It’s a science fiction story set during the present year of 2026, which was originally published in “New Scientist,” twenty years ago.

ONE During the American Revolutionary war, the Brits hired Hessian mercenaries, professional battle-hardened and blooded soldiers to terrify the colonists.

At the Bernie-Bannon AI hysteria conference, they allowed a heretical voice on stage—who happens to be one of the smartest & most accomplished technologists on Earth. Jaron Lanier explained the origi...

Narcissism: Marked by grandiosity, pride, arrogance, and a constant need for attention and admiration. Psychopathy: Characterized by high impulsivity,

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

He’s the single worst Democratic hopeful now (almost) running for president. Democratic midterm candidates be warned: stay away from him.

Also: "fast as hell and built for sickos?" That's what they called me in high school.

The effective altruist movement supported by "journalists" Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias has already changed the world dramatically.

How FlockOff! Ithaca successfully pressured two municipal governments in upstate New York to end contracts with Flock Safety.

One of the key arguments for a great power — other than...

Gen Z women refuse to have our bodies and reproductive agency pressed into service in some futile attempt to balance the books of a chaotic economy.

YouTube video by Lafayette Gilchrist

“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”

YouTube video by Paul Krugman

A picture from a college football game incensed the online racists. They finally gave up hiding what they are really after.

The AI industry tapped former Obama aide Jay Carney to rebuild ties with Democrats. He spent years at Amazon undermining privacy protections and fighting AI regulation.