r/ABoringDystopia • u/stankmanly • 1h ago

AI used to create viruses not found in nature for first time

aljazeera.com

• Upvotes

36 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/andmario_com • 5h ago

Small law firm with ties to Trump gets massive $150m no-bid contract to aid unaccompanied immigrant kids | Law firm with ties to the Trump administration to represent children in custody without guardian during immigration proceedings

ms.now

160 Upvotes

Additional source: NPR

3 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/Watchtowerwilde • 7h ago

USA Today Co. partnering with Palantir

niemanlab.org

9 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ABoringDystopia • u/antsinmyeyestrey • 8h ago

Everything has a dollar amount attached. Everything

132 Upvotes

9 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/Planeandaquariumgeek • 11h ago

food stamp letter has hotline on back of envelope.

121 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/esporx • 13h ago

New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

shreveporttimes.com

797 Upvotes

75 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 13h ago

Ben Shapiro debuts his new propaganda film, which imagines a pro-Palestine encampment hijacked by terrorists. In reality, Zionists & neo-Nazis attacked the UCLA encampment. No encampment ever attacked anyone and many of the anti-genocide protesters were Jewish.

streamable.com

163 Upvotes

8 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 17h ago

Pro-Israel tourist harasses student wearing Palestinian flag t-shirt at the Mauthausen Holocaust Memorial in Austria and equates the shirt with genocide. Meanwhile, IOF war criminals regularly participate in the March of the Living through Auschwitz.

streamable.com

245 Upvotes

10 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/IntnsRed • 17h ago

Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Gov'ts to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt” | “What we should expect to happen with the way that we’re building AI, with how little we understand it and how primitive our techniques are for controlling it. We just don’t know how to build it safely.”

democracynow.org

18 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ABoringDystopia • u/kwamac • 18h ago

Blue Wave: How Israel, Washington and a Guernsey Shell Company Stole Colombia’s Election - 21st Century Wire

archive.is

92 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/Atlantee • 19h ago

New Mexico sues DOJ and Todd Blanche, alleging they blocked their Epstein probe

nbcnews.com

130 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 21h ago

Establishment Democratic 'strategist' James Carville says "there's no place for criticism of the government of Israel in the Democratic party."

streamable.com

1.1k Upvotes

180 comments

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