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The USA government has FAILED to give us Online Freedom of Speech. How many innocent people is evil Google unfairly censoring?

 

Our government is failing to give us Online Freedom of Speech.

How many people is evil #Google unfairing censoring? pic.twitter.com/ULwOKUiYVN

— MAGAaTom -🇺🇸 🇺🇸- President Trump is Fantastic (@MAGAaTom) September 21, 2026

The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.

 

The dura is the brain's armor: a membrane so tough that a surgeon normally cuts through it with a scalpel. For the first time in our clinical trials, we inserted the electrode threads of our implant straight through the dura and into the cortex, keeping the dura intact.

Here's… pic.twitter.com/Sw2928iXxC

— Neuralink (@neuralink) June 30, 2026

History of the USA -- From Indigenous civilizations to European colonization, revolution and republic, civil war and reconstruction, industrial growth and global leadership, social movements and technological transformation.

 

A Concise History of the United States

The history of the United States is the story of many peoples meeting on a vast continent, building institutions, clashing over ideals, and continually redefining freedom. From Indigenous civilizations to European colonization, revolution and republic, civil war and reconstruction, industrial growth and global leadership, social movements and technological transformation, the nation has evolved through conflict, compromise, and creativity. What follows is an accurate, big-picture overview from pre-colonial time to the 21st century.

Before Columbus: Indigenous America

Long before Europeans arrived, the lands that would become the United States were home to tens of millions of Indigenous people speaking hundreds of languages and developing diverse cultures. The Mississippian mound builders built urban centers like Cahokia near present-day St. Louis; in the Southwest, Ancestral Puebloan peoples constructed cliff dwellings and complex irrigation systems; on the Pacific Northwest, communities thrived on rich marine resources; in the Northeast woodlands, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) formed a powerful confederacy with sophisticated systems of governance. Trade networks spanned the continent, spiritual and kinship ties shaped community life, and relationships with the land were central. This deep history is foundational: it reminds us the American story is not only a tale of newcomers, but also of continuity and resilience among Native nations who remain today.

European Encounters and Colonization (1500s–1600s)

The 16th and 17th centuries brought Spanish, French, Dutch, and English ventures to North America. Spain built missions and presidios in Florida and the Southwest; France established fur-trading posts along the St. Lawrence River and the Mississippi; the Dutch briefly controlled parts of the mid-Atlantic. English settlements, including Jamestown (1607) and Plymouth (1620), grew into thirteen colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. Colonization was never a simple transfer of European society: it meant adaptation to new environments, reliance on Indigenous knowledge, and frequent conflict and disease that devastated Native populations.

Labor systems diverged regionally. New England’s small farms and town meetings fostered a more communal political culture. The Middle Colonies (New York, Pennsylvania) became multicultural trading hubs. The Southern colonies relied heavily on plantation agriculture—tobacco, rice, indigo—and, increasingly, enslaved African labor. By the early 1700s, chattel slavery was embedded in colonial law and economy, laying the groundwork for profound moral and political conflicts to come.

Toward Independence (1730s–1776)

The 18th century brought revivalist religious movements (the First Great Awakening) and imperial wars that bound colonists to Britain while also stirring local identities. The Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), known in North America as the French and Indian War, ended French power in most of the continent but left Britain with massive debts. Trying to recoup costs, Parliament asserted new taxes and regulations—the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Act—without colonial representation. Colonists protested, boycotted, and articulated arguments for the rights of Englishmen and natural rights more broadly. Tensions escalated in the Boston Massacre (1770) and Boston Tea Party (1773). In 1774–1775, colonial leaders convened the Continental Congress and fighting broke out at Lexington and Concord.

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Why you should Rescue a Pet

Each year, it's estimated that more than one million adoptable dogs and cats are euthanized in the United States, simply because too many pets come into shelters and too few people consider adoption when looking for a pet.

The number of euthanized animals could be reduced dramatically if more people adopted pets instead of buying them. When you adopt, you save a loving animal by making them part of your family and open up shelter space for another animal who might desperately need it.

Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs | 60 Minutes

The practice highlighted in the 60 Minutes segment—experts such as physicians, winemakers, and music producers spending hours training AI models through platforms like Mercor—has clear short-term gains and longer-term uncertainties.

Pros include rapid improvement of AI in specialized domains where internet-scraped data is insufficient. Models need human judgment on tasks like interpreting lab results or refining lyrics, and companies pay for that expertise. 

Contractors report average rates around $85–95 per hour, with specialists reaching $200 or more, creating flexible side income while many keep full-time jobs. AI training has become one of the fastest-growing job categories on LinkedIn. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody argues this mirrors past technological shifts: automating routine work can raise overall demand for human expertise and productivity rather than simply eliminate roles. Some trainers say the process also sharpens their own skills by forcing them to articulate tacit knowledge.

