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Combined with AI, drones are becoming the fourth in a list after: nuclear, biological, chemical. What they all have in common is a mutual/ symmetrical WMD insidiousness

Am I missing something? Science is not a random act of testing hypotheses. The scientific method is used to test educated guesses, or advances or existing findings.

ha-ha, I just began serializing a novel where... Two days after a CDC scientist is fired, she uploaded a research paper linking MAGA behavior to a mind-altering parasite. She never expects people to b…

Because good is the enemy of greed in monopoly capitalism. Enshitification is about the loss of consumer experience as a factor in use. It's upside down economics

I'm not sure the numbers support the dire title. A five percent decline ?

Quote: "and though it takes roughly 100 pounds of it to build an atomic bomb...” Are they stupid at PM or just selling misinformation?

Yes, but let's not forget that even in science we are often blind to the truth already in front of us. The papers I'm most amazed by are known but unappreciated Against Method" by Paul …

TC is a runaway apple robot programmed to make money at any "expense." With his bankrolling of China's electronics infrastructure, he epitomizes the worst of what capitalism can do. Her…

I applied this to the rise of Trump, asking an AI to draw the parallels. Here's what I got The ant study becomes an almost eerie biological mirror of Trump’s rise and the sociopolitical condition…

Money can't buy happiness. This will be history's most expensive case study.

Somebody please get Wittgenstein on the phone

No way does the evolutionary nature of the human brain suggest it's optimally designed for reasoning or thinking, so it's not a great model of how AGI might be engineered. A model. Not the m…

So many paywalls. Imagine a mirror version that has archived addresses

a good interview here: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/cory_doctorow …

https://archive.is/Pn0tm

Absolutely not the case, imagine the implications if so

Thanks - SS has basically zero support Yes, it's a nightmare. Usually I have all kinds of duplication, but this time I got busy and distracted. Appreciate it

I updated on an iphone 13 pro and had to go back to my old iphone with an older OS. I write on my phone (substack), and it cannot be done with this OS. Together the two have become inoperable. And to …

w post: https://archive.ph/uI5Lp

Maybe the first sign of AI running full amok will be Meta canceling all its accounts in a runaway state of algorithm-induced internal paranoia

My techno-thriller, Reactor, has an even smaller one in the bed of a jeep, deployed in the Middle East out of a Short SC7 Skyvan, the Flying Shoebox. Great fun!

The prophet speaks. Now you know what to bet against. Not sure he’s ever seen anything in the future beyond his empire’s inevitable demise