# oddities
If the world feels increasingly like it wasn't built with you in mind anymore, you're right. But for who is it being built? And what can you do about it?
# tech
Social media's aversion to expertise, hype from AI companies, and fear of automation, turned useful new tools into objects of dutiful worship.
# science
The Trumpian war on science, culture, and checks and balances on executive power is eagerly, and rapidly, repeating the worst mistakes of past autocracies.
# politics
Our world is changing rapidly. Our culture, leaders, systems, and worldviews? Not so much. And this is becoming a downright apocalyptic problem.
# tech
The PayPal Mafia's grand plan for Western civilization is a cyberpunk dystopia they don't even know how to build.
# health
One of scientists' biggest fears about fungi and global warming is slowly starting to play out as temperatures soar.
# science
If you believe popular science headlines, our cosmos could unravel at any instant. It's very unlikely, but the idea's core questions are still worth asking.
# politics
When anything done in good faith and boring competence always get a negative spin, why bother trying to help or inform anyone?
# health
In a classic move of our newly regressive times, a public health menace is being put in charge of managing public health and the next pandemic.
# oddities
A ramble about social media algorithms, the creator economy, and the futility of trying to go viral for a living.
# tech
Not everyone needs a "pivot to AI." Far more often than not, off the shelf models are all your company needs, and even that might be overkill.
# sex
In an ever more crowded and difficult to navigate social media landscape, more wanna be influencers and viral stars are trying to get attention by emulating porn stars.
# tech
A group of researchers claims chat bots have as good of a grasp of others' moods and reasoning as we do. But there's an oversight that could render these findings moot...
# science
A new discovery by scientists shows an organism becoming part of another, proving an idea that creationists insisted was impossible.
# space
A Japanese company claims they have a plan of how to build an elevator all the way into orbit by 2050. Unfortunately, that plan requires technology on par with magic.
