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[ad_1] Young Achilles riding the man-horse super centaur Cheiron. “The Education of Achilles by Cheiron.” Painting by Eugene Delacroix, French, 1862. Getty Museum. Wikipedia. Public Domain. Prologue I have always been skeptical of the viability and potential benefits of AI technologies. This is because they are primarily war technologies, masquerading in the deceptive cover of intelligence. But they have nothing to do with intelligence, a human virtue of distinguishing good from evil, beautiful from ugly and justice from injustice. AI technologies can never incorporate human intelligence. They are mechanical triggers / devices following human instructions. In fact, I see the…

[ad_1] The Department of Defense on Monday announced appointees to the Defense Policy Board. Among the new members to the advisory group are two board members of the American Ideas Institute, which publishes The American Conservative, Rachel Bovard and Daniel McCarthy. The former U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer will chair the board, while former Senator and current chair of the Republican Jewish Coalition Norm Coleman will serve as its vice chair. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Blake Masters will also serve on the board, as will the conservative intellectual and government official Michael Anton. The Quincy Institute for Responsible…

[ad_1] When the 14th Amendment was introduced in the U.S. Senate in 1866, the first senator to speak out in opposition to it was a Pennsylvania Republican named Edgar Cowan. He objected in part because the Citizenship Clause of the proposed amendment would make American citizens out of the U.S.-born children of unwelcome immigrants. “Is it proposed that the people of California are to remain quiescent while they are overrun by a flood of immigration of the Mongol race?” Cowan asked. And what about the “Gypsies” that he claimed were present in his own state? “These people live in the…

[ad_1] Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer’s former chief of staff to combat the British left. A portrait of Jeremy Corbyn in November 2019. (Jeremy Corbyn / Flickr / CC0 1.0) Paul Holden, Jessica Murray and John McEvoyDeclassified UK Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour party. The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour Together’s two key figures Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons. McSweeney went on to be Keir Starmer’s chief of…

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[ad_1] Milla74/Dreamstime Today the Supreme Court decided Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. A 6-3 majority struck down Donald Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship status to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States, and those born to non-citizen parents here on temporary visas. I think the Court got this extremely important decision right. In so doing, they saved hundreds of thousands of people from being subject to deportation – often to a lifetime of poverty and oppression. The dissenting opinions by Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito mishandle key points. Most notably, they overlook the reality…

[ad_1] David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union speaks against the Taft–Hartley Act, May 4, 1947. The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archive, Cornell University. CC BY 2.0 This week marks the anniversary of the enactment of one of the most consequential pieces of labor legislation in US history. The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the Taft-Hartley Act, was passed over President Truman’s veto on June 23, 1947, and substantially narrowed the forms of collective action protected under federal labor law. The Taft-Hartley Act provided employers with a myriad of new legal weapons while suppressing…

[ad_1] Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper — yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it’s only in Donald Trump’s Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves. He’s now the 27th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, an award first won by the late, legendary Richard Pryor in 1998 and last year given to Conan O’Brien. Not every recipient has been politically left-wing, but Maher stands out as a rare left-leaning comic who dares criticize his own tribe, and he’s paid a price for…

[ad_1] Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! Keep your hands off each other this week, or VAR may kill all your hopes and dreams. Your humble newsletter writer is on his way home from a World Cup road trip as we speak, so today’s newsletter talks about that experience. Then I borrow from a book excerpt that Reason just published about the history of sports betting. I think you’ll like it! The last section has my latest podcast appearance. Don’t miss sports coverage from Jason Russell and Reason. After months of planning, hours of driving, and thousands…

[ad_1] We humans evolved, over millions of years, from single cell amoebae to multi cellular organisms, invertebrates, vertebrates and finally to by-pedal ‘pithecanthropus erectus’. We are therefore indisputably part of nature; traceable within a direct flow starting from the earliest formative years of the universe. Mankind has celebrated this relationship for thousands of years, taking the form of seasonal ritual expressions of thanks for its bounty and healing powers.  Surviving tribal cultures still practice such ritual recognition of their dependence and interconnection with the powers of nature. Nature celebrating pagan societies predate the imposition of Christianity on the European continent…