policy

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/10/16/adams-taps-ai-robocalls-languages-he-doesnt-speak/ Tongue Twisted: Adams Taps AI to Make City Robocalls in Languages He Doesn’t Speak New York City law requires public documents and announcements be made available in a wide range of languages, but the mayor’s...

https://www.wired.com/story/united-nations-igf-saudi-arabia-russia/ JUSTIN LING SECURITY OCT 11, 2023 7:00 AM The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship The United Nations' top internet governance body will allegedly host its next two annual meetings in countries known for repressive...

https://blog.eladgil.com/p/ai-regulation AI Regulation There have been multiple call to regulate AI. It is too early to do so. ELAD GIL SEP 17, 2023 [While I was finalizing this post, Bill Gurley gave this great talk on incumbent capture and regulation]. ChatGPT has only been live for ~9...

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/08/24/healey-massachusetts-massreconnect-higher-education-cost-free-students Community college is now free for Mass. residents 25 and older. Millions qualify August 24, 2023 Max Larkin Gov. Maura Healey wants to get the word out: Attending community college is...

https://time.com/6303701/a-rape-in-mississippi/ She Wasn't Able to Get an Abortion. Now She's a Mom. Soon She'll Start 7th Grade. Ashley in Clarksdale, Miss., Aug. 1, 2023. Lucy Garrett for TIME BY BY CHARLOTTE ALTER/CLARKSDALE, MISS. AUGUST 14, 2023 6:00 AM EDT Ashley just had a baby...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/rural-montana-housing-crisis-supply/674950/ The Anti-California How Montana performed a housing miracle By Annie Lowrey Justin Sullivan / Getty AUGUST 9, 2023, 11:02 AM ET This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/rural-montana-housing-crisis-supply/674950/ The Anti-California How Montana performed a housing miracle By Annie Lowrey Justin Sullivan / Getty AUGUST 9, 2023, 11:02 AM ET This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in...

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-argues-fetus-doesn-t-right-life-new-18292079.php A prison guard says she was forced to stay at her post during labor pains. Texas is fighting compensation for her stillbirth. The seven-months-pregnant officer reported contraction-like...

https://www.popsci.com/technology/amtrak-bullet-train-texas/ Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year. BY ANDREW PAUL | PUBLISHED AUG 10, 2023...

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/how-cities-can-stem-the-tide-of-pedestrian-deaths-from-large-cars-and-suvs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social How cities can stem the tide of pedestrian deaths from large cars and SUVs Ever-larger cars and...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/01/texas-age-verification-bill-would-plaster-health-warnings-on-porn-sites/ from the bull-shyt-pseudoscience dept Thu, Jun 1st 2023 10:52am - Michael McGrady Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill...

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/ In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education. Jon Schwarz August 25 2022, 4:57 p.m. WITH THE vociferous debate over President Joe Biden’s...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w3aj/us-building-more-apartments-than-it-has-in-decades-but-not-for-the-poor-report They're not regular estate agents, they're cool estate agents. LP By Laura Pitcher April 24, 2023, 3:45am IMAGE: STEVE PROEHL VIA GETTY IMAGES The U.S. is building more...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3w3aj/us-building-more-apartments-than-it-has-in-decades-but-not-for-the-poor-report They're not regular estate agents, they're cool estate agents. LP By Laura Pitcher April 24, 2023, 3:45am IMAGE: STEVE PROEHL VIA GETTY IMAGES The U.S. is building more...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/paris-charge-suv-drivers-higher-parking-fees-tackle-auto-besity Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle ‘auto-besity’ Size, weight and motor will be taken into account as councillors target ‘dangerous, cumbersome’ vehicles Kim...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/24/business/ai-generated-explicit-images.html A.I. companies have an edge in blocking the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material. They’ve seen how social media companies failed. Dr. Rebecca Portnoff, the data science director at Thorn, was...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5gjk/nycs-widespread-homeless-sweeps-resulted-in-3-people-with-permanent-housing-report A city audit reveals that sweeps encompassing over 2,000 people have largely failed to transition the unhoused into permanent housing. By Roshan Abraham June 29, 2023...

https://gothamist.com/news/vending-machine-providing-free-birth-control-and-overdose-prevention-products-debuts-in-brooklyn By Brittany Kriegstein Published Jun 5, 2023 Brittany Kriegstein A new vending machine in Brownsville, Brooklyn is attracting lots of attention – but not because...

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2023/05/zoning-laws-nuclear-modern-family-definition/674117/ Across America, some places still outlaw living with people who aren’t your relatives. By Michael Waters Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock; Getty. MAY 22...

https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/24/municipal-internet-sb-152-repealed-colorado/ More than 160 cities, towns and counties opted out of Senate Bill 152, and some built their own gigabit service that was 4,000 times faster. But there were other reasons for the repeal. Tamara Chuang 4:11 AM MDT on...