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Don't Co-Parent With Congress
Reason magazine

Don't Co-Parent With Congress

I’M ALWAYS PUZZLED when I hear other parents say they’re worried about the effects social media might be having on their children.

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June 2024
Is Chinese Garlic a Threat to National Security?
Reason magazine

Is Chinese Garlic a Threat to National Security?

IS A STAPLE ingredient in your kitchen secretly undermining American sovereignty? Sen. Rick Scott (R–Fla.) seems to believe so.

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June 2024
Launch Approved? Not So Fast, Says Sluggish FAA
Reason magazine

Launch Approved? Not So Fast, Says Sluggish FAA

MOST AMERICANS ARE eager to see NASA astronauts return to the moon and push humanity’s boundaries with future exploration of Mars.

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June 2024
SpaceX Edges Closer to the Moon
Reason magazine

SpaceX Edges Closer to the Moon

ARTEMIS II IS a crewed moon flyby mission, the first in a series of missions meant to get American astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars.

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June 2024
Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles
Reason magazine

Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles

Jonathan Haidt’s clever, insufficient case against smartphones

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June 2024
The Complicated History of the Spy in Your Pocket
Reason magazine

The Complicated History of the Spy in Your Pocket

AOOP PULLED over Ivan Lopez in Somerton, Arizona, a small town near the Mexican border.

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June 2024
THE FUTURE OF PORN IS CONSENSUAL DEEPFAKES
Reason magazine

THE FUTURE OF PORN IS CONSENSUAL DEEPFAKES

THE CASE FOR CONSENSUAL CONCEPT CAPTURE

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June 2024
Wicked Problems Remain
Reason magazine

Wicked Problems Remain

REVOLUTIONARY NEW TECHNOLOGIES WILL NEVER REPLACE THE NEED FOR MARKETS.

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June 2024
THE POWERFUL UNPREDICTABILITY OF AI
Reason magazine

THE POWERFUL UNPREDICTABILITY OF AI

Physicist and engineer Stephen Wolfram on whether artificial intelligence can fix science, regulation, and innovation

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June 2024
THE GREAT BLACK POPE AND ASIAN NAZI DEBACLE OF 2024
Reason magazine

THE GREAT BLACK POPE AND ASIAN NAZI DEBACLE OF 2024

EXCITING NEW Al TOOLS ARE STILL BEING SHAPED BY HUMAN BEINGS.

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June 2024
AI Is Like Our Descendants
Reason magazine

AI Is Like Our Descendants

AS HUMANITY HAS advanced, we have slowly become able to purposely design more parts of our world and ourselves.

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June 2024
ΑΙ WARFARE IS BORING BUT DEADLY
Reason magazine

ΑΙ WARFARE IS BORING BUT DEADLY

BUREAUCRATS IN CUBICLES WILL KILL MORE PEOPLE THAN TERMINATOR ROBOTS WILL.

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June 2024
AI's Cozy Crony Capitalism
Reason magazine

AI's Cozy Crony Capitalism

WHAT HAPPENS TO REGULATION WHEN THE BAPTISTS ARE ALSO THE BOOTLEGGERS?

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June 2024
THE CASE OF THE AI-GENERATED GIANT RAT PENIS
Reason magazine

THE CASE OF THE AI-GENERATED GIANT RAT PENIS

HOW DID AN OBVIOUSLY FABRICATED ARTICLE END UP IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL?

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June 2024
THE NIGHT I ASKED CHATGPT HOW TO BUILD A BOMB
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THE NIGHT I ASKED CHATGPT HOW TO BUILD A BOMB

YES, YOU CAN TRICK THE BOT INTO GIVING YOU INFORMATION IT’S SUPPOSED TO KEEP TOITSELF. NO, THAT ISN’T SOMETHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

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June 2024
LONG LIVE THE FIVEPARAGRAPH ESSAY?
Reason magazine

LONG LIVE THE FIVEPARAGRAPH ESSAY?

AI WRITES A PRETTY GOOD ANALYSIS OF 1984.

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June 2024
THE FUTURE OF AI IS HELPING US DISCOVER THE PAST
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THE FUTURE OF AI IS HELPING US DISCOVER THE PAST

HISTORICAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH ARE BEING REVAMPED BY Al.

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June 2024
IN THE AI ECONOMY, THERE WILL BE ZERO PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT
Reason magazine

IN THE AI ECONOMY, THERE WILL BE ZERO PERCENT UNEMPLOYMENT

THE DEMAND FOR INTELLIGENCE AND LABOR WILL ALWAYS BE GREATER THAN THE SUPPLY.

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June 2024
'Smoking Opium Is Not Our Vice'
Reason magazine

'Smoking Opium Is Not Our Vice'

America’s first drug war was driven by xenophobia against chinese migrants.

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May 2024
THE LIBERTARIAN MIND OF DAVID BOAZ
Reason magazine

THE LIBERTARIAN MIND OF DAVID BOAZ

Threats to freedom, Trump vs. Biden, and the wins libertarians can’t seem to acknowledge

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May 2024
DARE TO Fail
Reason magazine

DARE TO Fail

THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a universal millennial experience, but DARE comes close.

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May 2024
CULTURE WARRIOR IN CHIEF
Reason magazine

CULTURE WARRIOR IN CHIEF

THE MODERN PRESIDENCY IS A DIVIDER, NOT A UNITER. IT HAS BECOME FAR TOO POWERFUL TO BE ANYTHING ELSE.

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May 2024
Progress, Rediscovered
Reason magazine

Progress, Rediscovered

A NEW MOVEMENT PROMOTING SCIENTIFIC, TECHNOLOGICAL, AND ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS TO HUMANITY’S PROBLEMS EMERGES.

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May 2024
HOW CAPITALISM BEAT COMMUNISM IN VIETNAM
Reason magazine

HOW CAPITALISM BEAT COMMUNISM IN VIETNAM

IT ONLY TOOK A GENERATION TO GO FROM RATION CARDS TO EXPORTING ELECTRONICS.

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May 2024
The Pupil Panopticon
Reason magazine

The Pupil Panopticon

BIG BROTHER—and Parent, and Teacher— are watching.

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May 2024
Congress Could Swipe Your Credit Reward Points
Reason magazine

Congress Could Swipe Your Credit Reward Points

A PLOT TO kill credit card reward points has bipartisan buy-in, with lawmakers framing the effort as an attempt to curb stillstubborn inflation.

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May 2024
Regulators Killed a Lifeline for Roombas
Reason magazine

Regulators Killed a Lifeline for Roombas

IN JANUARY 2024, Amazon terminated its agreement to acquire iRobot, the company that manufactures the Roomba robot vacuum.

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May 2024
Are U.S. Strikes on Houthis Constitutional?
Reason magazine

Are U.S. Strikes on Houthis Constitutional?

SINCE JANUARY, THE United States and its allies have been conducting strikes against the Houthis, a Yemen-based Islamist militant organization that has been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea.

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May 2024
WHAT IF AMERICA RUNS OUT OF BOMBS?
Reason magazine

WHAT IF AMERICA RUNS OUT OF BOMBS?

DUE TO OVERZEALOUS INTERVENTIONISM, THE U.S. 1S DISPENSING MUNITIONS FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE REPLACED.

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May 2024
All the Sad Young Things
Reason magazine

All the Sad Young Things

Maybe the problem for teens isn’t screens, but what they are replacing.

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March 2024