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(1) Google’s AI View censors Gibson’s Neuromancer.

(2) “I’m a Maine reporter who went to high school with Graham Platner. Here’s what explains his success.”

(3) “Will 2026 Be a Normal Midterm?”

(4) “AI companies are gaining access to exceptionally intimate data about consumers.”

The other day I spotted an albino Dalmatian.

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• The Woozle Effect

Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women

Memorial Day is tomorrow, so Happy Memorial Day for those who celebrate.

Lambert here: I wish to heck I knew; losing yet more weight would be the best thing I could do for my heart. News you can use!

Exercise may be training your brain just as much as your body.

Google’s market cap is $4.596 Trillion USD. Is it really too much to ask that when they roll out a new, AI-powered Search page, that it not shit the bed have issues? On its very first day? Reminds me of those other brAIn geniuses at DOGE, whose website was also hacked before the first news cycle ended.

Lambert here: Given that Marxism qua -ism — some might prefer to call it secular dispensationalism — is founded on class analysis, cultural Marxism is and must be a contradiction in terms, though logic never stopped a knee from jerking.

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“The Moon in its First Quarter,” Claude Mellan (French, Abbeville 1598–1688 Paris). Date: 1635.