More News That Will Likely Piss you off
06
Oct
The $18,000 Hug
MDK instructor Steve Eckert has said the common thread among his attendees is a past shaped by abuse. The thing they're paying for used to be free: a few buddies, a hard thing to do together, someone who'd tell you the truth. Now it has a cover charge. Welcome to the age of artificial intelligence.
10 min read
06
Oct
Same Fear, New Neighbor
The feed does not have to convince you your neighbor is evil. It only has to convince you that knowing him does not count, that your own senses cannot be trusted.
15 min read
28
Sep
CEOs Optimized Themselves Out of a Job
Every week, another company announces it's using AI to cut jobs. The work being handed to machines is reading, writing, analyzing, and deciding. That's the description of the CEO's job, almost word for word. So why does the automation always stop one floor below the corner office?
12 min read
27
Sep
Four Vials at a Time
As of June 30 the federal government had approved about $9.7 billion total for Helene. That is about 16 percent of what the storm cost. Compare that to past disasters. After Hurricane Sandy, federal aid covered about 78 percent of the damage. After Katrina, about 73 percent.
9 min read
23
Sep
The Truth About Takur Ghar
John Chapman went back up that mountain for a teammate. When his own team came off it, he stayed and kept fighting for the men still coming. The only witness was a camera in the sky. It took the country sixteen years to believe what it showed. Some people still do not want to.
17 min read
21
Sep
Do the Wrong Thing.
The verdict of history is that they were villains. The verdict of their own lifetimes, delivered by everyone in a position to do anything about it, was that they were survivors, and in more than one case they were considered great men, heroes even.
17 min read
15
Sep
The Men Who Sell Veterans Their Own Benefits
There used to be criminal penalties for charging a veteran unauthorized fees for claims help. Congress removed them in 2006 to lower the barriers to veterans getting help. The law still says you cannot do this. It just stopped saying what happens to you when you do. So they do.
15 min read
09
Sep
How to Accidentally Train for Selection
We were four degenerate skaters from one small North Carolina town. All four of us ended up in the Army, and nobody saw it coming, including us.
11 min read
30
Aug
The Ten Percent Problem
The worst case is not that we fail to solve these problems. It is that we retain the technical ability to solve them and lose the collective ability to decide to.
22 min read
25
Aug
We Plugged In and Turned On Each Other
We did not lose the ability to talk to each other. We lost the ability to find each other. We lost what it means to actually be a neighbor, or to be a part of a community.
13 min read