Good morning and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Watch your mouth with your teammates at work today, because language like this probably isn’t going to fly. Amid a wild sports weekend, you may have missed that it’s Kentucky Derby week. Click here to see the field and choose your rooting interests based on […]
All of Kellogg’s underlying assumptions lacked any basis in reality. Yet Trump seemingly took them on trust. Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then fired. The war continues, with the Secretary […]
It’s been 100 days of Donald Trump: “The numbers are good,” says Tom Homan, the border czar, referring to the reported 139,000 people who have been deported since the president was inaugurated (a number also promoted in a “PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT” White House press release). But like so many of the administration’s touted accomplishments, […]
Artificial intelligence might be creeping its way into every facet of our lives — but that doesn’t mean it’s making us smarter. Quite the reverse. A new analysis of recent research by The Guardian looked at a potential irony: whether we’re giving up more than we gain by shoehorning AI into our day-to-day work, offloading so many intellectual tasks […]
A recent post on the Academe blog, published by the American Association of University Professors, is attracting some notice–but perhaps not the sort of notice AAUP would prefer. The essay, “It’s Not Too Late to Tell the Truth About Antisemitism on Campus” by Brooke Lober, Eli Meyerhoff, and Emily Schnieder, argues that claims of rampant antisemitism […]
The nerds who brought us the digital revolution did so without any thought to the obvious consequences.  Americans addicted to scrolling their cell phones and enjoying social media are suffering from the numerous threats that the digital revolution brings to them.  Not just government spying on them and, if government wishes, setting them up for prosecution.  Not just […]
In Friday’s decision in Vitagliano v. Weiner, by N.Y. appellate judges Gerald Whalen, John Curran, Donald Greenwood, and Lynn Keane, Vitagliano sued alleging that Weiner had sexually assaulted her; Weiner counterclaimed “for defamation premised on a social media ‘story’ posted by [Vitagliano] in which she asserted that defendant ‘is a rapist.’” Vitagliano tried to get […]
Virginia Giuffre died yesterday. They say she committed suicide. They say that about a lot of whistleblowers and inconvenient witnesses. Giuffre was perhaps the most high profile victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. Prince Andrew was among those she was trafficked to. She was a brave person who is hopefully at peace. Virginia was […]
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