How anger over artificial intelligence might drive the next wave of populist politics. www.newyorker.com/podcast/poli...

We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

If you have to build stupid data centers, this looks like a smart way to do it…

Of all the ridiculous things about genAI, incentivizing employees to waste the company’s money by using AI whether it adds value or not is one of the more ridiculous…

Sweet… www.cntraveler.com/story/this-s...

The buyers of a new Super Duty F-250 truck keep waiting to drive it off a Kansas dealer’s lot after an employee found a nest on a front tire where four robin chicks are maturing. Most bird nests are federally protected, which makes it illegal to interfere with a nest that has eggs or chicks in it.

Before ChatGPT, more than 98 per cent of all English-language articles published on the internet were written by humans. By the fall of 2024, machines were writing around half. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/QMYr48

The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.

Today’s Daily New Yorker Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.

Marco Rubio when he finds out he’s the new Director of National Intelligence

Cities and other groups around the U.S. are using alternatives to traditional asphalt lots in order beat the heat and curb water runoff — especially as climate change worsens.

Some U.S. military and intelligence officials canceled Memorial Day weekend plans in anticipation of possible strikes against Iran, citing several sources. The Trump administration is preparing for a round of military strikes, though no final decision had been made as of Friday afternoon.-CBS News

Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy did the meme:

It's worth stating plainly that the President said he couldn't go to Don, Jr.'s wedding because he needed to focus on Iran and has spent the last few hours mocking trans people and shitposting about invading Greenland and installing a giant golden dome over the White House. Just another Friday.

I agree with those who prefer to use the term “fabrications” rather than hallucinations…

Sounds like things are not going well in Orange County, California, where 10,000 people have been told to evacuate because of a toxic chemical leak at the GKN Aerospace facility.

Everybody thinks when he's rich he'll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there's only one kind of rich person, and he's it. —Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

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Jessica: The weird stuff about the cognitive test and how he's acing things that they give to people that have had traumatic brain injuries—saying no one knows there's a B in the word dumb. We all know there's a B in the word dumb

“Obviously I wasn’t thinking at all,” the driver told police, according to the footage.

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

"You're just trying to get 'AI' to spout crap, Scalzi." Well, yes, and also, when I *do* try to get it to spout crap *I should not succeed as often as I do.* Because I succeed a lot. (As far as I know I have not met Joey deVilla, though apparently he has read my books. Thanks, Mr. deVilla!)

I already have to check search results to see if they're trustworthy, why would I want to add another level of untrustworthiness to my searching, my time on this planet is short enough as it is. "Oh you just have to prompt correctly" - OR, I could just fuckin' do a search, I spent 30 years on that.

The sellers tapped the original architect to restore the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired property. on.wsj.com/4va1Bp3

The capital’s rapid transit system, a testament to the value of good public design, is a work of Brutalist beauty and timeless civic dignity. on.wsj.com/4a22tUk

A recent study found that AI-assisted police reports are less accurate than ones drafted by real people. This is unacceptably dangerous. We cannot allow law enforcement's insatiable desire for new technologies endanger our rights.

Mountain West governors unveiled an initiative to produce an est 200 gws of clean energy representing a 50-fold increase in the nation’s current ability to generate geothermal electricity. 🌎 www.canarymedia.com/articles/geo...

Oscar Isaac has received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from The Juilliard School. #OscarIsaac #Juilliard

Wow. Google search discarded what many users (including myself) have used it for: quick lookups of words for their definitions, to instead have an AI response at the top. See with "disregard." This isn't even on "AI mode." (I use non-Google search engines myself.)

GLP-1 peptides improve cancer prognoses at levels that cannot be explained by effects from pure weight loss or caloric restriction www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...

All but three of the 6,069 people admitted to the U.S. as refugees since October are from South Africa. The numbers reflect the transformation of the refugee program under the Trump administration.

This was quite the Erin Brockovich moment by AOC at a hearing on data centers.

An NBC poll finds Pope Leo XIV and Stephen Colbert are the most popular figures in American public life. Donald Trump, JD Vance, both parties, ICE, and AI are underwater. A Catholic pope from Chicago is the most trusted man in the country. Govern accordingly.

In 2025, the police seized guns from the home of one of the teenagers who they say was behind the deadly shooting at a mosque in San Diego this week.

Every few years, Hollywood is astonished to learn that women go to movies... then promptly forgets that...

We found that Jeff Bezos paid zero taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. Revisit our 2021 story:

His throat isn't even glued down.

Fox News interviewed Vice Admiral Robert Harward today and everyone is asking the same question: Is that someone wearing a very realistic face mask of Vice Admiral Robert Harward?

I appreciate that @tonyc007.bsky.social posted the GIF, but for folks who've never seen it and certainly those of us who do, here's the full video including slo-mo replay.

🍸 #oilpainting #art

Tarrio on Trump’s Jan 6 compensation slush fund: “A lot of these people are going to want to start organizations with this money. Some of them want to run for local office with this money — and some of them will use it for their current campaign.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A bunch of lawyers are gonna get rich from AI litigation… but from what I hear, very few lawyers are actually USING AI…

Oh hey, a journalism job! Here! At RNS! www.linkedin.com/posts/debora...

Boots Riley’s ‘I LOVE BOOSTERS’ is now at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. • Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza González, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, & Demi Moore. Read our review: bit.ly/BoostersDF

This corrupt slush fund Trump created to give payouts to his allies, including the violent attackers who beat police officers on January 6th, isn’t a settlement. It’s theft.