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Five essential perspectives that cut through AI hype: from developer evolution stages to junior learning crises, productivity reality checks, platform disruption, and MCP server pitfalls

Agustín Fuentes, bioanthropologist: ‘Saying that human beings are binary is a failure; it’s not biology, it’s philosophy’

The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and genitals

Field Essentialism, Field Realism, Field Pragmatism

Scholarly fields – economics, physics, computer science – are the basic units for thinking about metascience.

All the King’s Horses

ALL THE KING’S HORSES: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn It is difficult in these depressing times to find a positive thread to hang onto, especially if you are a believer in the increasi…

Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of peace ever since

The long read: The cost of growing up in a low-level police state

October 20, 2023

Last night, President Joe Biden spoke to the nation from the Oval Office to shore up U.S. support for Ukraine and Israel. “[H]istory has taught us that when terrorists don’t pay a price for their terror, when dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos and death and more destruction. They keep going, and the cost and the threats to America and to the world keep rising,” he said.