HeyJaredTom Eaton
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TOM EATON | Politics has always sold us magic and myth (opens the original)
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Over the past few days tabloids, both sacred and profane, have begun to ask a question that feels like the pure, distilled essence of 2026: have we found Noah’s ark? According to a variety of dubious reports a team of “researchers” is planning to drill core samples on a Turkish hillside to establish whether the famous boat did, in fact, come to rest near Mount Ararat and leave the large, boat-shaped depression currently being investigated. It goes without saying that a large, boat-shaped depress
TOM EATON | Apartheid 2.0 or yet more crosses for SA to bear? (opens the original)
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This week it was reported that a family of four South African “refugees” has been barred from returning to the US after they suffered a health scare and decided to fly back to this country to make use of our excellent and affordable medical system. The news was met with astonishment, some jokes and a fair bit of anger, but I present it here without comment or spin, partly because it speaks so eloquently for itself and partly because we’re about to hear so much more about the so-called refugees a
TOM EATON | AI technology: bubble or scam? (opens the original)
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It seems fitting, as our dying information age sinks into irrationality and self-destruction, that the big question of the moment is whether the tech broligarchy is about to kill us all or is merely using the spectre of our automated genocide as a fundraising strategy. Certainly, parts of last week felt less like the 21st century than the 13th as Jason Coxon, a young researcher at artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic, resigned over safety fears while AI oligarchs made cautious noises abo
TOM EATON | We’ve always known Africa is huge — and very far away (opens the original)
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As powerful, dangerous men strive to redraw the map of the world to reflect how badly they were parented, the UN’s new map, showing the correct relative sizes of the continents, should be cause for celebration. But not everyone will be pleased by this burst of bureaucratic continental drift. For what it’s worth, I think the new version of the world, which elongates Africa while shrinking the northernmost parts, is a good thing, especially for the people of Togo, whose government proposed the UN
TOM EATON | Low flypasts are as much part of our DNA as reckless driving (opens the original)
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A debate is raging over whether Saturday’s ultralow flypast at Cape Town Stadium was safe, but I am hesitant to take a position: since the weekend I have discovered that I am one of only a few hundred South Africans who is not an expert on the thrust-to-weight ratio of passenger jets and air density over elliptical sports stadiums, and so I think it’s wiser to withhold judgment. But this is not to say I can’t appreciate the arguments being put forward by both sides. I agree, for example, with th
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