4+ week, 1+ day ago  (312+ words) As if that were not enough open hostility, The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Trump plans some sort of "revenge attack" speech against the press corps Saturday night, after which he intends to turn tail and run home. The…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (238+ words) To my relief, it wasn't at all bad. The daily experiences, needs, and frustrations of working people received the proper emphasis. Here are the main things they propose to do: But one promise not mentioned above caught my eye more…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1784+ words) Elon Musk is not availing himself well in court. The tech mogul and fascism enthusiast is suing Sam Altman and Open AI, the organization he co-founded, for moving the nonprofit organization to a for-profit company. Musk took the stand three…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (596+ words) Three days prior in Indianapolis, an unknown perpetrator fired 13 shots into the home of local Democratic councilman Ron Gibson'while his 8-year-old son was home. Neither were hurt, but a note reading "No Data Centers" was left on the doorstep. Gibson…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (397+ words) The talk may be of God, but what's really at stake'as usual' is Mammon. Tech lords' ferocious opposition to government interference reflects a collective financial investment in AI that's quite literally unprecedented within the private sector. This was an industry…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (669+ words) Claude, Anthropic's large language model, has a lot to answer for. Let's start with this. Given that Anthropic took such a seemingly principled stand against the use of its AI in lethal autonomous weapons, why did the U. S. military use Claude…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1764+ words) Florida became the first state to criminally investigate an AI model on Tuesday, and Attorney General James Uthmeier's charges could lead to big changes in how the technology is regulated. Uthmeier, a Republican, launched a criminal probe into Chat GPT…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (1778+ words) The Department of Homeland Security is developing smart glasses that would allow federal agents to identify people using biometric data in real time. Journalist Ken Klippenstein, citing a budget request from DHS, reports that these devices, slated to be released…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (620+ words) Of course, the narrative that AI is destabilizing middle-class work is both very real and hype. But that's exactly what makes it maddening'it's close enough to be terrifying but too ill defined for people to act on. Knowledge workers drift…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1370+ words) For decades, democratic leadership has tried to market its willingness to craft pro-corporate policy as political sophistication. Last summer, 2028 presidential hopeful Ruben Gallego championed the GENIUS Act, a bill that deregulates parts of the cryptocurrency industry, which directly benefits one…...