'Dozens' of Duke Students Walking Out of Seinfeld's Commencement Speech Is Not a Story
The media's habit of highlighting fringe voices out of context continues to create distorted pictures of reality.
The media's habit of highlighting fringe voices out of context continues to create distorted pictures of reality.
The company's confusing statements about how ChatGPT should respond to sexual prompts
Cultivated meat is under scrutiny from politicians trying to protect livestock farmers.
Plus, an AI-generated recipe for garlic lovers' shrimp scampi
OnlyFans let women distribute their own porn. Artificial intelligence will give them even more control.
Under the prosecution's theory, Trump would be guilty of falsifying business records even if Daniels made the whole thing up.
A tale from the Tortured Public Servants Department.
The latest movie in the Apes franchise gestures at interesting ideas about politics and civilizational conflict, but it doesn't develop them.
Like it or not, AI is here to stay. In his newsletter, Timothy B. Lee helps explain what comes next.
Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful meditation on the parameters that constrain robots and humans alike
Nominated stories include journalism on messy nutrition research, pickleball, government theft, homelessness, and more.
Private unions have every right to exist, but that doesn't mean they're actually beneficial on net.
New York prosecutors are relying on testimony from several people who do not seem trustworthy.
The owner of the Comedy Cellar and viral podcaster wants to argue with you about Israel, the media, and whether women are funny.
The “cure” to national decline might be part of the disease.
Florida’s protectionist ban on the nascent industry sacrifices conservative principles in the name of a culture war that politicizes everything.
Christian McGhee is suing, arguing a North Carolina assistant principal infringed on his free speech rights.
The decision addresses an important issue left open by the Supreme Court's decision reversing Roe v. Wade.
Is AI-written poetry cheating if you laboriously trained the AI?
It's the war on drugs all over again, folks...
Instead of lobbying for age verification and youth social media bans, parents can simply restrict their kids' smartphone use.
David Brin, Robin Hanson, Mike Godwin, and others describe the future of artificial intelligence.
Don't fall for scaremongering about "military-age male" migrants crossing the border. They are actually less dangerous than native-born citizens of the same age and gender.
It's not a great movie. But it is a great time at the movies.
Why work extra hard when you won't be able to get an A? Why try to improve when you won't get worse than a C?
According to Grok, Robert Heinlein's novel reminds us that even a supercomputer can have a heart—or at least a well-programmed sense of humor.
When does a sufficiently advanced algorithm start to mimic our conception of God?
While the governor framed the legislation as necessary to protect Floridians from "the global elite," he's the real authoritarian.
Once again, DeSantis is a guy who claims to love freedom—until he disagrees with the choices some adults make.
"We will continue to fight for the right to access the internet without intrusive government oversight," says the group challenging the law.
The former Cheers producer talks faith, ayahuasca, and what it’ll take to bring back the blockbuster comedy.
Julian Assange and Priscilla Villarreal were both arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal.
City gives journalist photos. Journalist publishes photos. City…sues journalist?
Plus: California's landmark law ending single-family-only zoning is struck down, Austin, Texas, moves forward with minimum lot size reform, and the pro-natalist case for pedestrian infrastructure.
This new school-to-parent pipeline allows parents to micromanage yet another aspect of their kids' lives.
Plus: A listener asks the editors about the magical thinking behind the economic ideas of Modern Monetary Theory.
Half the country says suppressing “false information” is more important than press freedom.
How lax intellectual property rules created a nerd culture phenomenon
Priscilla Villarreal is appealing a 5th Circuit decision that dismissed her First Amendment lawsuit against Laredo police and prosecutors.
The ruling has nothing to do with #MeToo. It is about ensuring a fair trial—a principle that applies no matter how unsympathetic the defendant.
My October 2023 posts on the roots of far-left support for Hamas and the reasons why some "cancellations" are justified remain sadly relevant.
A witty, erotically charged three-way love story about tennis, sex, and ambition.
"Where is the line between complacency, complicity, and culpability?” asks producer Matt Joslyn.