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Month: October 2025

California’s Tragedy of the Commons

31 October 2025

George Rebane [This commentary appeared in the op-ed pages of the 5nov25 Union here https://www.theunion.com/news/ideas-opinions-george-rebane-california-s-tragedy-of-the-commons/article_2e0ff575-d398-436c-bf93-87945880edce.html ] Garret Hardin published ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ in the December 1968 issue of Science, and introduced us to the reality of how a valuable but limited resource owned in common will be depleted or destroyed. The core concept…
Just Tolerating the Left is Not Enough

21 October 2025

AOC answers her critics: “If I’m so dumb, then how come it took me only three months to complete a puzzle that on its box was printed ‘4-6 years’?” George Rebane In these tense times, a faux normalcy cloaks the serious troubles afflicting our nation and the world. As I’ve long argued in these pages,…
Scattershots – 9oct25

09 October 2025

George Rebane The Turing test is dead, we are told. There’s a reasonable basis for this assertion, because today’s AIs already convince humans, on a regular basis, that they are talking with another human. So the new goal is AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is defined as AIs that are ‘smarter’ than all humans in…