February 18, 2019
February 17, 2019
AI can write just like me. Brace for the robot apocalypse. Another thing that could “never happen” just happened.
February 16, 2019
The Nuclear Option. As atomic power fades, a new band of supporters argues that it is still our best source of clean, reliable, and—yes—safe electricity. Plants with newer tech are much safer. I’m for nuclear 100%.
‘Mother’ and ‘father’ to be banned on forms as French schools go gender-neutral. Neolib negation of intimate relations. Nothing to do with “equality.”
February 15, 2019
Damn, it feels good to be a white-collar worker. Very good essay.
When Evolution Works Against the Future: Disgust’s Contributions to the Acceptance of New Food Technologies. But I thought humans didn’t evolve?
February 14, 2019
Stupid Medicaid tricks: Utah figures out how to spend more to cover fewer people. As long as it punishes the dirty poor, who cares, right?
February 13, 2019
2-Billion-Year-Old Squiggles Could Be the Earliest Evidence of a Mobile Life Form. The squiggles that wiggle.
Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition. What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world. Well, it’s a start. It’s been obvious for many years that science has been hilariously wrong about animal cognition due to anthropomorphization fears.
February 12, 2019
February 11, 2019
Insects could vanish within a century at current rate of decline, says global review. You 30-and-unders are so very fucked.
50 Years In Tech. Part 16: Be Fundraising Misadventures. I miss BeOS every day. The only good OS ever made.
February 10, 2019
How Austerity, and a Cowardly Ruling Class, Brought About Brexit. Brexit Britain is an object lesson in how a modern nation fails. But, but, racists! Racists against white people, who are also white!
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez masterfully exposed America’s broken campaign finance system. Other than Bernie, she’s the best thing to happen to politics in a while.
February 9, 2019
Nancy Pelosi Signals Support For Environmental Causes By Placing Green New Deal Directly Into Recycling Bin. This is true news, not really satire.
February 8, 2019
The ethical case for wearing leather, fur, and silk. Veganism and some of vegetarianism seems like a simpleton’s version of morality. Examines only first-order effects, no concept of opportunity costs.
February 7, 2019
As a Woman Serving Alongside Green Berets, I Had No Problem Keeping Up. It Wasn’t Enough. I knew many women in the 82nd who could’ve definitely been Special Forces, if given the chance.
A hole opens up under Antarctic glacier — big enough to fit two-thirds of Manhattan. Great, when can we start putting Manhattan under there?