“We Hope It’s Random.” Amy Eskridge was 34 when she died from a gunshot wound to the head in Huntsville, Alabama, on June 11, 2022. Officials called it suicide. No public investigation. No follow-up. Case closed. Except Amy had been working on anti-gravity technology — the kind of research that…
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The Documentary That Followed People for 70 Years Is Finally Ending
In 1964, a British TV crew pointed cameras at fourteen seven-year-olds and asked them about their dreams. Tony wanted to be a jockey. Neil wanted to be an astronaut. Bruce wanted to be a missionary. Then they came back seven years later. And seven years after that. And again. And…
Medical
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AI Chatbots Fail Medical Accuracy Tests Sounding Completely Confident
Half of AI Health Advice Is Wrong—And Patients Have No Idea As doctors begin their next appointment, there is a chance that their new patient has probably consulted an AI chatbot before calling you. They asked about symptoms. Treatment options. Whether they really need to see a specialist or if…
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Airbnb Sex Dungeons Operating Next To Elementary Schools
Welcome to Whacky Wednesday — where reality stops making sense and starts making headlines. This week: a Liverpool fan so unlucky his friends banned him from watching games, Airbnb rentals in quiet American suburbs that turn out to be fully equipped BDSM dungeons, and a North Carolina woman whose “prank”…
Brands
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The Parking Lot Test: What Detroit’s Auto Industry Knew About Brand Commitment
Growing up in Detroit’s western suburbs meant you learned the rules before anyone explained them. The Big Three—Ford, GM, Chrysler—weren’t just employers. They were ecosystems with their own gravitational pull and unwritten codes. If you worked at an agency servicing one of them, you didn’t show up in a competitor’s…
Generation Z
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Why Gen Z’s Relationship With AI Is Getting More Complicated
Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation just released research showing that Gen Z’s AI skepticism is climbing while their dependence on these tools deepens. Excitement about artificial intelligence dropped 14% in a single year. Anger toward AI is rising. And yet — 52% of Gen Z K-12 students believe they’ll…
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Reconstruction-Era Booze Ban Ruled Unconstitutional — Hobby Distillers Win After 158 Years
A federal appeals court just struck down a law older than your great-great-grandfather’s moonshine recipe. The Fifth Circuit ruled that the federal government’s 158-year-old ban on home distilling — enacted during Reconstruction to make sure Uncle Sam got his cut — violates the Constitution. The law made it illegal to…
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Fossil Loses “World’s Oldest Octopus” Title After 300-Million-Year Identity Crisis
A 300-million-year-old blob of fossilized tentacles just lost its title as the world’s oldest octopus. Turns out it was never an octopus. It was a nautilus—a shelled cephalopod that decomposed so thoroughly before fossilization that it fooled paleontologists for 24 years. The fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, was discovered in the Mazon…
Community
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Dave Chappelle Bought a Schoolhouse So a Radio Station Wouldn’t Disappear
Dave Chappelle stood outside a restored 19th-century schoolhouse in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on Thursday—not for a Netflix special, not for a comeback tour, but for a ribbon-cutting ceremony that probably won’t trend on Twitter. The Union Schoolhouse, built in 1872, once served as one of the village’s earliest integrated schools….
AI
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Anthropic Just Proved AI Can Outthink Every Security Expert. Now What?
Anthropic just announced it built an AI model so capable of finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities that releasing it to the public would be — their words — potentially catastrophic for “economies, public safety, and national security.” The model, Claude Mythos, found thousands of high-severity security flaws during testing. Not…