homosexuality
How do you take behaviours which provoke disgust in most people and re-brand them, - as not only as acceptable - but celebrated? After they have caused the worst and most lethal disease outbreak in history? A little-known, out-of-print book provides an alarming answer. "After The Ball How America
Space, space, and more space. Yet the least explored or mapped part of our world is what is underneath us within the great waters of the seas. Seventy per cent of the planet's surface is virtually unknown, and we can only move through it at the speed of
weapons
Post-apocalyptic fiction based on the biological destruction of humankind is a common theme, but how plausible are genetic superweapons (SBWs) wielded by supervillains? Alarmingly, they've been the next frontier in WMDs since the early nineties. We have no idea how far military scientists have got in their R&
smart-tv
Podcasts are rapidly overtaking broadcast and/or cable TV. After YouTube and Rumble, you might need to launch your channel as a perma-bookmark on the devices themselves. That means Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Samsung, LG, and more. It's daunting. Server-Side Video Broadcasting Basics Setting up the backend
elections
We have reached a place where democratic representatives in Western countries are members of country club aristocracies entirely disconnected from the public. Cryptographic technology and smartphones put us within reach of instant referenda polling for the first time. If we can vote instantly, what need do we have of representatives
education
Play is nature's mechanism of teaching and learning: competition, reward, repetition, collaboration, failure, creativity, and more. Without sacrificing in-person socialisation, we can update classical education for the technological homeschooling age, using the tools the children already love by transposing the syllabi of primacy and secondary education into storyline-based
php
For images, we've had ImageMagick; for video, we've had FFMPEG. But never anything for audio editing or filtering. How do you mix audio files, add echo, trim silence, or normalize volume? How can you do server-side editing to allow web development with music and speech? The
biology
"I lived for years in a sexually liberated lesbian commune", writes the brilliant Mary Harrington. After six decades of observed evidence, it's impossible to escape the allegation the Swinging Sixties weren't progress at all, and the "liberation" they championed was a degeneration
sargassum
It's brown, and ugly, it's smelly, and it ruins vacations to the Caribbean. It destroys the tourism local people need to feed their families. Thousands of tonnes of this crap collect for hundreds of miles into blooms which block the beaches of at least twenty countries.
magic
Illusioneering is the process of creating magic tricks, often through exploiting strange phenomena discovered in the STEM (science, technology and engineering) subjects as brain hacks. Trick interrupt the human senses of causality and continuity; they disrupt our perception of cause and effect. Strange quirks of physics are indistinguishable from magic.
chemistry
Can machine learning models come up with new ways to manufacture methamphetamine, MDMA, or even cocaine? Can we circumvent analog laws and precursor bans? Five months ago, we examined how AI tech could be use to generate new psychedelics. But what about new ways to do old things? The US
screenwriting
Could we theoretically generate 2000 story treatments or production screenplays in 30mins from basic loglines? AI is to knowledge work what the plough was to farming: a quantum leap in productivity. Let's take ten prompts, enter them differently, and see what GPT4 provides back. Our Source Material: The