Science & Technology
Tech Workers Push Back Against DOD Demands for AI in Domestic Mass Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons
In the wake of mounting Defense Department pressure on AI developer Anthropic to loosen restrictions on how its artificial intelligence systems may be used, hundreds of AI employees at rival tech giants say the DOD’s demands go too far. They…
Building Our Enemy: China Still Gobbling Up High-end Chips and Chip Forges
News flash to politicians and media: China is preparing for war. All-out kinetic, military war. The communist regime has already been engaged in what it calls “Unrestricted Warfare” — economic, social, and political offensives, espionage,…
We Spent $30 Billion Making Education High-tech — and Bought a LESS Cognitively Capable Generation
Here’s a point to ponder: Silicon Valley tech executives, including those from Apple and Google, have sometimes opted to send their own children to explicitly low-tech schools. Some also have raised their kids tech-free or with strictly limited…
Is Trump’s Alien Disclosure Directive a Distraction?
Is it a coincidence that the president is directing government agencies to release information about aliens exactly as public frustration over revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files are boiling over? Is it a coincidence this is happening when…
America’s Vaunted “Experts”: Often Wrong but Never in Doubt?
In our time we’ve traded wise men for experts — Confucius for the credentialed, Aquinas for academicians, Democritus for the degreed. Consequently, we don’t make our ancestors’ bush-league mistakes, such as the Romans using lead pipes, drilling…
DHS Expands Surveillance Reach With New Drone Office
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), long seen as emblematic of unconstitutionally expanding state power and surveillance, is increasing its capabilities again with a new office focused on drone and counter-drone technologies. The move…
Musk: AI Will Make Cash Worthless, Work Optional, Retirement-saving Obsolete — and More
If “work ennobles man,” as the saying goes, are we headed for a very ignoble future? If “cash is king” today, what will reign tomorrow? If an abundance of the material can bury the spiritual, are we headed for an ever-more intensified…
Government-subsidized Internet: Corporate Welfare Masquerading as “Equity”
State legislatures are rushing to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into government-subsidized internet and broadband programs, often under the banners of “equity,” “access,” or “affordability.” From Massachusetts to Wyoming, lawmakers are…
Is Trump Building the North American Technate?
After sending shockwaves around the globe with his invasion of Venezuela and the capture of its president, the Trump administration and the president himself have moved quickly to signal that the campaign may widen. Besides Iran — a routine…
Is Trump Building the North American Technate?
After sending shockwaves around the globe with his invasion of Venezuela and the capture of its president, the Trump administration and the president himself have moved quickly to signal that the campaign may widen. Besides Iran — a routine…