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How Racist Beliefs About Black Families Could Shape New Policy

When individuals in positions of power express racist beliefs, they undermine public trust and confidence in their ability to serve the…

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Your Hobby Is The Most Important Thing You Do

In a better world, you’d work much, much less. And do “unproductive” activities of choice much more. Let’s change the world.

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When Tired Isn’t Just Tired: What We’re Learning About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Everyone gets tired. A long week at work, a late night with the kids, or a weekend packed too full can leave anyone dragging. But for the…

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How Superman’s Death Became a Stirring Celebration of Life

'All-Star Superman' colours the Man of Steel's final days with an earnest warmth

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They Don’t Dislike You — They Don’t Understand You

Why autistic people aren’t socially “deficient” and what the Double Empathy Problem reveals about communication

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Spanish Baroque Painter Zurbarán: Essential Meditative Moments at the National Gallery

There are exhibitions that impress; there are others that slow the body down. Zurbarán at the National Gallery belongs to the second…

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Why Mental Health Can Feel Like a Moving Target

The shifting nature of moods, energy, and emotional well-being

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This Music May Contain Hope. by Raye | Album Review

The British songstress’ sophomore LP swings for the fences, but may leave listeners polarized

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We Will All Be Beta-Testing FFXIV: Koozie

You ever move into a brand-new house, with a brand-new kitchen, and you try to cook your favorite meal with brand-new pots and utensils? It…

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These robots aren’t ready. So why is Japan using them anyway?

Japan Airlines’ announcement that it is to trial the use of humanoid robots for cargo handling at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport may not be quite…

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Professional Design: AI-Powered API Monitoring System

Design a secure, enterprise-grade AI-powered API monitoring system that delivers real-time observability, intelligent anomaly detection…

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12 Things to Know About the Upcoming Monterey Bay FC vs FC Tulsa Match

MFBC fans will be eager to see what the team looks like in new Head Coach Alex Covelo’s first match on the sideline

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Queering desire

For a long time after I lost my hair I felt a lump of flesh, especially as I put weight on over lock down and my body felt alien to me…

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Claude Code Secrets- 35 Powerful Commands

Every Developer Must Know to 10x Productivity. Most developers barely scratch the surface of Claude Code. This guide reveals 35 advanced…

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How to Get Your Cat to Take a Pill Without the Drama

Giving a cat a pill can feel like negotiating with a tiny, furry mastermind. Cats are notoriously sensitive to taste, texture, and routine…

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The Hidden Cost of Britain’s Sausage Roll Obsession

Why our everyday food choices expose our deepest moral blind spots

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Underestimating The People

The fascists, plutocrats, despots REALLY underestimate us. We underestimate ourselves. Our imaginations have been insufficient to conceive…

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Writing Prompt: New Tech Money

© KA Lugo

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The Dark Psychology Trick Epictetus Used to Expose What People Really Want (That Negotiators Now…

I used to accept what people said at face value.

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Jason X — in space, no one can hear you scream “camp!”

Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen at the beginning of the 21st-century, and is discovered in the 25th-century and taken to space.

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Page One: “The Thing from Another World” (1951)

Screen play by Charles Lederer, based on the story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr., Howard Hawks (uncredited), Ben Hecht…

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A Conversation On Breasts, Beards, And Binaries

Gender dysphoria is robbing me of my birthright

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Ukraine Update May 1

2026 — Aluminum and Grain, Tuapse again, really?

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Is it Horror? “Happiness” (1998)

Fear and loathing in suburban New Jersey

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Is Star Trek Really a Socialist Utopia?

“In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.” — Gene Roddenberry

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Being & Breaking Broody

Spoiler: you can’t “break broody” in chickens, only in humans

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Chapter 25, Underwhelm

A thick sludge of metallic helium passed by the minds in their pods, spun out in a series of spidery webs, sucking heat from everywhere…

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Point Blank — John Boorman’s brilliant, brutalist neon-noir

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money…

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While the West debates diesel, China is winning the electric truck race

In December 2025, electric trucks in China outsold their diesel counterparts for the first time, once and for all demolishing the myth…

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Your ML Model Knows the Reactor Is Broken. It Has No Idea Why.

How causal inference turns a dumb anomaly alarm into a system that actually tells you what to fix, and by how much.

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Why Did I Write HOWL: WT Sherman’s Monster Hunters

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance…

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A Dream Delayed- Injury Prevented Monterey Bay FC’s Riley Bidois From Playing in the 2024 Olympics

The MBFC forward was set for his first Summer Games before an unfortunate injury postponed his Olympic debut

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Life Is Always About Change

I grab my day-hiking bag and begin to unzip it. A few weeks ago, I had to stuff micro spikes and an extra layer for the cold. Piles of snow…

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Deconstructing gender critical end games

I have received critique for my use of fiction when discussing trans issues, with the commenter stating I ought to stick to empirical…

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Gay in the ’90s West Coast skate scene (and it didn’t actually suck)

I came out to my boys in the ’90s. The slurs didn’t stop. Neither did the love.

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They’re Bringing Back Jim Crow While We’re Buying Tickets to Watch Old Heads Sing

Louisiana cancelled an active election in 24 hours. The loudest Black voices in media spent those 24 hours dragging a Black woman

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Apple’s Siri Problem Is Actually Liability

Turning Siri into a chatbot changes who gets blamed when it goes wrong

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The Dark Psychology Trick Marcus Aurelius Used on Other People (That Therapists Now Call…

I used to think influence meant being the loudest person in the room.

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Skip the Tech Resolutions, Fix the Friction

Timing matters less than intent in digital change

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Lo! Thy Dread Empire: Capitalism Will Work You To Death

and then resurrect your corpse to finish your shift

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The Tim Cook Era At Apple Is Over, So What Took This CEO Out?

Was it AI? Was it Apple TV? Or did the Cult of Apple just kind of lose its luster?

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Two Words: General Strike

What if we don’t have to shed ‘the blood of tyrants’ to save democracy? What if we just stopped going to work for them?

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‘Wrestle Heist’ is the Comic to Watch in 2026

A great story that’s cheaper than pay-per-view

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On Photography and Style

Learning to see through others

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The Killer (1989) — John Woo’s balletic blaze of blood and bullets

A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded.

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‘Office Space’ and Bullshit Jobs

Human beings don’t want to spend their days doing nothing

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Tom Bombadil and Epicurus: How to Own Everything by Having Nothing (And Why Your Storage Unit Is a…

Why an ancient Greek philosopher and Tolkien’s most annoying character hold the antidote to late-stage capitalism

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Screenwriting 101: Brian Koppelman

“The job of the writer on a studio assignment is to deliver a shootable script as defined by other people — the director, actors…

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Page One: “Thief” (1981)

Written by Michael Mann, based on the book “The Home Invaders” by Frank Hohimer

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Eager is Easy, Lazy is Labyrinthine

From initialization to iteration, learning eager is easier than learning lazy.

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