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QUANTICO, VAWincing as the bureaus director breathlessly staggered to his feet during their first training seminar with professional MMA athletes, a group of FBI agents reportedly watched in silence over the weekend as Kash Patel got his ass kicked by a UFC fighter. According to sources, the agents shifted uncomfortably on the sidelines of a makeshift octagon at the FBI Academy gym while reigning UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje pummeled Patel with a barrage of jabs, hooks, and leg kicks in a demonstration meant to improve the agents effectiveness in the field. Eyewitnesses confirmed that several agents exhaled sharply as the visibly woozy Patel was bowled over for a protracted ground-and-pound from the seasoned fighter, with Patel emitting a ragged squealing sound as Gaethjes elbow repeatedly struck him in the solar plexus. A hoarse Patel is said to have gasped, See how hes putting me in this triangle choke? to the impassive crowd before crossing his eyes and falling completely limp. At press time, several agents were seen exchanging glances of slight concern after the bruised, urine-soaked Kash Patel had not stirred from unconsciousness for three minutes.The post FBI Agents Watch In Silence As Kash Patel Gets Ass Kicked By UFC Fighter appeared first on The Onion.

BURLINGTON, VTVoicing appreciation for the fact that the boys morbid obsession was at least getting him to read, local mom Hana Garrett confirmed Tuesday that everything her son Ethan got at the school book fair was about medieval torture again. Well, thats another $70 haul of books about breaking convicts on the wheel and dislocating their shoulders by strappado, said Garrett, adding that the fourth grader was currently winning his schools competition to read the most books thanks to his endless appetite for accounts of victims being stretched on the rack during the Spanish Inquisition. I was so sure he was going to branch out and get Holes this time, but he put it back at the last minute and picked a book with a diagram of something called a head crusher. I guess its nice that hes learning some vocabulary with torture implement names like the brazen bull and the pear of anguish. Theres even some French stuff like oubliette. But his teacher did ask for his next book report to be on something that doesnt involve castration for a change, so maybe Ill put that one about hanging, drawing, and quartering away until his birthday. At press time, Garrett reportedly expressed relief after her son finally asked her for a book detailing more modern forms of torture.The post Everything Son Got At School Book Fair About Medieval Torture Again appeared first on The Onion.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters after a weekly Republican luncheon, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)2026-03-17T11:03:47Z WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans are launching an unprecedented effort on Tuesday to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know wont pass an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter registration rules as President Donald Trump pressures Congress to act before Novembers midterm elections. The talkathon could last a week or longer, potentially through the weekend, as Senate Majority Leader John Thune tries to navigate Trumps insistence on the issue and Democrats united opposition. Trump has urged Thune to scrap the legislative filibuster, which triggers a 60-vote threshold in the 100-member Senate, or find another workaround to pass the bill, but Thune has repeatedly said he doesnt have the votes to do that.Instead, Republicans intend to make a long, noisy show of support for the legislation, which would require Americans to prove they are U.S. citizens before they register to vote and to show identification at the polls, among other things. Its a risky strategy, with no guarantee it will be enough for Trump, who has said he wont sign other bills until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act also known as the SAVE America Act or the SAVE Act is passed. The floor debate is expected to eventually end with a failed vote. Republicans need 60 votes to advance the bill to a final vote, but they hold 53 seats, and all 45 Democrats and both independents, who caucus with the Democrats, oppose it. Still, the debate will put Democrats on the record, Thune said last week. In a social media post on Tuesday morning, Trump issued a warning to any Republican who doesnt vote for the bill: I WILL NEVER (EVER!) ENDORSE ANYONE WHO VOTES AGAINST SAVE AMERICA!!! Creating strict voter registration rules Trump says, without evidence, that Democrats can only win in the midterms if they cheat and explicitly said Republicans need the SAVE America Act to win in November. The House passed the legislation earlier this year, but the Senate turned to other issues as it became clear that Republicans didnt have the votes to pass it. But Trump made clear he wasnt satisfied and pushed the Senate to act. The Republican president has said he wont sign other legislation, including a bipartisan housing bill backed by the White House, until the voting bill passes. The bill contains a slew of provisions that Trump and his most loyal supporters have pushed as part of a broad effort to assert federal control over elections. It would require voters nationwide to provide proof of citizenship