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Kindness, maybe thats the real punk rock, says James Gunns Superman, which hit theaters this past weekend. Its a message that seems to have resonated deeply with Gen Z. One X user said: I havent felt depressed even once since watching it. The film brought in $125 million at the U.S. box office and is earning praise across TikTok and Reddit for returning the superhero to his hopecore roots, The Daily Dot reported. Hopecorea trend that emerged on TikTokserves as an antidote to an internet overwhelmed by ragebait, manosphere content, and AI slop. At a time when nihilism dominates, incel culture and toxic masculinity are on the rise, anti-immigrant sentiment is shaping policy, and political divides are deepening, be kind feels like a radical, even revolutionary messageone Gen Z seems ready to embrace. The superman movie I just watched really said no one is an alien, everyone is a human, billionaires are evil, war is created, journalism is important, superheroes are hope, empathy is a superpower, and being soft hearted is punk rock, one TikTok user posted. @ericadanlle #superman made me cry #dc Punkrocker (feat. Iggy Pop) – Teddybears The masculine urge to help others in need, another TikTok post reads. This movie is going to do for the boys what Barbie did for the girls and I support it, one user commented. On Reddit, one post summed it up best: We finally made it out of the But WHAT IF Superman was a big asshole/ ackshually superheroes would be dicks IRL zeitgeist that swept the late 2010s of comic book media. They continued: We have genuine hope and wholesome superman again and its refreshing. In a world where we are increasingly socialised and incentivised to act purely out of self interest, Superman 2025 dares to tackle the rebellious act of being kind. As one X user added: Ill take Hopecore Superman over a dozen dark, edgy or evil Superman any day. Ill take Hopecore Superman over a dozen dark, edgy or evil Superman any day. https://t.co/b9EiKD3HnN— BBally (@BBally81) July 15, 2025 This is exactly the response Gunn was hoping for. This Superman does seem to come at a particular time when people are feeling a loss of hope in other peoples goodness, Gunn said in an interview with The Times of London. “Im telling a story about a guy who is uniquely good, and that feels needed now because there is a meanness that has emerged due to cultural figures being mean online.” Or, as one X user posted: I asked grok I asked chatgpt well I asked Superman and he said kindness is the new punk rock.
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When Mark Zuckerberg announced on July 14 that his company Meta was embarking on a project to build massively power-hungry data centers to support its ambitions for advancing artificial intelligence, the imagery that accompanied his posts on Facebook and Threads was stark. The data centers he was announcing would have power requirements upwards of five gigawatts and, to show just how big that would be, Zuckerberg’s post included a visual of a gigantic rectilinear block covering a sizable portion of Manhattan. It was as if the city were suddenly snuffed out by millions of square feet of artificial intelligence infrastructure. A detail that was not included in Zuckerberg’s initial announcement was the curious way these massive data centers are currently being built. In an interview with the Information, Zuckerberg briefly explained that part of the way Meta is building out its multi-gigawatt data centers is by using quickly constructed hurricane-proof tents. “We have a very strong infrastructure team that is doing novel work to build up data centers,” Zuckerberg said. “I wanted them to not just take four years to build these concrete buildings, so we pioneered this new method where we’re basically building these weatherproof tents and building up the networks and the GPU clusters inside them in order to build them faster.” A Meta spokesperson confirmed to Fast Company that tents are currently being set up as part of at least one of the multi-gigawatt data centers the company is building, located in New Albany, Ohio. Dubbed “rapid deployment structures,” the tents are long rectangular buildings made of puncture- and water-proof fabric supported by an aluminum substructure with a mushroom-esque pitched roof. The Ohio data center, which Meta has named Prometheus, is an already existing complex that is having additional computing capacity added through these server tents. Meta expects the facility to be big enough to draw more than one gigawatt of power by 2026. It is one of the worlds largest AI training clusters, according to the AI and semiconductor research company SemiAnalysis. The rapidly built tent structures there are part of the way Meta aims to meet its gigawatt goal next year. Tents may be part of another multi-gigawatt data center Meta is building in Richland Parish, Louisiana. Named Hyperion, it’s anticipated to pull two gigawatts of power by 2030, with the potential to grow to five gigawatts. Meta’s spokesperson says construction has been underway in Louisiana for months. The data center being built there will encompass 11 buildings adding up to more than four million square feet. The site covers roughly three square miles, so there’s plenty of space to expand. But even at capacity, it’s far less than the 22 square miles of land that makes up Manhattan. How much of this space will be initially made up of tents remains to be seen. But as the arms race and talent competition heat up between AI-focused companies like Meta, OpenAI, Alphabet, and Microsoft, the size of these tents may be less important than how quickly they can be constructed. “I’m very excited about building them in an innovative way,” Zuckerberg said.
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The U.S. auto safety agency is shedding more than 25% of its employees under financial incentive programs to depart the government offered by the Trump administration, according to data provided to Congress seen by Reuters. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Transportation Department, is shrinking from 772 employees as of May 31 to 555 under the program. The Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration are also both losing more than 25% of their staff. Representative Rick Larsen, top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, expressed concerns about the cuts, questioning how USDOT can “expedite project delivery and advance safety with a decimated workforce.” Overall, USDOT is losing just over 4,100 employees dropping from nearly 57,000 to 52,862, with the Federal Aviation Administration shedding 2,137 and falling from about 46,250 to 44,208. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday that the department did not cut any safety-critical employees and is actively seeking to add air traffic controllers. USDOT and NHTSA did not immediately comment. It is unclear if the Transportation Department still plans to conduct a layoff program on top of the early retirement departures. NHTSA has a number of ongoing investigations into advanced driver assistance systems and self-driving vehicles involving Tesla, Alphabet’s Waymo and other companies. Consumer advocacy groups on Thursday urged lawmakers to drop proposed cuts to NHTSA’s budget, including cutting its operations and research account by over $10 million “harming the agencys ability to conduct rulemaking, enforcement actions, and research and analysis.” It would also cut nearly $78 million of supplemental funds from the $1 billion 2021 infrastructure law. Groups said they were “particularly concerned that such funding cuts may lead to further firings or forced retirements, which have decimated NHTSA.” David Shepardson, Reuters
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