Science & Tech
Science, technology, and health as questions of power: AI and work, surveillance, platforms and media, research and its institutions, and public health.
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Federal Regulators Underwrite Bespoke Cures for Wall Street
Federal health agencies have introduced streamlined regulatory shortcuts and expanded Medicaid financing for individualized gene therapies. Under the banner of compassionate innovation, the state waives traditional clinical trial safeguards while ensuring public coffers absorb multimillion-dollar drug invoices. The arrangement transforms human affliction into a guaranteed, venture-backed annuity.
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Utah Suspends Doctor Licensing to Let Venture-Backed AI Write Prescriptions
State regulators in Salt Lake City have suspended medical licensing laws to let venture-backed software write drug prescriptions directly to pharmacies. Behind the glossy rhetoric of expanding care to the underserved lies a two-tiered medical settlement that substitutes automated triage for real clinicians.
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Regulators Force Everyday Ratepayers to Subsidize Artificial Intelligence
Federal energy regulators have struck down regional rules that would have forced tech conglomerates to power their own artificial intelligence data centers. By rejecting emergency shutoffs and capacity mandates for hyperscale facilities, the commission leaves sixty-seven million people to subsidize corporate compute through soaring electric bills and blackout risks.
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The White House Purges Health Subsidies with Bureaucratic Traps
Federal health officials have stripped insurance subsidies from 189,000 Americans under the banner of fighting fraud. In reality, the policy punishes low-wage workers navigating administrative delays while shifting systemic health costs onto emergency rooms and municipal budgets.
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Federal Appeals Court Approves Florida Youth Social Media Ban
A federal appeals court has lifted an injunction against Florida’s youth social media restrictions, treating algorithmic interface design as commercial conduct rather than protected speech. By recasting mandatory age verification as neutral consumer protection, the ruling establishes a dangerous blueprint for universal identity tracking online. The decision leaves corporate data extraction intact while stripping ordinary internet users of anonymous access to the digital commons.