White House announces creation of AI and quantum research institutes

the resulting fear and resentment prevent us from considering the better option within our grasp: harnessing robots as partners.

federal immigration policy has historically been designed not to attract the immigrants that we want.and to review its efforts to filter out the undesirables amongst the huddled masses is to stroll through a rogues gallery of our historical Others.

famine and plague and natural disaster claim their casualties indiscriminately without regard to race.Many of our leading political and media lights have come together over the past three days to denounce this order as contrary to American values and refugee policy.Yet even then our failure to allow visas for thousands of Jewish refugees trying to flee Europe as Hitlers intentions became unavoidably clear is a source of national shame.

it read as a hard stop not only to the issuance of new immigrant and non-immigrant visas from a handful of majority-Muslim nations—citizens of which were collectively responsible for not a single instance of terrorism on American soil—but to the admission of current non-immigrant visa holders.which employ the resources of private charities to resettle refugees is one of our countrys greatest humanitarian success stories.

Sweeping restrictions closer to the scale of what has just been put into place were reasonably implemented around both world wars.

The initial draft of the proposed order was circulated last Wednesday to the general alarm of the immigration bar and policy experts.but I can imagine what seeing Bree Newsome just climb up the flagpole and take down the Confederate flag could have done for a lot of people.

because it is helping them step into their ability to assert that this is what they want in the world and to understand that we all need to do it together.Looking at all of these people who came out for the march who are declaring themselves as part of the resistance.

BJ: I immediately thought of the James Baldwin quote about needing to put our bodies on the line to make sure the gears dont work.but also it almost laid a groundwork for people to think about what they can do next after they take part in this big permitted march.