1+ week, 4+ day ago   (441+ words) Philosophy is often imagined as a discipline that builds—constructing systems, securing knowledge, clarifying truth. But its deepest power may lie elsewhere. Philosophy does not merely build; it destroys. It unsettles, destabilizes, and, at its most powerful, pulls the ground…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (505+ words) New York has just opened a debate that Chile should not evade. Its mayor, Zohran Mamdani, established a one-year moratorium on the direct use of generative artificial intelligence for nearly 600,000 students in public schools, from prekindergarten through eighth grade. This…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (657+ words) Tame cord chaos and upgrade your space with clever, budget-friendly tech gadgets. Discover cable organizers, wireless chargers, smart accessories, and more for easy everyday use. If your life currently looks like a tangle of cords, a pile of dead batteries,…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (135+ words) Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor -- a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Posted by retort at 03:45 PM | 0 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry | Read the Retort…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (585+ words) Data collection To get a better picture of the prevalence of AI-authored content across the internet, we used webpage data sampled from Common Crawl, a nonprofit organization that collects and maintains a large web archive stretching back to 2008. Roughly once…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (18+ words) "I look away from the blank crib / instead at instead into a photograph on a screen"...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (398+ words) Wall Street Journal: “Debt and deficits haven’t always been a problem in the U.S. Publicly held debt—now approaching World War II levels at about 100% of the country’s annual GDP—was just 31.5% of GDP in 2001 after four years in…...

12+ hour, 23+ min ago   (495+ words) Screenshot via Anthropic YouTube Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is warning “we must slow down the pace” of AI, just days after an Anthropic researcher quit and predicted the tech could “kill us all” within a decade. Amodei argued in favor…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (125+ words) “Nothing is driving more new U.S. economic investment or political volatility than data centers,” Axios reports. “They’re the Great Subplot of 2026, THE topic animating the AI race and elections. Everyone needs to understand the size, scope and sentiment surrounding them....

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (636+ words) Bill Gates, the guy who tried to destroy the world over the Wuhan sniffles, says it’s time to panic about AI. Should we? The billionaire Microsoft founder is very concerned about AI. He is concerned about our jobs, our families,…...