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I never thought I would see Michael “Mike” Tan Defensor, 57, behind bars, holding the cold steel bars of a suburban detention facility where inmates wear a bright orange t-shirt emblazoned with PDL – person deprived of liberty.

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In the science of artificial intelligence (AI), there is a concept called technological singularity.

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Donald Trump is running away from Iran. He has just been defeated, by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and by a ghost, Iran’s proclaimed supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who succeeded his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, assassinated by Israel on the first day of war, Feb. 28, 2026.

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What values are more important than wealth or money?

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Artificial intelligence has become three things. It is a religion. It is drugs. It is a war machine.

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