Tag: algorithms

  • The Safe and Meaningful Integration of AI with Medicine is Possible

    The Safe and Meaningful Integration of AI with Medicine is Possible

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    by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Nov. 30, 2025) — In 2004, as a young Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, I made a suggestion that, in retrospect, required neither radical technology nor prophetic genius. I proposed that a hospital system—one of the…

  • Section 230 Immunity, Defective Design and Trial Lawyers (Part II)

    Section 230 Immunity, Defective Design and Trial Lawyers (Part II)

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    by William L. Kovacs, ©2025 (Oct. 13, 2025) — The federal government has let the animal spirits of the social media industry run wild by giving it Section 230 immunity for the harm it causes to young children, i.e., anxiety, depression, addiction, sleep disruption, and cyberbullying. Refusing to enforce the ban on TikTok until the…

  • Taming the Harm Caused by Social Media

    Taming the Harm Caused by Social Media

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    by William L. Kovacs, ©2025 (Sep. 29, 2025) — This article is Part I of a two-part series on how to address the algorithms created by social media companies that are designed to keep our younger generation addicted to their phones and computer screens, ultimately generating significant profits for these corporations. Part I provides the…

  • The Goebbels Corollary

    The Goebbels Corollary

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    by Joseph DeMaio, ©2023 (Mar. 27, 2023) — Introduction Paraphrasing Third Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one, as no one will believe a small one, and repeat it over and over, because eventually people will come to accept it as the truth.”…

  • Let’s Fix Our Leaky Election Processes, and Why It’s Important to Do So

    Let’s Fix Our Leaky Election Processes, and Why It’s Important to Do So

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    January 24, 2021 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Another “fix” is in.  We are being told again and again by our self-proclaimed “betters” to stop looking for funny stuff, curiosities, or, especially, fraud in our election systems.  Our beloved and rational and still “living” constitution leaves the conduct of elections up to the individual states, so…

  • Blatant Blue State Hypocrisy

    Blatant Blue State Hypocrisy

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    FROM ENERGY AND SPENDING, TO CLIMATE AND DEBATE – SILENCING ALL DISSENTING VOICES IS ESSENTIAL by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Jan. 14, 2018) — You’ve got to admire the full frontal audacity of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio, and their union and pressure group comrades in arms. Their hypocrisy,…

  • Why Now? Part 3 – Conclusion

    Why Now? Part 3 – Conclusion

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    DOES THE “MINISTRY OF TRUTH” NOW CONTROL EVERYTHING WE SEE, HEAR AND THINK? by Steven Neill, ©2016 (Dec. 1, 2016) — [Editor’s Note:  The following continues and concludes Steven Neill’s detailed essay discussing information censorship, mass surveillance and control of the internet and its search engines.  Part 1 is here; Part 2 is here. Privacy…