Source: Engadget
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Netflix. Paxton argues that the streaming service collected user data, including from children’s accounts, despite claims otherwise by the company. The suit claims Netflix earns ‘billions of dollars every year from secretly selling consumer data’ to commercial brokers and online advertising businesses.” (05/11/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Marcos Giansante
“There is a recurring temptation in political economy to reduce social order to a problem of conflict. If human interests are not perfectly aligned, the argument goes, stability must rest on mechanisms that prevent clashes, enforce boundaries, and ensure compliance with rules, especially those governing property. This view — while internally consistent — overlooks a more fundamental insight: social coordination does not depend on the absence of conflict, but on individuals adjusting their plans within a framework of dispersed knowledge.” (05/11/26)
https://mises.org/power-market/coordination-not-conflict-what-hayek-got-right-about-social-order
Source: New York Times
“Is China Winning the A.I. Race?” (05/11/26)
Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren
“The Iran War may prove to be little more than a blip on the world’s radar. Or its real significance may lie less in who wins militarily than in whether it accelerates global recognition that the United States is no longer willing or able to enforce the international order it created after 1945. There is a strong argument that, even as the missiles continue to fly, the war is not that significant. It appears today the most likely outcome will be a return to something like the status quo in the Middle East. … The opposite argument requires focusing on a longer sweep of history, in which the Iran War may be a significant marker in the slow-motion end of the global system set in place by the United States after the Second World War.” (05/11/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/welcome-to-the-new-world-order/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Juliana Geran Pilon
“It takes a lawyer’s disciplined detachment, ability to focus on the most relevant facts of a case, commitment to law, and linguistic accuracy in order to produce a book as competent and useful as Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law. But besides the ideal professional training, Yale-educated US district judge for the Southern District of Florida and former federal prosecutor Roy Altman has the equally essential capacity to appreciate the moral significance of his topic at this moment in history.” (05/11/26)
Source: United Press International
“Imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has had her long prison sentence suspended and is now in a Tehran hospital, her foundation announced Sunday. Narges, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison on charges of spreading ‘propaganda’ against Iran’s Islamic regime, was granted a suspension of her 18-year sentence and transferred by ambulance from a hospital in Zanjan to Tehran Pars Hospital where she will be treated by her own medical team, the foundation said.” (05/10/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Says Iran’s Response ‘Totally Unacceptable,’ Netanyahu Says Iran War Is ‘Not Over,’ and More.” (05/10/26)
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“The general consensus among both Dempublicans and Republicrats alike is that everybody needs to tone down the dialogue. That, and ‘such acts of political violence have no place in civil society!’ I might be tempted to agree with them if we lived in something resembling a civil society and I’m not talking about the rhetoric. As bombastic as these gasbags in the political class have become in a desperate attempt to improve ratings on that failed reality show they call a government, young folks aren’t popping off politicos because of what other politicos said. … The reality is that we live in a violent country and we always have. For the political class to expect to be immune from this harsh reality is absurd, especially when you consider how goddamn violent they are.” (05/10/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/05/what-makes-man-shoot-serial-killers-on.html
Source: Liberal Currents
by Dennis Lytton
“We can change the structure of elections in America to make them more free, more democratic, and more fair to every voter. Here’s how.” (05/11/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional-representation-would-fix-that/
Source: The Jolly Libertarian
by Marco den Ouden
“In Walter Donway’s new book, A Serious Chat With Artificial Intelligence, the AI in question was Open AI’s ChatGPT. In one of his blog posts, Curtis Yarvin bragged about how he changed the mind of Anthropic’s AI Claude on his techno-authoritarian philosophy, turning it (Claude) into a believer. In my own dealings with AI I have been using Microsoft’s CoPilot. And another major player in the market is Google’s Gemini. What do all of these powerful artificial intelligences have in common and how do they differ?” (05/10/26)
https://jollylibertarian.blogspot.com/2026/05/comparative-ai-exploring-nuanced.html