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You may not know it, but … Genetic analysis reveals that house cats were never domesticated like dogs and horses. Humans invented the idea of robot uprisings to reassure ourselves that we are a worthy adversary for our machines, rather than merely their boring aunties. Fired pottery changed the world more than the internet will. In the future, computers and the natural environment will merge. Homo sapiens is merely a glorified combination of Homo erectus and a lot of symbolic-nomadic labor. Your gender has become a weaponized meme. I have some strange ideas, but by gum, I just might be on to something. It helps that every missive from The Hypothesis is grounded in science and data. The Hypothesis delivers a mix of science news, historical analysis, and evidence-based speculation. Plus, you can keep up with what I’m publishing elsewhere online. Newsletters will not come out on a regular schedule, and you'll never know when one might pop up in your inbox. I’m Annalee Newitz. I write science fiction and nonfiction. I’m the award-winning author of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, the sci-fi novels The Future of Another Timeline and Autonomous, as well as several other books. I’m also a contributor to the New York Times and New Scientist, and a lapsed academic who got a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. Every two weeks, I co-host the Hugo Award-winning podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

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The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox. Click to read The Future, Now and Then, by Dave Karpf, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Tedium is a twice-weekly offbeat digital newsletter that mines the depths of the long tail in search of obscurities. Dig in.

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Technology is terrific for the privileged, and horrific for everyone else — but why? WHY?? It's not fair ugh. Click to read Horrific/Terrific, by Georgia Iacovou, a Substack publication.

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Written from a journalist in a red state, this newsletter is personal, political, sometimes funny and always raises hell. Click to read Men Yell at Me, by lyz, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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Explaining the weird new future, one newsletter at a time. Subscribe for a twice weekly delivery of internet culture, mega-platform grotesquerie, crypto conspiracies, deep forum lore, fringe politics, and other artifacts of what's to come. Click to read Read Max, by Max Read, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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A veteran Washington Post reporter offers an unsparing look at tech, AI and the future (but, like, the human side). Click to read Mind and Iron, by Steven Zeitchik, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.