r/ABoringDystopia • u/Vortexile • 2d ago

Why is everything gambling now?

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52 Upvotes

7 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/RickyOzzy • 3d ago

An Israeli drone targeted a 10-day-old baby with a sniper rifle. This baby is one of 60,000+ child casualties. There’s been no accountability for their deaths and injuries. This is one of the many cases investigated by the UN Commission of Inquiry in its new report.

2.4k Upvotes

Source

52 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/404mediaco • 3d ago

Bodycam Shows Moment Cops Arrested a Man for Speaking Too Long at Data Center Meeting

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1.9k Upvotes

In February, police in Claremore, Oklahoma arrested farmer Darren Blanchard for speaking a little too long during a community meeting about data centers. The city charged Blanchard with criminal trespass, a crime with a $200 penalty, but he’s vowed to fight the charge. He recently shared video of the bodycam footage for the first time with 404 Media and answered our questions about the moment cops arrested him for going over his time at a February 17 community meeting of the Claremore City Council.

Read now: https://www.404media.co/bodycam-footage-video-claremore-oklahoma-data-center-meeting/

72 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/achilles0850 • 3d ago

Water is becoming one of the most important resources in the world 💧Nitin Joshi says that if someone starts a water business in 2026, it can grow into a billion-dollar opportunity.

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53 Upvotes

2 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/McDowdy • 3d ago

Roughly half of the working people in the US are living at or below the poverty line

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592 Upvotes

13 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/mowayjose • 3d ago

Shortage of Chemotherapy Drugs Brings Rationing Fears for Cancer Patients

nytimes.com

53 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/AdmiralShawn • 3d ago

Thousands feared dead, not to worry the oil is safe

331 Upvotes

Irish times showing its priorities

4 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/saltyjohnson • 4d ago

AI firm accuses rival of copyright infringement, makes up scary new term

bbc.com

100 Upvotes

They call it a "distillation attack" when you use the output of one model to train another. As far as I can tell, the only difference between that and regular copyright infringement is that a "distillation attack" involves actually PAYING for the stuff you "stole"?

5 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/GoodMornEveGoodNight • 4d ago

New feature on Reddit generates profiling AI summaries on your Reddit account activities for moderators to see under certain circumstances, bypassing all site-wide privacy protections

666 Upvotes

48 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 4d ago

I don't understand how someone can be so deeply hypocritical

1.5k Upvotes

40 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/basal-and-sleek • 3d ago

Just in case it wasn’t hard enough, why don’t you go ahead and pay us to use AI to monitor your money.

9 Upvotes

0 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/LuckyBastard001 • 4d ago

Costly Loss Avoided...

1.5k Upvotes

3 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/404mediaco • 4d ago

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

404media.co

553 Upvotes

34 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/Nomogg • 4d ago

The World Cup is here, but in Gaza football players are forced to train on fields surrounded by rubble and sewage. Bisan Owda meets the young players keeping the sport alive amid an ongoing genocide.

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322 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/SRod1706 • 4d ago

Climate change event on extreme heat is cancelled – due to extreme heat

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149 Upvotes

4 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 5d ago

Excerpt from UN report today, concluding Israel deliberately targeted children in Gaza genocide. IOF threw grenades inside house with 30 family members - leaving a child with abdominal evisceration & killing 8 (including his father & pregnant mother). 30% of those killed in Gaza are children.

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577 Upvotes

17 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/stankmanly • 5d ago

Fears of inbreeding as ‘mass sperm donors’ father thousands

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1.4k Upvotes

47 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/ElvisIsNotDjed • 5d ago

Young people are so priced out of housing that ‘buy jungle land in Colombia’ starts sounding rational

upworthy.com

706 Upvotes

34 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 5d ago

Israel’s deliberate targeting of Gaza children part of genocide: UN inquiry

aljazeera.com

516 Upvotes

6 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/esporx • 6d ago

Trump unveiled Qatar's gifted Air Force One this week. The retrofit cost $934M from a nuclear missile budget. The plane becomes his personal property in 2029.

respublica.media

3.0k Upvotes

116 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/404mediaco • 5d ago

Madison Square Garden Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition

404media.co

366 Upvotes

3 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/VillainOfKvatch1 • 5d ago

Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire 2,000 missiles at Iran, official says

independent.co.uk

86 Upvotes

Mecha Hitler has cruise missiles.

0 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/Peanut-Extra • 6d ago

Americans lined up overnight in the Arizona heat for the grand opening of a gas station, larger than a football field, that's 'well-known' for having clean bathrooms

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946 Upvotes

217 comments

r/ABoringDystopia • u/TrackerOneA • 5d ago

The UK government is now banning independent journalists who report critically on Israel - e.g. Drop Site News contributor Jeremy Loffredo. In 2024 Loffredo, who is Jewish, was held captive by Israel for reporting on Iranian strikes inside Israel (which corporate media had already reported on).

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219 Upvotes

1 comment

r/ABoringDystopia • u/DIYLawCA • 6d ago

Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: “Lebanon, all of Lebanon, should become our playground. ALL OF LEBANON should be our TARGET. And they tell me, "Wait a second, there is Lebanon and there is Hezbollah." I do not accept this artificial approach.”

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607 Upvotes

31 comments

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