Supreme Court To Hear TikTok Ban Case

Supreme Court To Hear TikTok Ban Case

⋅

The Supreme Court has granted TikTok’s request for a hearing on the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications (PAFACA) Act. The act bans TikTok in American markets unless the app’s owner, ByteDance (which is 1 percent owned by the Chinese government), divests from the app by January 19. The Supreme Court will hear the case on January 10 to determine whether PAFACA serves a national interest compelling enough that it merits undermining the First and Fifth Amendments. […]

Ver mais

LikedLiked
The Welfare-State Paradox

The Welfare-State Paradox

⋅

“Whether … a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is not easy to silence the voices of those who ask whether it is not paradoxical to entrust the nation’s welfare to the decisions of voters whom the law itself […]

Ver mais

LikedLiked
Don't
Credit Drug Warriors for Reducing Overdoses

Don’t
Credit Drug Warriors for Reducing Overdoses

⋅

During their presidential campaigns, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both promised to fight substance abuse by disrupting the drug supply. Recent trends in drug-related deaths underline the folly of that approach. According to preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the death toll from illegal drugs during the year ending in April 2024 was 10 percent lower than the number during the previous year. This would be the largest such drop ever recorded—a striking contrast to the general trend during […]

Ver mais

LikedLiked
Guillaume Verdon: Should We Have a 'Second Amendment for AI'?

Guillaume Verdon: Should We Have a ‘Second Amendment for AI’?

⋅

Must we accelerate AI innovation? You’ve probably heard of “effective altruism,” but how about “effective accelerationism,” or e/acc? “You claim to be building an artificial god in the human image. We’re building the conduit for the thermodynamic god that created us. We are not the same.”  Those are the words of Based Beff Jezos, a pseudonymous X account devoted to spreading the e/acc message far and wide, once described by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen as a “patron saint […]

Ver mais

LikedLiked

Load More