Posts by Swedan Margen
California Puts $5 Billion at Risk over Gender Scheme in Schools | National Review
A federal investigation finds that the state government elbowed parents aside in order to keep students’ gender-transition plans secret. Source link
Read MoreStay West, Young Man | National Review
California Governor Gavin Newsom wants you to know he’s one of the boys. Source link
Read More“What Does That Nature Say to You”: Don’t Meet the Parents
Filmmakers like to call themselves storytellers for the same reason that politicians like to call themselves public servants: it’s a show of deference toward a popular ideal. Yet few of them treat stories as their fundamental unit of creation. One who does so is the Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo, whose narrative imagination is so fertile…
Read MoreIf the ‘Talking Filibuster’ Means Anything, It Would Irrevocably Change the Senate for the Worse | National Review
Lowering the bar from 60 senators to 51 would be a bonanza for Democrats. For what? Source link
Read MoreCommentary: The Pentagon is demanding to use Claude AI as it pleases. Claude told me that’s ‘dangerous’
Recently, I asked Claude, an artificial-intelligence thingy at the center of a standoff with the Pentagon, if it could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Say, for example, hands that wanted to put a tight net of surveillance around every American citizen, monitoring our lives in real time to ensure our compliance with government. “Yes.…
Read MoreBlock to cut more than 4,000 jobs amid AI disruption of the workplace
Fintech company Block said Thursday that it’s cutting more than 4,000 workers or nearly half of its workforce as artificial intelligence disrupts the way people work. The Oakland parent company of payment services Square and Cash App saw its stock surge by more than 23% in after-hours trading after making the layoff announcement. Jack Dorsey,…
Read MoreInstagram to alert parents if their teens search for suicide or self harm terms
Instagram, a social media platform popular among young people, said Thursday it will alert parents if their teens repeatedly search for suicide or self harm-related terms. “Our goal is to empower parents to step in if their teen’s searches suggest they may need support,” the company said in a blog post. Parents will receive a…
Read MoreOutside group spends $4.8 million on TV ads backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan for governor
An independent expenditure committee backed by Silicon Valley executives spent $4.8 million on television ads supporting San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s gubernatorial bid that will begin airing Thursday. The two 30-second ads highlight the Democrat’s life story — being raised in a working-class family and working on a grounds crew and as a middle school…
Read MoreHints of Spring | National Review
Time to build again. Source link
Read MoreBattle of the AI brands: What’s behind the bad blood between OpenAI and Anthropic
As more than 100 million people watched the Super Bowl, the battle for the future of artificial intelligence spilled out into a massive public arena. In a series of viral commercials, AI upstart Anthropic broadcast to football fans that they should avoid AI with ads. The commercial was obviously targeting OpenAI, which plans to add…
Read MoreThe Hidden History of Native American Enslavement
In many cases, Indigenous enslavement adds new dimensions to familiar histories of the Americas—and to some of their most famous actors. Christopher Columbus sold hundreds of Indians into slavery in Europe. Hernán Cortés owned hundreds of enslaved Indigenous people, more than anyone else in Mexico. The Pueblo Revolt, in 1680, during which Indians destroyed missions…
Read MoreCanada Needs a Culture Shock | National Review
The euthanasia-embracing nation’s problems go well beyond hockey. Source link
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