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Fujio Torikoshi was 14 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, 80 years ago today. He was eating breakfast with his mother when he heard a rumbling and stepped outside into the front garden. All he could see was a black dot in the sky, when it suddenly burst outwards to fill […]

Yesterday we discussed Chinese vs. American AI. The big difference is that a lot of China’s AI is Open Source. Not just Deepseek, but: In addition to Baidu, other Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba Group and Tencent have increasingly been providing their AI offerings for free and are making more models open source. For […]

Caroline Orr explains how Trump has enabled the algorithmic capture of social media platforms, resulting in stealth censorship

Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of...

Creation Fest, a registered charity, has said it will not invite the group back, but questions remain

Some hyper-sensitive Americans love to cry buckets of liberal tears over every minor provocation, like the Sydney Sweeney jeans ad or how the policy of separating immigrant asylum seekers from their children has been revived.

Why are they so scandalized by a woman being sexy and by scandals?

It’s so predictable and pathetic how there’s some big uproar every time a cute young lady winks at the camera or a creepy old man who is president sloppily covers up his involvement with a pedophile sex offender.

If I had a dime every time people freaked out over something tiny like a blonde making a blonde joke or a president influencing a witness to change the details of their testimony in exchange for a more favorable prison sentence, I’d have at least half the cost of a seat at one of said president’s influence-peddling crypto-dinners.

Why do they act like it’s such a big deal to flaunt a preference for blue eyes or fire a respected career statistician for reporting real but negative employment numbers, thereby redefining all facts unfavorable to the president as “rigged” and rendering all future state-reported information meaningless?

Regulators won hundreds of millions in refunds for U.S. consumers — now the Trump administration is set to terminate them.

Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Wednesday) spoke with us about living their dream by joining the Doctor Who universe and their favorite Doctor.

“And in their place came acceptance.” Staying relevant in your profession as you age and technology changes.

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The Women's Safety Initiative is getting more attention, but its ideological underpinnings deserve serious scrutiny, reports Katherine Denkinson

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In 2019, an abandoned smartphone was found partially buried beneath layers of sediment and urine in a South Boston alleyway. This forgotten relic was soon revealed to contain a remarkable audio text describing in great detail the religious beliefs of ancient Scandinavia. This oral manuscript was transcribed and released to the general public as Norse Mythology for Bostonians in early 2020 and translated into English and released as The Impudent Edda in late 2023.