Monday, October 05, 2026

Trump's AI rebranding just more smoke and mirrors

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As a new CNN/SSRS survey concludes that the vast majority of Americans are very concerned about AI and the way it's being developed, Pre...
Saturday, October 03, 2026

Christa Pike on life support is the mother of all ironies

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I'm sure everyone has heard about the "failed execution" of Christa Pike in Tennessee this last week.  Incidentally, "fa...

Has Samuel Alito left his retirement too late?

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US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito - a man whose extreme right-ring political views make even Donald Trump look like a moderate, and who ...
Friday, October 02, 2026

The case for replacing diesel in heavy-duty trucking

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As diesel prices reach record levels , and the idiot-in-chief in the White House threatens to ban American diesel exports to the internation...
Monday, September 28, 2026

Is AI really an existential threat?

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I don't remember reading the word "existential" so frequently since I made my Basics of Philosophy hobby website many years a...

Pope Leo checks his progressivism at the shrine door

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Pope Leo XIV has the reputation of being a pretty progressive Pope. But, lest we forget, that's not actually saying much. Official Catho...
Thursday, September 24, 2026

The wacky world of BC politics

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We sometimes think that Ontario provincial politics is pretty wacky, but it's certainly got nothing on the strange goings-on in British ...
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

AI mathematical proof not without its detractors

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OpenAI has solved one of the thorniest mathematical problems still left unsolved . And not everyone is happy about it. The Navier-Stokes Pro...