Cons center on displacement risk and precarious work. The same experts who train the systems are sometimes teaching AI to perform core parts of their professions; journalists and others have described the internal conflict of improving tools that could reduce demand for their skills. Project-based gigs are unstable—work can pause or end with little notice, producing feast-or-famine income and no benefits as 1099 contractors. Reports also note monitoring software, abrupt pay changes on projects, and legal disputes over data handling. Broader evidence is mixed but not uniformly reassuring: early data show relative employment declines for younger workers in highly AI-exposed roles, and analyses such as McKinsey’s project that millions of U.S. workers may need to change occupations even if net job numbers eventually rise, with lower-wage workers facing larger skill gaps.

The immediate effect is a paid market for human expertise that makes current AI better. Whether that market remains durable, or mainly accelerates the automation of the expertise being sold, is still unresolved and depends on how quickly demand for remaining human judgment grows relative to what the models absorb.

The crazy story of Grubhub: The Deserved Downfall of a $14B Delivery Scam.

 

No, Grubhub is not going out of business, though it has faced major financial shifts and ownership changes.

Recent Ownership Changes

Acquisition by Wonder: Just Eat Takeaway sold Grubhub to food-tech company Wonder Group Inc.for $650 million, a steep drop from the $7.3 billion peak purchase price in 2021. 
Continued Operation: The platform remains fully active. Customers can still place delivery and pickup orders, and restaurants remain partnered with the service.  

Market Position

Competition: Grubhub holds a smaller market share than primary competitors like DoorDash and Uber Eats.
User Sentiments: Opinions on Reddit are mixed. Some drivers and users express frustration over slower order volumes or lower pay in specific regions, leading to frequent online rumors that the company might shut down. However, the platform continues normal operations under Wonder.

Jensen Huang is the founder, and CEO of NVIDIA, the company whose 1999 invention of the GPU helped transform gaming, AI, computer graphics, and accelerated computing.

 

Uber and Lyft Upfront Pricing is a Scam to Ripp-off Passengers and Drivers. Uber takes up to 80% of a passenger fare.

Uber and Lyft are out of control with greed. Upfront pricing is a scam to hide how much Uber is making in profits per ride, and how much they are paying the Driver. All this information should be transparent, and not an evil scam for Uber and Lyft to earn huge profits.

This video gives detailed evidence and examples. So if Uber charges a passenger $100 and pays the Driver $20, is that fair? Years ago it was 80% for the Driver, today it is up to 80% for Uber.

They are many reasons why people do not trust Uber and Lyft to treat them fairly.

One example is insurance costs. Uber and Lyft like to blame increased pricing on inflation and insurance. When the truth is Uber owns their own insurance company, and the laws protect Uber and Lyft from showing how insurance prices and profits are calculated.

Uber utilizes an internal captive insurance subsidiary registered in Hawaii named Aleka Insurance Inc. to manage self-insured risks, which does not maintain a public consumer-facing website or independent URL. 

Federal, State and Local governments need to do a lot more to regulate evil Uber and Lyft.

Russia BOMBARDS Ukraine with drones, HITS key bridges.

 

Russian drone strikes in early October 2026 have shifted toward sustained pressure on Kyiv’s mobility and civilian economy, rather than decisive destruction of targets. Bridges across the Dnipro River—previously untouched in the full-scale war—have been hit on consecutive days.Northern (Pivnichnyi) and Southern (Pivdennyi) Bridges sustained multiple drone impacts that damaged road surfaces, barriers, and overhead lines, injuring several people and forcing temporary closures or restrictions. 

Roughly 500,000 vehicles cross these links daily; the strikes produced gridlock and prompted contingency planning for pontoon crossings, though the concrete structures remain standing. Ukrainian officials and the Institute for the Study of War describe the pattern as an effort to split the city logistically and degrade daily movement. Russia has framed the bridges as military logistics routes.The strikes form part of a broader campaign using large numbers of jet-powered drones (faster and harder to intercept than earlier propeller models). Ukraine reported more than 1,900 attack drones, 1,700 aerial bombs, and 25 missiles in one recent week, with individual nights involving 130–180 drones. 

Overall interception rates have been cited around 70 percent, dropping to roughly 55–57 percent against jet-powered variants in September, though some daily figures exceeded 80 percent. Debris and successful hits still reach energy facilities, warehouses, datacenters, and residential areas. Ukraine’s Economy Ministry has estimated roughly $10 billion in fixed-asset damage from strikes in 2026, with air-raid alerts alone costing about $45 million per hour in halted business activity. ISW assessments link the intensified winter-season campaign to an effort to strain energy supplies, logistics, and civilian endurance.

Air defenses continue to blunt most launches, and Ukraine is scaling interceptor drones (early “Bars” models showing around 30 percent success against jets in initial use) alongside fighter intercepts. The cumulative effect has been rising disruption to transport, power, and commercial operations in the capital rather than a collapse of infrastructure, accompanied by official warnings that relative normalcy in Kyiv has ended.