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The Hard-Line Activists Ramping Up for the War With AI
The resistance to artificial intelligence is growing over fears about human extinction—but one activist’s disappearance has the movement on edge
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The moral case for being less online
Logging off social media doesn’t mean checking out of the world.
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‘Killer Robots’ Must Be Banned, U.N. Secretary-General Says
António Guterres labels lethal autonomous weapons ‘morally repugnant,’ resurfacing issue that was central to Anthropic’s clash with Pentagon
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Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI
Palantir’s CEO taps into Corporate America’s angst about the growing power of AI upstarts The White Paper
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How Panic Pouches Became the New Way to Soothe Anxiety
Six people reveal what’s in their compact bags of calming tools, including fidget toys, sour candies and a rosary.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Strangers on a Train’: A Deal Gone off the Rails
The director’s 1951 adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel manages to be both an exhilarating work of suspense and a sharp examination of human perversion.
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‘The American Way of Foreign Policy’ Review: Principles of Power
U.S. foreign policy has remained anchored in a consistent view of the nation’s role in the world.
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America Risks Blowing the AI Race. Here Are Seven Ideas to Get Back on Track.
The window for American dominance in AI hasn’t closed, but it’s narrowing fast.
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Samuel Alito, a MAGA-Friendly Justice With a New Conservative Legal Vision
Samuel Alito is fusing establishment conservatism and the Trump movement into a new legal doctrine. His approach to the law may outlast them both.
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The Mind-Bending Company That Gets a Million Job Applications—and Rejects 99.9%
Getting an offer from Bending Spoons, which owns AOL, has become harder than getting into Harvard
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Is Private AI Regulation Constitutional?
Google recommends an industry body, but its power would be subject to judicial scrutiny.
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Gad Saad on Suicidal Empathy and Western Decline
Civilization is destroying itself, says the Canadian scholar who is fleeing Montreal for the U.S.
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Society-building begins early: This Nation Breaks Every Rule of U.S. Youth Sports—and Built a World Cup Monster
Norway’s Erling Haaland is one of soccer’s most fearsome and competitive stars. He grew up in a place where winning and losing hardly mattered.
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90 percent of U.S. adults have this syndrome — but most have never heard of it
New guidelines may soon make the disorder known as CKM syndrome a common diagnosis.
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Stop Asking “How’s It Going?”
Coaching That Actually Moves the Needle
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The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything
How technology is disconnecting us from life’s small pleasures
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A New Phase of the AI-Jobs Panic
Silicon Valley is making a show of helping prepare the country for AI layoffs.
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What’s Behind the Latest National Guard Surge in D.C.
The number of National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., has jumped in recent weeks.
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4 Chairs Life: a pragmatic philosophy for better being (UII w/Claude)
DM Good afternoon. Ultimately, "4 Chairs Life" is a practical and applicable philosophy, worldview, or "meta-paradigm" to advance better life through better thought, ...for humans individually, ... and for humans collectively, ...such as within their organizations and institutions. This is optimally accomplished by offering facilitating/supporting community arrangements (either independently or embedded within organizations and institutions), all of which require, adopt and e
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LOST SCIENCE
Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut. Plus many more examples.
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