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Town residents were shocked that Donald Trump’s promised nationwide raids actually affected them.

From The New York Times (gift link): “Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.” Sigh. And sigh again. See also Natal...

What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.

I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

Advances in artificial intelligence are creating a perfect storm for those seeking to spread disinformation at unprecedented speed and scale. And it’s virtually impossible to detect.

Voters who get their news from Twitter are markedly different in our polls than the median voter

Or, how educated, self-aware, and motivated foodies can change the world Scientific Methodology For all of pre-modern human history, with no gas lamps or electricity, after the sun went down, it go…

16,000 people. Wednesday morning. That’s 30,000 in three months when you count October.

The human brain breaks doing Big Math.

The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.”

Anthropic has unveiled a legal plugin that helps customise its large language model Claude for legal tasks such as document review.

"When armed agents operate beyond the reach of law, they are no longer public servants. They are something else entirely."

The rise and fall of the Great Convergence

I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never …

The easiest way to steal from government programs is the same everywhere, and it has nothing to do with immigration

We are parts of many social units.

Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.

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