By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – November 16, 2023 On the menu today: News that TikTok users are approvingly quoting a 2002 letter from al-Qaeda terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden, and insisting that bin Laden makes a lot of legitimate points, is the sort of thing that makes you wish gullible young people would go back to eating Tide Pods....

Since the COVID pandemic, authoritarians in the US and around the world have cynically used claims of “disinformation” to censor ordinary people and stifle dissent about everything from the efficacy of masks and vaccines to the war in Ukraine, the Middle East situation, and Hunter Biden’s laptop.  

“We’ve traded going out with people we like for going on Facebook to get likes,” Maher jokes The post Bill Maher Says Social Media Has ‘Done More to Kill Being Social Than the Pocket Protector’ (Video) appeared first on TheWrap.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) came close to implementing rolling blackouts in the early days of September. And while early September was very hot, it was very hot for nearly all of July and August, and yet the grid seemed to perform better then. So what changed?

But how is up to us.  

By: Geoffrey A. Fowler – washingtonpost.com – September 8, 2023 It’s your Gmail. It’s also Google’s artificial intelligence factory. Unless you turn it off, Google uses your Gmail to train an AI to finish other people’s sentences. It does that by analyzing how you respond to its suggestions. And when you opt in to using a new Gmail function called Help Me Write, Google...

“ChatGPT Writes Trans-Affirming Bible Verse.”

There was a time when a person talking to himself was presumed to be crazy. Now the mad are everywhere.

How the establishment Left embraced government control of digital speech

A court ruling knocks digital censorship to the canvas, ordering a sweeping halt to the “nothingburger” described in Missouri v. Biden and the Twitter Files.