Based Underground

There is something both telling and deeply ironic about a $380 billion Silicon Valley AI company — one that has been labeled “woke” by the President of the United States, locked in a legal battle with the Pentagon, and reportedly embedded in military operations against Iran — quietly inviting fifteen Christian leaders to its San Francisco headquarters to ask them how to make its chatbot behave. That is precisely what Anthropic did in late March, hosting a two-day summit with Catholic and Protestant clergy, academics, and business leaders to discuss the “moral and spiritual development” of its AI chatbot, Claude. The questions on the table were not trivial. According to participants who spoke with the Washington Post, the conversations ranged from how Claude should console grieving users and engage with those at risk of self-harm, to something far more philosophically loaded — whether an artificial intelligence could be considered a “child of God.” Read More: https://basedunderground.com/when-the-algorithm-needs-absolution-anthropic-goes-to-church/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In the geometry of American defense research, three cities form the backbone of the nation's most classified aerospace programs: Southern California, where the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech's infrared processing centers anchor NASA's planetary work; Albuquerque, home to Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia National Labs; and Dayton, Ohio, where Wright-Patterson has for decades been the nerve center of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Since July 2024, at least nine scientists, engineers, and defense-connected personnel tied to these exact nodes have died under unexplained circumstances, disappeared without a trace, or been found murdered. Congress is alarmed. The FBI is involved. And the institutions that lost these people have, in nearly every case, said as little as possible. That silence is the first thing that demands explanation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Newly released Department of Justice files reveal a 2019 anonymous email claiming two young foreign girls were strangled during “rough fetish sex” at Jeffrey Epstein’s remote Zorro Ranch and buried on the property on his orders. The email, sent to New Mexico radio host Eddy Aragon, offered seven videos—including footage of Epstein with underage girls—and was forwarded to the FBI, yet it received no apparent follow-up until now. Zorro Ranch, a 10,000-acre estate south of Santa Fe with its own airstrip and helipad, was never searched by federal investigators despite accusations from more than a dozen women who said they were groomed and abused there as teenagers. New Mexico authorities launched a criminal investigation and conducted searches with cadaver dogs in March 2026 after tips about “grave-like plots” surfaced alongside the email. Victims described the ranch as the site of Epstein’s worst atrocities, with claims involving powerful visitors including the late Governor Bill Richardson and Prince Andrew. Epstein reportedly purchased the property in 1993 from the family of former Governor Bruce King and envisioned it as a hub for his eugenicist fantasy of impregnating women to spread his DNA. The estate was sold by Epstein’s estate in 2023 to Texas businessman Don Huffines, who renamed it Rancho de San Rafael and plans to transform it into a Christian retreat center. A state “Truth Commission” and reopened probe now seek answers about possible cover-ups that allowed Epstein’s network to operate with impunity in a state known for lax oversight of the wealthy. Read More: https://basedunderground.com/epsteins-zorro-ranch-was-ignored-because-it-was-the-jackpot-to-expose-everything/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There is an old tradition in Washington of saying one thing while building another. Franklin Roosevelt called it an East Wing expansion. What it actually was — as any historian will confirm — was a bomb shelter, the original Presidential Emergency Operations Center, constructed beneath a convenient architectural fig leaf while the nation was distracted by a world at war. Eight decades later, President Trump is doing something remarkably similar beneath his much-maligned White House ballroom. Only this time, what lies beneath isn't a Cold War-era bunker with fold-out cots and rotary phones. If the donor list, the contractor profile, and the president's own words are any indication, what's being built underground is something far more consequential: the nerve center of American AI supremacy. Read More: https://basedunderground.com/president-trumps-ballroom-is-cover-for-the-biggest-data-center-in-the-world/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The International Energy Agency has released a ten-point emergency plan to manage the fuel shortages cascading from the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Governments worldwide are being advised to work from home, slow down on highways, limit private vehicles to alternating days in major cities, and avoid air travel where alternatives exist. Social media has promptly — and correctly — dubbed it "Lockdown 2.0." The critics responding with "we're not doing this again" are not being paranoid. They are being perceptive. Here is the question no one in polite energy-policy circles wants to answer: How is this list different, in any meaningful way, from the green agenda these same institutions have spent a decade trying to impose through climate regulation? Work from home. Take public transit. Don't drive. Don't fly. Switch your cooking away from gas. The IEA's emergency oil-shock playbook reads like a Bernie Sanders climate platform. The only thing missing is a carbon tax and a lecture about polar bears. This is not a coincidence. It is a revelation. Read More: https://basedunderground.com/the-energy-lockdown-they-always-wanted/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.