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Republicans tighten screws on Sherrill as noncitizen voter probe enters new phase

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill's reply to a voter-roll inquiry drew fire from Jeff Van Drew, who calls it "snarky" and signals possible subpoenas.

Dem Senate hopeful pivots on data centers as rising power costs collide with campaign

Roy Cooper celebrated data center growth as North Carolina governor, but his Senate campaign now targets their energy use as a rate hike driver.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—August 30

1971—By a vote of 6 to 1, the California supreme court rules in Serrano v. Priest that California’s “public school financing system, with its substantial dependence...

Anti-Trumpism Is Driving the Media to Cheer Hostile Powers

The enemy of your enemy is sometimes still the greater enemy.

Europe’s Misguided Plans for Pursuing Digital Independence

The EU lacks a political class willing to let go of its ‘regulate first, ask questions later’ attitude toward tech innovation.

The Return of the ‘Zionist’ Slur

Today’s use of the term reminds me of my family’s experience in Poland in the 1960s.

On AI, let’s not replicate the gain-of-function failures

I’m not a science guy, and chances are, neither are you. But when you start to notice that a series of controversial tech-related headlines are starting to sound an awful lot like a previous science-driven, pandemic-causing tech disaster, maybe it’s time for us lay-folk to weigh in and point out the obvious.  I am an […]

Flock safety called its critics ‘terrorists.’ Now it wants to be your privacy savior

Surveillance tech vendor Flock Safety is making some changes to both its policies and messaging following months of backlash over its products — namely, its automatic license plate readers, commonly referred to as ALPRs. Often presented by proponents as an indispensable crime-fighting tool for 21st-century policing, the devices have long been criticized by groups such as the […]

The House should reject delay of hemp regulations

Congress has already taken the necessary steps to close the dangerous “hemp loophole.” Now, the House of Representatives has a simple choice: uphold the law and protect children, or grant the intoxicating hemp industry another opportunity to profit from an addiction-for-profit business model. The Senate recently passed a continuing resolution that would delay implementation of […]

Mars will need cowboys, not committees

In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what happens when inherited moral maps lose their force, and human beings must create values from strength rather than receive them. The anniversary is worth marking for a second reason. At the same […]

AI isn’t making art. It’s selling us fake intimacy

Even an illusion has a basis in reality. Recently, I watched a cardinal attack its own reflection in a car mirror, mistaking its appearance for another bird. Human beings make similar mistakes in subtler ways. Every work of art appears to place another consciousness before us. Whether watching a magic trick or standing before a […]

Your doctor has to beg AI for permission to save your life

The practice of medicine requires a high level of personal accountability. Physicians make life-or-death decisions every day, accepting the profound legal and ethical duties that come with caring for human lives. Yet, the greatest source of daily stress for healthcare providers is no longer the complexity of human disease. It is the invisible wall of […]

Gavin Newsom thinks UC professors are as stupid as he is

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is capable of deciding that he wants to run to become the leader of the free world, but the California governor can’t take a stand on a question as simple as whether the University of California system ought to heed the warning from 1,200 professors that they “now observe preparation gaps […]

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