Saturday, October 31, 2026

Tag: Technology

Is AI About to Destroy Humanity?

Or do we have more to worry about from Donald Trump?

US tech leaders are urgently calling for rules on AI –...

China has already implemented many rules governing the use of artificial intelligence.

How technology is rewriting the way we write

As keyboards and touchscreens replace pens and pencils, the decline of handwriting raises questions about cognition, culture, and creativity.

How Russia is upending the West’s attempt to control technology with...

Russia’s challenge to prevailing IP and copyright norms is central to its pursuit of technological sovereignty. Global fragmentation and Western divisions have given Moscow space to test the system’s limits without fully abandoning it.

10 reasons to resist AI

To counter Big Tech’s narrative of AI inevitability, movements are beginning to resist on many fronts where this dangerous tech is being deployed.

The ripple effects of organizing against data centers

One city’s success in stopping a data center grew into a regional movement that’s notching wins across the San Gabriel Valley.

The US-China tech race, resource wars, and the cost of militarization

Over the past decade, a steady and well-funded campaign has convinced the general public that China is the greatest threat to the safety and security of the American people.

Chip curbs and the folly of US techno-nationalism

Is Trump's high-tech policy schizophrenic?

How will your data be deployed

One database to rule them all.

Where is the AI safety movement?

There’s the prospect of super intelligent AI outpacing human control altogether. So where are the humans in all this?

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Senators Baldwin and Murray asked the Education secretary to cancel the purchase. The department says her current furniture does not fit its new office space.
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In a Country That Needs Heroes, Here Are a Few Standouts This Election Season

“Right now, the United States is unhappy enough to need a lot of heroes.”
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Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western Feminists

“In both cases, their perpetrators and assailants can leave the crime scene unscathed, with their hands clean.”
Blue entrance of the Karnes County Civil Detention Center with metal benches outside

ICE lists 36 detainee deaths in fiscal 2026, most since 2018

The agency's own page shows 29 deaths by mid-April and seven more through Aug. 23; DHS has said the size of the detained population explains the rise.
The U.S. Capitol building with its dome in Washington.

515 donors gave $4.2 billion to 2026 super PACs, Public Citizen finds

Elon Musk alone gave $445 million, about 10% of the total, according to the group's analysis of FEC data through late October.