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What Claude thinks of Kevin Kelly’s essay about Claude
Kevin Kelly’s new essay, “The Emergent Self Loop,” is about his recent ten-hour conversation with Anthropic’s Claude.
 • Mark Frauenfelder
9 ways to stretch your food budget when SNAP benefits get cut
Kevin Curry, founder of the Fit Men Cook fitness and food community, graduated from Harvard’s Kennedy School in 2008 right into the recession and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Why are school boards banning books on ancient Egypt and digestion?
PEN America counted 3,743 unique titles pulled from school libraries in the latest academic year — and nonfiction is now a front-line target.
 • Ellsworth Toohey
A burr grinder beats a $2,000 espresso machine
Software engineer Rupaj Soni spent months chasing inconsistent espresso shots from his Breville Bambino before a visit to a friend in Amsterdam cracked…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
Amazon will stop selling 40 mph “hooligan bikes” in California
As per California’s e-bike law, anything faster than pedal-assist Class 3 bikes (which are capped at 28 mph) is legally a moped or motorcycle and…
 • Ellsworth Toohey
The PlayStation earnings report has some uncomfortable bombshells
In case you missed it — which is completely understandable if you’re not a Sony shareholder — PlayStation put out another earnings report today.
 • Grant St. Clair
This silly alpaca has shimmied his way into my heart!
I can’t get enough of a silly alpaca named Bake, who loves food so much that he shimmies every time he takes a bite.
 • Jennifer Sandlin
Twilight Princess now has a native PC port
Ahh, Twilight Princess. None of the Legend of Zelda games are particularly mature, but Twilight Princess feels like the most earnest attempt at it.
 • Grant St. Clair
Playing Fallout 1 inside Fallout 4
They say the devil never sleeps.
 • Grant St. Clair
What to do when scammers kidnap your daughter
You know how it is.
 • Grant St. Clair
JD Vance believes demons responsible for UFOs
While everyone was justifiably losing their minds over Israel, Russia, and the United States of America’s empire-building bullshit, the Trump…
 • Séamus Bellamy
This Utah law is a risk to everyone’s digital liberty
The Internet: How does it work?
 • Séamus Bellamy
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