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Let There Be Sound

Brownstone Institute The Brownstone Institute for Social and Economic Research is a nonprofit organization conceived of in May 2021 in support of a society that minimizes the role of violence in public life. brownstone.org Brownstone Institute has recently taken its first step into the world of audiobooks, joining a

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Was “Philip Cross” an AI?

Was “Philip Cross” an AI?

Robert Blumen Robert Blumen is a software engineer and podcast host who writes occasionally about political and economic issues brownstone.org Alongside Brownstone author Jennifer Sey, I received honorable mention in Walter Bragman’s breathless Important Context: Leaked Brownstone Institute Emails Reveal Support for Child Labor, Underage Smoking. Bragman has

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It Is an Extragalactic Enigma

Thomas Crow Thomas Crow is an Australian science writer. He has a background in professional writing, biochemistry and genetics. He writes for Australian and New Zealand research institutes and publications like Crikey. He’s a horror and gothic fantasy fan. He thinks of himself as a gardener but scores of

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AI Claims: Fact or Fiction?

AI Claims: Fact or Fiction?

Harvey Risch Harvey Risch, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a physician and a Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. His main research interests are in cancer etiology, prevention and early diagnosis, and in epidemiologic methods. brownstone.org The following conversation

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Why Do Governments Keep Pushing CBDCs?

Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute associated scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. mises.org Governments worldwide are trying to replace cash with CBDCs, and

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Where Will Products Come From?

Where Will Products Come From?

Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Just for electricity from EV batteries and the electricity occasionally generated from wind turbines and solar panels, the World Bank estimates that

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On the Front Lines

On the Front Lines

rutherford.org CHARLOTESVILLE, Va. – Responding to a report suggesting that the University of Virginia should consider tracking the religious and political affiliations/ideologies of students and faculty, The Rutherford Institute has warned that such a program would raise significant constitutional concerns, especially as it pertains to the right of citizens

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NZ

At Light Speed: a Close-up View of NZ’s Alpine Fault

Meghan S. Miller Australian National University John Townend Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington Voon Hui Lai Australian National University New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikoura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest

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How to Blow up the Microchip Industry

Robyn Klingler-Vidra Associate Dean, Global Engagement | Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability King’s College London A conflict between the US and China over computer chips – or semiconductors – has been escalating in recent months. In particular, the US has taken steps to limit China’s access to advanced chip technology

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NZ

The Cell-Phone Addiction

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Well-known Christchurch identity Reg Garters sent me the enclosed set of photos, some I’ve seen before. The cell-phone addiction is now a major issue, leading as it has to spell-binding stupidity. Fortunately, there’s action being taken as governments and individual schools increasingly are

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AI Images Need to Be Regulated

AI Images Need to Be Regulated

Geoffrey Miller democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. Disclosure: Geoffrey attended the Global Media Congress in

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How AI Could Take over Elections

Archon Fung Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government Harvard Kennedy School Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law and Leadership Harvard University Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave in specific ways? Sen. Josh Hawley asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this question in a May

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The Hypocrisy of Big Tech and AI

The Hypocrisy of Big Tech and AI

PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Autumn Johnson Autumn Johnson is a contributing writer at the NewsBusters site, and she is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games and spending time with her

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Not the “Hate” They Were Hoping For

Not the “Hate” They Were Hoping For

When Planet of the Apes’ displaced astronaut, Taylor, begs for an answer to the mystery of just what planet he’s landed on, wise monkey Dr Zaius warns him: Don’t look for it, Taylor. You may not like what you find. When he saw the Statue of Liberty in

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Should Govts ban TikTok and Can they?

Should Govts ban TikTok and Can they?

Doug Jacobson Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Iowa State University On May 24, 2023, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed legislation banning TikTok in the state. The law imposes fines of US$10,000 per day on any app store that offers the popular Chinese-owned video social media app, and

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