scholarship Prominent AI researchers call the entire field "alchemy" Cory Doctorow

books "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a touching memoir about birth, death, and dad's amateur erotica career Thom Dunn

art That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police: a case study Daphne Keller

books Rage Inside the Machine: an insightful, brilliant critique of AI's computer science, sociology, philosophy and economics Cory Doctorow

usausausa DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen Cory Doctorow

Kids Apple's new parental control: Daily Stormer is in, sex-ed is out Cory Doctorow

trumpism NYT: Saudi Arabia's Prince Charming was Mister Bone Saw all along Cory Doctorow

Science Academic freedom grifters rally around a new anti-transgender "disease" Andrea James

Science Germany's scientific texts were made free during and after WWII; analyzing them today shows the negative effect of paywalls on science Cory Doctorow

politics Trump's own White House official called him 'deplorable,' private messages show Xeni Jardin

happy mutants Automating Inequality: using algorithms to create a modern "digital poor-house" Cory Doctorow

immortality If Aubrey de Grey is right, you could live forever Rob Reid

podcasts When future desires and past beliefs are incongruent, desire usually wins out David McRaney

podcasts Science is wrong about everything, but you can trust it more than anything David McRaney

scholarship Automatically generate datasets that teach people how (not) to create statistical mirages Cory Doctorow

podcasts How motivated skepticism strengthens incorrect beliefs David McRaney

happy mutants A potential college course on detecting and combating bullshit in all its forms Cory Doctorow

Technology Machine-learning model fed web content makes racist and sexist associations Andrea James

podcasts How you can avoid committing the "conjunction fallacy" David McRaney

books Outliers: the statistical mysteries that hold the key to understanding John H Johnson, PhD and Mike Gluck