Hasan Piker, a Socialist online political streamer, has once again appeared in the mainstream spotlight. His controversial comments surrounding 9/11 landed him in hot water with establishment democrats, who have been calling on upcoming political candidates to join in condemning the streamer. Unfortunately, this condemnation wasn’t entirely well received amongst...
I watch a lot of true crime shows and cases that went cold back in the 80s are now getting solved because of websites like Ancestry. Investigators open up cases that went cold and they take the DNA that was found back then and find matches of ancestors of the...
Over the past few years there’s been a rise in age verification methods all over the internet requiring people to scan pictures of their IDs, faces, or both into company databases in order to use their software. On paper this crackdown sounds appealing, making sure children don’t get into adult...
President Donald Trump this Monday showcased his uber-strong support for AI data centers being placed in communities across the country. These AI data centers have been highly controversial in the communities where they are being built. This stance and statement around communities that are against data centers being backwards and...
If you’ve seen the White House Twitter account at any point within the past few years, you may have seen an insensitive AI-generated meme or two from their account, promoting ICE and “keeping illegal aliens out” or something along those lines. The professional conduct of official government social media accounts...
There was a point in the history of the world where the idea of politics and having the power to change the landscape of the society and community you lived in was only granted to those in positions of power and status. Royals and nobles were the only ones in...
Trump’s executive order to rename Lake Ontario to Lake America in the United States, unsurprisingly, angered countless Americans and Canadians in the days since. It was what many on the left see as a petty move within the ongoing trade war between the two North American countries. That said, while...
We all know that AI is a controversial subject, especially when it comes to using it, if it is ethical or not. Even some politicians are most likely using AI to make campaigns and things like flyers or commercials and other creative things to help them win in their election. ...
As of the past few years, there’s been a movement among Christian nationalists with the goal of making Bible verses mandatory in schools in order to shape children’s religious beliefs and have people view the country as primarily a Christian country again. It’s no surprise that this movement became the...
The United States Government is built on democracy. More precisely, it is a representative democracy in which power belongs to the people, and we, the people, choose political representatives to reflect our ideals and ideologies. But going even further than that, the United States is a two-party political system with...
You are sitting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office when you hear a mother yelling at the doctor that she’s not allowing her 8 month old to have a flu vaccine. The doctor clearly looks distressed, and you think to yourself, “How can a mother refuse a vaccine...
Ever since AI Chatbots have caught mainstream attention the American education system has been in a panic to try and stop rampant unethical cheating in high schools and colleges across the country. The allure feels so simple, “Why spend so much time doing the work when you could just ask...

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