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Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues
"I’m a political scientist, and I found that Americans were far less likely to publicly voice their opinions than even during the height of the McCarthy-era Red Scare."
AI won't live on publisher sites
The case for moving AI down the stack
Stephen Miller’s Financial Stake in ICE Contractor Palantir
Stephen Miller and at least a dozen other Trump appointees own stock in Palantir, the company that provides "mission critical" services to ICE.
Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit
A federal court agreed that using copyrighted works to train AI is fair use - but that pirating them to do so infringes creator rights.