There are enough intelligent people at these companies to create a real air gap for these test systems. They are not doing it because the goal of these incidents is to advertise their products by making them look better than even the best humans. If the USA had a decent government the Department of Justice would have sent out subpoenas already.
That was about their opinion shows, not their news shows. That case was specifically about Tucker Carlson.
Those kinds of arguments weren't saving Fox from the Dominion lawsuit, though. If they seemed like to have worked, Fox wouldn't have settled for almost $800 million right before trial.
Hastert doesn't have a law named after him. There's the Hastert Rule, which is an informal rule that no bill should be brought before the House to vote on it unless it already has the support of the majority of the majority party.
Hastert was convicted of structuring withdrawals to avoid reporting requirements and making false statements. The charges themselves were not inherently about homosexuality, though it came about from him covering up his same-sex abuse of a minor, and the indictment didn't mention the sexual abuse, and his allocution under the plea deal didn't initially mention it. He did admit it under pressure from the judge, who seemed to start to lean against accepting his plea without him admitting to the molestation, for which he could not be charged because the statute of limitations had expired decades prior.
Hastert has never come out as gay. Most child molesters, even those who molest the same sex, never identify as homosexual.
Number 7 according to Car & Driver, which I think is much more trustworthy than whatever "Wealthy Driver" is. The Car & Driver list is also applies to 2025 rather than 2023.
a doozie to debug
The fee is meant to stop small employers from hiring foreign talent. Small startups canâ(TM)t afford to pay over $100,000 to hire programmers, scientists, and engineers who just got an advanced from an R1 university. But the magnificent seven companies can. This protects their oligopolies and ensures that they will make big donations to the GOP for decades to come in the same way oil companies have had a relationship with the GOP.
https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2025/0...
And DARPA has a whole program for it:
ust because a book is scarce or rare does not mean it is useful or desirable. There are big city book dealers that throw out dumpsters of books every day because they are of no use to anyone. The same is true of libraries: they have to unload old books to make space for new ones.
There have been myriad books published by small presses, or self published, in issues of a few hundred. The information in them may just be pulled from better books, be medical quackery, pseudoscience, alien autopsy insanity, etc. Nobody wants this crap no matter how rare it is.
SpaceX was a pump and dump because Grok is garbage and space datacenters are bullshit. But Anthropic makes a product that is actually useful to a rapidly increasing pool of customers. Once they figure out how to make Claude stop hallucinating it's going to be incredible. And worth lots of money.
It's not a remotely level playing field. One soldier who took part in the Venezuela raid basically had orders in hand when he placed multiple bets on the timing of the raid, netting a ton of money. There have been many other examples of inside information being used to stack the odds.
Unless you're a C-level employee, specifically working in M&A, or maybe as the lead on a truly revolutionary new product (no, your company's Facebook wannabe or thinly disguised open source ripoff ain't it) - You have no insider information to trade on. Sincere belief that your employer's cool new toys are going to change the world ain't it - every company has cool new toys in the pipeline, and most of them are going to flop or at best be just another branded widget.
This is absolutely not true. There are plenty of people in the financial side of a business that have information that is material but non-public, and trading based on that knowledge is illegal, including sudden cuts in spending, audit results prior to publication, and more. HR will be aware of major layoffs. Facilities might be aware of impending site closures before they're announced. All these things can be used for insider trading.
Lower-level people aren't usually pursued because they're small enough to fly under the radar. But that doesn't mean it's not illegal, and it doesn't mean it never happens.
Most popular subreddits are overrun with bots. r/politics and r/conservative are notorious hives of bots regurgitating talking points at each other. Discussions of Israel and China are always hit by bots spreading the same propaganda. And every little sub is getting hit by bots recycling old posts. If reddit is supposed to be a place for humans then the company sucks at it.
Keeping social media from harming kids requires curbing the use of dark patterns in software. It would have to apply to the operating systems, web sites, and thousands of apps on every app store. Few politicians are willing to fight tens of thousands of software and gambling companies. The lobbies that would create would make combined militarism contractors, the drug industry, and the oil industry look like ants.
If I need to know something and I search with Google it kind of sucks. Half of the articles are clickbait, written by non-experts or a shitty AI that was given a garbage prompt. When I go to the web site I immediately have to jump through as many as three popups about cookies. Then, ten seconds after I start reading, a full page popup appears compelling me to sign up for a mailing list. If I am on a mobile browser with an ad blocker the page may refuse to load. On desktop I might get a popup telling me to disable my ad blocker. After all that shit it turns out that the garbage article does not even answer my question. So I have to keep doing this with every link until I either find an answer or give up.
But if I ask Claude it will usually give me a great answer. Sometimes it gives an entire essay. The writing is much better than the garbage I would get from a Google search.
But lately I have taken to just looking it up in books. This month I bought a big Merriam Webster dictionary along with the Oxford dictionaries of economics, finance and banking, and politics and international relations. It's great! Entries are short because Oxford is not cooking up five+ paragraph articles to put ads into. The writers were experts. And they were human. I still resort to Claude at times, and it can be faster, but I like ink on paper.
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
