Kelli Wessinger
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 5
- Latest publication
- Sep 16, 2026
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- Top 100K sites
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Should we be skeptical about the AI panic? (opens the original)
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Death is scary and all. But there are non-speculative problems with AI we should be addressing now. In Silicon Valley, it’s not such a novel question. But after Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon quit his job last week and posted on X that AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade,” a lot more people are asking. “This is not a marketing stunt,” Coxon wrote. “If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people
How to survive a national debt scare (opens the original)
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$40 trillion in national debt isn’t automatically a crisis. We should still be worried. The national debt hasn’t been a major issue in the 2026 midterms. But perhaps it should be. As of last month, the United States is in debt to the tune of $40 trillion. That’s 12 zeros, which averages out to about $116,000 per American. It’s enough that even economists like Jared Bernstein, the chair of the US Council of Economic Advisers under President Joe Biden, is starting to worry. Bernstein has long argu
How Ukraine is holding its own against Russia — and changing warfare as we know it (opens the original)
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The drone innovation race behind Ukraine’s military success. When the Russia-Ukraine conflict erupted into full-scale war in 2022, things looked grim for Ukraine. Its capital, Kyiv, was under threat almost immediately, and there were questions about how long the smaller country could hold out, even with US support. More than four years later, however, the dynamic is changing. US military support has waned, but not only has Ukraine held its own in years of grinding, attritional fighting, it incre
The Trump White House’s stinkiest trend (opens the original)
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Can fermented foods change your life? RFK Jr. and JD Vance seem to think so. Fermented food is the hottest new trend in the halls of the White House. Members of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet are reportedly walking about with jars of sauerkraut in the hopes that it will give them glowing skin and tiny waists. Wall Street Journal’s Liz Essley Whyte told Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram that “Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, Transportation Secreta
The rise of the “loneliness influencer” (opens the original)
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There’s a new kind of influencer making the rounds on TikTok and Instagram: the loneliness influencer. Most of these influencers are young women, and “loneliness” might be a slight misnomer. They claim they aren’t lonely, simply alone — no friends, no family, no kids. And they prefer it that way. “I really wanted to convey a normal life of somebody that doesn’t have this big, great, fun social life,” one influencer, Lana Isa, told Vox. “Like, what does a life look like as someone that doesn’t re
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