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PU 30: Aviation and the War in Iran
The war in Iran is having a tremendous impact on the aviation industry. An underreported detail is what happens when your flight deviates around the …
10 hours ago
PU 29: The State of Star Trek
With the cancellation of Starfleet Academy, there is no Star Trek series in active production for the first time in a decade. Why is that and what d…
1 week ago
PU 28: What is Antifa?
Even though it has been in the US news a lot recently, almost everybody over there seems to be getting wrong what Antifa actually is. This is an over…
2 weeks ago
PU 27: LLMs Are a Dead-End
Why current AI technology can’t get us what its proponents are promising. Why the media keeps getting the AI story wrong. Why AI layoffs are just an …
3 weeks ago
PU 26: Trump Falls Into the Smart Bomb Trap
Trump’s war on Iran is a huge blunder, both militarily and politically. The US can’t possibly win this war and Trump is tanking his presidency, and t…
4 weeks ago
PU 25: The Problem with the Epstein Files
I’ve been digging through the Epstein files for weeks now and I’m finding that there are a lot of issues with the coverage in the press. This is an a…
1 month ago
PU 24: The ELIZA Effect
An MIT professor developed the first chatbot in 1964 and discovered that we tend to ascribe human traits to even the simplest computer programs. This…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
PU 23: The Minnesota Welfare Fraud Scandal
A several-billion-dollar welfare scam hit national news shortly before the riots erupted in Minneapolis. And the people egging on the protesters seem…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
PU 22: Moltbook Madness
The AI tech bros are going crazy: They are convinced their chatbots are gaining consciousness, which is why they made a chatbot-only social network f…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
PU 21: The Death of Alex Pretti
Another protestor was shot dead by ICE in Minneapolis. Why are these agents so bad at their job? Who would take a gun to a protest? Where is the loca…
2 months ago