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Parallel Index about page
Index by Parallel starts from a straightforward conviction: if agents are going to read on behalf of people, then the web needs infrastructure that makes those readings legible to the sources that made them possible. The missing layer is not only search quality. It is public accounting. Who contributed? How much? To which outcome? With what confidence? And what value should flow back?
The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida
Sham news sites are increasingly common in Florida and across the country, a dangerous development for American democracy.
Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search
This guide is for website owners looking for official best practices from Google Search on how to succeed in generative AI features in Google Search (such as AI Overviews and AI Mode).
OpenClaw is Amazing, but... Don't Install It.
Traditional software separates code from data — you can't execute a spreadsheet cell as a program. LLMs destroy this boundary. System prompts, user messages, retrieved documents, tool outputs — everything becomes a single token stream in a mixed context window. The model processes instructions and data the same way, because to an LLM, they are the same thing.
A Comparative Analysis of News Aggregation Platforms
This analysis compares the largest news aggregation platforms and provides a lightweight framework for deciding which platforms align with audience strategies at different news organizations.
Who Will Monetize Truth?
The Social Edge of Intelligence
Teaching a small AI model to work for me
I took a small, free AI model from Google called Gemma 4 (2 billion parameters) and trained it on examples of my project maintenance work: managing servers, writing scripts, debugging code, and handling infrastructure tasks.
An AI Upheaval Is Coming for Media. This Journalist Is Already All In.
Fortune’s Nick Lichtenberg has cranked out more than 600 stories using the technology; ‘this won’t be seen as some people’s idea of journalism’
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
The AI Gründerzeit
I’ve spent the past three weeks wandering around the San Francisco Bay Area, talking to people who are in the guts of the AI boom. Founders, engineers, investors, semiconductor veterans, defense technologists, policymakers.
The Displacement of Cognitive Labor and What Comes After
Capitalism operates on the basis of prices aggregating information to coordinate production and consumption. When the cost of producing many goods and services approaches zero, that price mechanism stops functioning for those goods.
Something Big is Happening
Then, on February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic. And something clicked. Not like a light switch... more like the moment you realize the water has been rising around you and is now at your chest.
The Facts of Life
The News Atom is a structured, semantic unit that shows how this knowledge could be codified. It treats sentences not as raw text but as verifiable, interoperable, retrievable and reusable units. It is the smallest unit of storage and transport of a news story.
My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
LLMs are best at transforming text into less text, not the opposite.
Second NY Casino Hearings: Freedom Plaza Divides, Resorts World Unites
While Freedom Plaza’s second CAC hearing drew a mix of praise and pushback from nearby Tudor City residents, RWNY’s session in Queens saw support identical to the first CAC hearing in August. Over 50 speakers voiced unanimous support, with no opposition testimony.
Second Freedom Plaza Casino Hearing A Near-Repeat Of First
Call it stacking the deck or flooding the zone, but the first two-plus hours of the hearing were dominated by multiple groups of supporters of Freedom Plaza.
East Side residents fear losing hand as developer employees ‘stack the deck’ at final Freedom Plaza casino bid hearing
Frustrated local residents accused developers of stacking the deck at Monday’s final public hearing on the proposed $11 billion Freedom Plaza casino project in Midtown East, saying employees of Mohegan Sun and the Soloviev Group had “drowned out” neighborhood voices.
Really Simple Licensing - RSL
The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet
Make Your Voice Heard on Freedom Plaza
Good summary of the casino project and how to give feedback
High stakes in Midtown East: Vocal locals call bluff on Freedom Plaza casino plan
A packed public hearing on the proposed $11.1 billion Freedom Plaza development drew sharp divisions Thursday night as unions, business groups, and some residents touted jobs and housing, while a majority of vocal locals denounced the plans for an underground casino as a threat to neighborhood life.
Everything I Know About Self-Publishing
Another Kevin Kelly download
He co-founded Burning Man. It was the least interesting thing he ever did.
Profile of John Law and a dive into his troubled relationship with Burning Man.
The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind
A professor of creative writing on how the convenience and cheery helpfulness is robbing us of the joys of composing thoughts.
Manhattan Community Board 6: Casino License Awarding Process
Timeline and other useful information about the Freedom Plaza proposal.
New York Casino Proposals Deadline is Here: What We Know About the Contenders
Three Developers Rolling the Dice to Land a Manhattan Casino License
Three Manhattan real estate developers,–SL Green, Soloviev Group and Silverstein Properties–are expected to spend $1 million just to submit their multi-billion dollar bids for a casino license to the NYS Gaming Commission by the June 27th deadline. More details on the Freedom Plaza proposal.
Building good agents
There’s a world of difference between building an agent that works and one that doesn’t. How can we build agents that fall into the former category? In this guide, we’re going to talk about best practices for building agents.