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The primary source for the article, Labrynth, is an artificial intelligence consulting firm that sells services to help companies \u201cnavigate\u201d regulatory permitting, the very process their \u201creadiness index\u201d rewards states for streamlining.<\/p>\n
Publishing that ranking as news, without seeking independent verification of those findings, is not technology journalism,\u00a0it\u2019s marketing.<\/p>\n
The piece also buried its most important material: ERCOT projects a 70% increase in Texas energy demand on a grid that already failed millions of residents during 2021 Winter Storm\u00a0Uri.<\/p>\n
Water supply impacts in Central Texas received one sentence. A statewide moratorium call from the Texas agriculture commissioner was the article\u2019s final clause, an afterthought in a story where it should have more prominence.<\/p>\n
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Readers deserve to know who funds the studies shaping these narratives, what those studies actually measure and whose interests are served when light regulation gets\u00a0rebranded as readiness. This article did none of that.<\/p>\n
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People embrace each other May 18 after a shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego. A reader says our answer to hatred must be justice, goodness and a renewed commitment to safeguarding life, and our leaders must confront bigotry before it becomes violence.<\/p>\n
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Confront bigotry<\/p>\n
Re: May 20 article, \u201cFBI: Mosque shooters left hateful writings\u201d<\/p>\n
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America was founded on the principles of freedom of religion and protection under the Constitution, yet it has too often failed to live up to that promise.<\/p>\n
As an Imam serving the\u00a0Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Round Rock, I condemn this act of hatred and violence at Islamic Center of San Diego. My prayers are with the victims, their families and the grieving community.<\/p>\n
Three Americans were killed. They were not \u201cothers\u201d or nor mere symbols in a political debate. They were our neighbors, fellow citizens and fellow Americans.<\/p>\n
Although investigations suggest the shooters met and were radicalized online, hatred does not grow in a vacuum. Our political environment has increasingly dehumanized minorities, speaking of them not as fellow citizens, but as threats.<\/p>\n
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Islam does not teach revenge or division.<\/p>\n
The Holy\u00a0Quran states: \u201cVerily, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others\u2026\u201d (Holy\u00a0Quran, 16:91).<\/p>\n
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