Sunday, October 18, 2026
Archive‘The Switzerland of North America’: Albertans vote on leaving Canada
Monday, Albertans vote on walking out of Canada — with a pitch to become "the Switzerland of North America." Mark Carney's whole unity project is the collateral.
A Great Moral Blind Spot of Our Age
McCartney said that if slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would go vegetarian. Kristof went and got the footage, then builds the argument on top of it.
The Russian Bot Apocalypse
A viral chart said Russia's bot armies vanished the moment drones hit Yandex's data centers. What actually went dark was taxi dispatch, payments and crawlers — Boyle shows the receipts.
Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
Open the hood of a language model and it turns out to plan several words ahead. The researcher doing the opening explains why "it just predicts the next token" is a story we tell ourselves.
The First Candid
In 1838 a shoeshine boy stood still long enough to survive Daguerre's exposure — the first human being ever photographed, by accident. Paris is now putting a plaque on the spot.