Axon Is Quietly Becoming the Thing We Fought Flock To Stop
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Cities are ripping out Flock cameras and replacing them with Axon systems that do the same job from inside a streetlight
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Build-a-Cult: The Peter Thiel Retreat That Wasn't Supposed to Exist
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A data leak exposed Dialog, Peter Thiel's secretive elite network. The agenda -- "Build-a-Cult," "Navigating WWIII," senators off the record with their regulators -- isn't the scandal. The architecture is.
One Rejection, Fifty Jobs: The Algorithmic Monoculture Quietly Blacklisting You
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The job market sells the illusion of fifty independent chances. Consolidation collapsed them into a few shared algorithms, so one auto-rejection quietly becomes many, and the data point follows you for a year.
Your Doctor Has Two Tools: A Pill and a Knife (And 5,000 Years of Medicine Says There Should Be More)
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How western allopathic medicine became a 150-year-old experiment in reductionism while traditional healing systems with millennia of results get dismissed as quackery
The Real History of Daylight Saving Time: A Bug Collector, a Golfer, and the Kaiser
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Daylight Saving Time was not invented for farmers or by Benjamin Franklin. It was dreamed up by a New Zealand bug collector, championed by an obsessed British golfer, and weaponized by the German Empire during World War I.
You're Paying a Higher Tax Rate Than Elon Musk. Let's Talk About That.
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The world's top 25 billionaires paid a 3.4% true tax rate on their ballooning fortunes. The median American pays 14%. Here is what taxing extreme wealth correctly would look like, and the staggering list of things we could fund.
The Road Warrior Was Wrong About One Thing: It Won't Be Oil. It'll Be Water.
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AI data centers are drinking billions of gallons of freshwater while 4 billion people already face water scarcity. The dystopian resource wars may be closer than we think, just not the ones Hollywood predicted.
Cancel ChatGPT. Seriously. Here Is Why.
10 min read
OpenAI deleted its ban on military use, lobbied the Trump administration to rank the world by US tech loyalty, took a Pentagon contract when Anthropic refused on ethics grounds, and is now showing you ads. What exactly are you still paying for?