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JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE SECRET TO DEFEATING FAKE Photo illustration by Mark Daynes. With an epidemic of hoaxes, scams, conspiracy theories, and propaganda posing as legitimate facts and reporting, ravaging global politics and civil society, researchers have been looking for ways to understand how to combat fake news and what makes some people more resistant to it than others. IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. ARE TEXTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY MAKING US LONELY AND Plenty of pundits have quipped that social media and constant texting made us lonelier, more bitter, and less empathetic. A set of new studies says they may actually have a point. by: Greg Fish on 12.30.2020. At this point, it’s hard to argue with impassioned essays and monologues about how much more isolated, divided, and angrymany Western
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Most people familiar with the Wedge Document created for the Discovery Institute at its inception, know that it’s a battle plan for advancing creationism in science classes through a tactic called “teaching the controversy.” Creationists portray evolution as a hotly debated topic within the scientific community and insist that intelligent design provides an equally scientific alternative. american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE SECRET TO DEFEATING FAKE Photo illustration by Mark Daynes. With an epidemic of hoaxes, scams, conspiracy theories, and propaganda posing as legitimate facts and reporting, ravaging global politics and civil society, researchers have been looking for ways to understand how to combat fake news and what makes some people more resistant to it than others. IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. ARE TEXTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY MAKING US LONELY AND Plenty of pundits have quipped that social media and constant texting made us lonelier, more bitter, and less empathetic. A set of new studies says they may actually have a point. by: Greg Fish on 12.30.2020. At this point, it’s hard to argue with impassioned essays and monologues about how much more isolated, divided, and angrymany Western
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Most people familiar with the Wedge Document created for the Discovery Institute at its inception, know that it’s a battle plan for advancing creationism in science classes through a tactic called “teaching the controversy.” Creationists portray evolution as a hotly debated topic within the scientific community and insist that intelligent design provides an equally scientific alternative. ASTEROID MINING WILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY. WE SHOULD DO IT Asteroid mining will happen. At some point, the technology will be good enough, money will be no object, or we’ll be desperate enough for resources to start doing it. In the process, we will create a lot of new jobs, benefit from intensive automation and AI, and as we abandon mining on Earth, environments ravaged by decades of heavyindustry
WHY HUMANS AND MACHINES MAY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO MERGE With so many imagining a future where machines exist not just by our side but as parts of us, we may have made sure that we have no choice but to become part robot. by: Greg Fish on 05.10.2021. Illustration: Adeptus Mechanicus tech priest from Warhammer 40K. Sometimes when I’m in the mood, I’ll mention that after turning 100, I plan to GREG FISH, AUTHOR AT by: Greg Fish. Los Angeles-based editor and founder of Weird Things, co-host of the WoWT Podcast, ex-Soviet computer lobotomist with a graduate degree in computer science. Specializes in, but not limited to, popular science, technology, the web, and conspiracy theories. His work also appeared in Rantt, BusinessWeek, i09, HowStuffWorks, SEED THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like HOW TO COOL THINGS TO ABSOLUTE ZERO USING ONLY A LASER We’re used to lasers being either death beams, or harmless little points of light. But we also use lasers to cool matter to absolute zero and probe the limits of physics. by: Greg Fish on 04.09.2021. If someone were to tell you that you can use a laser to literally freeze clouds of gas, you’d be forgiven for incredulously raising yourbrow.
if you want a greener, cleaner world, you’ll need nuclear power. Nuclear energy easily whips up public panic thanks to the coverage of incidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima. But fear and media hype have overshadowed two basic facts: nuclear power works, and we need it more than ever. by Greg Fish on 03.28.2019. # space. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE IN A LIFETIME. WITH A CATCH. New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft launched so far by humans. After a gravity assist from Jupiter, it’s on a course to rocket past Pluto at 47,000 miles per hour. THE CHICXULUB IMPACT VS. THE DECCAN TRAPS? Now it’s possible that in the 21st century, we’ll be talking about a dual theory which involves enormous lava beds in India known as the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact. Geoscientist Gerta Keller and her colleagues think they have evidence for a 300,000 year gap between the impact and the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs. HOW PRIESTS HANDLE CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS A satirical customer complaint about prayer shines a light on the problem with telling people you can speak to a deity able to grant your desires in return for obedience and reverence. CAN CELL PHONES FRY YOUR BRAIN? Case in point, the biggest research project on the subject; the Interphone Study which worked with tens of thousands of people in fourteen countries since the late 1990s. According to the group’s data, people who use their cell phones at least once a day for over ten years are facing a 50% increase in their chances of developingbrain tumors.
