I've been thinking about all the things that used to be normal. It used to be normal to own someone. It used to be normal to work them to death. It used to be normal for a man to beat his wife and for

But despite previous transparency around the cost-cutting measures, employees inquiring about how the budget cuts have impacted their performance review will now be fobbed off. According to leaked gui

Background info Recently I started using a Sophos VM Firewall at home for my own traffic. I know Palo Alto Networks Firewalls on a deeper technical level, but I wanted to experience what other vendors

The AI hype is collapsing faster than the bouncy house after a kid’s birthday . Nothing has turned out the way it was supposed to. For a start, take a look at Microsoft—which made the biggest bet on A

Watch 26 August 2023 Getty Images Some trains were brought to a standstill for a few hours Polish intelligence services are investigating a hacking attack on the country's railways, Polish media say.

Social Health "You Do You," The War on Compassion Jessica Wildfire Aug 21, 2023 Shotprime August 21 2023 9:46 PM 5 min read Share Email Humans don't like feeling empathy. It hurts. Psychologists at Pr

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Mark Meadows and Fani Willis, Photo courtesy of Mediaite Legal observers have been gripped by a fairly nerdy but consequential question of late: Can Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell arrives for a meeting of financial regulators in Washington, D.C., on July 28, 2023. Powell warned on Friday the fight against inflation still "has a long way to go

I recently got a plaintive text message from my magnificent friend Abby Bangser, asking about a conversation we had several years ago: “Hey, I’ve got a question for you. A long time ago I remember you

IT giant Ivanti is advising some customers to make changes to dodge a new zero-day vulnerability affecting one of its products. On Monday, the company warned of a bug in its Sentry security product th

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Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney The age of generative AI is here: only six months after OpenAI ‘s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, as many as half the employees of some leading global companies

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I’ve needed to write this for a long time, for multiple reasons. Lots of people have been asking what the hell I’m doing. Like do I work somewhere? What do I actually do all day? Tons of my friends ar

The text below is a very recent leaked document, which was shared by an anonymous individual on a public Discord server who has granted permission for its republication. It originates from a researche

There's been a handful of stories across the internet lately pointing out that more Americans and Canadians, especially young adults, are dying than anyone expected this year. Weird, huh? For example,

"So what's the solution?" You get that a lot these days, especially when it comes to public health and the climate crisis. It comes right after they tell you the latest inferno "wasn't caused entirely

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after experts discovered a case of the highly-mutated strain in Mi

On May 11, 2023, the federal public health emergency declaration for COVID-19 came to an end. Only a few months later, and cases are already starting to surge across the country again . This decision

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 ShotPrime Studio August 14 2023 10:21 AM 4 min read Share Email Back in the 1950s, this guy named John B. Calhoun built a rat paradise. Actually, he built s

Social Health Jessica Wildfire Aug 14, 2023 Shotprime August 14 2023 1:59 AM 4 min read Share Email There's this play by Eugene Ionesco called, "Rhinoceros." You should read it sometime. It's about an

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Post Pandemic Opinion Long covid has derailed my life. Make no mistake: It could yours, too. By August 9, 2023 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Madeline Miller, a novelist, is the author of “ The Song of Achilles ” a

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Eleon Update: Over the next day, I’ll probably be migrating my entire Substack over to the new site. Ghost has a tool that will bring over everyone’s emails and (paid) subscriptions. I talk more about

ChatGPT and its artificially intelligent siblings have been tweaked over and over to prevent troublemakers from getting them to spit out undesirable messages such as hate speech, personal information,

The EG.5 variant now makes up the largest proportion of new COVID-19 infections nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated, as multiple parts of the country have been reporti

I guarantee that no one wants to hear about this. Heck, I don't, either, but I'm going to write about it anyway. That's because while most of the world has been enjoying a respite from the coronavirus

Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforc

Dan Guido, CEO The second meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) on July 18 focused on the effects of AI on the financial sector. During the meeting,

Lion Design Here’s a bunch of stories that should be on the front page of every newspaper, but they’re not. They’re buried. As Caitlin Johnstone recently pointed out, the news media is largely run by

There’s a new column out by Ashish Jha in The Boston Globe that assures everyone we can finally ignore Covid with “a few basic steps.” I don’t know about you, but I think it’s weird that these public

Perhaps a strong and positive purpose in life can immunize against both Daniel Miessler July 31, 2023 I heard a great thing on a podcast recently. It was a guy saying alcohol addiction is confused bec

Linda J You might’ve seen recent headlines about saguaro cacti keeling over in Arizona after spending nearly a month above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. Not even a week later, The Washington Post ran this a