A few years ago, I gave my first finished novel to an experienced publisher. She read a few chapters, and came back with harsh but fair feedback. She then asked me to review my book again, but with the eyes of a critic. “You have to stop reading your creation w...
Nearly everyone knows about Jeffrey Epstein. But what people disagree about are the exact details of what was regularly happening on Little Saint James in the Caribbean.
Certain facts are undisputed, but much is left to speculation. To fill in this information vacuum, people have constructed various scenarios. Some say that almost any high-class visitor ...
Writing a guide for skeptics on environmental issues is a little like trying to summarize “religion” in one article—it’s a huge topic! So here I will focus on environmental alarmism in several areas, including population, resources, pollution, global cooling, sea-level rise, species extinction, climate, polar bear demise, desertification, and wildfires, after which I will ...
In September 2026, a 27-year-old researcher named Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic and posted a series of warnings on 𝕏. He wrote that the people building today’s most advanced AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. By the time Axios reported on his resignation, his post had been viewed more than 115 million times.
Researchers had ...
As AI takes on more of the work we once did ourselves, there’s growing concern about what happens to the skills we’re no longer practicing. For example, a student who solves more problems with AI may be learning more, or may simply have an easier way to get the answers. Much the same goes for an employee handling customer cases, or a management consultant finishing a busin...