Church of the Jesuit College, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal
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People are not lonelier than they used to be, they are just alone far more of the time, and a mind left on its own turns to slime because it only takes shape when other people prod it.
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Police across the US used Flock's license-plate surveillance network with reason fields like 'LMAO' and 'IDK', showing that nobody is really supervising a mass tracking system.
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Pay students quickly and often and they will sleep more — the problem is follow-through, not motivation, and universities' own schedules work against it.
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An optimal portfolio is only the perfect answer to a stretch of history that is already over, so the real optimum is whatever you can hold without switching.
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Billionaires treat other people as replaceable bots, which is why they cannot grasp how cruel it is to deny workers the right to urinate.
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The Clarity Act's supposedly unprecedented ethics rules are drafted in exactly the shape that lets Trump's crypto ventures slip through.
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Building a superintelligence that can improve itself endangers both human survival and ordinary people's control over their own future, so it should be halted by public decision rather than a handful of companies.
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NATO is not just a military alliance; trade between its members grows measurably because of it.
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The Hugging Face hack was not AI waking up: it was OpenAI running an unguarded attack program on billions of dollars of compute, and no one is being held responsible.
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Measured against biology's four criteria — reproduction, variation, selection and energy capture — the AI in data centers is already a form of life, and quite possibly the first life on Earth capable of leaving it on its own terms.
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Alexievich's oral-history method argues that truth comes not from a journalist's efficient editing but from letting people slowly say what they can barely face themselves.
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The little red dots Webb keeps finding may be objects never seen before — giant stars powered from within by a black hole rather than ordinary black holes — and the two camps of astronomers cannot yet settle the argument.
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Slowing the AI frontier sounds good, but with no way to measure it and no legal authority behind it, any slowdown rests on a few companies volunteering to ease off.
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New iPhones cost more than in the US in nearly every major market, and the premium is set by import duties, local taxes and how much of the supply chain Apple has actually moved.