when they register and to show accepted voter identification when casting a ballot. It would also create new penalties for election workers who register voters without proof of citizenship and require states to hand voter data over to the Department of Homeland Security so federal officials could screen for voters who are in the country illegally. Trump also wants new provisions added to the bill, including a ban on most mail-in ballots. Itll guarantee the midterms, Trump said of the bill last week. If you dont get it, big trouble. Democratic opposition to the bill is firmDemocrats and many groups that champion voter access say there is little evidence of noncitizens voting and say the bill would disenfranchise millions of voters including Republicans by creating new burdens to prove citizenship. It is already illegal to vote if you are not a U.S. citizen, but the bill would lay out strict new rules for paperwork that people would have to present to register to vote. Opponents of the measure say those documents are not always readily available for many people. There is no new problem to solve here, said Janai Nelson, president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund, a civil rights law advocacy group. There is an apparatus already to ensure that elections are safe and secure and that only eligible voters are casting ballots in our elections. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said that Democrats are not opposed to voter identification but this is about purging the voter rolls in a massive way, so you never even get the chance to show a voter ID when you showed up to vote because youd be knocked off the rolls. Expect a show on the Senate floor Trump, backed by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, has pushed for a talking filibuster, which would force Democrats to talk for days or weeks to delay passage of the bill. But Thune and the larger GOP conference rejected that idea, arguing that it would end in failure after giving Democrats a stage and the opportunity to offer endless amendments, potentially adding their priorities to the bill. Republicans are instead taking over the floor with their own speeches, proceeding under regular order but operating outside the normal time limits that are customary when debating legislation. Democrats are expected to answer with their own procedural hijinks, potentially forcing Republicans to come to the floor at all hours for votes, meaning they will need to stay close to the Senate for the duration. Lee said last week that its unclear how it will all play out. He said he thinks Trump understands that we need to put in an aggressive effort here.And a lot of that, he said, is going to have to be determined in real time as we go about it.The extent of Trumps satisfaction with the process, Lee said, will depend on whether, in his view, we gave it everything we have.On Monday night, Lee was rallying Trumps base voters on X. Once were on this bill, he wrote, we must stay on it until its passed into law.___Associated Press writer Lisa Mascaro contributed to this report. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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DALLASSaying the decision had been reached following an extensive internal review of the companys boarding procedures, Southwest Airlines confirmed Tuesday that passengers would now be assigned chores ahead of time. There has always been a degree of chaos around passengers having to choose right as theyre boarding how theyre going to help keep the plane tidy, said Southwest representative Martin Nieman, explaining that the airline hoped to streamline the task allocation process by randomly appointing responsibilities at the time of check-in. For instance, everyone in row 18 might now be in charge of trash on this flight, while those in the fire exit rows will push the beverage cart. Chore assignments will be clearly printed on all boarding passes for ticketed travelers 2 years old and above. Those flying standby may refer to the chore wheels posted at fore and aft of the plane. Of course, you will have the option to pay extra if you want a more comfortable job. Nieman asked flyers frustrated about being on bathroom duty to be patient, stressing that everyone who flew with Southwest would have to take on the unpleasant task eventually.The post Southwest Airlines Begins Assigning Chores appeared first on The Onion.

PIKEVILLE, KYSpeculating that a new path in life might improve his job prospects, unemployed man Ian Hampel, 36, told reporters Tuesday that he was considering going back to school to become an AI. I can see the writing on the wall: If I want to stay relevant in the workforce, Im going to need to go back to college and turn into an artificial intelligence, said Hampel, who had already begun looking into degree programs that could prepare him for work as a large language model or an autonomous agent. I know pivoting later in life is a risk, but I honestly think Id be good at predicting the next word in a sequence by processing huge sums of information. Plus, I already hallucinate a lot, and Ive even convinced a guy to kill himself. Sure, its not really my passion. But at the end of the day, the market is the market. According to reports, Hampel later realized he didnt need any more schooling to become an erotic AI sexbot.The post Unemployed Man Considers Going Back To School To Become AI appeared first on The Onion.

