Thousands of BSL-3 labs worldwide now handle pathogens like bird flu, SARS-CoV-2, and tuberculosis—with almost “no oversight,” biosecurity experts confirm. Over the past few years, the world has entered a new era of high-containment biological research—marked by a dramatic expansion of laboratories capable of working with the most lethal…
Despite calls for many Democratic politicians and pundits to temper their inflammatory rhetoric, this week has proven a further escalation in this dangerous form of rage rhetoric. DNC Chair Ken Martin just told MSNBC’s “The Beat” that “we may be nearing” the moment when “elections don’t matter and then…
Swimmer “Hannah” Caldas is banned after refusing to take chromosome test; Algerian gold medalist in women’s division, Imane Khelif, also refuses to take chromosome test. Multiple newspapers recently reported that transgender swimmer Ana Caldas has been penalized with a five-year ban and has been stripped of all competition results…
Systemic Misclassification Is Inflating “White” Crime Numbers and Masking the True Scope of Criminal Activity Recent investigations and social media reporting have exposed a troubling pattern in the way crime statistics are recorded and presented in the United States.
Benyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government has taken control of TikTok and plans to also control the social network X. However, the State of Israel’s propaganda has long eluded its citizens. Its purpose has never been publicly discussed. A small group decides its messages alone, without considering what would be useful…
No Kings was rightly labelled the geriatric flourish of a dying generation. It was also an attack by the privileged on the urban poor and the middle class across America. It was paid for by the richest people on earth. This week the Atlantic Monthly online’s lead piece was by Anne Applebaum, one…
The research I’ve done over the past three years has changed my mind about the potential for a social revolution in the United States. Where I once considered it unlikely, I now consider it inevitable. I’ve laid out the evidence and reasoning supporting this conclusion in three books which I…
“The business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations.” —The Singularity Hub on “X” Which is to say, there is Reality, and then there is every other cockamamie aggregate of simulation pretending to represent Reality, i.e. garbage. How many millions among us already subscribe to the latter?…
Over the weekend, a group of armed Israeli settlers in the West Bank staged an attack on American journalist and Drop Site News contributor Jasper Nathaniel and a group of Palestinians he was accompanying. Footage recorded by Nathaniel, a U.S. citizen, shows more than a dozen masked men chasing…
My attention was arrested the other day by a rather nifty post on social media from a poster not previously known to me. It showed a map of the Earth with the land areas colored in either red or blue. The red areas were those where…
