Horseshoe And -Shit: Left And Right, Up And Down

AI Executives Want International Regulation. They Could Just Slow Down Themselves.

Nearly 50% of West Bank Palestinians Says Israel Does Not Have A Right To Exist

Chimps Hand Down Tools Across Generations

Marine bacteria team up to break down one of the ocean's toughest carbon-storing molecules

The Trump Administration Shut Down a Police Misconduct Database. Now It's Facing a FOIA Lawsuit

To teach students how to think, shut down the WiFi, scramble the cell signal, and send them to weeklong retreats in the deep, dark woods 

Open Thread

A Russia Sanctions Bill Would Give Trump Vast New Tariff Powers

'Alligator Alcatraz' Held Detainees in Small Metal Cages, Inspector General Report Finds

Remembering Richard Wright, Outsider

Court Allows Maryland Rabbi (and Apparently Congregation's Volunteer Security Guards) Right to Carry Guns in Synagogue

'AI Kill Switch Act' Won't Stop Rogue AI, but It Will Slow Down Innovation

The Birth of the New Legal Right

Time speeds up and slows down; days blend together to the point of indistinguishability — time disorientation is real

Open Thread

China’s Platform State and the AI Race

Fertility clinics are offering young mitochondria in controversial fertility technique

“Chilling” warning or overreaction? AI bioweapons report divides experts

Open Thread

Trump Is Taking a Stake in Venezuela's Oil Industry and This Crony Is Cashing In