A Christian engineer with L.A. County claims his bosses discriminated against him by forcing him to pass by a Pride flag on the way to his office, the latest legal challenge to the government’s policy of requiring many government buildings display the flag throughout June. (Ellis, Los Angeles Times)
Read MoreTexas has excluded about two dozen Islamic schools from its new $1 billion voucher program for allegedly being linked to terrorist groups, a decision that has led to a lawsuit and claims of discrimination from the Muslim community. (Lumpkin, The Washington Post)
Read MoreAccording to research, the rapid uptake of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for writing prose and other tasks is nudging tens of millions of us towards sounding — and perhaps even thinking — alike. (Blakely, The Times)
Read MoreAmericans are driving less, skipping meals and putting off big life moves, like buying homes or having children, to keep up with health care costs, according to two Gallup polls released Thursday. (Wu, The Washington Post)
Read MoreSchools have been advised that children’s drawings could be considered blasphemous under Islamic law. Guidance issued to teachers by Labour councils in northern England warns that images made by pupils in art lessons may be seen as “idolatrous” under sharia. (Simpson, The Telegraph)
Read MoreSpoken by Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell in his Boston laboratory on March 10 1876, they were the first intelligible words to be transmitted electrically through a wire from one place to another. With that, the telephone age began. (Morus, The Conversation)
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