James B. Meigs
Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute
Contributing Editor at City Journal
Podcast Host at How Do We Fix It
Sr fellow @ManhattanInst; contrib editor @CityJournal. Tech columnist @Commentary. Words: @WSJ, @Slate. Former @PopMech EIC. I beg to differ.
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1 week ago |
manhattan.institute | James B. Meigs
Good morning: This week, the Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and federal funding for Harvard University. This was in response to Harvard University President Alan M. Garber’s announcement that the institution would not comply with the administration’s demands for reform.
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1 week ago |
commentary.org | James B. Meigs
In March, the pipeline company Energy Transfer won a massive civil suit against the environmental nonprofit Greenpeace. The case dates back to 2016, when as many as 10,000 activists traveled to North Dakota and joined Native American groups trying to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Some of the protesters vandalized equipment, threatened workers, and blocked access roads.
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1 week ago |
city-journal.org | James B. Meigs
Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s nominee to become NASA administrator, walked a political tightrope in his Wednesday confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation. Isaacman is an unconventional choice to run the national space agency; he lacks formal engineering training and is an outsider to both Washington and the traditional space establishment.
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2 weeks ago |
manhattan.institute | James B. Meigs
Do you Bluesky? If you are a COMMENTARY reader, the odds that you’re also a user of the alternative social-media site are slim. Bluesky began as an experimental side project at Twitter and was then spun off when Elon Musk bought the larger company in 2022.
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1 month ago |
nypost.com | James B. Meigs
Protestors demonstrating against the expansion of the Dakota Access Pipeline wade in cold creek waters confronting local police in November 2016. AP Greenpeace backed radical protesters who tried to block a North Dakota pipeline. Now the pipeline company has won huge damages in a lawsuit against the iconic NGO.
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If processing the words "please" and "thank you" forces an AI system to waste millions in energy and processing power, isn't that a sign of how insanely inefficient AI is for simple tasks?
Stop being polite. It’s bad for the planet. https://t.co/rLbnadkJK5
Like the later BLM and anti-Israel protests, the 2016 Standing Rock anti-pipeline occupation showed how a small group of hard-core activists can push a demonstration toward violence. The Greenpeace lawsuit helped expose how mainstream nonprofits often fund these extremists.
The causes they claim to march for—whether climate, civil rights, or Palestine—are interchangeable. The real goal is always radical, revolutionary change. @jamesbmeigs https://t.co/VaEJLNdF0X
Based on the information presented so far, this looks like a staggering lapse or worse. One can be fully in favor of cutting government waste (and I'm no fan of the NLRB), but this is ridiculous.
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug https://t.co/wY2OU16TI9
