Kevin Rose has a visceral rule for evaluating AI hardware investments: “If you feel like you should punch someone in the face for wearing it, you probably shouldn’t invest in it.” It’s a typically candid assessment from the veteran investor,…

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There’s a special kind of tech debt that doesn’t look like tech debt—until it does. It’s the lint in the lint trap after you’ve already run the dryer; the box of cables you swear you’ll sort “later.” In WordPress, it…

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Read The Context As OpenAI and other major AI labs move toward permitting adult-oriented conversation modes, the ethical terrain beneath these systems is shifting faster than the technology itself. In late 2025, the same companies that once enforced blanket bans…

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In Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the mashed-potato Devil’s Tower is a signal without structure. It’s a shape in the mind. It’s obsession, intuition, the “I don’t know what it is yet, but it’s this.” At that stage it’s…

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PART I. THE PRODUCTIZATION OF CINEMAHow Movies Stopped Being Movies Mainstream cinema is struggling because major studios largely stopped making films and started manufacturing products. What used to be a risky, expressive art form has been replaced by a production-line…

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Is there anything real left on the internet? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore deepfakes, scams, and cybercrime with the Director of Threat Research at Bitdefender, Bogdan Botezatu. We explore how scammers exploit psychology…

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(Part I — Diagnosis) The internet was supposed to belong to everyone. That was the dream—simple, radiant, naïve. We built a network of networks to dissolve borders, to let ideas travel faster than regimes could censor them. But the truth…

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Let’s be honest — “The Best Show” is a trap of a title. It’s the intellectual equivalent of stepping into quicksand while arguing about pineapple on pizza. The second someone declares the best, the universe quietly spawns three more contenders,…

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Las Vegas has never been shy about rewriting the rules of spectacle, but what’s happening inside the Sphere — that gleaming digital orb planted just off the Strip — is something altogether new. For the first time in history,…

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