…no one on the team could explain why certain design decisions had been made or how different parts of the system were supposed to work together… the theory of the system, their shared understanding, had fragmented or disappeared entirely margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02...

Nothing speaks for the integrity of your views like urging that economic researchers who find you're full of it should be punished

As her credit cards, Amazon and Google accounts were cancelled, she reeled from… a “direct and flagrant attack” on one of the world’s most prominent courts… Simple tasks, from booking an Uber to reserving a flight or hotel room, became impossible www.theguardian.com/law/2026/feb...

rotating sandwiches rotatingsandwiches.com

I think ungrading has become a necessity. The only way to center true learning is to establish the mutual trust for students to voluntarily choose honesty, to refuse the counterfeiting machine despite no enforcement. University administrators are sabotaging faculty ability to build that mutual trust

this & other comments i've seen about how bluesky needs to "improve its algorithm" suggest a lot of people have grown to like a totally passive social media experience where a computer pushes an endless stream of content tailored to what it thinks they would like while they clap like seals

I imagine it was extremely disturbing

The Project MYST study found that teens with more adverse life experiences, like alcoholic parents or harassment at school, were less attentive over their social media use. This suggests that kids facing trauma in their real lives are more at risk of addiction www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science...

…people who feel their country is more powerful are more likely to feel threatened by the events… feeling more powerful triggers intuitive thinking… Less powerful nations engage much more in rational thinking and a more accurate assessment of threats klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/behavioura...

You’re on social media, so this should concern you. The U.S. government has been asking platforms like Meta for user data. You don’t have to be paranoid to see the problem. You just have to be paying attention. If you’re online, this includes you. 1/2

…even when parents try to control their children’s social media use, either by using parental controls or even just household rules and supervision, it doesn’t impact whether or not the child will overuse social media or use it compulsively techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/m...

…overwhelming evidence shows probability methods are consistently more accurate… More concerning, when nonprobability surveys are wrong, they can be dramatically wrong… Today’s low-barrier opt-in environments are easily exploited… Fraud rates of 15 to 30% are common www.norc.org/research/lib...

Now I keep a simple list: three things that would make today feel complete. Some days I finish all three. Some days I finish one. Some days I get pulled into something that wasn’t on the list at all, and that’s fine too. The mental relief was immediate medium.com/@SuzaanSayed...

Apple is pushing ahead with plans to launch its first pair of smart glasses… rumored to feature speakers, microphones, and a high-resolution camera for taking photos and videos, in addition to another lens designed to enable AI-powered features www.theverge.com/tech/880293/...

Our analysis reveals that nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation, most of which were published in 2025. Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025, the most recent conference, indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing arxiv.org/html/2601.18...

Som kjent har KI-verktøy en tendens til å finne opp ting, også referanser… en rapport politikere brukte som underlagsmateriale siterte forskning som ikke eksisterer. Sensorer ser det stadig i studentoppgaver. Og de falske referansene dukker opp i forskningsartikler www.khrono.no/forskere-fan...

I wish I could take back that messy breakfast, a racket at dawn, the hours smudged by time. Did I eat it? Did I clean up after myself? Enamored by the sharp yellowness of the yolk, its flavor buttery in my mouth poets.org/poem/art-los...

Mama: “Why do you look so shocked?” Hexa: “I thought I was invisible.” Mama: “You’re in my arms.” Hexa: “This is clearly a tactical misunderstanding.” #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Until then, Where are you? What is your address? I am hurting. I am riding the night on a full tank of gas and my headlights are reaching out for something poets.org/poem/if-i-sh...

Before she touched my face, she started explaining the constraints of the treatment… Unprompted, she started steering me away from one of their most profitable services… Almost in the same breath, she explained why I needed two treatments instead of one kristenberman.substack.com/p/3-simple-s...

Antalet fattiga i Sverige var förra året 730 000 personer… visar SCB:s undersökning av levnadsförhållanden… dubbelt så många som 2021. Dessutom säger 830 000 att de har svårt eller mycket svårt att få pengarna att räcka till det mest nödvändiga arbetet.se/2026/02/18/7...

– Det har känts obekvämt att prata om det. Utvisningsbeslutet skapar en klyfta mellan mig och omgivningen. Jag är ju en Köpingstjej som alla andra, säger Afnan Agha. Hon kom till Köping ensam som tioåring, och har levt med sin morbrors familj www.dn.se/sverige/ssus...

De här nariga brackorna - som skyller ifrån sig när de bli påkomna - ska alltså införa ett bidragstak så att landets fattigaste tar sig i kragen. www.dn.se/sverige/mini...

PSA: From a causal inference perspective, if there are multiple confounders, you should *very much* include them simultaneously. That is the one way to rule out that their joint contributions don't fully explain away what you are interested in. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Elephant trunks are covered in about 1,000 non-moving whiskers… “…helps elephants know how close or how far their trunk is from an object… all baked into the geometry, porosity, and stiffness of the whisker… embodied intelligence” connectsci.au/news/news-pa...

