Air Force Engineer Accused Of Cutting Down AI Cameras Becomes Unlikely Hero, Raises Thousands For Legal Defense

Social Security Recipients Could See Larger Payment Adjustment In 2027 Amid Higher Inflation Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A senior citizens group has forecast that the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security payments will increase by 3.9 percent next year, more than 1 percentage point higher than last month’s prediction. Blank U.S. Treasury checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images The Senior Citizens League, which issues monthly projections on the COLA for Social...

We've Optimized Fragility, Failure, Denial, And... Rage Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, What happens when optimization is itself the point of failure? In today's zeitgeist, everything must be optimized or we'll fail: our time, productivity, fitness, diet, supplements, career, income, wealth--everything must be constantly optimized lest we fall behind or fail. The grand irony is optimization generates fragility which generates failure which generates denial which eventually generates rage. We've optimized global supply chains for efficiency and cost, rendering them exquisitely vulnerable to disruption and collapse. We've optimized the global economy for "growth"...

America's Data-Center Revolt Goes Local - And Bipartisan - As Towns Slam The Brakes The pitchforks are out over the AI buildout - as drama unfolds in county commission chambers, where the people who will actually live next to the substations and cooling plants are starting to win. Saline, Michigan, December 1, 2025. Rural Michigan residents rally against the $7 billion Stargate data center planned on southeast Michigan farm land.  (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Over the last week, local governments in at least three states have independently moved...