Elon Musk has been warning about falling birth rates for the better part of a decade. In 2019 he called population collapse the biggest problem the world would face in twenty years. In 2022 he argued…
On February 15, 2003, people gathered in more than six hundred cities to oppose an invasion that had not yet happened. The BBC estimated that between six and ten million people turned out across as…
Phanes, the Rebel Archons, and the Fable Genshin Impact Is Quietly Handing to the West
In late 2012, the government of Taiwan released an advertisement for its Economic Power-Up Plan. The ad’s message, repeated over and over, amounted to this: we have a very complex plan, it is too…
Between the corporations optimizing us out of the org chart and the governments optimizing us out of the decision, there is a third path: bound the machine, and let institutions be human.
[UPDATED 7–2–2026] The outrage over gated AI models misses the real story. The United States has reclassified advanced artificial intelligence as a national-security asset — something closer to a…