Trumps Cuts Funding For Climate Change And 30 Other UN Agencies

Thirty-one UN Agencies got the funding axe, along with thirty-five other international do-gooder organizations, and they will be grieving the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars. The egregious Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is also being cut. This is a real blow to the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The UN has been a cesspool of anti-American rhetoric for decades, and many conservative organizations have called for a total pullout, including this writer. 

“Just a decade after a global backlash was triggered by Snowden reporting on mass domestic surveillance, the state-corporate dragnet is stronger and more invasive than ever.” If you have a Nest or Ring camera, join the thousands of others who are ditching them, if not destroying them outright. Don’t join the surveillance network! ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past wee

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Imagine that. Because Anthropic has “community standards” on how the military uses its software, the defense community is slinging mud and threats to cut them off. Why? Because Anthropic says no use for domestic surveillance, no design or use of weapons, or facilitating violence or malicious cyber operations. Elon Musk, who has no scruples about how xAI is used by the military, piled on insults, calling the company anti-human, evil, and racist. ⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
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Most writers talk about the AI that was around 6 months ago, and judge it accordingly. With the capability of AI doubling every 4-5 months, you should immediately see the problem – it’s almost impossible to keep up. Shumer has been a world-class coder for years, and now finds himself out of hands-on coding forever. With Anthropic’s just-released Opus 4,6, which I just tested for myself, I concur that something big is happening.
I graduated from coding over 25 years ago, but wri

Institutional AI is not an add‑on to our existing order; it is the order. When you follow the hardware, the data flows, and the political incentives, a simple conclusion emerges: institutional AI—corporate plus state—is structurally about governing populations and markets, and that’s where most of the compute and data gravity now resides.
Let’s begin with the physical substrate: energy and compute. Technocracy, almost a century ago, proposed a regime where the key v