The world’s most dysfunctional sports league, the WNBA, reached a new low this week. It’s bad enough that they beat the sh*t out of their megastar player Caitlin Clark on a nightly basis. Caitlin Clark is harassed for three years by fans, media, players, and assaulted by other players and the WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert…
After using ChatGPT for less than two weeks, I’ve already come to a conclusion that differs from both the fear and the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. Before I started using AI, I mostly heard two competing stories. One claimed AI would soon replace millions of workers, become more intelligent than humans, and eventually create dangers…
Ike Barinholtz, guest hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, aimed straight at the memory of ABC’s brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel last year over a joke about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He even asked the sidekick to read “heartfelt remarks” for a friend he never had. Ike Barinholtz sits for a black-and-white…
The Mississippi House of Representatives honored Nolan Wells during a special session on Thursday, July 16. Rep. Henry B. Zuber III (R-Jackson County) made the motion with a delegation of Mississippi lawmakers on the House floor. RELATED: FBI Reportedly Investigates Threats Against Individuals As Nolan Xavier Wells’ Case Heads To Grand Jury (VIDEO) Mississippi Lawmakers Honor…
First, it was a tiny amount of bitcoin sales; then, the purchase of several thousand BTC; and finally, today, the unloading of thousands of BTC. What’s happening at Strategy? trategy’s (MSTR) recent bitcoin trades suggest the company is attempting to find its footing amid bitcoin’s bear-market slide, which raises questions about its capital markets strategy. Alongside today’s…
Quebec’s AI institute is partnering with a Halifax-based company to use AI to forecast sea-ice levels in Canada’s High Arctic. The news: Mila announced it is entering into a partnership with PolArctic Canada to bring the research institute’s AI expertise to sea-ice monitoring in Canada’s northern waterways. The partnership was announced on Thursday at Mila’s…
Three of the four major broadcast and cable news outlets, ABC, NBC, and CNN, declined to carry a sitting president’s primetime address live on their main channels Thursday night. CBS and MSNBC started it and left before it ended. Fox was the only major network still airing it when Trump finished. A near-unified refusal to…
While Canada’s lagging innovation performance is nothing new, the ongoing US trade war and economic crisis have made addressing it a more urgent concern. During a MaRS Discovery District panel Thursday morning, leaders from Blue J, the Canadian Shield Institute, the University of Toronto (U of T), and North South Ventures unpacked some of their…
Conventional political philosophy has a blindspot over what turns out to be a crucial concept: the precise nature of the legal relationship between the human person and the regime under which he lives. In the US, we call this citizenship but how precisely is that different from the old-world notion of being a subject to…
Video footage of U.S. forces launching aircraft and precision munitions against Iranian military targets, released July 16, 2026. (U.S. Central Command Video) US Central Command announced on Friday that in strikes against Iran last night, a decades-old Iranian surveillance tower used to target ships in the Strait of Hormuz has been destroyed. The tower’s destruction…
