Exploring bleeding edge experiments, oddities, new and bizarre dicoveries, and fact-checking conspiracy theories since 2008. No question is out of bounds and no topic is too strange for a deep dive.
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If you thought fake news were bad, welcome to the hell that is fake fact checking.
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Assange offers to trade himself for Chelsea Manning and Obama called his bluff. I wouldn't hold my breath that WikiLeaks' boss will keep his word for once.
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Technology didn't build the post-truth world. We did. And we're the only ones capable of returning to reality.
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WikiLeaks decided to use Twitter to settle scores, implying a heavy use of doxxing to silence its critics and detractors.
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Programmer Maciej Ceglowski refuses to fall for the Gospel of the Nerd Rapture and offers a novel idea for giving people a more realistic idea of what AI really is.
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Next year will focus on reviewing what to do with old project and experimenting with new ones.
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District Attorneys are going to try mandating encryption backdoors again and refuse to understand why it can't be done without cratering the modern economy.
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Of all the platforms on which to debate and fact check, Twitter is almost purpose-built to be the absolute worst.
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Ignoring reality will always, always return to bite you were it hurts most. The only question is when it will strike.
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The House Science and Technology Committee continues to plunge deeper and deeper into denialism and inanity.