Comparison: . . . Trump, his children and their hangers-on started using his current stint in the White House as a bejeweled A.T.M. vomiting crisp million-dollar bills into their greedy hands Frank Bruni writing with Bret Stevens in a New York Times op-ed notes that opportunities offered to those associated with Donald Trump via family or administration ties seems to result in higher totals in various bank accounts. Do tell! Many thanks to P. Amick for sharing the comparison.

Comparison: As the evidence mounts that terrible answers and jailbreaks are an inevitable part of the technology, the industry’s focus has lately shifted to building digital cages, essentially more deterministic, symbolic harnesses to contain the generative A.I. engine and check its results. Zeynep Tufekci writing in the New York Times suggests that our worry over AI stealing jobs, while not unfounded, is overblown in much media coverage. How then to control jailbreaks and ot

Comparison: [Vancouver, BC . . .] has a formidable downtown skyline but, seen from the sky, the vast majority of the land is devoted to houses with moats of grass. Binyamin Appelbaum in the New York Times writes about how one major North American city has, perhaps, found a way to create more housing. Yet he notes that Vancouver, BC may have created the conditions leading to their housing crisis by encouraging certain types of housing to the exclusion of others. Hence, his cle