Joe Kent, Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, speaks during a congressional debate at KATU studios Oct. 7, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)2026-03-17T13:49:08Z WASHINGTON (AP) Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation on Tuesday, saying he cannot in good conscience back the Trump administrations war in Iran.Kent said on social media Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.There was no immediate comment from the White House.Kent, a former political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists, was confirmed to his post last July on a 52-44 vote. As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, he was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.Before entering President Donald Trumps administration, Kent ran two unsuccessful campaigns for Congress in Washington state. He also served in the military, seeing 11 deployments as a Green Beret, followed by work at the CIA. Democrats strongly opposed Kents confirmation, pointing to his past ties to far-right figures and conspiracy theories. During his 2022 congressional campaign, Kent paid Graham Jorgensen, a member of the far-right military group the Proud Boys, for consulting work. He also worked closely with Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer, and attracted support from a variety of far-right figures. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Kent also refused to distance himself from a conspiracy theory that federal agents instigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the Capitol, as well as false claims that Trump, a Republican, won the 2020 election over Democrat Joe Biden. Democrats grilled Kent on his participation in a group chat on Signal that was used by Trumps national security team to discuss sensitive military plans.Still, Republicans praised Kents counterterrorism qualifications, pointing to his military and intelligence experience.Sen. Tom Cotton, the GOP chair of the intelligence committee, said in a floor speech that Kent had dedicated his career to fighting terrorism and keeping Americans safe. SEUNG MIN KIM Kim covers the White House for The Associated Press. She joined the AP in 2022 and is based in Washington. Kim is also a political analyst for CNN. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks with reporters on the steps at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)2026-03-17T04:23:40Z WASHINGTON (AP) Should Sen. Markwayne Mullin be approved as the next secretary of Homeland Security, he will walk into the departments sprawling Washington, D.C., campus with his work cut out for him.Immigration enforcement is at a crossroads. Disaster-hit states and their lawmakers are angry at delayed federal assistance. Frustrated travelers face long airport security lines due to a monthlong funding battle in Congress.Mullin would take over from embattled outgoing secretary Kristi Noem, who entered office with President Donald Trumps backing but whose social media-driven management style of the governments third-largest department contributed to her downfall.Weve got serious management problems at DHS, and we need somebody steering the ship, said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., adding that he told the Oklahoma senator a full audit of the department is needed.Mullin, a former mixed martial arts fighter, has earned a reputation as a combative presence in the Senate. After 13 years in Congress, he has the confidence of fellow lawmakers and is expected to follow the White Houses policy priorities. His confirmation hearing is set for Wednesday. Mullin would oversee immigration enforcementA top challenge for Mullin would be taking over the administrations centerpiece policy of mass deportations, which has triggered a surge of immigrant arrests, sparked fear in communities and raised concerns about detention and enforcement tactics.A year of high-profile operations resulted in high arrest numbers but also criticism that officers were too aggressive. The shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis by federal officers sparked calls for reform at immigration enforcement agencies.Approval of Trumps immigration approach is down from when he started his second term, with most Americans saying Trump has gone too far. The souring public mood could force Mullin to recalibrate how the agencies he would oversee implement the deportation push. Since being nominated, Mullin has not publicly revealed his vision for running the department and has declined to answer questions. He is likely to be a faithful ally to Trump in his new role. In the Senate, he has been less focused on legislation and more engaged as a de facto spokesman for the White House talking to the president often and amplifying his messages in the hallways of the Capitol and behind closed doors. He has been a strong supporter of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and the congressional funding approved last summer that super-charged immigration enforcement.Following the shooting deaths of the U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, he backed law enforcement and blamed local leaders for rhetoric that he said had emboldened protesters.John Sandweg, a former acting director at ICE during the Obama administration, said Mullin will need to balance pressures from different players inside the administration over how to conduct future enforcement operations whether to ramp up deportations through arrest sweeps or keep enforcement more targeted on people whove committed crimes. Hes going to have to reconcile ... are we about numbers or about quality? said Sandweg. And I think hell face a lot of pressure to also deliver on numbers. First challenge for Mullin will be the DHS funding lapseMullin is also walking into a battle with congressional Democrats demanding reforms at ICE, which has led to a monthlong lapse in funding for DHS.Senate Democrats want changes to immigration enforcement before they approve more money. That includes a ban on masks worn by deportation officers, an end to roving patrols of officers looking for immigrants and a requirement that officers use warrants signed by a judge to enter a persons house. Republicans have held the line against those demands.As the standoff has dragged on, thousands of Homeland Security staffers are being forced to work without pay, including airport security screeners. Some airports have started to see long security lines, raising concerns that screeners are calling out sick, taking on side jobs to make ends meet, struggling with fuel costs or leaving their jobs altogether. In his new role, Mullin is expected to improve relationships with Congress, where Republicans treated Noem with skepticism. He is close to both House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. Republicans are hoping that switching out Noem for Mullin will