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Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
Ethan Mollick
Amid todays AI boom, its disconcerting that we still dont know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are. Our tests for these traits, never great in the first place, were ma ...[Continue Reading]
Oneusefulthing.org
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As arrests at anti-ICE protests piled up, prosecutions crumbled
A.C. Thompson, Gabrielle Schonder
The National Guard soldiers in desert camo piled out of unmarked vans in East Los Angeles last June, cordoning off East Sixth Street, a residential street lined with single family houses, and blockin ...[Continue Reading]
Salon
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Hungarys Lessons for Trumps Opponents
Idrees Kahloon
To the outside world, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn began his rule as a pariahan obstreperous, often lone dissenter from European Union policies, especially over migration. Then he became a ...[Continue Reading]
The Atlantic
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30 years of Pokmonhow the Japanese franchise mirrors real-world science
Kendra Pierre-Louis, Sushmita Pathak, Alex Sugiura
Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific Americans Science Quickly, Im Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. The year is 1998. Brandy and Monicas hit song The Boy Is Mine is all over the radio ...[Continue Reading]
Scientific American
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The Real Reason Republicans Want to Privatize the TSA
Monica Potts
President Donald Trump and the conservative think tanks that inspire his policies want to privatize the Transportation Security Administration screeners who check your bags and bodies before you fly. ...[Continue Reading]
The New Republic
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My Girlfriend Is Prowling for Rich Ladies at the Cinema. I Dont Like It One Bit.
Kristin Wong
Pay Dirt is Slates money advice column.Have a question? Send it to Kristin and Ilyce here. (Its anonymous!) Dear Pay Dirt, My girlfriend and I are in our 20s, and were both struggling to move up in ...[Continue Reading]
Slate Magazine
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