Ballot Access News – Arizona Bill to Limit Number of Independent Candidates to Only One Per Office

Feb 162025
 

Arizona State Senator Eva Diaz (D-Tolleson) has introduced HB 2844. It says that if two or more independent candidates file for the same office, they must face each other in a non-partisan primary, and whichever of them wins is the only independent candidate who can run in November.

The concept behind the bill seems to be a belief that all independent voters are associated together with each other, but this is false. Independent voters, collectively, have nothing in common with each other in the sense that members of a party have some beliefs in common.

The bill would not apply to presidential independent candidates.

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Hackaday – Why AI Usage May Degrade Human Cognition and Blunt Critical Thinking Skills

Feb 162025
 

Any statement regarding the potential benefits and/or hazards of AI tends to be automatically very divisive and controversial as the world tries to figure out what the technology means to them, and how to make the most money off it in the process. Either meaning Artificial Inference or Artificial Intelligence depending on who you ask, AI has seen itself used mostly as a way to ‘assist’ people. Whether in the form of a chat client to answer casual questions, or to generate articles, images and code, its proponents claim that it’ll make workers more efficient and remove tedium.
In a recent paper published by researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) the findings from a survey…

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