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A friend and I were speaking last night. Both of us are technology specialists with long pedigrees. We spoke of the simplest technology that is almost entirely ignored: the one of simply stopping doing something that is blatantly stupid, deadly, cruel, or otherwise...

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“As someone who has practiced evidence-based medicine professionally for over 20 years—and, for the sake of credibility, who has already administered hundreds of covid-19 vaccines to people who have wanted them—I have to say that it is increasingly discouraging...

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I often think of our modern ‘societies’ (they aren’t societies in any reasonable sense) as something we have no category for or language about. Put simply: they are monsters. This form of monster has evolved through a variety of phenotypes over human...

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When dreaming, we are entirely comfortable with a world that we’ve never seen before in which identity and meaning are essential, rather than representational…