Late last week, DeSantis signed a bill banning lab-grown meat into law, and public fury from tech leaders bubbled over all weekend — this is ignorant, the commentariat said, an outrageous breach of liberty, an assault on innovation. All true, of course. But what exactly is the purpose of mobilization after the bill is signed? Is the hope Florida throws down an Uno Reverse? Or the governor erases his signature? We covered the ban months ago in Pirate Wires, at which point there might have been a chance to convince DeSantis not to sign. But nobody seemed to care, and now it’s too late, which is constantly the problem with tech in politics. The industry ignores important public conversations, then tunes in after something crazy happens and decides it’s time to act. That’s not how this works. The game is slow and messy, and if you want to win, you have to play.

A new report in Fortune details how the Biden campaign and other Democratic candidates are desperately trying to figure out how to best leverage AI in the 2024 election cycle for fear of being outmaneuvered by Trump, who more effectively used social media en route to his upset 2016 victory. But frankly, this mindset alone from Democrats speaks to the fact that they’re already falling behind in the AI war. Vaguely saying “we want to use this technology” without any sort of coherent strategy about how it will help them electorally is 2024’s version of “we need to get big on the Twitters.” Meanwhile, what is Team Trump doing? His meme army (a real thing) already released an AI-generated version of Kanye’s “Gold Digger” making fun of Georgia DA Fani Willis months ago. Get with the times, folks!

Over the weekend, MIT announced it would no longer require prospective faculty members submit “diversity statements” — brief memos swearing allegiance to the everlasting principles of DEI. Yes, you read that correctly: until a couple days ago, applicants to faculty jobs at MIT (and almost every other prestigious university you can think of) were compelled to sign ideological loyalty oaths as a precondition for employment consideration. It’s great, obviously, that they’re now being scrapped, though also an eerie reminder of just how far off the deep end our nation’s elites plunged a few years ago in their hysterical pursuit of “social justice.” After the binge comes the hangover, and this one’s going to pack a punch.

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