american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a HOW HUSTLE CULTURE IS SLOWLY, AND VERY LITERALLY, KILLING how hustle culture is slowly, and very literally, killing you. Today’s office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop “hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you’re dead” attitude. It’s not just socially toxic. It’s damaging to your health and psyche. by: Greg Fish on 02.18.2019. IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Bottom line, it’s testable, repeatable science. In creationist circles, there’s an overwhelming desire to call evolution a religion because that’s how they view it. To them, science is the gospel of atheism designed to undermine their belief system in favor of another. This is why they approach it the way religious zealots deal with any THE CHICXULUB IMPACT VS. THE DECCAN TRAPS? Now it’s possible that in the 21st century, we’ll be talking about a dual theory which involves enormous lava beds in India known as the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact. Geoscientist Gerta Keller and her colleagues think they have evidence for a 300,000 year gap between the impact and the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs. american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a HOW HUSTLE CULTURE IS SLOWLY, AND VERY LITERALLY, KILLING how hustle culture is slowly, and very literally, killing you. Today’s office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop “hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you’re dead” attitude. It’s not just socially toxic. It’s damaging to your health and psyche. by: Greg Fish on 02.18.2019. IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Bottom line, it’s testable, repeatable science. In creationist circles, there’s an overwhelming desire to call evolution a religion because that’s how they view it. To them, science is the gospel of atheism designed to undermine their belief system in favor of another. This is why they approach it the way religious zealots deal with any THE CHICXULUB IMPACT VS. THE DECCAN TRAPS? Now it’s possible that in the 21st century, we’ll be talking about a dual theory which involves enormous lava beds in India known as the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact. Geoscientist Gerta Keller and her colleagues think they have evidence for a 300,000 year gap between the impact and the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs. american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
ASTEROID MINING WILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY. WE SHOULD DO IT Asteroid mining will happen. At some point, the technology will be good enough, money will be no object, or we’ll be desperate enough for resources to start doing it. In the process, we will create a lot of new jobs, benefit from intensive automation and AI, and as we abandon mining on Earth, environments ravaged by decades of heavyindustry
THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like GREG FISH, AUTHOR AT by: Greg Fish. Los Angeles-based editor and founder of Weird Things, co-host of the WoWT Podcast, ex-Soviet computer lobotomist with a graduate degree in computer science. Specializes in, but not limited to, popular science, technology, the web, and conspiracy theories. His work also appeared in Rantt, BusinessWeek, i09, HowStuffWorks, SEED IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE SECRET TO DEFEATING FAKE Photo illustration by Mark Daynes. With an epidemic of hoaxes, scams, conspiracy theories, and propaganda posing as legitimate facts and reporting, ravaging global politics and civil society, researchers have been looking for ways to understand how to combat fake news and what makes some people more resistant to it than others. WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS A CESSPOOL, AND HOW REGULATION COULD Here’s the main problem with social media regulation. Most of the people calling for it assume that said regulation would be done by a liberal democracy which prizes freedom of speech and will crack down hard on groups with an affinity for racism, fascism, anti-Semitism, and harmful conspiracies like Plandemic and QAnon. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE IN A LIFETIME. WITH A CATCH. New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft launched so far by humans. After a gravity assist from Jupiter, it’s on a course to rocket past Pluto at 47,000 miles per hour. HOW PRIESTS HANDLE CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS A satirical customer complaint about prayer shines a light on the problem with telling people you can speak to a deity able to grant your desires in return for obedience and reverence. WHY FEW COAL MINERS BECAME CODERS AND HOW “LEARN TO CODE Because they were based on the premise that if they built whatever infrastructure was considered cutting edge, employers would come. The big push to get coal miners coding was based in good faith. Give the region the latest in fiber optic wiring, pay those out of work $10 an hour to learn how to write software, and employers sick of paying six american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE