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A growing number of farmers are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, to tackle daily tasks. One farmer said “I’ve been blown away by the information it can kick out in a host of different areas."

Gen V’s season-long satire of college sports, superheroes, and capitalism comes to a wicked end. Even with their amazing powers, superhumans are still humans; corporations have the real power.

Another bombing, writes Poet Melanie Tafejian, “Ten people died./ Seven of them children….” Another mistake.

Written nearly six years ago about the brutal French colonial suppression of the Algerian population. Is the civilian population of a colonial-settler regime ever a legitimate military target?

This book, says reviewer Dunbar-Ortiz, "contains a passionate narrative" by Paul Auster, a poet and novelist, alongside "stark and somber black-and-white photographs of sites of mass shootings" by Spencer Ostrander.

Roger Ross Williams cinematic tour de force proceeds to tell the story of racism through the colonial period up to today’s Black Lives Matter struggles against police brutality and more.

It took a while, but the FDA’s proposal on net and drained weight of tuna cans is a good thing; just how much tuna resides in any given can is a mystery.

From The Host to Kingdom, Korean filmmakers have used the horror genre as a vehicle for political critique and reached a huge global audience. They’re building on a long international tradition of socially conscious scare stories.

The poet Naomi Shihab Nye expresses a child’s sense of helplessness, trapped by politics and war.

In a new biography, the Velvet Underground front man embodies a New York that exists only in memory.