When a president gives a primetime televised speech, it is typically about something of serious import: to make the case for a major new policy or to announce the beginning of a war. President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday night had no grave significance. In fact, there didn’t seem to be much of a point […] Read more ›
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What should we make of large language models (LLMs)? It’s quite literally a billion-dollar question. It’s one addressed this week in an analysis by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, in which he makes the case that we may be only a few years away from large language model-based general intelligence that can be a “drop-in […] Read more ›
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This week, an intense heat dome is trapping hot air over much of the Western United States, sending temperatures up to 30 degrees hotter than normal for early June. Yesterday, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Las Vegas were pushing into the triple digits and nighttime temperatures this week haven’t offered much relief. These conditions are extreme, […] Read more ›
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The 2023-24 academic year has inarguably been one of the toughest years in recent history to be a college president. Following Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and amid Israel’s retaliatory bombardment of Gaza, campuses erupted in activism, with thousands of students, faculty, and community members mobilizing to protest an Israeli offensive that to date […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump has been a convicted felon for a little over a week and he has already lost a small but significant chunk of support, according to the polls. In recent days, the New York Times and Sienna College recontacted 2,000 voters who had taken their surveys previously and found Trump’s advantage among that sample […] Read more ›
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Some of the rhetoric around meditation can get pretty extreme: awaken us from the illusion of selfhood, dissolve the mental habits that generate suffering, and maybe merge with the primordial oneness that our thinking minds make us feel separate from. But of the 35 million Americans (as of 2017) who find some crevice of their […] Read more ›
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Hunter Biden’s first trial, which began this week, isn’t about conservatives’ assertions that he’s at the center of some sprawling Biden family corruption saga. It’s instead focused on one specific messy incident: Hunter’s purchase of a gun in 2018. That year, Hunter had struggles with drug and alcohol addiction that are now well-documented, but when […] Read more ›
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Of all the pillars of internet content, surely one of the strongest is the genre where people outline their morning routine in grave and sanctimonious detail. They exist in every medium, in every platform, among every internet subculture. TikTok has its Get Ready With Mes, where influencers chat over their plethora of skin-nourishing unguents and […] Read more ›
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Donning a pink headband and blue overalls, Ms Rachel — a.k.a. the internet’s favorite child care educator — starts most of her videos by waving excitedly at the camera with her usual greeting: “Hi, friends!” In one video, she opens jumbo-sized plastic crayons to reveal small toys inside that match the color of the crayon, […] Read more ›
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President Joe Biden this week signed an executive order that would cap the number of asylum seekers able to enter the United States at the southern border. It’s arguably the most restrictive border policy he’s taken as president — one that puts him more in line with former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies — and would […] Read more ›
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About a month ago, I wrote about a viral book of “Lost” herbal remedies that had, at the time, sold 60,000 copies on the TikTok Shop despite appearing to violate some of the app’s policies on health misinformation. The book’s sales were boosted by popular videos from wellness influencers on the app, some of which […] Read more ›
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Prior to the ongoing litany of allegations made against him for sexual assault and misconduct, actor Kevin Spacey was primarily known as a decorated Hollywood and stage veteran, a two-time Oscar winner, and the star of Netflix’s groundbreaking House of Cards. That all changed in 2017 when actor Anthony Rapp accused Spacey of sexually assaulting […] Read more ›
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It’s gearing up to be another scorching year. Countries like Brazil, Thailand, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, Australia, and Spain already experienced record warm temperatures this year, and in the past few days, heat has killed dozens in India and Mexico. Now states like California, Nevada, Arizona, and Texas are getting ready to roast as a massive heat wave settles in. It’s […] Read more ›
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Employees from some of the world’s leading AI companies published an unusual proposal on Tuesday, demanding that the companies grant them “a right to warn about advanced artificial intelligence.” Whom do they want to warn? You. The public. Anyone who will listen. The 13 signatories are current and former employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind. […] Read more ›
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On Sunday, Trump wrote on Truth Social, his personal social media site, that the Supreme Court “MUST” intervene after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Though Trump’s post wasn’t written with the precision of a legal brief, he appeared to float two separate theories that could justify […] Read more ›
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I don’t remember looking for anything in particular when I opened TikTok one February evening. What I do remember was one video that dared me to examine my digital diet. “Check your TikTok screen time,” user @katherout challenged me. “Then check how many hours last week you actually hung out with your friends. It should […] Read more ›
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A month ago, the genre-bending electronic musician FKA Twigs testified before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, urging policymakers to protect artists from being exploited by AI, whether from using their voice to generate songs, copying their likeness to create pornography, or scraping their body of work for training data. Watching a C-SPAN2 […] Read more ›
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Nearly 40 Palestinians in Rafah will die each day due to traumatic injuries if Israel continues and escalates its incursion, according to a new analysis by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Humanitarian Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. That’s a total of 3,509 people killed by just violent traumatic deaths — […] Read more ›
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Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine more than two years ago, US and Western military assistance to the country has followed a pattern. First, Kyiv asks for a particular weapons system or capability. Washington declines due to concerns about raising the risk of escalation with Russia. Vladimir Putin then makes vague threats involving […] Read more ›
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Since October 7 and the subsequent waves of student protests over Gaza, college administrators and politicians have spent a lot of time talking about antisemitism and Islamophobia. But there’s another form of discrimination that’s often left out of these conversations: anti-Palestinian racism. The harsh university responses to campus protests — in which administrators called police […] Read more ›
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If the basic test of whether a country remains a democracy is that the party in power can still suffer a setback at the ballot box, India passed on Tuesday. Results from the nation’s parliamentary elections — the largest in the world — indicate a shocking electoral setback for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his […] Read more ›
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