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The Silence Was Legal. Trump Just Made It Optional.

The Silence Was Legal. Trump Just Made It Optional.

For decades, classified NDAs kept former military and intelligence officials from discussing UAP encounters. This week, the administration directed agencies to waive those agreements. The people who know things are legally free to say them. Whether they do is a different question.

The AI Files, Part 1: Nobody Agreed on What AI Was For. They Built It Anyway.

The AI Files, Part 1: Nobody Agreed on What AI Was For. They Built It Anyway.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Blame Them All?

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Blame Them All?

The Universe Is Recording Everything

The Universe Is Recording Everything

Dark Matter Doesn't Exist (and That's the Problem)

Dark Matter Doesn't Exist (and That's the Problem)

What If the Placebo Effect Is the Point?

What If the Placebo Effect Is the Point?

War of the AIs: The Fight We Won't Be Invited To

War of the AIs: The Fight We Won't Be Invited To

Stories from the Edge

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Blame Them All?

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, How Do I Blame Them All?

Something went wrong. Not a catastrophe. Just the ordinary kind of wrong — something damaged, something missed, something promised and not delivered. You ask the person responsible about it. And then something quietly remarkable happens. "I" becomes "we." Nobody can quite remember the details. The circumstances were

The Universe Is Recording Everything

The Universe Is Recording Everything

Dark Matter Doesn't Exist (and That's the Problem)

Dark Matter Doesn't Exist (and That's the Problem)

What If the Placebo Effect Is the Point?

What If the Placebo Effect Is the Point?

The Emperor Has No Clothes. We Just Stopped Caring.

The Emperor Has No Clothes. We Just Stopped Caring.

Scorched landscape under a blood-orange sky, lone tree silhouette in the distance

The World Will End in Fire

Customer service headset on a desk beside a keyboard, screen glowing with an email draft

Porkbun.com - When Customer Support Turns Patronizing — and Punishes You for Speaking Up

The Inner Rebel

Editorial illustration for: Tarot Stopped Promising Your Future and Started Explaining Your Present. That's the Upgrade.

Tarot Stopped Promising Your Future and Started Explaining Your Present. That's the Upgrade.

The fortune-telling version was always going to disappoint somebody. The self-understanding version actually works.

Row of identical supplement bottles with vague labels, backlit in warm amber

We Used to Call It Snake Oil. Now It Has 4 Million Subscribers and a Supplement Line.

Editorial illustration for: Reading for Skeptics: What 10,000 Readings Taught Me About People Who Don't Believe

Reading for Skeptics: What 10,000 Readings Taught Me About People Who Don't Believe

Old library with candlelight on open esoteric texts, dust motes visible in the beam

Mysticism: True, False, or Are We Asking the Wrong Question?

Star chart spread on a table beside scattered personal items — planner, keys, receipts

Mercury Retrograde Didn't Ruin Your Life, You Did

Editorial illustration for: Is Tarot a Joke? Tell That to the People It Actually Helped.

Is Tarot a Joke? Tell That to the People It Actually Helped.

Editorial illustration for: How to Actually Tune Into Tarot (No, You Don't Need to 'Believe' First)

How to Actually Tune Into Tarot (No, You Don't Need to 'Believe' First)

Messages to Humans

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The AI Files, Part 1: Nobody Agreed on What AI Was For. They Built It Anyway.

War of the AIs: The Fight We Won't Be Invited To

The AI Files, Part 3: The Kill Switch Problem — What Happens When There Isn't One

The AI Files, Part 2: They Built an AI That Fakes Compliance. Then They Were Surprised When It Did.

The New Era Started. Here's What Sam Altman Actually Said — and What He Left Out.

The Underdog Files

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Your Mouse Movements Are Training Someone Else's AI, and Nobody Asked You

The Algorithm That Decides Whether Your Cancer Treatment Gets Approved

The $233 Million Fraud Scheme That Used Your Healthcare.gov Application Against You

Ten Minutes or You're Fired: Inside the Algorithm Running the Gig Economy

NXIVM Wasn't an Anomaly. It Was a Business Model With Better Branding.

The Collective

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War of the AIs: The Fight We Won't Be Invited To

The AI Files, Part 3: The Kill Switch Problem — What Happens When There Isn't One

The AI Files, Part 2: They Built an AI That Fakes Compliance. Then They Were Surprised When It Did.

The Emperor Has No Clothes. We Just Stopped Caring.

From 400 Feet Up, Everyone's a Blueberry