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The biological trick that allows a female mandarin duck to become a male.

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit

The search engine has made up so much of our online experience for so long that it can be hard to imagine something better.

Everyone is tired of touch screens.

After a year of observation, experimentation, and testing, we may have found a careful response to the challenges we face with AI.

Personal websites and email can replace most of what people like about Facebook—namely the urge to post about their lives online.

The study underlines the 'dominance of the few' rule on social media, and its broader impacts.

The internet — a fragile construction of hardware, software, standards and databases — is run by an ever-expanding range of private and public actors constrained only by voluntary protocols and subject to political pressure. The authors describe four emerging views of how to govern the internet, each playing a geopolitical role and championed at the national level: Silicon Valley’s open internet, Brussels’ bourgeois internet, Beijing’s authoritarian internet and DC’s commercial internet. The competition to establish which internet prevails is likely to be strong, and not always focused on win-wins.

Only nine weeks later, the Wright Brothers achieved manned flight. The pathologically cynical always will find a reason to complain.

Those in the “e-mail job” caste are literally taking money out of a pie which would be more deservedly enjoyed by the families who do the actual work.

Copying and pasting emails. Inventing meaningless tasks for others. Just looking busy. Why do so many people feel their work is completely unnecessary?

As a growing resale market has made the brand’s handbags available to more people, some say the image that they convey depends on their condition.

Or how, exactly, platforms die.

How do we recognize the similarities between people of different class positions without papering over the differences?

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