Norbert Wiener warned in 1960 that machines and humans are foreign to each other. We still are

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What Makes Humans Stupid

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Can You Hate the Government and Still Love America?

Perhaps the Nazi Tattoo Was a Clue

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America the Great

New Homeland Security Task Forces Target Immigrants Over Sex Work

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The brain’s internal ruler

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Conservation Commandeering Is Still Commandeering

84% of American Students Use AI. They're Still Worried About What Comes Next.

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When The Machines Deserve Our Consideration

It Wasn’t Just the Founders

Open Thread

Vasily Grossman died believing that his masterpiece had been seized by the KGB and lost forever

Open Thread

Today in Supreme Court History: July 3, 1941