A staggering 99% of Twitter employees who make political contributions give to Democrats. It’s almost as lopsided at Facebook and Alphabet (the parent company of Google), according to Federal Election Commission records.

By: Allysia Finley – wsj.com – September 25, 2022 Social-media stocks have taken a beating this year, but it’s nothing compared with the smack-down their companies have recently received in court. “We reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amendment right to censor what people say,” the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared in its Sept. 16...

Last week, California authorities announced an “Energy Emergency” as the world’s fifth-largest economy struggled under the strain of a heat wave.

By The Editorial Board – wsj.com – September 20, 2022 The civil case was brought by the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana, who allege that misinformation crackdowns by the tech giants are legally “government action,” since they involve “open collusion” with public officials. In a court filing last week, the AGs posted some of what they have already obtained,...

By  Jeremy Adams – DailyWire.com – September 2022 It has taken a while for most thoughtful educators to finally arrive at the conclusion that phones need to be banned in the classroom—no middle ground, no nuance, no appeasement. Classrooms would be transformed overnight and our children might just rediscover what they can achieve if they are not perpetually distracted.  Last week,...

In 1974, long before virtual reality (VR) was even a “twinkle in the eye” of most technology researchers, philosopher Robert Nozick introduced a thought experiment called the Experience Machine to illustrate the inadequacy of the philosophy of experiential hedonism.

Electronic voting machines from a leading vendor have software vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers if the weaknesses are not addressed promptly, according to a report from a top U.S. cybersecurity agency.

So-called experts and elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week have some alarming ideas about forced government compliance and tracking. First, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla expressed excitement over…

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 25, 2022 The massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday has produced the usual demands to “do something.” We share the impulse and the anger, but what specifically to do? The reason there are more demands than solutions is because the problem of how to stop mass shootings by...

Stopping mass shooters like the one in Uvalde, Texas, will be harder than passing a law. Source: Young Men, Guns and Guardrails – WSJ