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How a hero might escape the Blackmail Trap: a chapter of near-future what-ifs that could (and should) happen today...

Why the Vance (Thiel) transition will only be the beginning. And how the Secret Weapon of the oligarchs may backfire.

Consciousness is hot! And may heat up the world

This is EXACTLY the 1850s... and this arc will end the same.

AI + WAIST. A predictive riff from EXISTENCE

A debate about saving democracy, that will likely (needlessly) be lost

Some lighthearted stuff this time! Plus a few sobering reminders.

Science Fiction Updates!

If you won't listen to Paine, or Adam Smith, or Marx, or history - this fellow might scare the Dickens... And Are There ANY Republican stand-ups?

To make next July 4 a true Independence Day - How About a Little Paine? Thomas Paine.

Missing contexts for AI: The context of mental damage

Oh, those misleading teleologies about "progress" - and a few political notes

Jimmy Carter’s Big Mistake - And the noblest president of my lifetime.

More on AI: Insights from LIFE. From evolution, from Skynet, IBM and SciFi to Brautigan

Science (mostly bio, this time) Forges Ahead. Even empowering... citizenship!

Lying promises and how to NAIL them...

Science as the ultimate accountability process - And are AI behaving this way because they're DREAMING?

AI and consciousness -- and a positive-sum tomorrow

And ... the Great Silence persists: More on the Fermi Paradox: Where is Everyone?

This class war has no memory – and that could kill us

The AI dilemma continues - part 2

The AI Dilemma continues onward... despite all our near term worries

Twenty things about The Mess that no one has mentioned, so far. From tariffs to signalgate to DOGE to Houthis and...

Science Fictional News & Updates - spring 2025

And yet-more news from (or about) Spaaaaaace!

Zelensky, here's your ceasefire judo move

Compare DOGE to Gore's efficiency drive? Or Hamilton vs. Robspierre?