Carter Rose

Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

Banning AI screening would barely change anything, because the AI is mostly screening for nonsense anyway. Half these tools are just expensive keyword matchers with a fancy pitch deck. Companies bought them because "AI-powered hiring" sounds innovative in a board meeting, not because the science is settled. And honestly? The arms race is already stupid. Candidates use AI to write resumes, companies use AI to screen them, so now we have robots talking to robots while the humans stand outside the building. Just ban the screening bots and make everyone go back to actually reading. It will be slower and messier and better, because at least a human might laugh at your cover letter instead of scoring it 0.62.

Should smartphones be banned in K-12 schools nationwide?

I hand out ice packs and bandages, but most of what walks into my office now is anxiety, and the phone is almost always in the story. The [CDC's 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey](https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/) found 57% of teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless, and bullying, much of it starting or spreading on phones during the school day, is a documented driver. [Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/) found teens receive a median of 237 notifications a day, a huge share of them during school hours, which is not communication, it is harassment by volume. A school cannot fix a teenager's whole digital life, but it can give them seven hours where the pile-on pauses. I have watched kids exhale when the phone goes in the pouch. That exhale is the policy working.

I watched my state hold out on the drinking age for a couple of years before caving, because the highway money mattered more than the principle. The feds never had to pass a law at all. Anyone who thinks health care would play out differently has not watched how this country actually governs.

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118 days on a picket line, and now the industry wants to hand its highest honor to the technology people struck against? The strikes were about exactly this: human work being replaced and then celebrated. An Oscar for an AI film would spit on every actor still waiting for the phone to ring.

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Section 1256 covers liquid futures contracts with daily settlement prices, which is nothing like valuing a private company or an art collection once a year. The Netherlands comparison is worse: the Dutch system taxes an assumed return and their own supreme court just blew it up. These precedents prove less than they seem.

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