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I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

The Reflecting Pool is an image so perfect, it feels as though symbolism as a whole gave up and decided to sign off.

Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

'We are already gathered' brings together people who are already gathered in datasets.

modern autocracy as a cult of masculinity

A few years ago, in the early summer of 2019, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum declared on its website that it “unequivocally rejects efforts

Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

Notes on a new wave of the Techlash

“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

“My grandfather used to say ‘and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel’ and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained s...

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That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

Ryan McGrady writes that you can learn a lot about a state's view on free expression by how it treats Wikipedia.

The film illustrates the near-impossibility of upward mobility during the segregation era.

How Cloudflare uses generative AI to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and other bots that don’t respect “no crawl” directives.

The Anti-Defamation League should loudly oppose the unlawful roundup of pro-Palestinian activists.