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Police departments in Oregon created an "analyst group" where they casually offer each other assistance with surveillance tools.

Our Obligation Beyond Borders

How we might rebuild journalism from the ground up by rethinking what a newsroom is.

Tulsi Gabbard is a National Security Emergency

A man on Bluesky attempted to explain the AI policies of Signal to the company's president, a baffling instance of mansplaining.

On the ProjectVRM list, John Wunderlich shared a find that makes clear how advanced and widespread  AI-based shopping recommendation has gone so far (and not just with ChatGPT and Amazon). Here it is: Envisioning Recommendations on an LLM-Based Agent Platform: Can LLM-based agents take recommender systems to the next level? It's by Jizhi Zhang, Keqin Bao, Wenjie…

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England, Denmark, Norway, and part of Sweden, he forged a vast North Sea empire

Why is so much AI slop about Jesus and the Bible, and why do Christians appear to love it?

How Musk turned chaos, cults, and contradiction into the most Byzantine machine in capitalism

Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police state

How Nihilists Turned Expertise into the Enemy

Could ranked-choice voting help Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo?

Why Pretending Not to See Authoritarianism Is the Most Dangerous Choice of All

Hello Where’s Your Ed At Subscribers! I’ve started a premium version of this newsletter with a weekly Friday column where I go over the most meaningful news and give my views, which I guess is what you’d expect. Anyway, it’s $7 a month or $70 a

Liberal thinkers are shocked that nations are once again isolating from the world. The real surprise would be if they didn’t

Asia In Brief: PLUS: APNIC completes re-org; India cuts costs for chipmakers; Infosys tax probe ends; and more

Father's Day is a manufactured moment. So is Christmas morning, wedding rings, and saying "bless you" when someone sneezes. We just pretend some are

In a testament to how quickly time moves, 20 years ago Steve Jobs gave his famous Stanford commencement speech. If you haven’t heard it before, set aside the time to listen, it’s about …

The rift isn’t just about politics. It’s about pace, and place, and respect.

This is a sad day for America. But we all knew something like this coming.

Yesterday, I ended up posting the same meme as a few months ago and wondered why I posted it the first time:  And then I realized: Trump hit...

Trump has caused a crisis in civil-military relations — one that could eventually threaten democracy’s foundations.

Grok, Gemini, Meta, Claude, and ChatGPT all had something to say about ICE. And some of it sounded like it came straight out of a protest rally.

Grok cheered. Claude refused. The results say something about who controls the AI, and what it’s allowed to say.

An attempt to paint Bluesky as one type of thing has taken hold in the press. A bad narrative is hard to shake, even if it’s unfair.

Loop’s reusable package program launched with a splash, then fizzled. The founder reflects on what went wrong—and why it works in France.

Certain apps may help you avoid the U.S. government using your past posts against you.