Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear: Yes

Love Anyway

Rubio’s Silk-Stocking Diplomacy

Albert Camus on the Will to Live and the Most Important Question of Existence

Undoing as Remaking: How Abraham Lincoln Drew Poetry and Power from His Suicidal Depression

A plant ‘vaccine’ takes on corn rootworm, a fearsome pest

Open Thread

AI and the Global South’s Next Leap Forward

No Retroactive Pseudonymization in Federal Court Under California "Safe at Home" Program

Keith Haring on Creativity, Self-Doubt, and the Love of Life in the Face of Death

For Warmth: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Poetic Antidote to Anger

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Aphoristic Intelligence Beats Artificial Intelligence

Evidence of Plaintiff's Suicide Excluded in Lawsuit Alleging Threats of Prosecution Aimed at Censoring His Posts About High School Girls' Bathrooms

Artificial Intelligence in the States

Counter intelligence

When Michelangelo met Titian. The evidence of how they influenced each other is scant, and we so enter the realm of the educated guess

Expert Evidence on PTSD as to Damages in Defamation Cases

A computational parallel to collective intelligence in human groups

How to Grow Old: Bertrand Russell on What Makes a Fulfilling Life

Gladiators on wheels

Getting to Mars (for Real)