Reason

BRICKBATS

The Court of Appeal for Nova Scotia ruled in August that Lorne Grabher’s last name could be interpreted as a call for violence against women and so he has no free speech right to a vanity license plate with his last name.

The city of San Francisco has spent three years and half a

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Reason

Reason8 min read
The Future Of AI Is Helping Us Discover The Past
IN FEBRUARY, GOOGLE released an upgraded version of its Gemini artificial intelligence model. It quickly became a publicity disaster, as people discovered that requests for images of Vikings generated tough-looking Africans while pictures of Nazi sol
Reason5 min read
The Complicated History of the Spy in Your Pocket
ACOP PULLED over Ivan Lopez in Somerton, Arizona, a small town near the Mexican border. The officer claimed that Lopez had a broken taillight and had been speeding. A drug-sniffing dog then indicated possible contraband; police searched his truck and
Reason6 min read
Reviews
KATARINA HALL In Pluto, a sci-fi murder-mystery anime streaming on Netflix, a serial killer targets the world’s most advanced robots. The mystery deepens as the killer starts pursuing human activists advocating robot rights. The investigation falls i

Related Books & Audiobooks