Because we’d rather die predictably than live differently Ah, the fabled last words of every empire on the brink, every deluded CEO polishing their golden parachute, and every middle manager rearranging deck chairs on a vessel that’s already made passionate contact with the iceberg. Back in my final corporate exile—an institution swollen with Cold War […]










AI & Chess Both Produce Pre-Coded Output
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Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says
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Climate Disobedience Waning?
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Three Years To Save The World!
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Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems
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We have established an autonomous, self-reinforcing censorship regime that serves no real purpose other than its own propagation
It pains me to say it, but we’re going to need a few textbook catastrophes—nations... Read more →
Israel Shuts Leviathan Gas Field Amid Iran Conflict, Choking Supply to Egypt
It should be insultingly obvious that any nation—let alone one wedged into the volatile pressure... Read more →
Deep-sea mining next arena for U.S. – China global rivalry
Most people carry romantic delusions about deep-sea operations, imagining sleek submarines and noble quests for... Read more →
Bank analysts predict Saudis will wage ‘long but shallow’ oil price war
Well sure, but can they really? Because out of the Big Three oil producers, Saudi... Read more →
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Cargo Ship With Electric Vehicles Burning is Abandoned in Pacific Ocean
It would’ve been far better if this whole thing had gone down right next to... Read more →
China’s Limited Tool Set: Monkey See Monkey Do
We like to pretend that more education leads to more innovation—but that’s a polished lie... Read more →
Defund The National Academy of Sciences!
The villain in The Crow—Top Dollar, all velvet menace and cigarette smoke—dropped a line that... Read more →