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America Has a Chance to Make Farming More Climate Friendly
Legislators took a major step in making sure that American agriculture policy has a climate lens going forward. But the next Farm Bill could derail it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/opinion/climate-change-farm-bill-farmers.html?smid=em-share
Silicon Valley Confronts the Idea That the ‘Singularity’ Is Here
The frenzy over artificial intelligence may be ushering in the long-awaited moment when technology goes wild. Or maybe it’s the hype that is out of control.
Oklahoma Breaches the Wall Between Church and State
Religious liberty, not religious authority, should be the aim of the American right.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opinion/oklahoma-church-state-religion.html?smid=em-share
How Sam Altman Stormed Washington to Set the A.I. Agenda
The chief executive of OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT, has met with at least 100 U.S. lawmakers in recent months. He has also taken his show abroad.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/technology/sam-altman-ai-regulations.html?smid=em-share
What Rural America Has to Teach Us
Civic service as a way of life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/opinion/nebraska-rural-america.html?smid=em-share
They Fled San Francisco. The A.I. Boom Pulled Them Back.
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding, hackathons and networking of the artificial intelligence frenzy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/technology/ai-san-francisco-tech-industry.html?smid=em-share
From Tel Aviv to Riyadh
My recent journey through the Middle East was unlike anything I’d ever experienced in a region that has long been my second home.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/israel-saudi-arabia.html?smid=em-share
“An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
— John Gardner, “Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?” (1961)