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We Canadians are overwhelmingly pro-Ukraine and anti-Putin, so when the CBC published an expose last week about "banned Russian oil" sneaki...

In July 1980, a group of Salvadoran migrants crossed the border between Mexico and Arizona. They walked over a remote mountain range and halfway across a wide desert valley in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. There were more than two dozen of them—people who had left behind lives and jobs to come to the United

No.342 — Hypernormalisation ⊗ Getting to know futures studies ⊗ DeepSeek reader ⊗ Chinese fusion power generation

Acid communism? Psychedelic Corbynism? Freak left? Call it what you will – but re-infuse endeavours with a spirit of radical collectivism and unselfing to revivify co-opted countercultures for a world that would be free.

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No.341 — A Newspaper from a (Near) Future ⊗ The global struggle over how to regulate AI ⊗ These homes withstood the LA fires

When Hurricane Helene hit Western North Carolina, the Swannanoa River rose three storys above its shores, all but erasing the town named after the river, and leaving hundreds homeless. But the chal…

A few days ago, the smoke alarms in my house went off at 3am, so we got up and took it seriously when we smelled smoke everywhere. But after 20 minutes of searching high and low, we couldn't find a source, so as a precaution, we called 911 to let

The Nerd Reich: Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint. [...] Everything Elon Musk and his tech cronies are doing to our government is what Balaji Srinivasan spelled out in his network state cult manifestos -- a tech CEO takeover of government, the purging of institutions, the rise of ...

Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint. Yet even as tech billionaires openly implement their well-documented playbook for dismantling American democracy, no one will dare say the words "network state" – except for Steve Bannon, unfortunately. In

Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, technical write-up — although there will be some inevitable technical complexities, just because the

Today's main thing is a lovely remembrance of the life and music of Garth Hudson of The Band and in particular The Last Waltz by Rax King. Paid subscribers can read it down below or go directly to it here. Everything they gave us before they leftOn Garth Hudson of

There are people out there apparently seriously proposing to spend over thirty million dollars, and an uncountable amount of labor, to adversarially interoperate with Blue Sky. Blue Sky has thus far duped the stenographers of the tech media that it is an "open" protocol that will interoperate "some day". This is a lie. They will never do this. It will never be in their financial interest. If ...

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Amway sold my family a life built on delusion.

All the king’s men, back with a vengeance.

The supremely bizarre criminal case continues to expand in scope.

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A federal judge just blocked Trump’s domestic spending freeze. His opinion relies heavily on another one by Justice Kavanaugh.

DeepSeek shows that building big doesn't guarantee success.