SECRET TO DEFEATING FAKE is emotional intelligence the secret to defeating fake news? Mastering your emotions and understanding what others feel and why can make you more resistant to fake news and social media hoaxes. With an epidemic of hoaxes, scams, conspiracy theories, and propaganda posing as legitimate facts and reporting, ravaging global politics and civil SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and ASTEROID MINING WILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY. WE SHOULD DO IT Asteroid mining will happen. At some point, the technology will be good enough, money will be no object, or we’ll be desperate enough for resources to start doing it. In the process, we will create a lot of new jobs, benefit from intensive automation and AI, and as we abandon mining on Earth, environments ravaged by decades of heavyindustry
IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. ARE TEXTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY MAKING US LONELY AND Plenty of pundits have quipped that social media and constant texting made us lonelier, more bitter, and less empathetic. A set of new studies says they may actually have a point. by: Greg Fish on 12.30.2020. At this point, it’s hard to argue with impassioned essays and monologues about how much more isolated, divided, and angrymany Western
WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Bottom line, it’s testable, repeatable science. In creationist circles, there’s an overwhelming desire to call evolution a religion because that’s how they view it. To them, science is the gospel of atheism designed to undermine their belief system in favor of another. This is why they approach it the way religious zealots deal with any american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? When we start learning about history, we’re often given a tidy explanation that civilization started with the invention of writing and cities roughly 5,000 years ago. Like many simplifications in our education, it was created to draw an arbitrary line and make explaining fundamental concepts in history easier, glosses over a lotof messy
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE SECRET TO DEFEATING FAKE is emotional intelligence the secret to defeating fake news? Mastering your emotions and understanding what others feel and why can make you more resistant to fake news and social media hoaxes. With an epidemic of hoaxes, scams, conspiracy theories, and propaganda posing as legitimate facts and reporting, ravaging global politics and civil SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and ASTEROID MINING WILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY. WE SHOULD DO IT Asteroid mining will happen. At some point, the technology will be good enough, money will be no object, or we’ll be desperate enough for resources to start doing it. In the process, we will create a lot of new jobs, benefit from intensive automation and AI, and as we abandon mining on Earth, environments ravaged by decades of heavyindustry
IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. ARE TEXTING AND SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY MAKING US LONELY AND Plenty of pundits have quipped that social media and constant texting made us lonelier, more bitter, and less empathetic. A set of new studies says they may actually have a point. by: Greg Fish on 12.30.2020. At this point, it’s hard to argue with impassioned essays and monologues about how much more isolated, divided, and angrymany Western
WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Bottom line, it’s testable, repeatable science. In creationist circles, there’s an overwhelming desire to call evolution a religion because that’s how they view it. To them, science is the gospel of atheism designed to undermine their belief system in favor of another. This is why they approach it the way religious zealots deal with any world of weird things podcast: christmas in a mad scientist’s lab. On a very special extended episode, we talk about the science of transhumanism, cyberpunk, extreme life extension, and our potential future merger with machines. by Greg Fish on 12.25.2020. # podcast. GREG FISH, AUTHOR AT by: Greg Fish. Los Angeles-based editor and founder of Weird Things, co-host of the WoWT Podcast, ex-Soviet computer lobotomist with a graduate degree in computer science. Specializes in, but not limited to, popular science, technology, the web, and conspiracy theories. His work also appeared in Rantt, BusinessWeek, i09, HowStuffWorks, SEED Neutron stars’ thunder is usually stolen by black holes, but these bizarre objects living on the edge of physics create plenty of fascinating phenomena all on their own. FORGET GIANT DOMES, CITIES ON OTHER WORLDS WILL FIT THEIR forget giant domes, cities on other worlds will fit their environments. There are good reasons why designs for human outposts on other planets are starting to look nothing like the typical science fiction tropes with which we’ve grown up. by: Greg Fish on 02.09.2021. Illustration: MarSpine design concept by Mohamed Emad. WHY HUMANS AND MACHINES MAY HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO