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The Janitor Who Taught the Surgeons

The Janitor Who Taught the Surgeons

By Matt Stone At The Grounded, we honor truth that survives without applause. This is the story of a man who saved thousands of lives while the system labeled him a janitor. It’s November 29, 1944, and the room smells like bleach, metal, and God. A single infant lies

AI Is the New God, But It’s Running Out of Energy

AI Is the New God, But It’s Running Out of Energy

By Matt Stone Entropy, Faith, and the Machine That Never Dies Every civilization believes it will be the last one to fall. Rome believed it. The Church believed it. The modern world believes it too. We tell ourselves that progress is permanent, that systems can be perfected, that what we

The Algorithm at the End of the World

The Algorithm at the End of the World

By Matt Stone ABC News published a satellite image of Kumia, Sudan. It shows what appears to be a pile of humans lying in a giant pool of blood, a massacre, a blackened sprawl of bodies captured by none other than Google Earth, while at the top of the frame

The Birth of an Idea

The Birth of an Idea

Knowledge Is Not F*cking Power: Notes from a Disgruntled PhD Candidate

Knowledge Is Not F*cking Power: Notes from a Disgruntled PhD Candidate