This isn't about being a cynic. It’s about being a skeptic.
There used to be a thing called “seeing is believing.” You watched it happen. You trusted your eyes. Your eyes had never lied to you before, at least not intentionally. That’s over now. What a Deepfake Actually Is Deepfakes are…
There’s a woman on the internet who wakes up before sunrise, bakes sourdough from scratch, milks her own cows, raises nine kids, and looks like she just stepped out of a painting. Her farm is beautiful. Her kitchen is warm.…
Somewhere on Instagram right now, a guy with “Dr.” in his bio is telling you that seed oils are slowly killing you, that your ancestral lineage demands you eat raw beef liver, and that for $197 a month he’ll coach…
Somewhere between the campfire and the microwave, we lost the plot. Cooking food is one of the oldest and most consequential things humans have ever done. We’ve been doing it for somewhere between 500,000 and a million years, depending on…
The deadline passed on June 5th. If you were one of the people who saw the Instagram caption, shared it to your story, and told your followers to “demand action NOW” before it was too late, well. It’s too late.…
If you saw this going around on social media recently and assumed it was another chemtrail-adjacent fever dream, I understand. So did I. Then I looked it up. It’s real. The U.S. Forest Service and timber companies partnered with it…
When I was a kid, boredom was just a thing that happened to you. You sat there. You stared at the ceiling. Maybe you went outside and found something to do, or maybe you didn’t. Either way, you lived through…
History doesn’t repeat itself. But it definitely plagiarizes itself. Right now, the United States is in the middle of a building frenzy unlike anything most people alive today have seen. The AI data center boom is pouring hundreds of billions…
My kid came home from school last year and told me she was pretty sure she had ADHD. She had seen a video about it. Actually, she had seen a lot of videos about it. The algorithm had decided that…
Back in the day, if you wanted to build something that sucked up the resources of a small city, someone would notice. Permits. Hearings. Neighbors with lawn signs. Now, they just call it a “campus,” put up a fence around…