They should publicly apologize and retract calls for her resignation

(Note: this text was originally published in Metastructure, where you can find my fictions and a little more) “Dad, what was that ‘big picture’ you were talking about earlier?” “The one that many peo...

No, I'm not going to write a cliché and trite post like you can find by the dozens online, what would be the point? I'm going to tell you how Valentine's Day takes place in my household in Japan. S...

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This is the Place de la Bastille in Paris, about 100 years ago. And this is what it looked like 90 years later: The postcard shows the building that stood before the Opera Bastille was constructed. ...

Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution from vehicles will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says

Jimmy Lai's sentence marks the harshest punishment among all prosecutions under the 2020 National Security Law, enacted by Beijing in Hong Kong.

The year is 1995. This year is one of the best years for whoever calls themselves a fan of "indie rock" music. It was also a time when TV was a place where you could actually listen to good, non-mains...

In this talk, Professor Carl Bergstrom will look at what social media vand information technology more generally are doing to society; consider how we ended up here; examine where AI chatbots are taki...

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If you’ve already asked yourself the question, maybe you’ll find the beginning of an answer in this short story. What it is: A story about the colonisation of Mars. Kind of… What it is not: A…