News across Greater Portland
Artificial Intelligence in Arts Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving rapidly, meaning primary school systems and universities have begun to prepare students for AI in educational and vocational settings. Educators face the specific challenge of...
AI in Sports Medicine: Tool or Replacement?
Since the explosion of artificial intelligence in 2022, there have been increasing worries about the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) replacing jobs. Generative AI in particular has rapidly entered workplaces...
Just a Little Autistic
A viral TikTok sound says, “I like him, I like that autistic man.” Roughly 48,000 videos use it as of September 2026. Women post about their boyfriends throwing sticks at...
PSU Needs to Change Its AI Policy
Recent college graduates have expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence (AI) at their graduation ceremonies. The University of Central Florida, the University of Arizona and Middle Tennessee University have all experienced...
I Used AI to Break Up With My Boyfriend
People are so against Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the stupidest reasons. People talk about the environment as if they don’t use plastic coffee cups and drive their fossil-fuel cars. At...
City Manager update: September
Callaway Column: What Media Takes From Autism
Casting calls go out for a white man to play a 20-year-old savant. He should struggle with eye contact, be brilliant and literal — attractive, but unaware of it. The...
Dystopian Discographies
Modern-day establishments like coffee shops, restaurants, beauty salons, thrift stores and other popular places pride themselves on authenticity and individuality. A “no place like us” attitude that simply isn’t true....
Sometimes summer isn’t all it’s cracked up to me
I’m starting to prefer the cooler, quieter seasons. Summer is the worst. Often romanticized as a glorious time with gorgeous weather, when everybody’s sitting poolside (more likely riverside in Portland) drinking a piña colada (it’s Portland, so probably an IPA), as if we’re in a…
Jobs prevent hundreds of thousands of Oregonians from following health officials’ wildfire smoke advice. What do they do?
Oregon public health officials were nearly uniform with their guidance as wildfire smoke swallowed the Northwest in early August: avoid breathing smoke by staying indoors whenever possible. Particles in wildfire smoke “can cause serious respiratory and circulatory issues,…
Callaway Column: Fuck You, You’re Not Stimming
An autistic person stims on a public bus, struggling to block out the screeching brakes and max-volume Instagram Reels from the person next to them. They press the heels of...
Intellectualism Needs a Rebranding
Modern-day anti-intellectualists are individuals who reject and are skeptical of intellectuals, academia and scientific institutions. Those who choose to not obtain a higher education due to it being a “scam”...