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AI Washing: The Layoff Excuse Even OpenAI's CEO Doesn't Believe

AI Washing: The Layoff Excuse Even OpenAI's CEO Doesn't Believe

Tech companies cut roughly 1,115 jobs a day in 2026, nearly double the pace of the year before, and the explanation offered again and again is the same one word: AI. Meta, Oracle, Block, Microsoft, Monday.com — the list of employers citing artificial intelligence as the reason for layoffs

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Studied in Hospital ICUs. The Results Aren't What Skeptics Expected.

The standard explanation for near-death experiences is that they are a product of the dying brain — oxygen deprivation, neurotransmitter floods, the mind's last-ditch attempt to make sense of its own shutdown. It's a clean, materialist explanation, and for decades it was enough to stop

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The Researchers Who Proved Plants Scream

The plants in the greenhouse were stressed. They had been left without water for several days, or had their stems cut, or had been left alone. And they were, as it turned out, making noise about it. Not noise you can hear. The sounds registered between 20 and 100 kilohertz

Comcast Turned Your Router Into a Motion Sensor. The Fine Print Explains Who Else Gets to Watch.

Comcast Turned Your Router Into a Motion Sensor. The Fine Print Explains Who Else Gets to Watch.

Comcast turned on a new feature this week called WiFi Motion. It uses the radio signal already bouncing between your Xfinity router and every device in your house to detect when a body moves through a room — no camera, no separate sensor, nothing to install. The company is billing it

The Loneliness Epidemic Has Been Documented Since 1985. Nobody Did Anything.

The Loneliness Epidemic Has Been Documented Since 1985. Nobody Did Anything.

In 1985, researchers at the University of Arizona and Duke University asked a simple question in the General Social Survey: how many people do you have in your life with whom you can discuss important matters? The most common answer was three. Most Americans had three close confidants.

The Difference Between Spirituality and Spiritual Bypassing

The Difference Between Spirituality and Spiritual Bypassing

Here is a thing that happens in spiritual communities, and also in therapy offices, and also in conversations with people who have done a significant amount of personal work: a painful topic comes up, and instead of sitting with it, someone reaches for an idea that makes it go away.

Washington Waived the Paperwork. The Whistleblower Wants Immunity.

Washington Waived the Paperwork. The Whistleblower Wants Immunity.

On July 31, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told the entire intelligence community that non-disclosure agreements no longer stood between government personnel and a specific set of federal channels for reporting what they know about unidentified anomalous phenomena. It was framed as a breakthrough — the paperwork