When AI Stops Asking Permission

UAE, the Muslim Brotherhood, RICO, and Defamation

Stephen Hawking: The dark side of genius

A Process Made for Mars is Now Uncovering Ancient Art on Earth

The Canon of Solitude: 200 Years of Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness

Thomas and Alito Are More Reliable Votes for Trump Than His Own Supreme Court Appointees

Thomas Massie Just Filed 8 Articles of Impeachment Against Pete Hegseth

A $95,000 Fine for Transporting a 6-Pack of Beer Defies the Eighth Amendment, a Supreme Court Brief Argues

Why Elon Musk’s “Self-Growing” Moon Cities Are Tragically Flawed

The Peace of Wild Things: Wendell Berry’s Poetic Antidote to Despair, Animated

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

The Lindsay Clancy Trial Was Never Going To Answer the Question Everyone Was Asking

The Strange Brain of an F1 Driver

Inside IBM’s New Quantum Computing Fridges, 180 Times Colder Than Deep Space

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

Nighttime Light May Change the Shape of Your Heart

Open Thread

Sunniest of Mornings, Grimmest of Days

Sabine Hossenfelder: AI Solved a Millennium Problem and Everyone’s Angry

Looking back at what I wrote about the 9/11 attacks 20 years ago: “How we became important”

How a Street Brawl Led to a 5th Circuit Case That Casts Doubt on the Constitutionality of Many Federal Laws