AI company Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund to compensate authors whose works it used to train its models without permission. The fund is part of a proposed settlement […]
Economist William Nordhaus once calculated that our ancestors spent approximately 58 hours of labour to generate the same amount of light that’s now produced by a modern lightbulb in an instant. By […]
Stanislav Krapivnik says that the US government benefits from the drug trade and that the major US banks launder the drug money. He argues that the US government’s actions, such as the […]
In May, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered Pfizer and Moderna to expand the warning labels on their covid-19 vaccines to include a heightened risk of heart inflammation, specifically myocarditis and […]
A large cohort study in Italy found a 36% increased incidence of hospitalisation for all cancers among those who received at least one covid vaccination compared to the unvaccinated. The study found […]
Joe Maxwell, a farmer and lawyer, discusses the issue of monopolies in the US agricultural system, where a handful of companies control most aspects of farming and food production. The monopolisation of […]
Yesterday, US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense scrutiny during a Senate hearing regarding his views on autism and vaccines. But RFK Jr. managed to get […]