Washington Judge Just Dealt a Blow to the Youth-Led Fight Over Climate Change
Youth plaintiffs in a climate change lawsuit marched in Olympia in February. Robin Loznak/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a blow to young climate activists, a Seattle judge dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday that alleged Washington state had violated children’s rights by failing to protect them from climate…
Can We Please Stop With the Dimwitted Robot Car Owns?
Sure, this Waymo car is fine when it’s driving on a “street” in “California” where robots have more rights than humans. But what if this was Texas and someone suddenly pulled out an AR-15 and just started shooting it up for no reason? THEN WHAT???Andrej Sokolow/DPA via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to…
Employment Is Pretty Close to Reaching Its Peak
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is apropos of nothing in particular. I’m just futzing around with economic figures to see if anything looks interesting. Here’s the employment rate for prime-age (25-54) men and women in the United States: The employment-population reached its peak in early 2000. It dipped during…
Keith Ellison Easily Wins Attorney General Nomination, in Spite of Abuse Allegations
Craig Lassig/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) easily won his party’s nomination to be the state’s next attorney general on Tuesday, dispatching the rest of the five-candidate field with nearly 50 percent of the vote. Ellison, the first Muslim ever to serve in Congress, is…
Sure, Robots Can Feel Sorry For You
PLOS One Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I see that Sherry Turkle is at it again: Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer companion in the future….But there is something she may have been too young to understand — or,…
White House Can’t Guarantee There’s No Tape of Trump Using the N-Word
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders couldn’t guarantee on Tuesday that the American public would never hear a recording of President Donald Trump saying the N-word. “Can you stand at the podium and guarantee the American people they’ll never hear Donald Trump…