“Obama built the cages” is my favorite trump talking point because the right’s only objection is he did not build nearly enough of them, put way too few kids in them, and that they were somehow too clean and comfortable and that sporadic access to basic healthcare and lawyers happened sometimes

Nice to see another outlet picking up on the fact that a Republican candidate for governor in Tennessee confirmed to us he believes women who make their own reproductive decisions and get abortions should face the death penalty. pro.stateaffairs.com/tn/elections...

A meta-analysis of 121 trials reported AI models are as good as humans at shifting perceptions, attitudes and behaviors… may go well beyond shaping what products you buy or who you vote for… today’s AI is untrustworthy, same as search engines and social media theconversation.com/could-chatgp...

…even with AI-powered tools, there’s a dearth in independent research to verify it’s any better at preventing tragedies… surveillance fostered an atmosphere of distrust: 32% of 14 to 18-year-old students surveyed said they felt like they were always being watched www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 was an unmistakable act of aggression. Yet, Moscow ffered reasons… The case of Venezuela reveals a different dynamic… What distinguished this was the absence of a sustained justificatory narrative hedgehogreview.com/web-features...

At the time of Swartz’s prosecution, vast amounts of research were funded by taxpayers… access to that research was, and still is, locked behind expensive paywalls… Today’s AI arms race involves a far more expansive, profit-driven form of information appropriation www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Even though the US is the largest economy in the world, it only accounts for 14% of global trade, the same as the EU or China… in the end, companies in the EU, China and the rest of the world will be fine. I am not so sure about companies in the US klementoninvesting.substack.com/p/the-uks-tr...

They sent Palmer to answer “How should employees and bosses be using AI right now?” Mollick told him to use it for everything. Literally… Find the “jagged frontier”… Palmer started an audio diary… recording what was happening as he used AI more intensively mikekentz.substack.com/p/this-is-ho...

As the late Paul Kalanithi – neurosurgeon and author, taken by cancer in 2015 – once wrote in the New York Times: “It’s impossible, irresponsible even, to be more precise than you can be accurate” 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

“It was sneaky,” said Mr. Hamoud, who noticed her glasses had a recording light only midway through their conversation. “I don’t want a video like that. I don’t want to mess up the relationship with my customers” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/d...

Exactly. Russian broadcasting media today are leading with Rubio's election campaigning on the stump with Viktor Orbán. "Your victory is ours," Rubio is quoted as saying. "Он наш," says the Russian reporter, "he's ours."

Epstein emerges as a broker… He has a talent for sniffing out what his correspondents want most. The rich want to be taken seriously, the not-so-rich want the trappings of wealth, many of the men wanted sex and everyone wanted connections www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

Over the last two decades, we have progressed from making videos of cats to making videos for them. YouTube alone offers more content than my two cats and dog could watch in a lifetime: videos of squeaky toys and squirrels, eight hours of British birds… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/s...

Anne Frank wrote: “Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared”… Genocide does not materialize in a single day jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/the-terrib...

If you know what sort of data analysis you want to run, and know how to check it, tools like Claude code can be valuable for templating code and plots. But if you don’t, you may well just get a flawed result faster kucharski.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

…researchers conducted a wide-ranging review of different studies of fitness trackers, covering 164,000 participants… people tend to be more active, walk more, lose fat, lose weight and gain fitness… Numbers loomed large. What was quantified, got attention timharford.com/2026/02/with...

Does that use a lot of energy? Compare energy consumption of different products and activities hannahritchie.github.io/energy-use-c...

Aspling pratar kvalificerad smörja. Migrationsverket har fattat ett utvisningsbeslut om just Emanuel… de företräder partier som röstade för lagändringen som skulle drabba bebisen – trots att det fanns uttryckliga varningar för att barn skulle drabbas www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolu...

Och samtidigt utvisas icke-vita bebisar och tonåringar. Rasismen är liksom inte implicit längre.

Every piece of agricultural machinery in the developed world runs on software now… in a fairly short period of time, it will be vibe-coded by AI. At that point, AI would have ability to bring down human civilization by making agricultural software stop working www.noahpinion.blog/p/updated-th...

Brazil's 1st winter gold medalist, Lucas Pinhero Braathen, posted a photo with Colin Kaepernick. Braathen, who is half-Norwegian/half-Brazilian, left Team Norway to compete for Brazil. He cites Kaepernick as one of his heroes. paydayreport.com/brasils-1st-...

…a woman got into a car crash… But her insurer rejected her claim… And the judge said, BUT YOUR EVIDENCE IS ALL IN MEN!… women are at a significantly increased risk in a car crash… simply not captured by current “androcentric” testing newsletter.carolinecriadoperez.com/p/of-mice-an...

This architecture will lead to a Gaza that is rebuilt as a space managed for the benefit of people who are not from there… to surveillance and vetting becoming normal conditions of habitation… to movement policies that encourage exit and obstruct return www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026...

Divergent Association Task involves generating 10 words with meanings distinct from one another… However, average performance of top 50% human participants exceeded tested models… human-written samples still significantly more creative than AI-written singularityhub.com/2026/01/27/a...

Det är exakt det han applåderar.