Must we accelerate AI innovation? You’ve probably heard of “effective altruism,” but how about “effective accelerationism,” or e/acc? “You claim to be building an artificial god in the human image. We’re building the conduit for the thermodynamic god that created us. We are not the same.” Those are the words of Based Beff Jezos, a […]
FIRE, which represents the First Amendment Coalition and me in challenging the law, reports: A federal court, acting on a stipulation agreed to by the California attorney general and San Francisco city attorney, today haltedenforcement of a California law that officials deployed to suppress journalism about a controversial tech CEO’s sealed arrest records. Under the […]
Human trafficking panic gets a holiday twist in the latest faux trafficking scare to hit social media. In a December 16 Instagram post that received more than 190,000 likes, user Ernest Carter shared a video of a Coca-Cola delivery truck that he claimed was found “full of kids.” Carter said the truck was found in […]
New York state prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they were charging Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, with murder “in furtherance of terrorism.” The law that they are citing, which was passed a week after the attacks of September 11, 2001, increases penalties for violent crimes meant to “intimidate or […]
The bipartisan spending bill that would avoid an upcoming government shutdown has run into trouble, with both President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk coming out against it. Among the many good reasons to oppose the bill was the inclusion of a particularly pernicious spending item. Talk about betrayal: The bill would have appropriated funds for […]
A month before the presidential election, 60 Minutes aired an interview with the Democratic nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, that was edited to make her response to a question about Israel “more succinct,” as the show’s producers put it. But Donald Trump, then the Republican nominee and now the president-elect, complained that “her REAL ANSWER […]
El Salvador has agreed to scale back its crypto agenda in exchange for a $1.4 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), marking a shift in the country’s quest to become a global cryptocurrency hub. After four years of negotiations, the IMF approved a $1.4 billion Extended Fund Facility loan to be disbursed over […]
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made a promise: It will go after regulations that slow growth, obstruct innovators and cost American households thousands of dollars each year. Here’s hoping for success. The burden of excessive regulation is hard to measure. We know, for instance, that the Code of Federal Regulations is over 188,000 […]
After California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers went into effect in April, some economists expected affected restaurants to cut jobs. So what actually happened? They not only added workers but did so at a faster pace than fast-food restaurants in the nation as a whole—or at least that was the claim of a research […]
That didn’t go well:Â Congressional leaders’ plan to quickly pass a bipartisan spending deal to keep the federal government open through March is now in disarray, as Republicans revolt against a quick passage of the 1,547-page bill. The deal unveiled on Monday night called for an additional $100 billion in disaster-related spending, $10 billion in agricultural […]