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"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…

This 'utter failure' from Trump could 'stun the world' in 2026: researcher
President Donald Trump has bet big on an agenda to expand artificial intelligence investment in the United States — but this year, some analysts think it could come back to haunt him, as a long-suspected AI investment bubble bursts and the public turns against the technology for its increasingly app...

"Canada’s Whale Sanctuary Gives Former Captive Whales a Place to Heal"
#Canada #Whales #Animals

Canada’s Whale Sanctuary Gives Former Captive Whales a Place to Heal | Happy Eco News
Canada’s whale sanctuary in Nova Scotia will become the country’s first natural-sea refuge for retired captive whales. Not built specifically for Marineland’s belugas, it nonetheless offers them and other whales a humane, long-awaited alternative to concrete tanks. The project could shape global standards for cetacean welfare.

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Administration is big mad at Kelly for accidentally exposing plan to scapegoat troops. Adm Bradley should have done an Adm Holsey and retired.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/01/hegseth-caine-boat-strikes-caribbean/

Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.

Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.

Citizen Scientist Spots Earth-like Planet: Now Astrophysicists Will Focus Most Powerful Telescopes on it
Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets

Why Javonte Williams wears jersey number 33 for Cowboys and it isn't retired for Tony Dorsett https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/why-javonte-williams-jersey-number-33-c…

Defense Dept. effort to punish Mark Kelly draws skepticism from judge
A federal judge on Tuesday sharply questioned the legality of the Defense Department’s efforts to censure and possibly demote
Sen. Mark Kelly,
a retired Navy captain,
over his public criticism of the Trump administration.

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared to be
expanding restrictions on free speech that have applied only to active-duty servi…

Defense Dept. effort to punish Mark Kelly draws skepticism from judge
A federal judge said Pete Hegseth appeared to be expanding restrictions on free speech that have applied only to active-duty service members.

The FBI director, Kash Patel, is
“in over his head”
and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency
paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale,
according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts.
The leaked assessment, obtained by the New York Post and prepared for both congressional Senate and House judiciary committees, is based on confidential accounts from 24 FBI sources.
…

At midnight on 1 January, the flexible credit card-sized pass used by millions of New Yorkers to get through subway turnstiles is being terminated from sale just as a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, takes office.
The transit system will fully transition to #Omny, a contactless payment system that allows riders to tap their credit card, phone or other smart device to pay fares, much as they do for other purch…

Trump’s defense secretary,
Pete Hegseth, said Monday that
the Pentagon will investigate Mark Kelly,
a Democratic senator from Arizona and retired Navy officer,
for his role in making a video reminding service members of their duty to disobey unlawful orders.

In targeting Kelly
-- and another prominent Democratic critic of the administration,
Rep. Eugene Vindman of Virginia,
-- the Defense Department has been co-opted into the president’s norm-shatte…

Hegseth conscripts the Pentagon for Trump’s ‘retribution campaign’
In threatening to deploy the military justice system against Democrats, Hegseth has joined Trump’s norm-shattering bid to punish political foes.