For #BannedBooksWeek, author Patricia McCormick — whose SOLD was the most-banned book of the 2025-26 school year — visited our office to talk to us about the consequences of repealing young readers’ access to stories about sexual violence.

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This bullshit left unchecked: "There's a risk of not engaging with AI and being left behind. But there's also a risk that this is going to be harmful," said...the director of MIT's Teaching Systems Lab. "There's no evidence which clearly says that one of these pathways is better than the other."

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Folks, I’m starting to suspect that social media doesn’t reward being a good person

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AI doomers getting all of their ideas about the apocalypse from science fiction seem to have missed the whole point of the Jackpot, which is that the apocalypse is long and boring.

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On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...

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