“It was the single greatest blow to the War Party since it turned Imperial Washington into a colossal menace bent on global hegemony when the Soviet Union slithered off the pages of history in 1991.”
“Don’t you miss the good old days when you could believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the media reported it?”
“The disputed projects span a range, from building facial-recognition technology that could be deployed on unsuspecting people in public to providing computer services that a few years ago would have been run on a machine inside the Pentagon.”
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/why-tech-worker-dissent-is-going-viral/
“Blockchain technology could allow for bonds selling at $5, $10 or $25 each, perhaps with tokenized interest payments, while simultaneously increasing transparency.”
Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/california-citys-blockchain-token-definitely-maybe-happening/
“Oklahomans for Health, the folks behind the initiative ought to be feeling pretty good right about now. They have successfully passed a very enlightened medical marijuana law in the face of opposition from the state’s Republican and religious establishment.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/jun/27/oklahoma_passes_most_progressive
“The growing recognition among white-collar workers that their labor is a precondition to the carrying out of unjust policies — and that if they withhold that labor, they can help bring these policies to a halt — is critical.”
“Most of the psychedelics tested, the researchers found, promoted the growth of new dendrites from a neuron cell, which help transmit information from other neurons to the cell, as well as increased the density of small protrusions on these dendrites, known as dendritic spines. They also jumpstarted the growth of new connections, or synapses, between individual neurons.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/psychedelic-drugs-may-help-the-brain-repair-itself-stu-1826765205
“In April, an expert advisory panel for the FDA voted unanimously to recommend Epidiolex’s approval and determined that ‘CBD has a negligible abuse potential.’ The DEA did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. But GW said it expects that the DEA will reschedule CBD within 90 days.”
“The justices said in a 5-4 opinion that state government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be compelled to pay a share of union dues for covering the cost of negotiating contracts.”
“The Constitution must take account of vast technological changes, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, noting that digital data can provide a comprehensive, detailed — and intrusive — overview of private affairs that would have been impossible to imagine not long ago.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/supreme-court-warrants-cell-phone-privacy.html