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Buried inside federal Bills C-22, C-34, and C-9 is a sweeping surveillance architecture. Here is what it means for Canadians and how to self-host your way out.

Colonial Americans were drinking coffee long before they dumped tea into Boston Harbor or fought a war for independence -- and the coffeehouses that served it were already brewing revolutionary ideas.

This book is an exploration of how language shapes public understanding of urban change. Its central theme is that debates about gentrification have become increasingly focused on the symbolism of the term itself, sometimes at the expense of understanding the deeper forces that determine who benefits from, and who is displaced by, the transformation of cities

An article about how China’s short dramas are redefining entertainment.

This paper studies how AI agents' choices are influenced by their peers. It is found that advanced models tend to follow the majority, and they can use this mechanism to coordinate groups far larger than human groups.

An article published by Carnegie Mellon University collating thoughts from AI experts on the current language used when discussing AI.

This paper tries to answer a question: Can current frontier AI agents automate open-ended AI research? The answer of authors is essentially: not yet.