serve as enough of a change to appease Democratic demands to fund the department.This is what the Democrats have been clamoring for. They wanted a new change and shake-up in the leadership, and its now happening, said Thune.But Democrats have insisted on widespread changes.I like Markwayne personally, but I dont think its a question of who is at the helm, its a question of law, said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. States clamoring for change at disaster response agencyMullin will also inherit a Federal Emergency Management Agency mired in upheaval and uncertainty over the administrations attempts to shift disaster responsibility to states and Trumps threats to abolish the agency.DHS under Noem drove a torrent of policies in the name of that objective, stalling funding, driving out staff and attracting lawsuits over just how much authority a homeland security secretary could exert over FEMA, which still lacks a permanent administrator.Noem enacted a policy that she personally approve expenditures over $100,000, which critics said delayed billions in disaster recovery dollars. State emergency managers hope to see a quick repeal, along with the release of grant funding for preparedness and resilience, said Karen Langdon, a National Emergency Management Association spokesperson. There are still over $2.2 billion in recovery and mitigation projects awaiting DHS approval as of Friday, according to official figures seen by The Associated Press. The Trump-appointed FEMA Review Council, chaired by Noem, is months behind in releasing a highly anticipated recommendation report after the outgoing secretary clashed with other council members on how far to take the reforms.Mullins views on FEMA arent entirely clear, but he has expressed skepticism of a federal disaster response in the past. Its not FEMA thats going to respond, he told Fox Business shortly after Hurricane Helene in 2024. Its the local people that are going to respond, and were going to be fighting with FEMA to get reimbursed if they ever do reimburse.Lawmakers and states generally support reforms that would streamline disaster aid and ease bureaucratic burden, but state and local governments need dependable leadership and time to prepare for changes, said Sarah Labowitz, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.What we want to see going forward is predictability, Labowitz said. Theres a lot of work to be done to re-earn trust.___Associated Press reporters Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking and Stephen Groves contributed to this report. REBECCA SANTANA Santana covers the Department of Homeland Security for The Associated Press. She has extensive experience reporting in such places as Russia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. twitter mailto GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Gabriela covers philanthropys role in disaster resilience and recovery. 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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks with reporters on the steps at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)2026-03-17T13:55:53Z ROME (AP) The Vatican appeals tribunal declared a mistrial Tuesday in the Holy Sees big trial of the century, a stunning blow to both Pope Francis legacy and Vatican prosecutors who had put a cardinal and several other people on trial over alleged financial crimes.In a 16-page ruling, the appeals court ruled that Francis and Vatican prosecutors both made procedural errors that nullified the original indictment and required a new trial. The court set a June 22 as the date for the new trial to begin. Defense lawyers said such a ruling was enormously significant if not historic, since it amounted to a Vatican court declaring an act of the pope null.The ruling was a win for the defense and a huge setback to Vatican prosecutors, who have been scrambling to salvage their case. The prosecution and 2023 convictions against Cardinal Angelo Becciu and others had been held up by the late pope as evidence of his willingness to crack down on financial misconduct in the Holy See. The case had as its main focus the Vaticans investment of 350 million euros ($413 million) in a London property. Prosecutors alleged brokers and Vatican monsignors fleeced the Holy See of tens of millions of euros in fees and commissions to acquire the property, and then extorted the Holy See for 15 million euros ($16.5 million) to cede control of it. The original investigation spawned two main tangents involving Becciu, once a leading Vatican cardinal and future papal contender. He was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 5 years in prison. The tribunal convicted eight other defendants of embezzlement, abuse of office, fraud and other charges. They all maintained their innocence and appealed.During the initial trial, Beccius lawyers in particular had complained that prosecutors hadnt turned over all the evidence to the defense, violating their right to a fair trial. Prosecutors had redacted some documents, withheld the cellphone records of a key prosecution witness and redacted texts among the players, arguing that such omissions were necessary to protect the secrecy of other investigations. Defense lawyers also alleged that four secret decrees Francis signed giving prosecutors wide-ranging powers to investigate violated the defendants right to a fair trial. They only learned about the decrees just before the trial began, since the decrees were never published.The appeals court agreed with both defense arguments.In the ruling, the appeals court ruled that one of Francis decrees amounted to a law, and that Francis failure to publish it nullified it. The court also decreed that Vatican prosecutors failure to turn over to the defense all their evidence nullified their original indictment.Defense lawyers were pleased by the ruling.The historic decision by the Court of Appealswhich, for the first time in Vatican history, ruled that a papal rescript was invalid and void due to failure to publish itin our view results in the complete nullity of the entire investigation and trial, attorneys Massimo Bassi and Cataldo Intrieri, who represent former Vatican official Fabrizio Tirabassi, said in a statement. We are confident that we will be able to reach a swift conclusion to the trial with a largely acquittal verdict.The tribunal, headed by Archbishop Alejandro Arellano Cedillo, ordered prosecutors to deposit all the documentation, in their original form, by April 30. It gave the defense until June 15 to prepare their motions before the June 22 start of the new trial.___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. NICOLE WINFIELD Winfield has been on the Vatican beat since 2001, covering the papacies of St. John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and the Francis pontificate and traveling the world with them.

