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fromFast Company
4 hours ago

Trump's D.C. building boom includes a proposed arch, the 'biggest one of all'

"It was interrupted by a thing called the Civil War, and so it never got built," Trump said aboard Air Force One as he flew to Florida last weekend. "Then, they almost built something in 1902, but it never happened."
US politics
fromWIRED
3 months ago

Elon Musk's Grokipedia Pushes Far-Right Talking Points

Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media platform X, saying it would be "a massive improvement over Wikipedia," and "a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." Musk said last week that he had delayed the launch of Grokipedia because his team needed "to do more work to purge out the propaganda."
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fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

A Hitchcock historian fact-checked Netflix's 'Ed Gein Story' and calls it 'dramatic license, not history'

Netflix's series dramatizes the making of Psycho, incorporating invented scenes and inaccuracies regarding Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, and Ed Gein.
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
5 months ago

Fact check: Is the Trump administration rewriting history? DW 08/27/2025

US officials, including Vice President JD Vance and President Trump, have repeatedly made inaccurate historical claims about World War II, the Unabomber, and tariffs.
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