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What MAGA means to Americans

What MAGA means to Americans

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  16 Comments  •  last year

MAGA, according to conventional analysis, is little more than a rehash of grievances.  Current political discussion often characterizes MAGA as merely a rehash of grievances taken from the civil...
Playbook: A reality check for Trump’s megalaw

Playbook: A reality check for Trump’s megalaw

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

First of all we need to acknowledge that the only real purpose of the One Big Beautiful Bill was to avoid sunsetting $400 billion in tax cuts and causing a recession.  The MAGA priorities of border...
China's nationwide 'cash for clunkers' trade-in program causing huge e-bike boom

China's nationwide 'cash for clunkers' trade-in program causing huge e-bike boom

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

Gee, wonder where the 'cash for clunkers' idea came from?  
How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success

How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

Free speech?  Artistic expression?  An AI experiment gone wrong?  A Deepfake?  A hoax? The lines are so fuzzy and blurred that any combination of these descriptions fit.  
Dangerous AI therapy-bots are running amok. Congress must act.

Dangerous AI therapy-bots are running amok. Congress must act.

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  3 Comments  •  last year

The dangers extend far beyond these therapy-bots.  AI advisors will be providing legal and financial advice, career guidance, dietary recommendations, recommendations for code and regulatory...
A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car

A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  4 Comments  •  last year

Musk cut too many corners trying to manufacture self driving cars cheaply while maintaining an obscene markup price.  Now Tesla is locked into an inadequate optics only system that's uncompetitive....
Photographer finds surreal beauty — and few humans — inside a Chinese EV factory

Photographer finds surreal beauty — and few humans — inside a Chinese EV factory

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

The story is about pictorial works by photographer Edward Burtynsky.  But it also provides a small glimpse at why the United States cannot compete with China.  Twenty years ago this BYD auto...
One Spain town finds integration of migrants a delicate task

One Spain town finds integration of migrants a delicate task

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  last year

Is it easier to discuss immigration outside our bubble?  The same concerns and issues are at play in this corner of Spain as in our own backyards.
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