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Unmanned ground vehicles now haul ammunition and pull out the wounded along Ukraine's front line. The grim arithmetic: a machine you lose is not a soldier you bury.

When federal climate datasets started going dark, former NOAA staff began mirroring them by hand. This is what preservation looks like when it's done by the people who used to be inside.

Hoel's charge: the AI labs have started making claims about machine minds without engaging the field that spent decades studying the question. The cartoon image does a lot of work.

Robson's mother stopped speaking to him, and he noticed his childhood memories going with her. An essay on how much of your own past is stored inside somebody else.

It began with a nylon stocking full of sawdust that sprouted grass for hair, and nobody involved expected it to last a season. Two decades on, the same company owns a cartoon empire.