Glass Empires investigates the architects of constitutional rot. Free subscribers receive every article. Devoted readers who became patrons sponsored today’s work. Free Speech Now Requires Trump’s Permission, From Your Facebook Page to AI Research W. A. Lawrence July 3, 2026 Just In: Environmental research posted to Facebook can carry the… Continue reading
On the morning of May 25, Pope Leo XIV released “Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,” his sweeping first encyclical. By 5 a.m., Dr. Mark Shiffman, a professor of philosophy at Saint Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and the founding director of the… Continue reading
The CEO of the software company Salesforce, Marc Benioff, attends the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images) The commission’s upcoming first meeting will focus on “strengthening AI infrastructure, accelerating AI’s impact on health, education,… Continue reading
Posted on June 27, 2026 by Ellen Brown (EllenBrown.com) As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that could seriously impinge on our financial independence. The Clarity for Payment Stablecoins Act, H.R. 4766, is slated to make privately… Continue reading
In San Francisco, the artificial-intelligence boom still has a remarkably clean public image. It looks like office towers refilling, restaurants getting lunch traffic again, young engineers moving into Mission Bay and city leaders building political careers on the narrative of recovery. Across the rest of the country, it looks very… Continue reading
Posted on June 14, 2026 by Ellen Brown (ellenbrown.com) Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon be ushering in an economy of unprecedented abundance, and examined the resource and energy constraints that could limit… Continue reading
“Who will own and control that future? Who will benefit from it, and who will be hurt by it?” By Victor Tangermann Published Jun 2, 2026 (Futurism.com) The hype surrounding generative AI has generated astronomical amounts of value, with tech companies raising tens of billions of dollars and many — including OpenAI… Continue reading
WED, 7/26/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) Two years before he died, legendary physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking ominously warned that the development of artificial intelligence, or AI, would be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” Today, the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, or AI, is… Continue reading
