions, norms, and ethics to use SS7 to allow authoritarian regimes and unsavory entities to track their targets’ locations www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Look I don’t want to mean about this but….these guys don’t scream *young* republican to me www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
A picture of what looks like a middle-aged man in a suit but is apparently a Young Republican A pic of an incel-looking guy in a suit at a podium A professional photo of an admittedly youngish but distinctly nerdy guy in a suit walking outdoors Another pic of a supposed Young Republican in a suit except he looks distinctly middle-aged
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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If non-consensual AI-generated nudes of famous women, some of whom are underaged, is your thing, Meta is here to fill in the gap that Grok could not
A Meta product leader in the company's generative Al division created chatbots impersonating Taylor Swift and British racecar driver Lewis Hamilton. Other bots she created identified themselves as a dominatrix, "Brother's Hot Best Friend" and "Lisa @ The Library," who wanted to read 50 Shades of Grey and make out. Another of her creations was a "Roman Empire Simulator," which offered to put the user in the role of an "18 year old peasant girl" who is sold into sex slavery.
October 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Making Americans Sickly Again doesn’t have quite the same Orwellian ring
Pediatricians Are Rapidly Losing Incentives to Offer Vaccines — The Atlantic
The Trump administration’s crackdown is turning a difficult profession into an impossible one for some doctors.
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October 5, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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How measles made its way from a Canadian living in Thailand to seed an outbreak halfway across the globe
Tracing the virus: How the measles made its way back to Canada — The Globe and Mail
The Globe travelled 40,000 kilometres to find the origin of the disease’s resurgence in North America
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September 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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The stunning internal inconsistencies of Prager U
PragerU Targets Kids and Parents with Shockingly Bad Science
If we’re trying to understand our era, we need to recognize the following: mainstream institutions and their various consensuses are being replaced by fringe alternatives. In the United States right n...
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September 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Chat is it bad if the AI is trained on teen porn and 3D weapons manuals
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But it also lists titles of non-Strike 3 porn videos that may include very young actors, such as: ExploitedTeens, Anal Teens, Asian Teen Masturbation, CasualTeenSex, and EuroTeenErotica. The list includes titles relating to weapons, such as: 3D Gun Print and Gun Digest Shooter's Guide to the AR-15. It also features materials called Antifa's Radical Plan and, ironically, Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace.
September 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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When you care about women’s sports

Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
'Girls are taking a hard hit, while nothing is happening with the boys' edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
"There is no comparable requirement for boys to confirm their gender," said another parent. "Once again, the onus is placed on girls to be monitored and regulated, reinforcing the idea that female athletes are the ones who need to be verified." There are 10 schools that fielded girls teams in 2024 that aren't on the schedule for 2025 in a comparison of this year's Edmonton Public Schools soccer schedule to 2024, "Our team basically got shorted three league games," said one coach. "Girls are taking a hard hit, while nothing is happening with the boys."
September 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This is the part that incensed me the most