Over the last few months, various academics and AI companies have attempted to predict how artificial intelligence is going to impact the labor market. These studies, including a high-profile paper published by Anthropic earlier this month, largely try to take the things AI is good at, or could be good at, and match them to existing job categories and job tasks. But the papers ignore some of the most impactful and most common uses of AI today: AI porn and AI slop.Anthropics paper, called Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence, essentially attempts to find 1:1 correlations between tasks that people do today at their jobs and things people are using Claude for. The researchers also try to predict if a jobs tasks are theoretically possible with AI, which resulted in this chart, which has gone somewhat viral and was included in a newsletter by MSNOWs Phillip Bump and threaded about by tech journalist Christopher Mims. (Because everything is terrible, the research is now also feeding into a gambling website where you can see the apparent odds of having your job replaced by AI.)In his thread, Mims makes the case that the theoretical capability of AI to do different jobs in different sectors is totally made up, and that this chart basically means nothing. Mims makes a good and fair observation: The nature of the many, many studies that attempt to predict which people are going to lose their jobs to AI are all flawed because the inputs must be guessed, to some degree.But I believe most of these studies are flawed in a deeper way: They do not take into account how people are actually actually using AI, though Anthropic claims that that is exactly what it is doing. We introduce a new measure of AI displacement risk, observed exposure, that combines theoretical LLM capability and real-world usage data, weighting automated (rather than augmentative) and work-related uses more heavily, the researchers write. This is based in part on the Anthropic Economic Index, which was introduced in an extremely long paper published in January that tries to catalog all the high-minded uses of AI in specific work-related contexts. These uses include Complete humanities and social science academic assignments across multiple disciplines, Draft and revise professional workplace correspondence and business communications, and Build, debug, and customize web applications and websites.Not included in any of Anthropics research are extremely popular uses of AI such as create AI porn and create AI slop and spam. These uses are destroying discoverability on the internet, cause cascading societal and economic harms. Researchers appear to be too squeamish or too embarrassed to grapple with the fact that people love to use AI to make porn, and people love to use AI to spam social media and the internet, inherently causing economic harm to creators, adult performers, journalists, musicians, writers, artists, website owners, small businesses, etc. As Emanuel wrote in our first 404 Media Generative AI Market Analysis, people love to cum, and many of the most popular generative AI websites have an explicit focus on AI porn and the creation of nonconsensual AI porn. Anthropics research continues a time-honored tradition by AI companies who want to highlight the good uses of AI that show up in their marketing materials while ignoring the world-destroying applications that people actually use it for. (It may be the case that people are disproportionately using Claude at a higher rate for more traditional work applications, but any study on the labor market impacts of AI should not focus on the uses of one single tool and extrapolate that out to every other tool. For what its worth, jailbroken versions of Claude are very popular among sexbot enthusiasts).Meanwhile, as we have repeatedly shown, huge parts of social media websites and Google search results have been overtaken by AI slop. Chatbots themselves have killed traffic to lots of websites that were once able to rely on ad revenue to employ people, so on and so forth.Anthropics paper does attempt to estimate what the effect of AI will be on arts and media, but again, the way the researchers do this is by attempting to decide whether AI can directly do the tasks that AI researchers assume are required by someone with a job in arts and media. Other widely-cited papers about AI-related job loss also do not really attempt to consider the potential macro impacts of the ongoing deadening and zombification of the internet, and instead focus on AI exposure, which is largely an attempt to predict or measure whether an AI or LLM could directly replace specific tasks that people need to do. Widely-cited papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research and Brookings released over the last several months attempt to determine the adaptability of workers in specific sectors to having many of their tasks automated by AI. The Brookings paper, at least, mentions the possibility of a society-wide shift that is impossible to predict: the evidence underlying the adaptive capacity estimates here is derived primarily from observed effects in localized displacement events, rather than from large-scale employment shifts across occupations. As a result, the index may be most