Recently, the Fresno Unified School District announced a major AI initiative. Trained teachers are now on hand at sites across the district to assist in implementing the program. But could it be [...] Continue Reading
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Workers Support Autonomous Vehicle Safety
Around 25 gig workers came out to the lawn in front of Fresno City Hall on March 25 for a press conference to support SB 1246, which would regulate autonomous vehicles statewide. State Senator Dave [...] Continue Reading
What the Flock?
(Editor’s note: Reprinted by permission from Rad Rag.) In 2024, Fresno entered into a three-year, $1.6 million contract with Flock Group Inc. Here is what we have learned (so far) about the [...] Continue Reading
Moving Fast and Breaking Lots of Things
The journey that Sarah Wynn-Williams traces in Careless People began when she came down with a severe fever—Facebook fever. In 2006, she noticed that politicians were starting to use the [...] Continue Reading
A Surprising Shortcoming of ChatGPT
Mainstream media coverage of AI titans like ChatGPT often gives the impression that they’re awesome game changers—already virtually flawless and reliable. It would be foolish, one gathers, not to [...] Continue Reading
“Kill Chain” Technology behind Deportations
(Editor’s note: The following story is published with the permission of American Community Media.) Mounting evidence shows the Trump administration’s weaponization of data analysis to target [...] Continue Reading
Technocracy vs. Democracy
The debate between technocracy and democracy has long been a subject of scholarly debate, especially in the context of the United States and its approach to complex global challenges. Technocracy [...] Continue Reading
How Social Media Is Changing Our Lives
Several recent books and articles that probe the troubling aspects of social media have something in common: They focus on the dangers that social media platforms pose for the young. Less explored, [...] Continue Reading
Navigating the Global Battle for Critical Minerals
Nations with access to large oil deposits, especially those in Russia, the Middle East and North America, were able to influence the world’s energy scene for much of the 20th century. With oil-rich [...] Continue Reading
Digital Red Wave
The U.S. government hasn’t officially pulled the plug on TikTok yet, but to many users, it’s already dead. U.S. users report videos vanish without warning and political content not circulating like it [...] Continue Reading
Bitwise Leadership Sentenced
Courtroom 5 in Fresno’s Robert E. Coyle Federal Courthouse was standing room only on Dec. 17 when former Bitwise CEOs Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin Jr. were sentenced for wire fraud and conspiracy to [...] Continue Reading