Opinion

Article Nov 10, 2026

Future tsunamis: Cosmists and Terrans, revisited

The 2026 midterms delivered a blue tsunami driven mostly by the cost of living - but a quieter signal ran underneath it: fear of AI and of the data centers being built to feed it. Hugo de Garis once predicted the defining fight of this century would pit Cosmists, who want to build godlike machine intellects, against Terrans, who want to stop them. i think the election was an early tremor of that split, and that only discussion, negotiation, and concessions on all sides can keep today's votes from hardening into tomorrow's artilect war.

Giulio Prisco 8 min read

Article Jul 8, 2026

The Silicon Eschaton: How Jensen Huang’s Retrospective Confirms Terence McKenna’s Foresight

McKenna predicted 2012's end. Huang called it AI's Big Bang. The shift arrived, but in silicon, not biology. Did we miss it?

Cosmo Kaan 5 min read

Article Apr 7, 2026

Artemis II flies by the Moon

Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen fly around the Moon, Glover delivers powerfully inspiring Easter message.

Giulio Prisco 5 min read

Article Sep 9, 2026

OpenAI Declares AGI Era But I Call It Age Old Marketing

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra may be its most advanced LLM yet, but calling it AGI raises a fundamental question: does better language prediction equal artificial general intelligence?

Hruy Tsegaye 9 min read

Article Apr 15, 2026

Up and Down and All Around with VR, AI and the comings (and goings) of SLOP

In a candid, sardonic conversation, Tony Parisi revisits VR’s long arc, skewers AI hype, and finds strange hope in the noise of generative culture gone gloriously wrong.

RU Sirius 16 min read

Article Apr 8, 2026

Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon

Over more than 50 years, each new presidential administration has reassessed the place of spaceflight among its priorities, either encouraging or curtailing the return to the Moon.

Republished from The Conversation 7 min read

Article Apr 1, 2026

NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long‑term lunar presence

The U.S. is committing to the steady, repeatable work of building a lasting foothold on the Moon, and redefining humanity’s relationship with space itself.

Republished from The Conversation 5 min read

Article Aug 4, 2026

When Robots Make Everything Free, Who Gets the Beachfront House?

Hruy thinks Elon Musk sees the future clearly (AI, robotics, space) but is blind to the present. His piece reveals why monetary capitalism will doom Elon Musk's "abundance" utopia.

Hruy Tsegaye 14 min read