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Nothing Draws a Crowd Like the End of the World
I should disclose at the outset that I am not a neutral party. I’ve used these systems nearly every day for the past several years, and not grudgingly. A large language model reviews my code before I’ve finished my coffee. It has drafted my...
The Honest Curator
Photo by Zalfa Imani on Unsplash
Every age knows how to catch one kind of liar: the forger.
He’s undone by some small flaw he couldn’t help leaving — a pigment his master never owned, a craquelure of fine cracks too even to be the work o...
Five Stars, Five Draft Deferments
On Tuesday evening, the president posted an AI-generated image to Truth Social under a three-word caption: “Patton, Trump, MacArthur.”
Three men in olive drab stand before a burning battlefield, a squinting figure in a GI helmet on the le...
Foreign Hackers Hit America's Water. Trump Blamed a Democratic Governor. CISA Is Cutting Its Experts' Pay.
On Friday morning, at a televised Cabinet meeting at Camp David, the president of the United States was asked about a coordinated cyberattack that had, days earlier, reached inside the control systems of more than 30 Minnesota water utiliti...
The Incompetence Defense
“Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from sabotage.”
— @HackingButLegal, October 22, 2025, 8:27 p.m.
Google’s AI Overview has lately begun telling people that the sentence above is “widely attributed to Jacki...
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