informative when displacement is relatively isolatedfor example, when a worker loses their job but related occupations remain stable. In scenarios in which AI affects clusters of related occupations simultaneously, structural job availability may matter more than individual-level characteristics. Moreover, if AI fundamentally transforms the economy on a scale comparable to the industrial revolution (as some experts have suggested could be possible), it could make entire skill sets redundant across several occupations simultaneously.To be clear, AI-driven job loss is a critical thing to study and to consider. But many, many jobs, side hustles, and economic activity more broadly rely on the internet, or social media broadly defined. Study after study shows that Google is getting worse, traffic to websites are down, and an increasing amount of both web traffic and web content is being generated by AI and bots. Anecdotally, creators and influencers have told us its getting harder to compete with AI slop and harder to justify spending days or weeks making content just to publish it onto platforms where their AI competitors can brute force the recommendation algorithms effortlessly. We have heard from websites that have had to lay people off or shut down because Googles AI overviews have destroyed their web traffic or because they lose out on search engine rankings to AI slop. Authors are regularly competing with AI plagiarized versions of their books on Amazon, and Spotify is getting overrun with AI-generated music, too.This is all to say that these studies about the economic impacts of AI are ignoring a hugely important piece of context: AI is eating and breaking the internet and social media. We are moving from a many-to-many publishing environment that created untold millions of jobs and businesses towards a system where AI tools can easily overwhelm human-created websites, businesses, art, writing, videos, and human activity on the internet. Whats happening may be too chaotic, messy, and unpleasant for AI companies to want to reckon with, but to ignore it entirely is malpractice.

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A street vendor waits for customers on the Malecn during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)2026-03-17T15:25:11Z HAVANA (AP) Large parts of Cuba were without power on Tuesday after its third blackout in four months underscored the islands deepening energy and economic crises and rising political tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump.Electricity was slowly being restored to hospitals and some of the islands 11 million residents, but officials warned that its crumbling power network could fail again.Cubas aging grid has drastically eroded in recent years, leading to daily outages and an increase in significant blackouts.The government blames its woes on a U.S. energy blockade after Trump in January warned of tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. After Cuba was plunged into darkness again, Trump said on Monday he believes hell have the honor of taking Cuba.I mean, whether I free it, take it. I think I could do anything I want with it, he said. Trump has described Cuba as a very weakened nation. The Trump administration is demanding that Cuba release political prisoners and move toward political and economic liberalization in return for a lifting of sanctions. Trump has also raised the possibility of a friendly takeover of Cuba. Critical oil shipments from Venezuela were halted after the U.S. attacked the South American country in early January and arrested its then-president, Nicols Maduro.While Cuba produces 40% of its petroleum and has been generating its own power, it hasnt been sufficient to meet demand as its electric grid continues to crumble. Cubas Ministry of Energy and Mines said on X that the island had restored the electrical system in the western town of Pinar del Rio and the southeastern province of Holguin and that some microsystems were beginning to operate in various territories.State-owned media reported that by late Monday power had been restored to 5% of residents in the capital, Havana, representing some 42,000 customers. The citys residents are concerned about food spoiling and simply trying to maneuver in homes with no lighting. The power outages are driving me crazy, said 48-year-old Dalba Obiedo. Last night I fell down a 27-step staircase. Now I have to have surgery on my jaw. I fell because the lights went out.The Ministry of Energy and Mines said earlier that there had been a complete disconnection of the countrys electrical system, noting there were no failures in the units that were operating when the grid collapsed. Lzaro Guerra, the ministrys electricity director, told state media on Monday that crews were trying to restart several thermoelectric plants, which are key to restoring power.Havana resident Toms David Velzquez Felipe, 61, said the relentless outages make him think that Cubans who can should just pack up and leave the island. What little we have to eat spoils, he said. Our people are too old to keep suffering.___Follow APs coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at https://apnews.com/hub/latin-america

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