"But don’t pity the dead. They have time on their mouldering hands, and all they do is think of ways to vex us. They watch we living go about our dirty business—lying and cheating; penis-pumping; pirating pop music—and smile, amused, cool, indifferent, they’re like high-functioning heroin addicts, or cats. You want to get their attention, … Continue reading The Dead’s Goat
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The Basement of Warehouse 23
"Somewhere, beneath the cover of an innocuous-looking retail operation, those with true Power have built a facility to imprison forces man was not meant to know . . . things we were never meant to comprehend. The Ark of the Covenant. The Crystal Skull. Alien spacecraft . . . and aliens. Documentation of conspiracies and … Continue reading The Basement of Warehouse 23
Federal Vacancies & Senate Dysfunction
"Biden is hardly the first incoming president to struggle with filling key positions. Any new administration faces hundreds of openings at the same time it’s grappling with other urgent challenges. Biden’s pace of nominations is faster than Donald Trump’s, slower than Barack Obama’s and about the same as George W. Bush’s — though unlike any … Continue reading Federal Vacancies & Senate Dysfunction
Advice is a Dangerous Gift
"Gildor was silent for a moment. 'I do not like this news,' he said at last. 'That Gandalf should be late, does not bode well. But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.' 'And it … Continue reading Advice is a Dangerous Gift
A Billion Years, A Galaxy
"New research published in the American Astronomical Society has confirmed through the use of a computer simulation that aliens–or humans–could potentially colonize the galaxy, a feat within the capabilities of modern Earth technology. According to the new research, doing so would only take a civilization like ours a billion years to complete."-Liam Stewart, "New Research Suggests … Continue reading A Billion Years, A Galaxy
African Polyandry
"In polyandry, the woman often initiates the relationships, and invites the husbands to join her union. Some pay the bride price, others opt to contribute to her livelihood. She has the power to remove a co-husband if she believes he is destabilising her other relationships.Prof Machoko said love was the main reason the men he … Continue reading African Polyandry
The World Ends on Sesame Street
Read this story about Bert and Ernie at the end of the world. It's the best end of the world story I've read in a long while.
Policy of Poverty
"The American economy runs on poverty, or at least the constant threat of it. Americans like their goods cheap and their services plentiful and the two of them, together, require a sprawling labor force willing to work tough jobs at crummy wages. On the right, the barest glimmer of worker power is treated as a … Continue reading Policy of Poverty
Invisibility Sheets
"An Israeli tech company said it has developed a camouflage technology that makes soldiers on the battlefield virtually undetectable......The lightweight sheet is made out of a special thermal visual concealment (TVC) material, comprised of metals, polymers and microfibers. The material allows soldiers much more difficult to distinguish from nature, both with the naked eye and … Continue reading Invisibility Sheets
Precise Passage
"In one of the last dreams in Lightman’s book, Einstein imagines a world not too dissimilar from our own, where one 'Great Clock' determines the time for everyone. Every day, tens of thousands of people line up outside the Temple of Time where the Great Clock resides, waiting their turn to enter and bow before … Continue reading Precise Passage
That’s When I Reach For My Revolver by Mission of Burma
Short-Bus People
"The attorney for 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley says that his client and other accused Capitol rioters were uniquely vulnerable to being misled by former President Trump’s lies, TPM reports.Said Albert Watkins: "A lot of these defendants… they’re all fucking short-bus people. These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.'He … Continue reading Short-Bus People
Nightmare Fuel: Uploaded Consciousness
"MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Álvarez Acevedo (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031. Though it was not the first successful … Continue reading Nightmare Fuel: Uploaded Consciousness
The Misinformation Virus
"Online media has given voice to previously marginalised groups, including peddlers of untruth, and has supercharged the tools of deception at their disposal. The transmission of falsehoods now spans a viral cycle in which AI, professional trolls and our own content-sharing activities help to proliferate and amplify misleading claims. These new developments have come on … Continue reading The Misinformation Virus
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