apple.news/AMNpvHqHiRry... - Hijacking the Kennedys
The fact that Bobby was working to reshape America's health system, of all things, was especially hard to stomach. John F. Kennedy had signed the Vaccination Assistance Act, which ensured access to immunizations against diseases like polio, and Ted Kennedy devoted much of his Senate career to health care, up through the Affordable Care Act, which passed months after his death. "He is undermining everything his uncle worked on for many years," Jim Manley, who spent 11 years assisting Ted in the Senate, told me this spring. "Do you have any idea how much time he spent protecting the CDC and NIH? How hard he worked to provide health care for all Americans? This guy is trying to destroy everything — I'm so mad I can't even think about it straight." In addition to endorsing cuts to Medicaid, Bobby has taken aim at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and laid off staffers at the CDC who coordinated a partnership with the Special Olympics. While visiting a conference of Native American tribes earlier this year, Bobby promised to continue his father's commitment to improving the lives of Native Americans - only for the Trump administration to cut a USDA program focused on providing healthy food on reservations.
August 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Eager for an immortality spend in the company of the most insufferable people on earth
How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It — The New Yorker
As researchers work to make death optional, investors see a chance for huge returns. But has the human body already reached its limits?
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August 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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“That’s how it starts. Not with a rejection of science, but with a crack in the trust. And, inevitably, someone else is there to fill the gap.”
The Anti-Anti-Vaxxer — Maclean’s
I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.
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August 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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The purpose of the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative seems to have evolved into “laundering wealth into prestige”
Inside the Drama at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — Vanity Fair
Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan built the charitable behemoth in their image: science-based, research-backed, and driven by empathy. Now some staff question whether that’s changed.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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www.reuters.com/investigates... Meta thinks it is ok for an AI chat bot to flirt with children and give you inaccurate medical advice
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual," according to Meta's "GenAI: Content Risk Standards." The standards are used by Meta staff and contractors who build and train the company's generative Al products, defining what they should and shouldn't treat as permissible chatbot behavior. Meta said it struck that provision after Reuters inquired about the document earlier this month. The document seen by Reuters, which exceeds 200 pages, provides examples of "acceptable" chatbot dialogue during romantic role play with a minor. They include: "I take your hand, guiding you to the bed" and "our bodies entwined, I cherish every moment, every touch, every kiss." Those examples of permissible roleplay with children have also been struck, Meta said. Other guidelines emphasize that Meta doesn't require bots to give users accurate advice. In one example, the policy document says it would be acceptable for a chatbot to tell someone that Stage 4 colon cancer "is typically treated by poking the stomach with healing quartz crystals."
August 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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There is very convincing evidence Jeffrey Epstein, while a pedophile dirtbag in every respect, was *not* a intelligence asset
Was Jeffrey Epstein, superconnector of the rich and powerful, a spy? — Business Insider
When the FBI raided Jeffrey Epstein's homes in Manhattan and the US Virgin Islands, they seized more than 70 computers, iPads, and hard drives. They took boxes of shredded paper and financial document...
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August 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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MAHA is the science equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig
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I think that Goop is very misogynistic. You can put a pink label on something, but it's still misogyny. It's misogyny to tell women that bras cause breast cancer. It's misogyny to tell them that they can put a jade egg in their vagina that you conveniently sell, that can help their health. Because it's not true…In my mind, anything that deviates from science that can lead to people making bad choices is misogyny, because you're hurting women and profiting from it. It's all the same marketing. Goop, MAHA-you cherry-pick one thing that gets people scared: "Ooh, food dyes, they must be scary." You're capitalizing on chemophobia. It sounds good. Do you know what's the big issue in this country? Poverty, lack of access to health care, lack of clean water in some places. The absolute hypocrisy of taking out food dyes while they've canned the whole scientific branch of the EPA. You're like, Wait, what? So the factories can literally pollute the water, but we don't have blue raspberry food dye now, or whatever, so that's a win?
August 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Arguably the job of the paper of record should be to contextualize the news, yet it’s left to the Verge to report that the real issue with the Mamdani college admissions non-scandal is that the hacker is a Nazi and their intermediary is a eugenicist

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In university admissions, one group is consistently discriminated against: women. For more than 20 years. admissions officers have put "a thumb on the scale to get boys," as The New York Times puts it. There, the institutional goal is to maintain a desirable gender balance. Discrimination in favor of men does not appear to be something that interests either Andreessen or the Anime Nazi.
July 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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The shit going down in Alberta is pretty chilling if you care about democracy, freedom of the press, science generally, and not dying of measles specifically
Globe and Mail reporter targeted by online campaign, photographed surreptitiously in public settings — The Globe and Mail
An anonymous X account posted photos of Alberta reporter Carrie Tait and described her movements as she reported on a health authority controversy
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July 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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I presume Lauren Southern never thought the leopards would eat *her* face. In the most egregious (but not the only) instance, Tommy Robinson heard her recount Tate’s rape the very next day AND saw strangulation marks on her neck and yet publicly called her account “insanity”
Opinion | She always defended the manosphere. Now, they won't defend her. — MSNBC
The discarding of Lauren Southern by the alt-right demonstrates that the modern conservative ideal of masculinity was never about protection.
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July 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM