meditation Would you be willing to neuro-hack your way to enlightenment? Popkin

happy mutants Kickstarting a seminar series with Ada Palmer and me about the history of censorship and information control Cory Doctorow

drugs Tech bros on Ayahuasca looking for answers Jason Weisberger

tech Tech media ready for the dark enlightenment Rob Beschizza

politics "Dark MAGA" Elon Musk pleases himself by uttering an insipid witticism Ellsworth Toohey

Science Why dinosaur bones were the real nail in religion's coffin Yoy Luadha

mistakes Nicky Minaj learns what might happen when you smuggle drugs through airports Rob Beschizza

google OpenAI said to be launching search engine on Monday, directly targeting Google's Rob Beschizza

psyops The Sinophobic history of brainwashing Thom Dunn

Science 23andMe to sell DNA records to drug company Rob Beschizza

compounds Shampoo king wants to become a war lord with a "quite sizable compound" Rob Beschizza

design The No CSS Club celebrates websites with no stylesheets, let alone javascript. There should be a No HTML Club for websites that are pure text Rob Beschizza

film criticism The top films of 2023, thus far Greg Nussen

books Usborne Book of the Future back in print Rob Beschizza

crimes Founder of "orgasmic meditation"company charged with running cult-like conspiracy using forced labor David Pescovitz

nazis Elon Musk leaving his misattributed neo-nazi tweet for posterity Jason Weisberger

pride Backlash grows over Dodgers disinviting Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from Pride event Jennifer Sandlin

conspirituality How Tik Tok amplifies the consumerist fever dream of conspirituality Jennifer Sandlin

revolutions The concepts of freedom, liberty, and equality were developed by enslaved people and women, not the elite Elías Villoro

books How to read Donald Duck 50 years after the CIA fomented a coup in Chile on September 11, 1973 Elías Villoro