Three months after helping announce the two-million-dollar federal government investment at Arizona State University that they had secured, Representatives Yassamin Ansari and Greg Stanton joined Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego in launching the ASU Center for Heat Preparedness. The Center, the first of its kind, would, according to reporting by ASU News, “Develop solutions that will … Read more
It has been a week since former Anthropic AI employee Jacob Coxon posted on social media that emerging technologies, if left unchecked, could trigger a human extinction event within 10 years. In that time, Donald Trump, whose financial fortunes have reached new heights thanks in part to his stock trading on various A.I. companies, has … Read more
In Donald Trump’s reality, EPA probably no longer stands for the Environmental Protection Agency. In his science-denying mind, it probably means the Environmental Punishment, Purge, or Plunder Agency because that is what he and his climate change-rejecting allies have been doing since coming back to power. In the latest move to make life sicker, more … Read more
It looks like science fiction has become reality again. This time in a potentially horrific way. Remember the Star Trek season episodes A Taste of Armageddon, I Mudd, and The Ultimate Computer, where two societies wage war by computer rather than make peace, Androids see themselves as the proper custodians for protecting humanity, and a … Read more
It is happening here. Despite Lower Court blockades and no ruling from the United States Supreme Court on the merits of his Executive Order restricting mail-in balloting, whistleblower revelations from a postal official claim that Donald Trump’s leadership at the United States Postal Service is apparently ignoring the courts and secretly moving forward in an … Read more