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3 reasons the Willow Arctic oil drilling project was approved
(THE CONVERSATION) For more than six decades, Alaska's North Slope has been a focus of intense controversy over oil development and wilderness protection, with no end in sight. Willow field, a 600-million-barrel, US$8 billion oil project recently approved by the Biden administration – to the outrage of environmental and climat ... (full story)
State
Under Biden: What's the status of the US death penalty?
The first federal capital case tried under President Joe Biden ended with a split among jurors that means the life of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people in New York City will be spared. It came at a rare federal death penalty trial in a state without the death penalty.
That Biden's Justice Department continued to pursu ... (full story)
Juvi court did not have power to grant minors immunity for testifying in criminal case
While it is a division of the Warren County Common Pleas Court, the county probate-juvenile court does not have the same authority of a common pleas court to grant witness immunity in a criminal case, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled recently.
In a unanimous per curiam opinion, the Supreme Court ruled that divisions of the common ... (full story)
Not magic: Opaque AI tool may flag parents with disabilities
PITTSBURGH (AP) — For the two weeks that the Hackneys' baby girl lay in a Pittsburgh hospital bed weak from dehydration, her parents rarely left her side, sometimes sleeping on the fold-out sofa in the room.
They stayed with their daughter around the clock when she was moved to a rehab center to regain her strength. Finall ... (full story)
Technology
The problems (some of) with AI chats
Some weeks, I have not that much much to write about.
These last few weeks, it’s been hard to not constantly write about AI-generated chatbots.
Like, I want to write about Rhode Island putting all of their public-facing government docs on the blockchain, but maybe some other time.
At any rate, Google, Microsoft a ... (full story)