After Luigi Mangione was arrested for the alleged assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the world began searching for his social media profiles in an attempt to discover his motives. His Twitter account was unearthed fairly quickly and many people, myself included, began reading through his timeline. His account
Back in 2023, when generative AI was shiny new tech, Xbox started eyeing it early. This was unsurprising as Microsoft (Xbox's parent company) had been making massive investments in AI for years, including a massive $13 billion investment in OpenAI to build "artificial general intelligence&
In January 2026, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong made an apocalyptic prediction on Twitter about AI: "Y'all know that the RAM prices skyrocketing is the first sign of the paperclipping, right?"
On November 13, Maryland governor Wes Moore announced a partnership between the state and Anthropic, the Amazon-sponsored creator of the Claude AI chatbot, to use its AI models for a number of government functions, including policy and benefits.
Whenever AI comes up, I often find it difficult to summarize how crazy the tech's most dedicated enthusiasts are without sounding like a conspiracy theorist. This led me to compiling this list of articles that show that worries of a coming "superintelligence" are closer to religion than science.
Manifest, the conference for the prediction market website Manifold, got in hot water for inviting racists and eugenicists in previous years. Not much has changed in 2025.
In December 2024, The Blaze published an essay by Hunter Ash, a former trans woman who's new to the detransitioner circuit. This was his first big publication, but he actually has an extensive and controversial social media history before he reappeared under his current name.