Turkey regularly blocks Twitter, Wikipedia, and news sites using DNS poisoning, IP blocking, and deep packet inspection. Internet censorship is routine , and so is working around it. (Affiliate)
Digital Privacy EvergreenMojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ali Khamenei, is now Iran’s supreme leader, appointed mid-war, after a contested succession backed by the IRGC. Here is what his background reveals about what comes next.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisAfter WWII, the United States secretly recruited over 1,600 German scientists , many with documented Nazi and SS affiliations , to work for NASA and the US military. The program sent men to the moon and quietly buried a trail of war crimes.
EvergreenOil crossed $100 per barrel this week for the first time since 2022. The oil price shock from the Iran war is cascading through global supply chains, central bank calculations, and geopolitical alignments simultaneously.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisIn the 1920s, young women were hired to paint watch dials with radium-based paint and instructed to point their brushes with their lips. The Radium Girls and their legal fight established precedents that still govern industrial harm cases today.
HistoryIn 2024, James and Jennifer Crumbley became the first parents in US history convicted for a mass shooting their child committed. The evidence was stark. The precedent is significant.
True CrimeCommunication theory says miscommunication is the default, not the exception. For atypical minds who see social rituals as performance, the gap between protocol and authenticity is where the real breakdown lives.
Evergreen Psychology & BehaviorTheory of mind is the ability to understand that others have beliefs different from your own. From chimpanzee experiments to AI benchmarks, here is how the science works.
Evergreen Psychology & BehaviorDemocracy does not select for the best or the worst. It selects for the safely average. The bell curve is getting narrower, and we are losing the tails.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorThe global ad industry will spend over a trillion dollars in 2026. All of it aimed at bypassing your rational mind. Here is how it works, and what you can do about it.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorKorzybski warned us in 1931: the map is not the territory. AI confidence scores, Wikipedia, economic models, and even language itself are lossy compressions we mistake for reality.
OpinionEinstein never defined insanity. Churchill never said to keep going through hell. Twain never commented on San Francisco winters. The history of misattributed quotes is a history of information laundering.
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