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Look, folks, I have to admit that I'm running out of ways to open these posts about RFK Jr., so let's just do this quickly. He's a vaccine skeptic with a ton of bad ideas on publi ...

Buried in the House GOP's massive budget reconciliation bill is a seemingly simple provision about AI regulation. The idea appears straightforward enough: stop states from regulating AI compa ...

Support us on Patreon » We've written a lot about how understanding the playbook Elon Musk used at Twitter is key to understanding his current playbook with DOGE. The people who li ...

It's hardly a secret that Meta is an unpleasant company. That's reflected both in terms of what happens behind closed doors, and its actions in the market. Some of its attempts to bully nations or ...

Progressive streamer Hasan Piker's recent detention by CBP at the Chicago airport has generated widespread outrage -- and rightfully so. No US citizen should be interrogated about their politi ...

We'll have to see if NSO Group has this sort of cash just laying around. Seems unlikely, what with its financial backers pulling out in response to a steady stream of negative headlines, as w ...

The Trump administration has illegally declared the Digital Equity Act of 2021 "racist and unconstitutional," and called for it to be dismantled. The grant program had been helping push ...

The nightmare that is Elon Musk's DOGE cuts continues. The program, originally billed as a method for identifying all kinds of waste, fraud, and abuse within government spending, has shown it ...

In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon tried to fire the Department of Justice prosecutor leading an investigation into the president's involvement in wiretapping the Democratic ...

As this post explains, we have issues with the third installment of the Copyright Office's report on AI. The rest of this post discusses them, but we note here that, while the report is due c ...