AMERICANTHINKER - Cameras watching every corner are changing who we are
By Naomi Brockwell A government that can watch everyone can, in time, control everyone.
AXIOS (Maria Curi) - AI scrambles the political map
The search for a winning message on AI is pushing candidates and lawmakers into unexpected political territory. Why it matters: With the midterms approaching, AI is creating alliances across party lines while opening fissures within them. Here are three ways AI is scrambling the political map. 1. Centrist Democrats versus progressives on data centers New York made waves as the first state to impose a data center moratorium — a product of Gov. Kathy Hochul joining forces with progressive state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez. But the two policymakers are just getting started on reconciling their differing approaches to AI. - Gonzalez previously advocated for a three-year moratorium and is working to extend the one-year pause in Hochul's…
The search for a winning message on AI is pushing candidates and lawmakers into unexpected political territory. Why it matters: With the midterms approaching, AI is creating alliances across party lines while opening fissures within them. Here are three ways AI is scrambling the political map. 1. Centrist Democrats versus progressives on data centers New York made waves as the first state to impose a data center moratorium — a product of Gov. Kathy Hochul joining forces with progressive state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez. But the two policymakers are just getting started on reconciling their differing approaches to AI. - Gonzalez previously advocated for a three-year moratorium and is working to extend the one-year pause in Hochul's…Open
AXIOS (Amy Harder) - Data center backlash echoes fossil-fuel politics
Willie Nelson has become an unlikely barometer of America's biggest infrastructure fights. He once protested the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking. Today, he's fighting data centers. Why it matters: The American icon's latest cause underscores how the politics surrounding AI infrastructure are beginning to resemble the last decade's fights over fossil fuels. "The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter)," Nelson told his more than one million Instagram followers recently. Flashback: "For 29 years, corporations have continued to take the land away from the small family farmers, and this is what we're here to fight against," Nelson said during a…
Willie Nelson has become an unlikely barometer of America's biggest infrastructure fights. He once protested the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking. Today, he's fighting data centers. Why it matters: The American icon's latest cause underscores how the politics surrounding AI infrastructure are beginning to resemble the last decade's fights over fossil fuels. "The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter)," Nelson told his more than one million Instagram followers recently. Flashback: "For 29 years, corporations have continued to take the land away from the small family farmers, and this is what we're here to fight against," Nelson said during a…Open
AXIOS (Russell Contreras) - America has more majority-minority rural counties than urban and suburban ones
Data: U.S. Census, USDA ; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals The U.S. is projected to become majority-minority in 2046, but hundreds of rural pockets crossed that demographic benchmark years ago, an Axios analysis finds. Why it matters: The evolving face of rural America, driven both by immigration and increased mobility, has invigorated communities, increased their diversity — and presented new challenges. - Rural governments dealing with rapid change, for example, often have few interpreters, bilingual election workers or translated materials — the machinery that turns civil-rights protections into access. - Population shifts, particularly in rural areas, can leave schools, courts and election offices struggling to catch up. The…
Data: U.S. Census, USDA ; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals The U.S. is projected to become majority-minority in 2046, but hundreds of rural pockets crossed that demographic benchmark years ago, an Axios analysis finds. Why it matters: The evolving face of rural America, driven both by immigration and increased mobility, has invigorated communities, increased their diversity — and presented new challenges. - Rural governments dealing with rapid change, for example, often have few interpreters, bilingual election workers or translated materials — the machinery that turns civil-rights protections into access. - Population shifts, particularly in rural areas, can leave schools, courts and election offices struggling to catch up. The…Open
AXIOS (Madison Mills) - OpenAI sheds senior execs in pre-IPO refresh
A wave of top OpenAI executives — including Sam Altman's top deputy, a longtime chief operating officer and the chief revenue officer — has left in the span of a month as the company retools its leadership ahead of an expected IPO. Why it matters: Co-founder Greg Brockman is getting more involved across every level of the company to build out a leadership team he hopes will catapult OpenAI past Anthropic in enterprise adoption, according to a source familiar with the matter. Zoom in: OpenAI's recent personnel changes are driven by strategy more than the revolving door that's come to define the broader AI talent exodus. - OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company less than a year into the role. - The lab…
A wave of top OpenAI executives — including Sam Altman's top deputy, a longtime chief operating officer and the chief revenue officer — has left in the span of a month as the company retools its leadership ahead of an expected IPO. Why it matters: Co-founder Greg Brockman is getting more involved across every level of the company to build out a leadership team he hopes will catapult OpenAI past Anthropic in enterprise adoption, according to a source familiar with the matter. Zoom in: OpenAI's recent personnel changes are driven by strategy more than the revolving door that's come to define the broader AI talent exodus. - OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving the company less than a year into the role. - The lab…Open
AMERICANTHINKER - The Fog is Lifting
Image: Giorgia Meloni. Credit: Italian Government , CC BY-SA 3.0 . Italian Government By Thomas Kolbe Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is using the Ceuta disaster to strengthen the national-conservative front within the EU. Returns
AMERICANTHINKER - Cancel Culture and the Mark of Cain
Public Domain By Paul O’Brien When beastly behavior brings no consequences, it will continue and accelerate.
AMERICANTHINKER - If Democrats Walk Like Socialists And Talk Like Socialists, Maybe They’re Socialists
American Thinker AI By Jack Hellner The media and other Democrats keep trying to tell us there’s daylight between the Democrat and the Democrat Socialists, but that’s increasingly hard to believe.
AMERICANTHINKER - ‘MAGA Barbie’ And The Subaru Magoos
American Thinker AI By Luis Gonzalez How the WNBA became another battlefield in America’s culture war.
AMERICANTHINKER - A New Book Provides Vital And Vivid New Insights Into Abraham Lincoln
Photo Credit: Amazon By Arthur Schaper Matthew Pinsker’s “Boss Lincoln” looks at the man who used America’s party politics to help create the Republican Party to lead the way on emancipation.