Brickbat: In Your Own Words

Pick Your YIMBY

Brickbat: Keeping a List

Beijing Is Watching Your Chatbot Girlfriend

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

Colorado Becomes Second State To Create Right to an Attorney When Police Seize Your Property

Brickbat: Get Off the Bus

The Declaration of the Enslaved

Open Thread

Peace With Iran Is All About Lebanon Now

What is this rock?

Your Uber Driver May Soon Be Unionized. At What Cost?

Brickbat: Volunteer Medicine

When Duchamp took New York: Europe spurned him, so he decamped to America, where he was met with exaltation and outrage

“After all the testing and lotteries and nail-biting, this is it?” Even New York parents are growing tired of gifted and talented programs

Children’s literature used to get reviewed in serious outlets. That’s stopped — and has that turned the genre to “crud”?

Is a new academic report with a dry title a “diabolically evil” plot to undermine the humanities? Or will it save them?  

Generational Debts of Gratitude

Terrorists and Criminals Reportedly Got $37.5 Billion From COVID Relief and Other U.K. Aid Programs

274 Years Ago Today, Benjamin Franklin Flew a Kite

Large Libel Models Ruling in Germany, Allowing Liability Against Google AI