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Bunkered Beneath: Inside America’s Secret Race to Build a Network of Underground Fortresses

Bunkered Beneath: Inside America’s Secret Race to Build a Network of Underground Fortresses

At a quarry in rural West Virginia, truck convoys haul rebar and blast doors at night. Local officials wave them through, citing “critical infrastructure” exemptions. Two states away, a bored tunnel emerges behind razor wire in the Nevada desert. Its ventilation stacks match the sandy hills. Meanwhile, appropriations subcommittees tuck eight-figure sums into line items […]

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Runaway Minds: Why Today’s AI May Already Be Beyond Tomorrow’s Control

Runaway Minds: Why Today’s AI May Already Be Beyond Tomorrow’s Control

The demo starts with a chatbot drafting legal briefs in seconds. Three iterations later, the same code base reverse-engineers exploits, patches itself, and proposes a new monetary policy. In AI labs from San Francisco to Shenzhen, researchers sum up the arc in one word—foom, tech slang for a feedback loop so fast it feels like […]

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Orbital Intruder: The New Mystery Object Stirring Oumuamua-Level Buzz

Orbital Intruder: The New Mystery Object Stirring Oumuamua-Level Buzz

The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center received the alert at 03:17 UTC—a wobbling blip captured by three telescopes on opposite continents. It was too slow to be a rock yet too agile to be a derelict payload. Within hours, observers named it “Little ’Mua,” after 2017’s interstellar enigma ʻOumuamua. While its predecessor slashed through […]

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Vanishing Wings: What the Bird Crash Reveals About America’s Troubled Biosphere

Vanishing Wings: What the Bird Crash Reveals About America’s Troubled Biosphere

At dawn in rural Ohio, meadowlarks once trilled above soy fields. This spring, agronomist Rae Martinez counted silence: no larks, barely a bobolink. Her missing birds reflect a grim headline from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s 2025 State of the Birds report—229 U.S. species approach collapse, and 112 have lost over half their numbers since […]

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False Prophets, Real Consequences: Inside the Panic Over a Self-Proclaimed Messiah

False Prophets, Real Consequences: Inside the Panic Over a Self-Proclaimed Messiah

The sermon begins with a smile and a QR code. Viewers tap; the screen flashes “Seed Your Miracle.” Money flows from many countries into an account controlled by a man who calls himself the Returned One. He preaches via ring light, promises debt erasure, and hints that earthquakes will swallow unbelievers by year’s end. Last […]

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Seconds Before Midnight: Parsing the Data That Fuels Today’s Doomsday Narrative

Seconds Before Midnight: Parsing the Data That Fuels Today’s Doomsday Narrative

The YouTube thumbnail announces in 72-point font—WE’RE IN THE LAST DAYS—yet the data captures attention more than the drama. Solar physicists confirm the most volatile sunspot cycle in decades. Cybersecurity firms track AI-generated malware that morphs faster than patches can deploy. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists holds the Doomsday Clock near annihilation. Internet hysteria […]

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When the Planet Groans: Decoding Earth’s Rising Drumbeat of Danger

When the Planet Groans: Decoding Earth’s Rising Drumbeat of Danger

It starts with a feeling—an almost subliminal tension when the wind hushes or a subway platform vibrates harder than usual. This sensation travels faster than any official alert, cutting through routine and pushing the mind toward one intrusive question: what is happening to Earth? In living rooms, social feeds, and lab meetings, that unease has […]

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Celluloid Secrets: How a New Documentary Pushes the UFO Debate Into Uncharted Airspace

Celluloid Secrets: How a New Documentary Pushes the UFO Debate Into Uncharted Airspace

Five minutes into Hidden History and Flying Saucers, the screen turns black as a typewriter clacks out three words: “History is edited.” The line hangs like a dare. For the next ninety minutes, director Raquel Velasquez offers a forensic sprint through grainy Air Force reels, declassified memos, and family-cam footage of objects that accelerate from […]

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Arctic Shadows: Probing the Deathbed Claim of Human Hunts in Canada’s North

Arctic Shadows: Probing the Deathbed Claim of Human Hunts in Canada’s North

A flicker of green text, posted at 2:14 a.m. on the /pol/ board, landed like a grenade. An anonymous user claimed he was dying in a Winnipeg hospice and needed to unload a secret: for twenty years, he guided elites on a private reserve above Great Slave Lake, where they hunted abducted drifters for sport. […]

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Whispers in the Pine: Tracking Canada’s Elusive Snake People Across Time and Tundra

Whispers in the Pine: Tracking Canada’s Elusive Snake People Across Time and Tundra

On a summer evening outside Old Crow, Yukon, the sun dips but never sets. A chill rides the river flats while mosquitoes orbit. At a cultural center built of weathered spruce, Gwich'in storyteller Celestine Kyikavichik hunches over a drum, tracing coils with an ochre-stained fingertip. “They lived under us,” she says of the Snake People, […]

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