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A campaign promoting natural birth is making false claims about C-sections. No one has publicly claimed responsibility for it. It is rare to witness the birth of a conspiracy with the help of unclaimed billboards filling Bucharest, like this week’s anti-C-sections campaign. I don’t know if those who threw away tens of thousands of euros to tell lies about C-sections in an unclaimed...

Ghent University invited Nathan Cofnas, a controversial philosopher, to work on a scientific project, prompting 45 philosophers to demand, in an open letter, the withdrawal of the invitation on the grounds of racism.

While Block’s Jack Dorsey lays off thousands because of AI, with market approval, the announcement from Anthropic’s head that he will not let AI control weapons is more nuanced than it seems. The objection is technological, not moral.

Five gadgets that have caught my eye recently, even if you can’t buy all of them quite yet.