Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy.
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At Austin’s Alpha School, students spend just two hours a day on academics, led by artificial intelligence tools. New Alpha schools are set to open in about a dozen cities this fall.
The kids are cooked
Today, the league largely embraces its LGBTQ+ fandom. But that acceptance was hard-won.
Thanks to women like Kit Keenan and Serena Kerrigan, NYC’s West Village neighborhood has been transformed into a fabulous theme park for a new generation to live out their Sex and the City fantasies.
Neighbors say the in-your-face design of the building made it a target for criticism, leading someone to tag it with a museum-style plaque that commented on New York City’s affordable housing crisis.
Regarding the Israel-Hamas war, New Yorkers are conspicuously at one another’s throats. The ideological combat broke out in especially acute fashion at 92NY.
John Seabrook on crowd studies, human crushes, and the effort to prevent stampedes and deaths in places where large groups gather, such as stadiums and festival grounds.
Or how, exactly, platforms die.
Celebrities and civilians alike are “fixing” their natural teeth. Now everybody has the same smile … and it’s kind of creepy.
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