MERGE With so many imagining a future where machines exist not just by our side but as parts of us, we may have made sure that we have no choice but to become part robot. by: Greg Fish on 05.10.2021. Illustration: Adeptus Mechanicus tech priest from Warhammer 40K. Sometimes when I’m in the mood, I’ll mention that after turning 100, I plan to THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like if you want a greener, cleaner world, you’ll need nuclear power. Nuclear energy easily whips up public panic thanks to the coverage of incidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima. But fear and media hype have overshadowed two basic facts: nuclear power works, and we need it more than ever. by Greg Fish on 03.28.2019. # space. ACROSS THE UNIVERSE IN A LIFETIME. WITH A CATCH. New Horizons is the fastest spacecraft launched so far by humans. After a gravity assist from Jupiter, it’s on a course to rocket past Pluto at 47,000 miles per hour. THE CHICXULUB IMPACT VS. THE DECCAN TRAPS? Now it’s possible that in the 21st century, we’ll be talking about a dual theory which involves enormous lava beds in India known as the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact. Geoscientist Gerta Keller and her colleagues think they have evidence for a 300,000 year gap between the impact and the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs. WHY NASA MAY BE TRYING TO QUIETLY PUT THE SLS OUT OF ITS why nasa may be trying to quietly put the sls out of its misery. NASA appears to be sick and tired of having to wait until the mid-2020s to return to the Moon on a future rocket that will be inferior to the private ones already flying, and easily lapped by ones currently beingbuilt. by:
american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a HOW HUSTLE CULTURE IS SLOWLY, AND VERY LITERALLY, KILLING how hustle culture is slowly, and very literally, killing you. Today’s office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop “hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you’re dead” attitude. It’s not just socially toxic. It’s damaging to your health and psyche. by: Greg Fish on 02.18.2019. IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Bottom line, it’s testable, repeatable science. In creationist circles, there’s an overwhelming desire to call evolution a religion because that’s how they view it. To them, science is the gospel of atheism designed to undermine their belief system in favor of another. This is why they approach it the way religious zealots deal with any THE CHICXULUB IMPACT VS. THE DECCAN TRAPS? Now it’s possible that in the 21st century, we’ll be talking about a dual theory which involves enormous lava beds in India known as the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact. Geoscientist Gerta Keller and her colleagues think they have evidence for a 300,000 year gap between the impact and the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs. WHY NASA MAY BE TRYING TO QUIETLY PUT THE SLS OUT OF ITS why nasa may be trying to quietly put the sls out of its misery. NASA appears to be sick and tired of having to wait until the mid-2020s to return to the Moon on a future rocket that will be inferior to the private ones already flying, and easily lapped by ones currently beingbuilt. by:
american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
WEAPONIZED VICTIMHOOD: THE MESSY PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRTUE The researchers called the exploitative efforts by those who portray themselves as victims as they fib, cheat, and look for ways to be offended and offer empty virtue signals “nonreciprocal resource extraction,” arguing that our best intentions have been abused and Western societies are now quite susceptible to such emotionalmanipulation
IS THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DECENTRALIZED AND PEER TO Photo by Gian Cescon. Our relationship with social media today has changed from looking at it as a source of jokes and funny pictures and videos to a love-hate affair, and a whole lot of people either want to get off the major platforms or limit their presence there.Among these people are coders who gave a lot of thought to what ails social media today and think they’ve zeroed in on an answer. SO, ABOUT THAT JEWISH SPACE LASER… The first rule of Conspiracy Club is that every major event is a conspiracy, no matter how likely it was to have happened on its own. For tens of thousands of years, the American West had fires and droughts, especially California, so it would seem like a no-brainer that a large fire starting in the middle of a season where fires are most likely due to a lack of precipitation, heat, winds, and THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like WHY WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME As was noted, battling the scope severity paradox and massive bureaucracy in white-collar crime prosecutions isn’t a nice-to-have item on a government’s agenda, it’s absolutely crucial to regain control over runaway crony capitalism and semi-legalized law-breaking. Having harsh punishments that claw back every cent of revenue from a HOW HUSTLE CULTURE IS SLOWLY, AND VERY