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Quo Vadis, AI? Study Suggests AI Use Makes Us Lazier And Less Intelligent Authored by Walker Larson via The Epoch Times,The Oxford word of the year in 2024 was "brain rot," due to a 230 percent increase in usage of the term between 2023 and 2024. The moniker reflected a collective sense - already on the rise in 2023 - that our heavy use of digital technology has corroded our ability to think. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images Now, in the futuristic era of artificial intelligence known as 2026, brain rot has...

Rubio Convenes 60-Nation Summit To Confront Transnational Far-Left Terrorism Secretary of State Marco Rubio has requested that senior officials from more than 60 countries convene in Washington next Thursday to discuss the alarming rise of transnational far-left terrorism, according to a Washington Post report. The State Department confirmed the meeting in a post on X Friday afternoon titled, "Secretary of State Marco Rubio Is Setting His Sights on Antifa." .@NEWSMAX: "Secretary of State Marco Rubio is setting his sights on Antifa." pic.twitter.com/dHZvcpFrHf — Department of State (@StateDept) July 10, 2026 State Department spokesman...

Germany's Silent Shift: From Entrepreneurs To State Dependence Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany affords itself a state bureaucracy that functions like an artificial labor market placed upstream of the private sector. The flight of hundreds of thousands into the arms of the state corresponds with the shrinking number of self-employed in the country. And policymakers are actively promoting this trend. Let us begin with a piece of good news: according to a Bertelsmann survey, around 40 percent of Germans aged 15 to 25 can imagine starting a business as their personal life...