I tend to like Megan McArdle’s takes on things so it’s no surprise to me that her take on Google Gemini is pretty solid. As she sees it, Gemini is a case of Google saying the quiet part out loud. What she means is that this isn’t just a wonky new product that is drawing […]
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. — Charles Babbage, Passages from the […]
In a lengthy statement released on X House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan said the Biden family corruption is a tale as old as time. A government official takes action. That action benefits his family. And then, when questions are asked, there’s a cover-up. For President Joe Biden, it’s a story about money, influence, and protecting […]
Fake AI images sexualizing Taylor Swift that went viral on social media last month were attributed to users on the 4chan message board who were competing in the exploitation of popular AI image generators. Explicit deepfakes with Taylor Swift flooded X on Jan. 24, garnering more than 27 million views and 260,000 likes before the […]
Nearly one in five Americans can’t shake off the feeling that there’s more to Taylor Swift’s love story than meets the eye. She is the most sought-after endorsement in American culture now, thus many think there has to be something more to the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl success than Travis Kelce or Patrick Mahomes. […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Authorities on Wednesday detained four people in connection with a massive landslide that engulfed a gold mine in eastern Turkey, leaving at least nine workers missing, Turkish state media reported. The landslide struck the Anagold Madencilik company’s Copler mine in the town of Ilic in Turkey’s mountainous Erzincan province on Tuesday. […]
A longtime Fox News producer working in the network’s London Bureau died on Sunday at the age of 46, company CEO Suzanne Scott announced on Monday. Scott sent a memo to her employees that shared the news that Barry-John “Baz” Davies had lost a battle against what she called a “long illness.” “We have some […]
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Monday said a new public safety outpost in Chinatown will bring together police, drug abuse counselors and homeless services in hopes of suppressing the crime and disorder that have plagued the downtown neighborhood. Ms. Bowser said the new Safe Commercial Corridor Hub at 675 H Street Northwest is part of […]
I was pleasantly surprised that some conservatives agreed and asked, “what can we do to get in the fight and win it” (I’ll get to that in a minute), but I was not at all surprised that some accused me of being overly dramatic by characterizing what’s been going on in our country as a […]
There is a lot of talk and debate about whether the United States is drifting into a civil war: Were the 2020 urban riots acts of civil war, was the January 6, 2021 protest at the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection,” is what’s going on at the Texas-Mexico border the prelude to something bigger? Friends, I’ve […]
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