Harvard Law Review solicited and then killed an article arguing that Israel's bombing of Gaza fits the official definition of "genocide". Insiders report that the editors, who are 104 in number, voted to kill the article because they were afraid of likely retaliation against them in their careers otherwise.

Academic freedom includes the freedom to argue for either side of that question. Threats to intimidate scholars for arguing it are an attack on academic freedom, and therefore an attack on the United States and on freedom in it.

Scientists demonstrated use of GPT-4 to create a fake medical data set, purporting to compare the outcomes of various types of medical procedures -- which were not really carried out.

I do not describe GPT-4 as "artificial intelligence" because I reserve that term for systems that really know or understand something. These "generative" models can imitate the form of real writing or data, but the output is not based on any knowledge or understanding of the subject matter supposedly being described.

*Billionaires are lining up to fund [the fascist]'s anti-democratic agenda. … The more disturbing [his] public proclamations become, the more US plutocrats seem to want him to win.*

Lake Titicaca is suffering from a prolonged drought which has made it shrink in inconvenient ways.

The wrecker has learned from problems encountered in his first term as president. If he gets to try again, he will move immediately to convert US government institutions into tools for the repression of anyone he considers an enemy.