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Louisville Shells Out $800,000 For Unconstitutional Demands On Christian Photographer Authored by Jonathan Turley, The city of Louisville, Kentucky, has agreed to pay $800,000 in attorney fees to settle a case with a Christian photographer who fought to protect her religious and free speech rights over the years of litigation. Louisville ultimately spent a fortune to force Chelsey Nelson to photograph same sex marriages under its nondiscrimination laws. When combined with its own litigation costs, the case likely cost the city and the courts millions to deny Nelson her constitutional rights. In prior columns, academic articles, and...

Precrime: Months Before Massacre, OpenAI Worried About Canada's Trans Mass Killer Months before a Canadian man in a dress went on a Feb 10 rampage, killing his mother and half-brother at home before slaughtering five students and an education assistant at a secondary school where he was formerly a student, employees at OpenAI were deeply troubled by his interactions with the firm's ChatGPT AI chatbot.    As first reported by the Wall Street Journal, Jesse Van Rootselaar's ChatGPT activity was flagged by the company's automated review system. When employees took a...

MSFT Plans First Voluntary Buyout In 51-Year History; Gates Foundation To Slash 20% Of Staff Summary:  First CNBC reports MSFT's first-ever Voluntary Buyout in 51-Year Company History, Then a report by BBG on Meta planning 10% Workforce Cut, All Within Hours To note: Reuters First reported Meta's 10% cut late last week (report)   Meta Layoffs  First, Microsoft unveiled a voluntary buyout program, a move that could incentivize thousands of employees to leave. Now, Meta Platforms has reportedly followed with plans to cut 10% of its workforce. Taken together, today's back-to-back announcements suggest that as Big Tech continues...