Down the Chatbot Rabbit Hole

View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 02.10.23 Hi, everyone. My theory of the Chinese spy blimp? It was literally a trial balloon, testing the possibility of beaming the internet from high-altitude, like the discontinued Alphabet Loon project. Watch for its return when the US […]

Microsoft declares war on Google

Hello, Insiders. One thing before I begin: We’re expanding this newsletter to Sundays. You’ll hear directly from Matt Turner, who leads our business newsroom. He’ll take you behind the scenes of our top reporting (and, this week, break down the dollars-and-cents of Super Bowl ads). But I want […]

Cipolla’s 5 Laws of Human Stupidity

Carlo Cipolla’s law of stupidity states that “always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.” Even though Cipolla originally wrote about the principle and its consequences for society in the form of an amusing letter to his friends, it gained wide attention. Today Cipolla’s […]

Jihadi Saudi National Steals School Bus

The Extremism Roundup Promoting Civil Discourse and Marginalizing the Extremes A weekly compilation of the most important developments in the struggle against radical ideologies Islamist Extremism Mugshot of Bader Alzahrani – mconnors (morguefile.com/p/7298) via Daily Voice Essex screenshot Jihadi Saudi National Steals School Bus Bader Alzahrani, 22, a Saudi Arabian who […]

Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class

ABOUT THIS EVENT The American Conservative invites you to attend a lunch discussion of Mark T. Mitchell’s new book Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class which explores the relationship between the decline of middle class property ownership and the crisis of constitutional government. Join The American […]

Bill Gates backpedals

Sometimes governments have you right where they want you. In Brazil, the new left-wing president is now requiring the children of recipients of the Bolsa Familia welfare program to have been vaccinated. Whether that requirement includes the Covid shots has not yet been made clear, but with the […]

2/9/23: Ukraine Fighter Jets, Bombshell Nordstream Pipeline, Twitter Hearings, Microsoft Vs Google AI, Zoom Layoffs, Trump Makes Groomer Allegations, Big Pharma, Biden Economy, IRS Tips, FBI Agent Provocateur

Krystal and Saagar discuss Zelensky demanding Fighter Jets in his UK visit, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist says that the US blew up the Nordstream pipeline, Twitter hearings reveal bipartisan censorship of posts, Microsoft attempts to challenge Google’s ChatGPT with it’s own AI, the video chat company Zoom […]

AOC CONFRONTED: Watch Her Reaction

AOC confronted again! Anti-war activists disrupt a Democratic Fundraiser where Senator Chuck Schumer, AOC, Jamal Bowman were present and speaking. Daniel Burke who ran for Senate and is a representative for the Schiller Institute publicly disrupts AOC and questions her and other congress members on their stance and […]

The University as a Community

David Pan Contrary to expectations, the word university does not refer to universalism but derives from the medieval Latin universitas, which referred to “a society, company, corporation, or community regarded collectively.” David Westbrook brings us back to this idea of the university as a community in his response […]

Take a Bow, Columbia Journalism Review

The venerable watchdog publication breaks legacy media ranks with a massive rebuke of Trump-Russia coverage. Interview with the report’s dogged author, Jeff Gerth Matt Taibbi 11 hr ago The Columbia Journalism Review stunned many last Monday by publishing “The Press Versus the President,” a 24,000-word autopsy of press […]

US Reportedly Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline—White House Responds; IRS Recommends Taxpayers to Wait for ‘Additional Clarification’ Before Filing Returns

February 08, 2023 TODAY IN HISTORY Americans secure Guadalcanal 1943 TOP NEWS White House Responds to Report Claiming US Blew Up Nord Stream Pipeline Last Year Share*             READ MORE Policies & Impacts IRS Recommends Taxpayers to Wait for ‘Additional Clarification’ Before Filing […]