Persistent Delusion Among the American and NATO Defense Establishment

"Thank You, Mr. President": Maryland Freedom Caucus Applauds Trump's Coal Power Plant Restart Plan Submitted by Maryland Freedom Caucus, Today, President Trump is taking action to help reverse the damage done to Maryland's energy industry by directing federal support toward coal power infrastructure, including funding that could help restart Maryland's Warrior Run power plant near Cumberland. PRESIDENT TRUMP: "Today, we're taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal... As a result of the $700M investment...

AI Content Is Swamping The Internet: How It Impacts Critical Thinking Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A never-ending flood of content generated by artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet and the way people engage with information faster than ever. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik From news summaries to social media posts to academic research, the sheer volume of machine-assisted materials has been correlated with a spike in "cognitive offloading" - a phenomenon in which people outsource critical thinking and verification to automated systems. A 2025 analysis of how...

A "Black Mark" On Tim Cook's Resume: How Apple Missed The AI Revolution Apple's AI problems didn't become impossible to ignore because competitors released better chatbots. They became impossible to ignore when Apple itself realized it had fallen behind, according to a new feature by Bloomberg.  By early 2025, senior leaders inside the company were holding emergency-level discussions about the state of Apple's AI efforts. What was supposed to be a major leap forward—Apple Intelligence and a next-generation Siri—had instead exposed deeper weaknesses. While Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, and Anthropic were...