Sleight of Mind (@SleightOfMindJC)

Did you move back in with family during the 2020 pandemic? Did someone you know pack their car, break their lease, and drive home to a parent's spare bedroom? Here is what almost nobody realized at the time: under the federal government's own definition, losing your housing and doubling up with relatives due to economic hardship counts as homelessness. Not metaphorically. By definition. In July 2020, 52 percent of young American adults were living with their parents, a higher share than during the Great Depression. Millions of people experienced homelessness that year and never had to wear the label, because the Bank of Mom and Dad kept it off their record. Many of them went right back to despising the people who had no spare bedroom to retreat to. My new piece is about that mirror, the one held up in 2020 that nobody wanted to look into. The only thing separating a taxpayer from a tent is one crisis and one missing phone number. Read it here, and tell me in the comments: where did you ride out 2020?

The hardcover of The Divine Algorithm: We Are the AI We Thought We Created is live. But first, a question: Do you have an internal dialogue? Research suggests a staggering percentage of humans don’t. So what is consciousness, then? The book takes that question seriously. Most won’t.