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Half a century after abandoning state-backed “treatments” for homosexuality, Britain risks replacing one coercive system with another. Source
A new law in the U.K. bars young people from buying cigarettes for the rest of their lives. For the British government, even a sixty-year-old will someday be underage
Bill Cassidy tries to defend his seat against a Trump-endorsed challenger; congressional races are postponed in the wake of the Louisiana v. Callais decision
Brian Finke’s photographs document riders breaking through the constraints of the city’s crowded landscape—and showing off while they do
At the Immanuel Senior Care Center in Elstal, about 18 miles outside Berlin in the German state of Brandenburg, 26-year-old Sharoon Masih moves between the kitchen and the common room carrying trays of food with a generous smile and the willingness to strike up a conversation. Officially, Masih works as a service assistant, serving meals, Read more. The post Migrants Fill the Gap Caring for Germany’s Aging Population appeared first on Christianity Today
When I was young, the South Korean model was generally lumped in with places like Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong as a case of “export-led growth”. Even in the early 1970s, South Korea was still poorer than the North. There was no consensus that East Asia would do better than Latin America (or indeed that […] The post South Korea facts of the day appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsAnyone else read this paper. by rsmRelated StoriesHayek in JacobinData centers are goodUsing agents t...
Here is some Weberian verstehen (or is it?), but from unexpected quarters: Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a prodigious corpus of human writing and may reveal human preferences over characteristics of life courses, such as income, longevity, and working conditions. We present OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and a broadly representative sample of Americans with pairs […] The post Revealing Life Preferences Through LLMs appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments'Revealing Life Preferences Thr...
5/16/1918: The Sedition Act of 1918 is enacted. The Supreme Court upheld prosecutions brought under this law in Schenck, Debs, and Abrams. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 16, 1918 appeared first on Reason.com