Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole by Isabel J. Kim

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Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

Dr. Richard Harris, aka ‘Dr. Harry,’ and the Wetmules made the first reported hydrogen (H2) rebreather dive to a depth of 230m/751 ft, in The Pearse Resurgence, New Zealand.

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

You may want to keep this news from your kids.

Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…

A Very Private School offers a clear-eyed, firsthand account of a culture of cruelty at the school Spencer attended in his youth and provides important insights into an antiquated boarding system. Drawing on the memories of many of his schoolboy contemporaries, as well as his own letters and diaries from the time, he reflects

Patients who had more cells had better outcomes, particularly for aggressive types such as triple-negative breast cancer

It was one of those nights we wait all year for, the first night where you can go outside without a coat or a sweater. I walked up Lincoln Avenue after an uncommonly good production of Hamlet, and thinking many thoughts about the play. They’d gotten Hamlet right, which is rare enough that I should…

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.