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The current rapid advances in generative AI are built on three things. Computing power, some clever coding, and vast amounts of training data. Lots of money can buy you more of the first two, but f ...

For four years, Trump supporters regularly exploited the federal judiciary, carefully selecting friendly judges in single-judge districts to block Biden administration policies through nationwide i ...

What a surprise. The man who clearly doesn't understand tariffs doesn't understand drug trafficking. President Trump has repeatedly claimed the flow of illicit Fentanyl into the United ...

During Trump 1.0, his captured FCC took at absolute hatchet to what was left of media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited ...

Last year, we discussed Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson's opposition to a trademark application from retired Hall of Fame QB Troy Aikman for the word and number "Eight." While t ...

Last week, we told the story of how the Communications Decency Act came to be. On this week's episode of Otherwise Objectionable, we look at how it quickly went down in flames -- except, of co ...

I'm not going to rehash the entire recent history of book bans/book challenges in this nation. Suffice to say that ever since Trump first took office in 2017, there's been a significant ...

A second child has died from measles. And RFK Jr. attended the funeral. Kennedy said in a social media post that he was working to "control the outbreak" and went to Gaines County to comf ...

For someone who claims he single-handedly "brought free speech back," Donald Trump sure spends a lot of time trying to silence speech he doesn't like. His latest attempt just got ...