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View More NewsMy post yesterday on surrogacy and abortion has generated many responses, as I had suspected. Surrogacy is one of those issues that conservatives simply don’t want to talk about. It is often heart-wrenching when couples are not able to have children, and IVF and surrogacy are viewed as miracles to let these couples have children. To raise any moral or legal objections to this practice is sometimes seen as a third-rail, even in Republican pro-life circles. And on the left, how many of the women who wore bonnets from the Handmaid’s Tale to protest Justice Barrett hired poor women in…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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In brief Zhipu AI (now Z.ai) released GLM-5.3 on Thursday through its GLM Coding Plan and ZCode. The lab calls it the “most capable…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben…
Thursday’s edition of The New York Times asked a question I’ve been asking here for over a decade: “Is Letting Children Out Alone A…
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The history of the 20th century, and especially the history of the Holocaust, is replete with bureaucratic heroes like Raoul Wallenberg, Chiune Sugihara, Frank…
After New Evidence of DOJ Misconduct, Mahmoud Khalil Calls On Board of Immigration Appeals to Terminate Case NEW YORK — In light of new…
We did warn that the Online Safety Act would chill free speech and vehemently opposed the legislation for that reason. We said the remit…
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The European Commission said it is seeking feedback on whether the European Union’s landmark crypto framework, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), remains fit…
Nearly 10% of the total Bitcoin supply is considered “structurally unsafe” due to a quantum computing breakthrough, as their output type reveals the public…
In brief Tether has acquired SoftBank’s stake in Twenty One Capital (XXI), completely removing the Japanese tech giant from the venture. Shares that SoftBank…
When it comes to keeping our texts, chats, and other digital messages safe from prying eyes, we have a powerful tool: end-to-end encryption. Used…