Author: Aron Solomon

By Robert Pokorski My responsibilities as a parent were no different from those of people who first walked the earth: keep my children safe, provide them with food, clothing, shelter, and a good education, and set them on a path to a long, healthy, and happy life. These innate, universal principles are shared by all parents, or so I thought. Legislators in some conservative states display a shocking disregard for these fundamental tenets of life by seeking to eradicate the rights of parents who have transgender children. Anti-transgender bills have been introduced or enacted in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,…

First appeared in BOXSCORE By Aron Solomon In massive international sports news, the team of former NBA players Michael Beasley and Eric Bledsoe was disqualified from the playoffs in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) due to allegations of game-fixing. The CBA’s initial investigation of last Friday’s events found that the two teams involved – the Shanghai Sharks and Jiangsu Dragons – were guilty of “being negative in competition,” with the Sharks accused of match-fixing. The Sharks’ Bledsoe was not competing in the playoff series as he was serving a four-game suspension. Michael Beasley was also not playing in the playoff series as…

First appeared in Western Journal By Aron Solomon Tuesday’s settlement in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit against Fox News comes with a $787.5 million price tag for Fox. For a news giant with a $14 billion annual revenue, this settlement falls closer on the spectrum to a serious wrist slap than a penalty that will shake the foundation of its business model. But Fox is not yet out of the woods, with the network potentially becoming the courtroom prey of a company called Smartmatic. Dominion and Smartmatic are both voting technology companies that filed defamation lawsuits against Fox over claims made by…

First appeared in Western Journal By Aron Solomon Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News is over — literally when it was about to start. The suit had alleged that Fox knowingly spread false information about Dominion’s voting machines and their role in the 2020 presidential election. Dominion claimed that Fox’s coverage of election fraud was inaccurate and defamatory and that it caused significant harm to the company’s reputation and business. In December 2021, a judge in Delaware allowed the lawsuit to proceed, finding that Fox’s coverage may have been inaccurate. The lawsuit has exposed divisions within Fox…

First appeared in Western Journal By Aron Solomon Why should the close to 400 million Twitter users care that owner Elon Musk and Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi have evidently decided to go to war? Elon Musk posted private DMs between him and Taibbi.This same person has access to all of your private DMs.— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) April 11, 2023 Here are the since-deleted DMs: Any social media platform should be measured by its worst and most vulnerable moments. The implosion of Twitter’s Twitter Files is one of those important moments. The Twitter Files are a series of internal Twitter documents that…

First appeared in BOXSCORE By Aron Solomon The short answer is yes. The longer answer is more complicated and something I dug into because of a Twitter thread. The Jesse in issue is Jesse Edwards, a Syracuse University basketball player who just entered the transfer portal for the stated reason that he wanted better NIL deals. Edwards is from Amsterdam and in the U.S., one would assume, on a student visa. As per Wikipedia, after graduating high school in the Netherlands, Edwards went on to play for IMG Academy, a boarding school in Bradenton, Florida, then headed to play for the…

First appeared in Florida Daily By Aron Solomon The ongoing debate surrounding the potential dangers of artificial intelligence has divided experts and stakeholders in various fields. President Biden stated last week that it remains to be seen whether AI is dangerous, but emphasized the responsibility of technology companies to ensure their products are safe before public release. For AI to move forward, we can’t be completely risk-averse. To understand and appreciate the potential dangers of AI we need to examine the roles of different stakeholders in addressing these concerns. Among the key arguments for AI being dangerous is job displacement, as AI…

First appeared in BOXSCORE By Aron Solomon If we’re being honest, the most interesting element of The Masters was tracking how golfers from the LIV Golf Tour were doing. While PGA Tour golfer Jon Rahm won what many see as the pinnacle of golf’s Majors on Sunday, the two players tied for second – Brooks Koepka and Phil Mickelson – are under contract with the LIV Golf Tour and count among the two most polarizing golfers in the world today, so it was no surprise that one of the world’s top golf writers led with this on Monday morning: While LIV…

First appeared in Substack By Aron Solomon If you live anywhere in the U.S., yesterday’s Montreal ice storm almost certainly appeared in your news feed. To give you a sense of the magnitude of the storm, here’s a picture from this morning that I took while out on an admittedly ill-advised walk to get an espresso: But what I like to call Montreal Ice 2023 was a formidable storm with much of this city still without power and massive chunks of ice and trees still falling in the city, it can’t hold a candle (unintended but pretty decent power failure pun)…

First appeared in NewsBreak By Aron Solomon Last year, in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Casey and Roe abortion cases in the Dobbs decision, Google promised not to track abortion data. Have they kept to the spirit and letter of their promise? Google has been under fire from privacy advocates for years. Last year, the company was found to be tracking users’ locations even after they turned off location history. And they’ve been accused of not doing enough to protect users’ privacy. When you search for abortion information on Google, you won’t see ads for abortion services or providers. When you search for abortion information on…