1+ day, 10+ 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…...

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…...

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…...

6+ day, 18+ 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…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (509+ words) More than 150 Central Florida small business owners spent Friday morning at NeoCity, Osceola County’s technology campus, learning how to put artificial intelligence to work in their businesses. The workshop is part of Meta’s Small Business Community Accelerator Program, which partners…...

3+ week, 3+ 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…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (701+ words) To explore this question, we used the Common Crawl web archive to collect almost half a million English-language webpages from the past five years – starting a couple of years before the release of ChatGPT. We then ran the text of…...

4+ day, 22+ 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,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1730+ words) Small suggestions that make a huge difference. Transforming your space doesn’t require extra square footage or the help of a professional. Clever storage products, wireless lighting, and smart tools can help you hack your way to a nicer home. These…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (611+ words) In the mid-twentieth century, humanity stumbled into the atomic age. The initial deployment of nuclear energy yielded a grim revelation: a tiny coterie of states had acquired the capability to extinguish life on Earth several times over. Out of that…...