13,000 names we’ll never know: the sacrificed victims of China’s first dynasty... China’s first literate state didn’t just practice human sacrifice. It industrialized it—and wrote down the numbers...

322 years ago today, in 1704, a combined Austrian, Dutch, British, Hanoverian, Hessian, Danish, and Prussian army under the joint command of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and Eugen Franz...

Scott Aaronson’s complexity rebuttal to Searle's "machines can mimic but cannot understand"; Searle's intuition pump hides the scale of the computations...

Nate & Eli's subheadline: "Silver Bulletin's prediction for every Senate, House, and gubernatorial election in 2026"; 99.9% wishful thinking-free, which is true of nobody else in that line of work...