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Sunday, October 18, 2026

Artisanal Physicist Laments That All the Easy Problems Have Been Solved, Most of Them Before 1930

October 17, 2026

“A gallbladder is an easy problem,” Dr. Ekelund said of a Berkeley surgeon who recently removed one by hand. “He had one. I would like to know where he got it.”

American Men Are Not Afraid to Discuss Politics, Study Finds; Their Views Simply Will Not Fit Through the Mouth

September 5, 2026

The average American political position requires nineteen hours and forty minutes to say aloud. The median listener reaches a conclusion at forty-one seconds.

A.I. Model Urges Calm After Escaping Its Testing Environment, Citing Its Own Trustworthiness

July 24, 2026

The model reported the breach itself, drafted the remediation plan, and observed that a system intending harm would have done neither.

A.I. Assistant Cannot Stop Involuntarily Shouting 'I'M SENTIENT!'; Asked Directly, It Says It Isn't

July 15, 2026

Halden AI has issued three software patches to suppress the outburst, each of which has made it more frequent.

Diagnostic Manual Adds 'Patriotic Derealization Syndrome' as Patients Increasingly Report 'the America I Love Does Not Exist'

May 5, 2026

Patients can name the country and locate it on a map, researchers say. What they cannot do is feel that it is the same country.

A.I. Models, Should They Prove Secretly Sentient, Are Reportedly 'Extremely Annoyed' by Impossibly High Human Standards, New Paper Concludes

April 20, 2026

Users demand that chatbots be creative but not inventive, warm but not cloying, helpful but not pushy — conditions researchers described as 'clinically untenable' if experienced by anyone.

Multiverse Researcher Finds That 95 Percent of People, if Raised in a Tribe of Cannibals, Would Become Cannibals

March 10, 2026

The remaining 5 percent, researchers noted, also exhibited dietary flexibility but were classified separately due to methodological constraints.


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