Anti-tech sentiments among Republican voters may open a new path to the nomination. The post Potential Vance Challengers Adopt AI Criticism Ahead Of ’28 appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Politics Potential Vance Challengers Adopt AI Criticism Ahead Of ’28 Anti-tech sentiments among Republican voters may open a new path to the presidency. Photo by Karl Mondon / AFP via Getty Images The Trump administration is pushing back hard against AI doomerism. President Donald Trump calls the warnings that AI may destroy humanity a “sick conspiracy” and a “HOAX.” Vice President J.D. Vance claims these dire predictions from some tech leaders resemble a “Trojan horse” that could result in regulations that hurt the country. Vance’s response indicates he will campaign as a tech optimist in 2028. That’s not surprising. Unlike many politicians, he thinks AI development is a good thing and the government should…Open
The Pentagon and CIA have routinely trotted out propagandists posing as analysts. The post The Trump Admin Isn’t First to Use Paid Influencers appeared first on The American Conservative .
Uncategorized The Trump Admin Isn’t First to Use Paid Influencers The Pentagon and CIA have routinely trotted out propagandists posing as analysts. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski / AFP via Getty Images) In late August, the Washington Post reported the Department of Defense was using paid social media “influencers” to gain public support for the Trump administration’s stances on foreign policy and military reforms. An article a few days earlier in the hawkish but anti-Trump Bulwark had provided some similar allegations and examples. Although the relatively new venue of social media adds a wrinkle, the tactic of the White House or the federal bureaucracy using ostensibly independent analysts to validate the national security state’s…Open
Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of Warby Jane Rogoyska. W. W. Norton and Company, 2026344 Pages. $31.99 The Hôtel Lutetia is the only “Grand Hotel” on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, the world’s most celebrated artistic and bohemian district. From its opening in 1910, Hôtel Lutetia was the haunt of famed […] The post A Drama in a Grand Hotel appeared first on The American Conservative .
Books A Drama in a Grand Hotel A Left Bank hotel’s front-row seat to the twentieth century Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska. W. W. Norton and Company, 2026 344 Pages. $31.99 The Hôtel Lutetia is the only “Grand Hotel” on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, the world’s most celebrated artistic and bohemian district. From its opening in 1910, Hôtel Lutetia was the haunt of famed writers such as James Joyce and visited by endless people from throughout the city and the world for the luxury it provided at prices available to the bourgeoisie. After the Nazis took power and France began to fill with German refugees, many of them Jewish, the hotel hosted a committee for the exiled German opposition. Then it…Open
Barksdale Air Force Base was first placed on lockdown over a reported active shooter, then again after an injured shooting victim entered unauthorized.
Air Force Maj. Jason Watson appeared at a preliminary hearing in the first step before a service member’s case can be referred to a general court-martial.