By James Howard Kunstler and All News Pipeline “To an authoritarian ruling elite insane narratives serve as both loyalty test and humiliation ritual.” —Kit Knightly The ordeal of the holidays, and the void of action that attends it, is over. Now, history resumes its awesome out-spooling. Will it be tyranny, collapse, war, civil war, renewal? Read More…
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The True Story Of How Humans Are Searching For Intelligent Alien Life
Real scientists are searching for alien life. Don’t let the kooks distract you. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews , PhD, is an award-winning freelance science journalist and author who writes about the Earth, space, and planetary sciences. This summer, a stony-faced David Grusch, a former US Air Force intelligence officer, sat before a Read More…
How Copyright Lawsuits Could Kill OpenAI
The New York Times v. OpenAI, explained. If you’re old enough to remember watching the hit kid’s show Animaniacs, you probably remember Napster, too. The peer-to-peer file-sharing site, which made it easy to download music for free in an era before Spotify and Apple Music, took college campuses by storm in the late 1990s. This Read More…
Trans Rights Protesters
Share All sharing options Trans rights protesters outside of the Supreme Court building in 2019. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States. He received a JD from Duke University and Read More…
How A 27-YRS Codebreaker Busted The Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity
Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown. ILLUSTRATION: SAM RODRIGUEZ Just over a decade ago, Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly private digital cash for Read More…
Will An Oil Racket Destroy One Of Africa’s Most Sacred Places?
A Canadian company has begun drilling near the protected Okavango River Delta, promising jobs for locals and endless fossil fuel for investors. So far, there’s been no oil — but there have been big profits for the founders Mar 26, 2023 10:10 am AT THE EDGE of the Okavango Delta in northern Namibia, the land Read More…