America is selling the AI stack it built with public money, with the same companies and the same national security framing. Nobody is asking whether the demand is real.
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Posted inTAP
AI Is Supercharging the Surveillance State
Warrants are at the center of the debate over government spying, and for good reason. But artificial intelligence is redefining the contours of that debate.
Posted inPodcasts
Organized Money: The Chatbot Will See You Now
As Big Tech attempts to algo and chatbot your therapy, advocacy and new law fight to save the art and science of humans helping humans.
Posted inTAP
Spirit Socialism: Trump’s vs. Ours
The proposed bailout of Spirit Airlines is Trump’s worst deal yet. But in clean hands, socialized ownership sometimes makes sense.
Posted inTechnology
American Politics Is Already Inundated With AI Deepfakes. It’s Only Getting Worse.
These aren’t your 2024 deepfakes. Bad actors will go for broke using state-of-the-art AI tools to blunt voters’ confidence in elections.
Posted inTAP
Why Americans Hate Data Centers: Let Us Count the Ways
They fear AI. They fear higher electric bills. More reasons below.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Faltering War Economy
Trump’s war craters the economy in multiple ways, even if it somehow ends soon.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Iran War Threatens the AI Economy
Supply chain disruptions threaten the flow of computer chips, which power AI models.
Posted inPolitics
Himes Fact-Checked on ‘Misleading’ Claims About Warrantless Spying
Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and ‘have no reason’ to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Private Credit Cartels
Wall Street wants you to believe AI is to blame for the incipient credit crisis. But the crappy software loans spooking investors are the products of old-economy greed and brazen collusion.
