3+ hour, 25+ min ago   (476+ words) Among the first to leave was Ardern, the author of a recently published memoir and not a lot else. A Different Kind of Power is an apologia for the five-and-a-bit years she spent in office, but in sheer literary terms…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (275+ words) The most entertaining sections come when Foster lays into each tribe in turn. Could Futurism is full of "escapist, bombastic tropes. Their natural habitat is the TED talk or the poundshop version as a conference keynote: Having marched confidently out…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (202+ words) The British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, proposed a "law of science" in 1968: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Big Tech bosses and computer engineers are perfectly capable of distinguishing between algorithms and magic....

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (652+ words) On the one hand, the stream, as of this writing, has barely 6,000 views. The average seven-year-old Roblox streamer does better than that. However, the interview is so deeply disturbing, so bald-facedly manipulative, that it deserves scrutiny. The fact that Acosta…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (293+ words) Twenty years on from its spectacular revival it looks like Doctor Who might not be returning to our screens again in the immediate future. I haven't actually watched Doctor Who for a long time" Doctor Who needs a break Twenty…...