A recent Washington Post/Ipsos Poll shows that black support for President Biden is slipping, dropping to 70 percent, from previous highs over the 90s. Also in the poll, only 60 percent of respondents agreed Biden was meeting his campaign promises. 23 percent of respondents strongly approved of Biden’s performance.
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Democrats hope to pass a big tech antitrust bill before the midterm called “The American Innovation and Choice Online Act.” Republicans appear ready to join them, with the ranking member of the antirust committee, Ken Buck (CO), saying, the bill “have the votes in both chambers to move forward.”
An OpenAI text-to-image system called DALL-E2 has created its own language. At least that’s what computer science PHD student Giannis Daras is claiming.
“DALLE-2 has a secret language. The discovery of the DALLE-2 language creates many interesting security and interpretability challenges,” Daras tweeted.
The Biden Administration wants a windfall profit tax on energy companies to subsidize home energy bills for Americans in need.
“We get it, supply and demand, prices go up, but profit margins should not go up, that’s just oil companies gouging,” Senator Elizabeth Warren said, in support of the tax.
A Missouri Farmer named Jared Wilson had to get the FTC to force the only authorized John Deere dealer in 80 miles to fix his tractor. There is a group of farmers seeking to pass right to repair laws for farmers, the heart of the real problem in this story.
A study published in Science Advances reveals a new method that might enable cancer tumors to be treated by the patient’s own antibodies.
The team lead, Andrew Tsourkas, said “Much is yet to be done before this could be considered a practical clinical approach. But I hope at the very least this works stimulates new ideas in the way we think about personalized medicine.”
Nigeria’s Ondo state was struck with violence Sunday, June 5th, when Gunmen opened fire on a Catholic Church, leaving 50 plus dead and even more injured. The violence comes against increasing attacks by militant Muslim groups against Christians in Nigeria. The government has not moved decisively to stop the attacks.
A former Australian Politician won $515,000 from Google for alleged defamatory remarks made on its platform by Comedian and YouTuber Jordan Shanks, aka friendlyjordies.
“I am emotional today. To hear His Justice read out the reasoning and the evidence and the case itself again is a little bit traumatizing,” Barilaro said.
Southern Illinois University Edwards is being sued by former student Maggie Delong for issuing no-contact orders against the student due to her sharing her Christian views with others.
“…SIUE officials are determined to force their graduate students to think and speak exactly the same…”, said ADF Lawyer Gregg Walters.
A California taskforce is determining the amount of reparations the black community should receive and who should pay.
The bill’s sponsor, Assemblywoman Shirley Weber stated, “California has come to terms with many of its issues, but it has yet to come to terms with its role in slavery,”
