Capitalism is the Conspiracy: Structure & Examples

It all begins with CrowdStrike, a widely-used cybersecurity firm that bungled an update

It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

"This work demonstrates that gender has an independent influence on the brain, beyond the influence of sex itself," the researchers told Newsweek.

The tech mogul cited California’s new transgender rights law as “the final straw” for moving out of the state.

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Elon Musk, Bill Ackman, and David Sacks spoke out in support of the presumptive Republican nominee, who helped make billionaires $1 trillion richer during his first White House term.

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Shortly after 6:00 yesterday evening at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a shooter on the roof of a building about 400 feet from the stage appears to have shot eight bullets at the former president and into the crowd. Trump appeared to flinch and reach for his right ear as Secret Service agents crouched over the former president. When the agents got word the shooter was “down,” they lifted Trump to move him out. He asked to get his shoes and then to put them on.

Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

The right wants to turn this moment into more violence

In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The U.S. has always viewed itself as an exceptional nation destined for

A leading expert on far-right, oppressive governments around the world is warning that former President Donald Trump would usher in fascism in the United States if he wins a second term this fall.In a detailed interview with Guardian reporter Alice Herman, scholar and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a profe...

Journalists in France were quickly deleting the drafts they had been preparing when the exit poll came up on their screens. All the polls had been

During the past year, the pace of AI adoption has accelerated significantly, ushering in groundbreaking advances, discoveries and solutions with the potential to help address humanity’s biggest problems. We see this as a massive platform shift, akin to the printing press, which was not just an invention, but a technology that shaped a new economy....

When the Clock Broke offers a tour of the ’90s, from Klansmen strangled on talk shows to a drugged-up Bush Sr running for office. Ganz also argues that the far right of the ’90s was a precursor to Trump, a claim reliant on distortions of past and present.

A study found ChatGPT's responses to health-related questions on Reddit’s r/AskDocs superior to physicians' 79% of the time, with higher quality and empathy ratings, though more research is needed for clinical applications.

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Absorption through skin could be ‘significant source of exposure’ to toxic forever chemicals, study shows

A global celebrity-driven craze for quartz has caused a rush to dig in backyards and hillsides in rural South Africa.

It was exciting to think that no novel had ever captured this new kind of history, where military lies on a global scale...

The right-wing battle against 'wokeness' was always pretty stupid, but it seemed to at least mean something. What I used to think it was, was a pushback agai...

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Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it.

Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, yet the exposure risk to humans is unresolved. Focusing on the American diet, we evaluated the number of microplastic particles in commonly consumed foods in relation to their recommended daily intake. The potential for microplastic inhalation and how the source of drinking water may affect microplastic consumption were also explored. Our analysis used 402 data points from 26 studies, which represents over 3600 processed samples. Evaluating approximately 15% of Americans’ caloric intake, we estimate that annual microplastics consumption ranges from 39000 to 52000 particles depending on age and sex. These estimates increase to 74000 and 121000 when inhalation is considered. Additionally, individuals who meet their recommended water intake through only bottled sources may be ingesting an additional 90000 microplastics annually, compared to 4000 microplastics for those who consume only tap water. These estimates are subject to large amounts of variation; however, given methodological and data limitations, these values are likely underestimates.

Further evidence that AGI is not imminent