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AI Is Learning Human Values While Data Centers Are Rebuilding Human Communities. Maybe It’s Time Humanity Got a Seat at the Damn Table. We have spent decades scaring the hell out of ourselves with artificial intelligence. The Terminator gave us Skynet. The Matrix gave us machines running a world humans no longer controlled. I, Robot […]

Organic, Lab-Grown, Bioengineered, Ultra-Processed—and the Strange New Job of Figuring Out What the Hell We’re Eating There was a time when buying a tomato required exactly zero investigative skills. You picked it up. You squeezed it. You smelled it. If it wasn’t mushy, bruised, or growing its own civilization, you bought the damn tomato. Nobody […]

Organic, Lab-Grown, Bioengineered, Ultra-Processed—and How the Hell Are We Supposed to Know What We’re Eating? You walk into a grocery store looking for dinner. The tomatoes are perfectly red. The apples shine like somebody polished them for prom. A package says NATURAL in enormous green letters. Another says ORGANIC. Another says NON-GMO. Somewhere online somebody […]

Dear Hollywood: Maybe the movie isn’t the problem. Maybe it’s the way you’re selling it. I’m Gen X. I’ve survived shoulder pads, Aqua Net, acid-washed denim, Glamour Shots, perms that violated several building codes, men wearing enough Drakkar Noir to incapacitate a small horse, and approximately 47 years of Hollywood trying to convince women that […]

Everybody wants to know what the sick person should take. I want to know what happened before they ever became sick. You see the scan. Black spots. White shadows. Shapes most of us couldn’t interpret if our lives depended on it. Somewhere behind that image is a real human being asking one of the most […]