Just when you think Congress isn’t going to be able to do anything constructive for the rest of this presidential election year, out comes a bipartisan proposal called The Americans Privacy Rights Act of 2024. Its name is delightfully simple; it arrives after decades of failed attempts to create federal [Keep reading]
Maybe you heard recently about a personal finance reporter, Charlotte Cowles, who was the victim of a scam and wrote about it for her employer, The Cut. The headline for the story was dramatic: “The Day I Put $50,000 in a Shoe Box and Handed It to a Stranger.” In [Keep reading]
Housing costs are rising fastest in — Montana, Utah, and South Carolina? That must be some kind of joke, right? Sorry, there is no punchline. Only American families, getting punched in the gut. The economy is doing so well, why are Americans so pessimistic? I keep reading variations of this [Keep reading]
In the age where the U.S. House of Representatives can’t really do anything, it has voted to ban TikTok in its current ownership structure. Color me unimpressed, and more than a bit concerned. I’d say the fact that Congress’ lower house was able to pass the legislation should give everyone [Keep reading]
Imagine spending years driving a Humvee around a war zone at 5 mph, using only your eyes in a valiant attempt to spot homemade roadside bombs…risking your life minute by agonizing minute to save the lives of your fellow soldiers…only to come home and find you are targeted by criminals [Keep reading]
Hold on tight, fellow humans, there’s artificial turbulence ahead. Like it or not, the time has come to stop believing what you see, what you hear, and perhaps even what you think you know. Reality is indeed under attack and it’s up to us to preserve it. The only way [Keep reading]
Kevin Long: My job could be done in a nanosecond with a computer program that we had in place before, and just because of the way that they’ve changed their rules after the Cambridge Analytica Scandal … all the networks readjusted their access point for the data. And it … [Keep reading]
Paul Nicklen is a world-famous wildlife photographer. He’s won pretty much every major award shooting polar bears, leopard seals, and other rare animals in some of the world’s coldest, most menacing climates for National Geographic. Naturally, he has a massive following on social media, particularly on Instagram where you can [Keep reading]
Troy: They have a quota of a certain amount of money that they have to steal or obtain. And oftentimes those quotas are very, very high, like nearly impossible. And so they get either beaten, shocked with these uh electric shock sticks or cattle prods. If it’s really bad they [Keep reading]
When I logged onto a Zoom meeting today, I was offered the chance to let the company use some kind of whiz-bangy AI magic that would summarize the meeting for me. Cool? Maybe. Artificial intelligence? Not by my definition. New? Not really. New name? Absolutely I’m sure you’ve had this [Keep reading]
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