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The Arrival — engaging sci-fi conspiracy thriller deserves a second chance

An astronomer discovers alien life, but the aliens are keeping a deadly secret, and will do anything to stop him from learning it…

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Page One: “The Unborn” (2009)

Written by David S. Goyer

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What you count is what they feel

What a Jakarta city bus taught me about where experience is really made, and why no designer drew it.

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I Came Here to Experience Joy

Darkness covers my closed eyes. My biological clock is precise. Warmth soothes my skin. Thoughts begin to trickle into my mind.

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Fashion didn’t change the world with fabric.

At first glance, fashion and dried fruit might seem worlds apart. But they share a massive common ground:

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An Open Letter to Black America’s HBCUs: Give Karmelo Anthony His Education

Every “for the culture” moment has been leading to this one.

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20 Daily Habits to Keep Your Gut Healthy After 65

Simple, science-backed lifestyle changes to reduce chronic bloating, fight age-related inflammation, and reclaim your daily energy.

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Graham Platner: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Warning: This article contains facts, truth, and evidence. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Cigarettes are bad. I miss them.

Don’t start smoking, kids

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Hedgehog Planters and Strawberry Pots: A Look at Gardening Accessories of the Victorian Era

Gardening was a popular pastime in the Victorian era. This common hobby created new inventions both practical and fanciful, some of which…

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Theyla Cathbert: Forever Ephemera

Theyla Cathbert

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Orkish Neural Networks: Why Mordor’s Army Was a Generative AI That Learned All the Wrong Things

From Data Poisoning at Dol Guldur to Reward Misspecification at the Black Gate How Sauron’s War Machine Became Fantasy’s First Catastrophic…

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The Unspeakable Hydraulics of Umbar: How a Pirate City Mastered Tidal Coefficients

Or: Why your HOA can’t fix a drainage ditch, but 9th-century corsairs somehow calculated lunar perigee with a stolen astrolabe and pure…

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White Supremacy Stole the Freedom of Karmelo Anthony and You’re Goddamn Right I’m Fuming About It

The system did exactly what it was built to do. The question is what we’re built to do.

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Reincarnated in Savannah

I guess that everyone who normally would be doing the paperwork on this has been let go.

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The Problem Wasn’t Sex

Many of the people I counseled weren’t chasing pleasure anymore. They were chasing escape.

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Donald Trump is an Android.

Or not real. According to this AI detector.

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What Neuroaffirmative Writing Misses About Autistic Survival

Jung, Cassidy, and the 8x suicide risk that neuroaffirmation leaves unnamed

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The Mother of the Electoral Vortex

Nebraska’s Reichstag Fire: the “Cornhusker Clink”

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The Problem with Graham Platner

And why Maine Democrats must vote for him anyway

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Signs of Cancer in Cats: Subtle Clues Every Cat Owner Should Never Ignore

Cats are masters of disguise. As both predators and prey in the wild, they evolved to hide weakness — and that instinct remains strong in…

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I Spent Years Trying to Stop Worrying. Then I Learned What Epictetus Did Instead, on Purpose.

Everything I had been taught said to push the fear away. A two-thousand-year-old practice told me to walk straight into it. It worked the…

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Stop the Social Spam

Promote your business without turning people off

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Revisiting Nirvana’s “In Utero” Over 30 Years After Its Release

Coming of age in the 1990s, I remember diving deep, and I mean deep, into Nirvana. Growing up fairly conservative in an evangelical…

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Eurovision 2026 — The Grand Final

Welcome to my MONTH-LATE commentary on the 70th Eurovision Song Contest! (Better late than never!)

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Our Origin Stories - from cave walls to comic books

Right from the start, visual art told our stories and the earliest examples can be considered the first comic-books

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Here’s an important strategic initiative in Spain: Madrid is Europe’s first city to trial robotaxis.

WeRide, Avomo and Uber announced plans in early June to launch robotaxis in the Spanish capital, and the regional government is also…

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Liquid Glass: who gets to decide how an interface looks?

Notes from the 2026 WWDC keynote

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Knowledge Changes Everything About You

How Learning Raises the Standards of Human Soul…

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Simpson’s Paradox: Your Correlation Reversed When I Split the Data

Same data, same model, but the coefficient changed sign

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Graph Neural Networks 101: Your Tabular Model Cannot See That Two Customers Share a Supplier

Graph neural networks, from a ten-line numpy function to a real benchmark, and the one number that tells you in advance whether they will…

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You Are Probably Trusting Your LLM Judge Too Much

One metric reached substantial agreement, but two others were barely above chance

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Go Into The Story Interview: Kyle Killen

My conversation with the 2008 Black List screenwriter.

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Backrooms — big-screen YouTube series has room for improvement

After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

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Page One: “The Two Jakes” (1990)

Written by Robert Towne

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Ukraine Update June 10

2026 — Playing Catch-up (Ketchup?)

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Deicide Interview. Glen Benton, 1995

Let’s start with a little context. After all, it’s been 25 years.

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‘Masters of the Universe’ is Surprisingly Better Than You’d Think

Will it have the power to jumpstart a new era for the franchise?

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[1989] Pre-digital future: the strange brilliance of microfiche technology

Possibly the greatest storage format ever invented.

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Riding the Back of a Harley as a Treatment for Anxiety

In a 95-mile-an-hour headwind, I sing

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Why Current AI Inference Chips Can’t Survive Orbital Conditions — And What SpaceX’s 2027 Deadline…

Three engineering failures nobody is naming — radiation-induced model weight corruption, orbital power budgets that eliminate modern AI…

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Beta Testing iOS 27: A Hands-On Look at Every Hidden Platform Improvement

The Snow Leopard of iOS Updates is here — and it’s much better than the last few releases, for your iPhone.

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In Defense of Saying “F*ck”

Swearing is caring, and I really, really do.

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“The Menu” Wasn’t Good — You Just Like “Chef’s Table”

I don’t get why everyone liked this.

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