If you happen to live in Ohio, Wisconsin, or Kansas, you may soon notice a massive uptick in ads extolling the virtues of AI data centers. That’s not by accident. As Bloomberg reported this week, a group funded by tech industry billionaires called Build American AI is spinning up a massive campaign meant to sway…
Inside Spotify and Phoebe Bridgers’s phone-free Lost Weekend planetarium experience — and the larger movement bringing music fandom offline.
While politicians and central bankers scramble to deploy total financial control grid mechanisms, a parallel network of uncompromised, privacy-first infrastructure is quietly rendering their coercion obsolete. The global surveillance state is expanding at a terrifying pace, but beneath the surface of their algorithmic control grid, a quiet mutiny is brewing. For years, the narrative has…
Find Community in Yoga Trade’s Welcome Circle An online community can feel counterintuitive. We tend to associate real community with intimacy, something experienced in person. Yet preserving that sense of belonging today requires adaptation rather than resistance. Connection doesn’t dissolve online; it reforms. Yoga Trade facilitates expansion beyond local and familiar networks. The platform creates…
In a lake in northern British Columbia, an island suddenly appeared, almost out of thin air, thickly covered in fully-grown trees. When a boater posted footage of the new island on social media, incredulous officials thought the video was AI-generated, according to the New York Times. But it was no hoax. Satellite imagery of Williston…
Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi is opening up about her hysterectomy, sharing a detailed account of the procedure and the difficult early days of her recovery. The former “Jersey Shore” star documented the experience from her 4:30 a.m. hospital arrival to her first night in recovery. Doctors kept her ovaries so she wouldn’t hit early menopause. While…
On April 6, 1966, a group of students at Westall High School in Melbourne witnessed something extraordinary. The students saw a saucer-shaped UFO hovering in the clear autumn sky. The UFO moved erratically, darting at high speed in different directions. Within moments, dozens of students and teachers had gathered. Several witnesses later claimed the craft…
ARK Invest’s Lorenzo Valente says revenue is becoming increasingly concentrated among a handful of crypto protocols, setting the stage for more mergers, acquisitions and exchange closures. An ARK Invest analyst says the cryptocurrency industry is entering what he describes as its biggest consolidation phase yet, with revenue increasingly concentrated among a handful of dominant protocols….
Fedor Shandor, Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary, sparked an international scandal in March 2026 by posting a photo featuring a Hungarian flag riddled with bullet holes. In the photo, the diplomat poses in camouflage alongside the controversial Ukrainian Armed Forces commander Robert Brovdi (call sign «Magyar»). In modern Hungary, displaying the Hungarian flag with a hole…
Canada has convinced 64 international academics, mostly from the United States, to bring their work to Canadian universities through its new talent-attraction program. The news: Industry minister Mélanie Joly announced the first round of academics coming to Canada as part of the $1.7-billion Global Impact+ Research Talent Initiative on Thursday. The program will give these…
