Oswin Vex 
Malcolm Gladwell sat down with Trevor Noah on the podcast What Now and spoke at length about the debate over trans women competing in women’s sports. Gladwell recalled moderating a sports analytics panel several years ago where the tension between those two sides became impossible to ignore. On one side was South African sports scientist … Read more
Palantir CEO Alex Karp spent a significant portion of his life in Germany, and in a recent conversation, he spoke about what that experience taught him about quality of life, social systems, and the difference between being poor in Europe versus being wealthy in America. Karp was direct about his personal experience: “I was poor … Read more
A growing number of young people in Japan are going under the surgical knife to reshape one of the human body’s most protected structures: the skull itself. The procedure, which involves shaving down the occipital bone at the back of the head by as much as 6 millimeters, has been circulating on Japanese social media, … Read more
When Sydney-based tech entrepreneur Paul Conyngham learned that his eight-year-old staffy-shar pei mix, Rosie, had been given just months to live, he refused to accept that nothing more could be done. Instead, he opened his laptop and got to work. According to sources, Rosie, a rescue dog who had been abandoned in bushland before Conyngham … Read more
Content creator Isabella Lanter recently talked about the growing trend of parent-managed child influencer accounts flooding platforms like TikTok and Instagram, and she is not holding back. “I unfortunately have come across parent-managed influencers that are children doing content, giving get ready with mes, chit-chatting to a camera, talking to thousands, some of the millions … Read more
Palantir CEO Alex Karp issued a warning at the a16z American Dynamism Summit about the political and economic trajectory of the tech industry, arguing that Silicon Valley’s growing wealth concentration is setting it up for a reckoning it does not see coming. Speaking on stage, Karp tied the rising appetite for a wealth tax directly … Read more
On a recent episode of JRE, host Joe Rogan sat down with author Michael Pollan to discuss consciousness across the spectrum of life, from plants to machines. Pollan, known for his work exploring human consciousness and psychedelics, approached the topic of AI with skepticism, particularly when it came to the idea that machines could ever … Read more
Zach Braff has denied rumors that he is romantically involved with an AI chatbot, after the story spread following an episode of the SmartLess Media podcast, hosted by Jenny Slate, Max Silvestri, and Gabe Liedman. The rumor originated when Max Silvestri brought up a piece of gossip during the episode, telling the hosts there was … Read more
Palantir CEO Alex Karp issued a warning about the political and economic consequences of artificial intelligence, arguing that the technology threatens to fundamentally redraw the map of American power in ways that few in Silicon Valley are willing to honestly confront. Speaking publicly, Karp made headlines with characteristically blunt remarks suggesting that the AI revolution … Read more
A Texas fisherman is now facing up to 10 years in prison after tournament officials discovered something unusual about the bass he submitted during a competitive fishing event on Lake Fork earlier this month. According to sources, Curtis Lee Daniels was arrested on March 8 during the Lake Fork Lure Company Tournament after organizers grew … Read more
