Technology What Claude thinks of Kevin Kelly's essay about Claude Mark Frauenfelder

AI Ted Chiang argues an LLM chatbot is as conscious as Microsoft Word Ellsworth Toohey

brains The brain-in-a-bucket drug lab is here Jason Weisberger

Science Physicist says the 'hard problem of consciousness' isn't real Ellsworth Toohey

Technology Richard Dawkins renamed Claude "Claudia" and decided she's conscious Ellsworth Toohey

Technology The appeal of AI girlfriends isn't the AI — it's that she can't say no Mark Frauenfelder

pudding Grandpa Pudding Brains recommends invoking the 25th to stop him Jason Weisberger

Science Meditators' brains showed thicker cortexes and slower aging in study Ellsworth Toohey

science fiction Dead sci-fi author debugs reality in Ben H. Winters' "Benjamin" Gareth Branwyn

books Strange Attractor: The Definitive Biography of Terence McKenna Ferdinando Buscema

science fiction A consciousness on an old drive tells its awful story Ellsworth Toohey

Food McDonald's CEO's disgusted reaction to his own food goes viral Grant St. Clair

Science Douglas Rushkoff on the dinner party that turned out to be Epstein's Mark Frauenfelder

books John Shirley's guide to wrecking your career in science fiction John Shirley

Science Michael Pollan thinks your chatbot has fewer feelings than a houseplant Ellsworth Toohey

Tom The Dancing Bug Tom the Dancing Bug: News of the Times – A.I. Model Achieves Consciousness; Is Detained by ICE Ruben Bolling

i did nazi that coming How the media keeps manufacturing Elon Musk's "Genius" Jason Weisberger

politics Dial-A-Poem is back, with the revolutionary poetry we all need right now Jennifer Sandlin

News Witness says ICE guards choked man to death; DHS claims suicide attempt Ellsworth Toohey

stream of consciousness Grandpa Puddin' Brains free-associates at captive House Republicans Jason Weisberger