1. There are some announcements that land like a stone in still water, sending ripples through a community before people fully understand what has happened. This was one of them. Pennsylvania, a state that prides itself on its hospitals, its schools, and its sense of shared responsibility, reported its first measles deaths in decades. Not one, but several lives lost to a disease that many Americans had almost forgotten. For years, measles was something talked about in history books, a childhood illness that vaccines had effectively banished from everyday worry. Parents no longer feared it. Doctors rarely saw it. And…

The AI Content Empire Built on Fake Writers and Broken Promises In September 2024, an Australian entrepreneur named Justin Brown posted a YouTube video warning that writers should be “scared right now” about artificial intelligence. Filmed as he hiked through a national park, Brown mused that AI would inevitably take many people’s jobs, “including writers.” What he failed to mention was that his own company, Brown Brothers Media (BBM), which he runs with his brothers Lachlan and Brendan, had just months earlier fired a stunning proportion of its own writers as it embraced the very technology he was warning about.…