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For me, AI doom talk is fundamentally misleading and counterproductive—it’s speculative, self-serving, disproportionate and stripped of context.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine on Monday gave context.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
But though its political context is different from that of Mexico, it can offer a deeper imagination of what is possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2026
Background and context: The checks on that pressure have so far been piecemeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
He had been told nothing about the tribes involved; all identifying context had been edited out.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
“Crystal Lake” and “Carrie” have the unenviable task of taking scary mommies we already know and helping us understand their motivations in new contexts.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
"Too much double-stranded RNA or mRNA that cannot be degraded effectively may contribute to disease processes in some contexts."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Democracies do this as a matter of course, and we can, too, even if we modify these lessons, and learn from their shortcomings, for our own particular contexts.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
She has recorded her meditative work “The Ballerina” in several duet contexts, but here she and Mr. Hurst trade interlocking figures while Mr. Blake’s shimmering percussion provides a stellar backdrop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
If anything, a number in these contexts enhances individuality; no two people have the same credit-card number, for example, whereas many have similar names or personality traits or socioeconomic profiles.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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