In the News (#1653)

My supervisor…[saw a chatbot] as a digital priest whose primary purpose was to confirm that he was right and everyone else was mistaken. The Last Shall Be First (#1523) SCOTUS legalizes sexual assault of minor-age female athletes: The Supreme Court…uph[e]ld…West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws that [demand female] athletes [submit to unwanted physical examinations without parental consent]…[to] compet[e] in girls’ sports…[if someone accuses them of being transgender]. This decision has implications for 25 other states with similar laws… As is typical in our sick society, most coverage of the story focuses on the supposed intent of the laws rather than the actual consequences to female athletes. I Spy (#1533) The mad emperor wants to use copaganda to wreck the medical system, establish universal surveillance, and excuse even more state violence: The Trump [regime]’s new [mass surveillance] strategy [uses]…the [psychotic “]war[“] on [the important clinical medicine] fentanyl…[to justify] a…