Every generation has a product it calls normal before it understands the cost. Cigarettes were once sold with health language. Sugar was sold as breakfast. Today, adult platforms often borrow the language of empowerment.

There is someone on the other side of the screen. The viewer sees content. The performer lives with the cost. The platform sees retention.

Data centers in space sound futuristic. The useful lesson is more basic: AI is becoming an infrastructure problem, not just a software problem.

When a teenager becomes a meme, the internet can start treating a person like a countdown. That is not just a celebrity story. It is an attention-system story: fame first, context later, pressure everywhere, adulthood treated like content. That incentive deserves scrutiny.

Addiction rarely announces itself at the beginning. It starts as entertainment. Then the brain asks for more. Then normal starts to feel boring.

One quiet cost of infinite novelty: real intimacy can start to feel slow, ordinary, or not enough. That is not freedom. That is training.

Open any app for five minutes and you can see the pattern. The algorithm is not asking if the content is good for you. It is asking if you paused.

Porn is no longer only a separate corner of the internet. It is part of the attention economy. That should make us ask better questions about feeds, incentives, and what we normalize.

If the Russian military had attacked civilian boats in intl waters & seized more than 400 people on board (including UK citizens) & then forcibly taken them to Russia, does anyone think the UK media would be describing what Russia had done as arresting them?

"What is the one practical lesson you want your audience members to walk away with?" See how Professors Dan Fletcher and Dan Chan responded to this question. If you attended a conference and want to share the love, what was one thing you took away from the conference?

A sharp increase in traffic at Domino's Pizza locations near the Pentagon has been recorded — up 227%. Historically, such surges have occurred before major government news.

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Just weeks after the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, where Nazi leaders were prosecuted for the gravest of international crimes, GB News tells viewers that international law is "a nonsense" & "generally speaking the United States doesn't really acknowledge... any kind of international law"

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Kyle Kulinski points out a terrifying shift: AI is destroying our shared reality. Kyle explains we are entering a dystopian landscape where objective truth is constantly debated, forcing us to over-analyze everything. Are we losing our grip on facts? 🤖📉

ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE

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Trump is letting Stephen Miller run the same playbook again: troops in cities, families torn apart, people targeted for speaking out. I signed this petition to speak out because this feels urgent. I hope you’ll join me. app.sosha.ai/s/dhXnywrI

Chicago’s best days aren’t behind us. I’m not a politician. I’m a teacher, an entrepreneur, and someone who believes in what we all know Chicago can become. joeforchicago.com

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"Just please help ... I am quite worried about how this direction is heading." Nicolas Carlini, a research scientist at top AI company Anthropic, says AI is rapidly improving at hacking. He's used AI to find so many bugs that he can't report them.

It takes a big person to admit this.

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026: the great cinematic poet of despair, whose movies were as rigorously bleak as they were paradoxically invested in the infinite value of every human life. The Kafka of motion pictures. Thread of images from his masterpiece Damnation (1988).

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We give Israel over $15 billion a yr. They have free healthcare, free education, and social programs funded by your tax dollars. And they also buy weapons that they use to kill human beings that they don’t like. Does your representative accept donations from AIPAC?

"Did the prime minister ask the question himself ever?" @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Cabinet Office Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds if Sir Keir Starmer questioned whether Peter Mandelson had failed security vetting before being made US ambassador. #Newsnight

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Start the week strong so Friday has something to talk about. Small wins. Big momentum. 💪 #MondayMotivation

🕯️In Dnipro, 15 deaths due to Russian strike tonight are already known, — OVA Rescuers recovered the bodies of two women and a man from under the rubble of a house. ❗️ The number of injured in Kyiv has increased to 81 people.

"During a protest, an Israeli reporter tried to question a young Jerusalemite woman, asking dismissively, “Aren’t we all Israelis?” With absolute confidence and calm that speaks volumes, the young woman replied: “Not me.. I am Palestinian.”(Pal Global echo) #Israel

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By publishtruthsay Reports say an attack at Kuwait International Airport has injured at least 63 people, according to Kuwait’s health authorities. According to reports, the attack caused serious damage at the airport, especially around Terminal 1.

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Russia's Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar is on fire after a drone strike - one of the largest private refineries in southern Russia. OSINT footage shows heavy smoke. Governor unconfirmed. The facility directly supplies Russian frontline forces.