Almost exactly five years ago, on June 6th, 2020, protests erupted in Britain after the killing of George Floyd. Thousands hit the streets in London, Manchester, Nottingham, Wolverhampton, and Bristol, in demonstrations that included toppling statues, blocking the M6 freeway, and in London, hurling flares and rolling bicycles at…
“But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by…
Tech elites are now replacing another class of American workers; instead of offshoring factories, they are onshoring low-wage Indian immigrants. “Tamil power in the White House!” Alok Sama, ex-Softbank president, gushed with ethnic triumphalism when Sriram Krishnan was named AI policy advisor to President Trump. Krishnan is a Silicon Valley…
“Call me crazy, but I think Dem politicians in LA publicly encouraging riots helps explain why they’re also incapable of issuing building permits for the fires months ago.” —Mark Hemingway And pretty soon, expect action in a dozen other states, you can be sure, because just as it was…
What better way to advance the president’s agenda than rioters flying the Mexican flag? Los Angeles continues to witness clashes between Hispanics and law enforcement. Since the weekend, agitators have torched cars, looted, and caused general mayhem in response to ICE arresting illegal alien felons. The rioters proudly waved…
Trump, Musk, and the $152 billion question: Can populism survive elite defection? The spectacle that unfolded late this week between Donald Trump and Elon Musk represents more than a collision of egos. What we saw emerge from their respective social media platforms on Thursday was a seismic fracture in…
Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar reminds us of subtle maneuvers by deep state actors to sabotage presidential policies. When a U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union President Dwight Eisenhower had not be informed about its real mission. The CIA claimed that it had been a weather plane that…
Russia’s leadership is in ‘conclave’ determining its riposte. Trump has been silent for two days. Unprecedented. In the last days, Ukraine and its facilitators attempted a massive attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bomber-force; succeeded in collapsing two bridges onto civilian trains heading to Moscow; attacking the Kerch Bridge; and assassinating…
French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen launched a scathing attack on the trajectory of the European Union at the Patriots for Europe rally in France on Monday, declaring, “We don’t want to leave Europe. We want out of this Europe, because it is not Europe.” Addressing a crowd of…
Translated from the Swedish and originally published here. Part 1: Understanding without Using Language Why do we even talk about artificial intelligence? Why do we say algorithms learn? Why do we claim we communicate with computers? What makes these metaphors so compelling that we don’t see them as such and…
