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- Sep 29, 2026
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Never be afraid to describe reality (opens the original)
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Americans don’t like extremists (opens the original)
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The gym bros were right all along (opens the original)
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AI existential risk is the new “climate crisis” (opens the original)
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Growing up in Florida in the 80s and 90s, I was continuously told the state would be underwater, any day now. You’d see it on local and national news. In his film An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore predicted it based on a hypothetical 20-foot global sea-level rise and used it to illustrate the devastation which would occur in the state. No devastation ever happened, my mother’s house is just fine, earlier this year I visited South Beach and stayed right on the ocean at the same place I swam as a kid.
The strange case of J.K. Rowling (opens the original)
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