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If You Can’t Take Any More Dystopia… Don’t Worry, Neither Can the Entire World — Did you hear that the Oxford word of the year is “goblin mode”? In case you don’t know what that means, it’s kind of the opposite of the zeitgeist for self-improvement which swept the world not so long ago: imagine someone sitting in bed, one they can’t get out of…

There’s a word for prose and speech that exist mostly just to fill the space — AI text-generation tools have been getting into a bit of trouble lately. Recently, OpenAI released “ChatGPT”, a quite remakable chatbot. It’s built atop GPT-3, OpenAI’s language model that’s very fluent at autocompleting and summarizing text. Denizens of the Internet quickly discovered the fun of getting ChatGPT to do weirdly creative…

Problems getting cheese, theft from employees, and the Mafia kept coming in for tea — The mafia guy, a captain in the infamous Tambov group, had started frequenting my “cafe,” this is what it was called by the official “Soviet” regulations which were still in effect then, about three months after I opened. He always ordered one green tea, and a not-so-sweet cake, and entertained…

Trumpism’s Not Dead Yet, But It’s Not Alive Either. So What Is It? It’s Undead, And It’s Going to Get Bloody — I’m going to keep this short and sweet, because, well, we’ve all got a World Cup to watch. I say that every day, and I fail, so let me do what honorable people do, which is try and fail again. There’s something sinister, strange, funny, and creepy happening to Trumpism…

NASA had contacted Dr. George Land and Beth Jarman to develop a highly specialized test that would give them the means to effectively measure the creative potential of NASA’s rocket scientists and engineers. …but the scientists were left with a few questions: …The scientists then gave the test to 1,600…

An old Russian saying goes ‘Russia has two problems: Fools and bad roads.’ В Росси́и две пробле́мы: дураки́ и доро́ги Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is, presumably, no fool. Foolish? Yes. But I think he knows what he’s doing and who he’s doing it with. One Putin ally, Belarusian dictator and part-time…