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As DOGE, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s “Department of Government Efficiency” gets underway, the two billionaires are looking for federal programs and agencies to cut, as they seek to advance Musk’s espoused goal of trimming $2 trillion from the federal […]

For a while now, researchers have been trying to prove that X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) has an algorithmic bias for conservative content. Indeed, ever since Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022, right-wing accounts have run rampant

New reporting claims President-elect Donald Trump is paving the way for broader deployment of autonomous vehicles on America’s roadways, a development that could benefit his fellow billionaire, campaign buddy, and now top bureaucrat, Elon Musk. According to Bloomberg, advisors close

The cryptocurrency industry can claim another magnanimous accomplishment to its name: transforming a wholesome New York City dog contest into little more than an online pump and dump scheme. The Honorary NYC Dog Mayor Election of 2024 was designed to

A Russian IVF clinic is offering women the opportunity to undergo free fertilization. The catch? They have to be willing to be inseminated with the sperm of Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the semi-encrypted chat platform Telegram. “You

Who would want a painting made by a robot? I’m not sure, but whoever they are, they just spent an insane amount of money to buy it. “AI God,” is a painting that depicts famed cryptanalyst Alan Turing, and it

A dolphin’s butchered corpse was discovered on a New Jersey beach last week, so, naturally, the internet is now exploding with jokes about flop presidential candidate and MAGA convert Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being the culprit. If you recall, Kennedy’s

Top economists and assorted financial experts have been sounding the alarm that Donald Trump’s plans for a second presidential administration would spike the federal deficit by trillions of dollars, worsen inflation, and, eventually, send the U.S. economy screaming toward a

Not long after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe appeared at Donald Trump’s massive Madison Square Garden rally this weekend and called Puerto Rico an “island of floating garbage,” the internet came alive with Google searches for his name. In fact, as Nate

A bizarre tech-fueled ideological movement is growing. Proponents of the “Network State” seek to create privately owned, anarcho-capitalist, “autonomous” cities—the likes of which are the urban planning equivalent of cryptocurrency. It’s basically a high-tech version of Galt’s Gulch, the utopian