Author: nick

[ad_1] The congressman faces credible accusations of domestic violence. But whether Miller will take the party down with him remains to be seen. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Last week, the city of Roanoke, Virginia, ended its brief and fumbled experiment with Flock Safety’s Raven acoustic gunshot detectors (AGD) after 41 of the 75 approved devices had been installed—30 of them in the wrong locations. Roanoke isn’t alone. Numerous other cities have canceled contracts with Flock or with SoundThinking Inc, a competing provider of ShotSpotter, a similar technology, over cost, effectiveness, and privacy concerns related to scattering microphones across a city. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday liberty. According to The…

[ad_1] As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices. By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices. To understand the stakes of the debate over AI regulation, look no further than Minnesota, where tech oligarch Elon Musk is once again generating embarrassing headlines.  Last week, a federal judge denied a request from Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to block a Minnesota law banning nude deepfakes used to…

[ad_1] Photo by Hulki Okan Tabak “I don’t care about the midterms.” —Donald Trump “We’re not gonna lose an election for a hundred years.” —Donald Trump As the midterms approach, the conventional wisdom holds that Democrats are virtually guaranteed victory. The narrative assumes that voters, disillusioned with Trump’s failed “concept of a plan” economic policies and vanity projects and frustrated by the GOP’s failure to deliver the financial security they promised and restore the nation’s moral rectitude, will sweep Democrats into power. Once there, the thinking goes, Democrats will reverse the damage – and global embarrassment – inflicted by Trump…

[ad_1] June 23, 2026, became one of the deadliest days in Venezuela’s recent history. A pair of powerful earthquakes, measuring magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, struck the capital region of northern Venezuela, devastating the coastal communities near Catia La Mar and Caracas. The devastation continued long after the initial shaking stopped. More than 1,400 aftershocks rattled the region in the weeks that followed, complicating rescue efforts and forcing thousands from their homes. The earthquakes killed more than 5,500 people, injured tens of thousands more, and overwhelmed Venezuelan emergency response teams across the region. Beyond the immediate humanitarian response, the disaster…

[ad_1] Spain Declares Border War on Itself [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Chris Brady The Electronic Intifada Times are tough for the academy. The message from Washington has been clear: the college campus is a new political battleground. Comply or lose federal funding. Student activists, the Gaza encampments, sympathetic faculty – anyone at the university who is perceived as advocating for Palestinian rights has put themselves at significant risk. University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) has remade itself in anticipatory compliance with anti-war repression. Two years after a brutal encampment crackdown, the university has cut the only Modern Standard Arabic course. The university has also effectively fired an Iranian lecturer and Palestine activist, which he believes was politically motivated.…

[ad_1] Eli Gerzon The Electronic Intifada Podcast Israel and Iran are unique for starkly different reasons: Israel has less of a right to exist than any other country, while Iran is the only country that has stood up against the assault on international law by the US, Israel and their allies. That is according to Craig Mokhiber’s comments on The Electronic Intifada Livestream on 30 July. Mokhiber is an international human rights lawyer with more than three decades of experience. He served as director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights until he resigned in October 2023…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain So the geniuses in the white house have begin to suspect that maybe, just maybe, as journalist Mark Ames noted on X, after weeks of CIA-targeted bombings from Ukraine into Russia, maybe those nefarious Russkies are assisting Iran in targeting U.S. bases in the Gulf. I’ve got news for these Beltway Einsteins: China’s helping Iran too. And probably North Korea. In fact, every member of the multipolar alliance is likely doing their part: the mental opacity afflicting Washington does not afflict them. They know very well who is trying to destroy…

[ad_1] Will reports of foreign influence campaigns be used to discredit valid criticisms of artificial intelligence? Andy Lee Roth Project Censored Opposition to local AI data centers is bipartisan, according to a March 2026 Gallup poll, which found that majorities of Democrats (75 percent) and Republicans (63 percent) would oppose construction of an AI data center where they live. Overall, 71 percent of those surveyed expressed opposition to data center construction, a significantly greater figure than the 53 percent who said they would oppose a nuclear power plant being built near them. But that opposition is not necessarily as straightforward…