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Associational Standing Isn't Defeated by Pseudonymity in Members' Declarations

From today's Tenth Circuit decision in Speech First, Inc. v. Shrum, written by Judge Harris Hartz and joined by Judges Nancy Moritz and Veronica Rossman: Speech First, Inc. is a nationwide organization that describes its mission to include the protection of free speech on college and university campuses. When Oklahoma…

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Meta's AI Reorg To Build Super Chatbots And Attract Top Minds Raises Concerns

Meta is sparing no effort in a bid to woo AI researchers and machine learning engineers who are keen on working on more ambitious projects.

International Business Times UK

Meta is building a superintelligent AI — and one expert warns of ‘significant moral issues’

Meta plans to cement its position as the leader in open-source artificial intelligence by training a superintelligent AI and making it available to everyone. However, this isn’t a universally popular idea due to the potential risks involved.

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Every country can make a difference – but carbon reductions need to be realistic and fair

This weekend, the world’s major economies will convene in Delhi for the G20 summit. On the table will be the common goal of limiting global temperature rise as climate chaos becomes ever more evident.

The Conversation

The First Amendment and Refusals to Deal

Here's a draft of my article, on the constitutionality of anti-BDS laws and other related matters, forthcoming in a symposium at The University of the Pacific Law Review.

Reason

Kannavee unfazed by anti-FAIR 'plot'

Kannavee Suebsang, the FAIR Party's secretary-general and only MP, on Wednesday said he was unfazed by what he described as an attempt to have his party dissolved in what he sees is part of a plot to derail the formation of the coalition government.

Bangkok Post

Column: State Farm is right. California can’t keep building housing in high-risk places

Back in January, on a dark night of pelting rain, Erica Lopez Bedolla had only minutes to evacuate her family from the impoverished Central Valley town of Planada after a levee broke.

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Civilians, not military, 'should lead talks in South'

Peace efforts in the far South should be taken out of the military's hands and left to civilians and politicians to direct, according to Kannavee Suebsang, the FAIR Party's secretary-general and only MP-elect.

Bangkok Post

California Regulations Prevent Insurers From Accurately Pricing Wildfire Risk, so Now They're Fleeing the State

California homeowners are finding out that government-imposed market distortions cannot be maintained forever.

Reason

Parties jostle over cabinet posts

The Move Forward Party (MFP) is eyeing key cabinet posts dealing with finance, foreign affairs, defence and energy while Pheu Thai will be offered economic portfolios such as the transport, commerce, and industry ministries, sources said.

Bangkok Post

Who is Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and how did she become a central player in the voice referendum?

The NT senator will steer the no campaign against the Indigenous voice to parliament. From growing up in Alice Springs to joining the shadow cabinet, here’s her background

The Guardian - AU

Far-right Maryland sheriff indicted on machine gun charges had links to anti-immigrant groups, report says

Officer has links to ‘constitutional sheriffs’ movement

The Independent UK

Commentary: Where’s the humanity? County fair chose to slaughter a girl’s goat to teach her lesson

The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County, California, fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting with a search warrant for the animal after the girl decided she didn’t want it killed.…

Los Angeles Times

S. Ct. Denies Review of Eighth Circuit En Banc Case Upholding Arkansas "Anti-BDS" Statute

The statute required no-boycott-of-Israel terms in Arkansas government contracts; the Eighth Circuit had held that the law doesn't violate the First Amendment.

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Voice referendum: who’s behind the yes and no campaigns and how do they plan to convince Australia?

The yes campaign is being driven by three collectives with a shared history, while the no side has been more reluctant to share its plans

Evening Standard

Best alternatives to Café Patron, the much loved discontinued tequila

The tipples that fill the hole in the market

Reason

Population Growth Still Isn't a Problem. Anti-Immigrant Groups Still Think It Is.

It shouldn't be surprising that a misanthropic worldview like Paul Ehrlich's can be taken in xenophobic directions.

Fortune

Here’s what to do when your home insurance has been canceled

Lapses, non-renewals, and cancellations may leave you without insurance. But in some cases it’s possible to get the policy reinstated.

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Reasons Not to Limit Private-Employer-Imposed Speech Restrictions: The Employer's Own Free Speech Rights?

As I mentioned earlier this week, ten years ago I wrote a descriptive and analytical law review article called Private Employees' Speech and Political Activity: Statutory Protection Against Employer Retaliation, which aimed to catalog these often-little-known statutes. This year, I'm returning to the subject, trying to analyze the strongest arguments…

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"Anti-BDS" Statute Imposing No-Boycott-Israel Term in Arkansas Government Contracts Is Constitutional

So holds the Eighth Circuit, sitting en banc.

Reason

Understanding the Scope of Rumsfeld v. FAIR

In Rumsfeld v. FAIR (2006), the Court unanimously held that universities could be required to host military recruiters, even when the universities generally refused to host recruiters who discriminated based on (among other things) sexual orientation, and the military was indeed so discriminating. The Court also held that universities could…

Salon

War pundits profit from contractor ties

Recent analysis found 20 of 22 guests on mainstream networks had ties to the arms industry or its boosters

Tribune News Service

Nelly to play New York State Fair for second year in a row

NEW YORK — Nelly is bringing his “country grammar” to the Empire State again.

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