‘Tis the season to pay homage to the first attempts to teach Spanish to American people…
- Religion’s understated influence on modern art.
- NSA focuses on talent as pace of technology quickens.
- Mitch Horowitz: Did a ‘hidden hand’ instigate the modern occult?
- Australian fisherman claims to have found MH370’s wing months after the plane vanished.
- China’s space plane apparently deployed 6 ‘mysterious wingmen’ in orbit.
- The Nonsense Bazaar explores the famous 1561 “UFO battle” over Nuremberg.
- OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account over use of GPT for training its own AI model. What does it feel like to be on the other side of the content theft, you c*nts?
- Jeffrey Kripal: UFOs and the Impossible, by That UFO Podcast.
- Video: Listen to a Larry King 1975 interview in which he interviews Hollywood star Jackie Gleason about his interest in psychic phenomena.
- California prepares to transform sewage into pure drinking water under new rules.
- Humanize a rock: an animator’s top tips on getting science a broader audience.
- Scientists discover how to convert CO2 into powder that can be stored for decades.
- Quanta magazine brings us a recap of 2023 in computer science.
- Elon Musk built his automotive empire upon a big, stinky lie.
- Red Pill of the Day: Elon Musk’s Grok AI accuses him of going to court for pedophilia.
Quote of the Day:
Dear George: Remember — No man is a failure who has friends.
From It’s a Wonderful Life
