Describing the corruption Senator Menendez is accused of with Egypt, and the effects on Egyptian dissidents.

One kind of use in which GPT-4 can actually qualify as "artificial intelligence" is when it is used to figure out obscured or hard-to-read words on a document.

If it does a certain kind of job well frequently, we can say that it displays understanding of that limited field, which would be intelligence.

As distinguished from the bullshit generation which ChatGPT does.

*Trend for bigger, heavier cars means more particles get released from breaks, tires and road surfaces.*

This is in addition to using more energy (whether fossil fuel or electricity) and causing more damage in collisions.

It is crucial to impose sufficient taxes on SUVs and other heavy cars to reduce their sales to a much smaller level. We should deter people from buying them unless they really need them.

*Louisiana school principal forced to apologize after punishing a student for dancing* (and failing to follow the rules of his church).

One of many reasons we should not outsource government functions to private companies is that they will tend to block the public's right to learn how those functions are being administered. The outgoing information commissioner of Scotland calls for making Freedom of Information laws apply to those companies.

I agree with that as far as it goes, but I think that solution is incomplete, because this is far from the only problem caused by outsourcing. The real solution is to put an end to it.