Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science.

Abstract. Science is a rich process of well-informed trial-and-error and learning from errors often paves the way to scientific advances. However, this process and associated so-called null results ar...

"It is unacceptable that highly precise European technology is being channeled into the production of cruise missiles and air defense systems. We will continue to take decisive action, with full inter...

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

Anthropic blocks authors from opting out of $1.5B settlement at last minute.

Sölden kämpft gegen die Schlammmassen: Auch zwei Tage nach den heftigen Unwettern in Imst und im hinteren Ötztal stecken hunderte Feuerwehrkräfte im Dauereinsatz.

Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...

Step through the story: Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map — an interactive exploration of Earth’s underground fungal networks.

What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.

Te Li unravels the myth of digital dematerialization so heavily promulgated by Silicon Valley and other AI boosters, which presents the technology as a phenomenon that has escaped the material... READ...

Association qui œuvre en utilisant ses propres infrastructures, des outils sobres et des valeurs fortes.

"Turkers" appear to be using AI to do tasks that were specifically intended to be done by humans because AI couldn't. Great job everybody!

To whom do the fruits of advanced technological innovation belong? To their inventors, to the organizations and individuals involved in making such discoveries possible, or to still larger groups of p...

The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

YouTube video by voidzilla

If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.

Illustrating the Engineering Around Us

An attempt to improve a viral chart.

Rachel Moore Photography. Photographer, artist, and conservationist, specializing in underwater photography and videography.

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Abstract. Science is a rich process of well-informed trial-and-error and learning from errors often paves the way to scientific advances. However, this process and associated so-called null results ar...

A Brief Exploration Of Recursive Spaces

Working with agents doesn't feel like getting into flow to me. It feels more like a game loop: set direction, trigger action, watch what happens, evaluate, intervene, adjust, try again. Different kind...

The people who invent something new, create a new tool or technology are not necessarily the people who are going to understand what the social impact of those inventions are going to be.

A blog about software craft and quality

For objective careers advice, talk to those who left science as well as those who stayed.

134,000+ public domain works from 22 museums — searchable by mood, color, era, and medium. Free to download in high resolution.

A decade of greening leaves the capital less congested but more divided

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

Knowledge Doubling Curve Buckminster Fuller created the "Knowledge Doubling Curve"; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every cent