The states that saw the largest increase in electricity prices over the past five years were not states booming with new demand from industrial customers, such as Texas, but states where demand fell. Electricity prices rose 4.2% over the last year, outpacing broader inflation. The popular explanation for the rise in residential electricity prices is […]
Progressives on Capitol Hill are pushing a proposal to ban artificial superintelligence, but critics warn the move could hand global tech dominance over to China and Russia.
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It’s easy to feel a certain schadenfreude over news of Meta’s $16.7 billion settlement with almost every state attorney general. Sometimes bad things happen to bad corporations. It’s hard not to cheer. For years, Meta has largely gone unchecked as it employed a business model that basically amounted to psychologically manipulating people through Skinnerian principles […]
It’s not often in Washington, D.C. that a special interest group directly contradicts itself, but the Hemp Roundtable did just that. In 2022, the Associated Press exposed how chemists were chemically processing CBD extracted from hemp to produce delta-8 THC, an intoxicating compound. A loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill opened the floodgates to unregulated […]
President Donald Trump wants America to establish something it has never had: a national academy dedicated to preparing Americans for the space age. Now comes another consequential question: Where should we put it? The decision should not simply come down to which governor offers the most land or which congressional delegation has the most influence. […]