Trust the Machine?

Brickbat: Dangerous Hurry

Hitler’s Edifice Complex

Mamdani’s Tax Proposals Are All Wrong for New York State

500-million-year-old fossil sheds light on origins of spiders and scorpions

This Week’s Photograph

Jan Morris: A Life

Making AI More Human

Catspeak

MIT researchers measure traffic emissions, to the block, in real-time

Some black holes are ‘forbidden,’ ripples in spacetime reveal

Penny, a Doberman pinscher, wins the Westminster dog show

Paul Kingsnorth argues technocratic civilization is not merely misguided but malevolent. Blame "the Machine"

The Machine Rumor Mill

"One Would Expect … Attorneys Believe They Bring Some Level of Value to Their Clients Beyond That of a Machine"

Geist in the machine

Alison Gopnik: “Generative” AI is a summarizing machine, not a genuinely intelligent agent — like, say, a kitten

New York’s Progressive Machine Spurns Kathy Hochul

‘We’re humans — brilliant and a mess’: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on trust and optimism

Can You Trust Wikipedia?

Voting Machine Company Smartmatic's Defamation Suit Against Ex-Trump-Lawyer Sidney Powell Can Go Forward

Yuval Noah Harari on Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation