A Manifesto by Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald On Poetry

AI-Powered Concierge Government

The Great Data-Center Rebellion

David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire

The Rent Is Frozen. Heating Costs Aren’t.

Seattle's 'Surveillance Pricing' Ban Is a Solution Searching for a Problem

Friday Poem

Open Thread

The AIs Are Not Going Rogue

Life on a hair trigger

Do Not Spare Yourself: An Antidote to Feeling Like You Are Waiting to Start Living

Texas Court Refuses to Enforce Pakistan Court's Divorce Judgment, in $100M-Marital-Community-Asset Case

On audiophilia

May President Trump Exclude CNN from Air Force One? Very Likely Yes

It’s Too Easy for Prosecutors to Blacklist Cops

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

There are to be “no jesters, no dogs, no weapons, or any such silliness.” Or so the Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese was told by an Inquisitor

The Dismally Obedient Science

Brickbat: Every Step You Take

Lenders Don’t Trust the United States Anymore