"One useful metric we’ve found is verified registrations per 1,000 page views, which allows us to compare performance as traffic changes over time."

John Law on the founding of Burning Man and what it has become.

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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?

Sham news sites are increasingly common in Florida and across the country, a dangerous development for American democracy.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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’

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.

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.

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 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.

LLMs are best at transforming text into less text, not the opposite.

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.

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.

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.

Good summary of the casino project and how to give feedback

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.

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Profile of John Law and a dive into his troubled relationship with Burning Man.

A professor of creative writing on how the convenience and cheery helpfulness is robbing us of the joys of composing thoughts.

Timeline and other useful information about the Freedom Plaza proposal.