LITERALLY, KILLING how hustle culture is slowly, and very literally, killing you. Today’s office and gig culture are glorifying workaholism and a non-stop “hustle ‘till you make it, sleep when you’re dead” attitude. It’s not just socially toxic. It’s damaging to your health and psyche. by: Greg Fish on 02.18.2019. IS EVOLUTION A REPEATABLE SCIENCE? Bottom line, it’s testable, repeatable science. In creationist circles, there’s an overwhelming desire to call evolution a religion because that’s how they view it. To them, science is the gospel of atheism designed to undermine their belief system in favor of another. This is why they approach it the way religious zealots deal with any THE CHICXULUB IMPACT VS. THE DECCAN TRAPS? Now it’s possible that in the 21st century, we’ll be talking about a dual theory which involves enormous lava beds in India known as the Deccan Traps and the Chicxulub impact. Geoscientist Gerta Keller and her colleagues think they have evidence for a 300,000 year gap between the impact and the mass extinction which wiped out the dinosaurs. WHY NASA MAY BE TRYING TO QUIETLY PUT THE SLS OUT OF ITS why nasa may be trying to quietly put the sls out of its misery. NASA appears to be sick and tired of having to wait until the mid-2020s to return to the Moon on a future rocket that will be inferior to the private ones already flying, and easily lapped by ones currently beingbuilt. by:
american boomers are experiencing an alarming cognitive decline. we should all worry. This isn’t just younger generations griping, according to a study of over 30,000 baby boomers, the older generations’ mental capabilities are declining faster than expected.by
JUST HOW OLD IS HUMAN CIVILIZATION, EXACTLY? by: Greg Fish. Los Angeles-based editor and founder of Weird Things, co-host of the WoWT Podcast, ex-Soviet computer lobotomist with a graduate degree in computer science. IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE THE SECRET TO DEFEATING FAKE Photo illustration by Mark Daynes. With an epidemic of hoaxes, scams, conspiracy theories, and propaganda posing as legitimate facts and reporting, ravaging global politics and civil society, researchers have been looking for ways to understand how to combat fake news and what makes some people more resistant to it than others. ASTEROID MINING WILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY. WE SHOULD DO IT Asteroid mining will happen. At some point, the technology will be good enough, money will be no object, or we’ll be desperate enough for resources to start doing it. In the process, we will create a lot of new jobs, benefit from intensive automation and AI, and as we abandon mining on Earth, environments ravaged by decades of heavyindustry
GREG FISH, AUTHOR AT by: Greg Fish. Los Angeles-based editor and founder of Weird Things, co-host of the WoWT Podcast, ex-Soviet computer lobotomist with a graduate degree in computer science. Specializes in, but not limited to, popular science, technology, the web, and conspiracy theories. His work also appeared in Rantt, BusinessWeek, i09, HowStuffWorks, SEED Neutron stars’ thunder is usually stolen by black holes, but these bizarre objects living on the edge of physics create plenty of fascinating phenomena all on their own. THE BOOMERS ARE NOT ALL RIGHT: HOW SOCIAL MEDIA OBSESSIONS Followers of QAnon, the unwanted hate-child of the Satanic Panic and the Blood Libel raised by the Taxil Hoax, desperately want you to know something very important about following them down the rabbit hole to insanity.If you devote yourself to letting your mind rot while looking for imaginary monsters based on purposefully disjointed ramblings of an anonymous message board user just like if you want a greener, cleaner world, you’ll need nuclear power. Nuclear energy easily whips up public panic thanks to the coverage of incidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima. But fear and media hype have overshadowed two basic facts: nuclear power works, and we need it more than ever. by Greg Fish on 03.28.2019. # space. ARE WE REALLY ALL MARTIANS? We also found Martian meteorites on Earth. And finally, we know that Mars may have been habitable during its first billion years or so. So, with all that in mind, some scientists asked if it’s possible that life on our world originated on Mars, made its way here, and took root, making us all Martians by proxy. It sounds pretty wild but WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS A CESSPOOL, AND HOW REGULATION COULD Here’s the main problem with social media regulation. Most of the people calling for it assume that said regulation would be done by a liberal democracy which prizes freedom of speech and will crack down hard on groups with an affinity for racism, fascism, anti-Semitism, and harmful conspiracies like Plandemic and QAnon. science, tech, and other oddities* __
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TO SAVE THE WORLD’S MINDS, WE NEED TO KILL THE NINE TO FIVE JOB Futurists once dreamed of an automated, leisurely utopia. Our failure to live up to their visions is taking a massive toll on our health andpolitics.
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