Peanut and Puppycide
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The puppycide movement made a good effort. The ACLU took it one step further, situating violence against our pets within the scope of the militarization of policing.... Read more.
Veganism and the Covid Panic
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Both ideologies locate our interactions with the animal world as the root of corruption. Veganism aims to isolate us from causing the death of animals; while Covidism... Read more.
The EU Wants to Spy on Europeans’ Internet Use
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The rule would require all internet browsers to trust an additional root certificate from an agency (or a regulated entity) from each of the national governments... Read more.
Can AI Plan the Economy?
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What AI cannot do is incorporate into a single entity all of the specialized skills that the entrepreneur has; the abilities to calculate, plan, and execute, the... Read more.
Was “Philip Cross” an AI?
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Will future campaigns to control Wikipedia narratives rely on this technology? What is the future of a crowd-sourced knowledge base such as Wikipedia that depends... Read more.
How the Medical Industry Burned Its Trust Capital
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Reputation and trust is a bit like capital. The opinions that peers and customers have about a person, institution or business is earned over a long time through... Read more.
The Economics of Lockdown Panics
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Economics alone cannot tell us if any cost is too much to “save one life.” But economic thinking can help us understand that preserving human life entails bearing... Read more.
The Vaccine Was “95% Effective” How?
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The mis-translation of the message convinced the public that mass vaccination would stop the pandemic. And, it persuaded them to see the unvaccinated as a threat.... Read more.
Unmask the Audiences Already!
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People no longer have an emotional connection while speaking when wearing masks. And we can no longer understand each other’s speech. A venue full of masked people... Read more.
The Speakeasy World of Covid Lockdowns
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In Speakeasy World, people were aware that they lived in a panopticon. But they realized that the one and only guard was probably checking TikTok on his mobile phone... Read more.
The Game Is Over and They Have Lost
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The script has worn itself out. These tropes are now tired and ineffective. The fear pushers seem unaware that the message has lost its effect, but do not have anything... Read more.
Technocratic Dystopia Is Impossible
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Grand utopias cannot be realized because, while imagination is unconstrained reality has limits. What is a dystopia other than the role of an NPC in someone else’s... Read more.