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View More NewsIn this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Jordan Lasker—better known by his pen name Crémieux—the bioinformatician and writer whose contrarian analyses of genetics, demographics and medicine have drawn a following of hundreds of thousands on X.They discuss why birth rates across the Anglosphere began falling after a Victorian obscenity trial, what Crémieux makes of the evidence on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and the panic over microplastics, and his own experience being mauled by a pit bull—which, he argues, is a question of nature, not nurture. They also turn to El Salvador’s transformation under Nayib Bukele, IQ testing…
from the dead-site-walking dept As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his second-rate LLM, Grok, with recreating it as “Grokipedia.” Grokipedia, launched nearly a year ago, basically starts by forking Wikipedia and then having its AI “generate” more details and more stories. It’s… not very good. And apparently, it hasn’t been updating. And it seems like almost no one noticed. Over at Lawfare, they put out an article showing that Grokipedia basically stopped accepting updates back in April. At first, we wondered whether the AI was avoiding sensitive…
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A review of Push the Wall: My Life, Writing, Drawing, and the Art of Storytelling by Frank Miller; 224 pages; Canongate (July 2026)Even outside of comic book circles, Frank Miller is known as a gifted artist and writer who made comics grown up and gritty. From his damaged version of Bruce Wayne to Marv in Sin City (whom Miller pithily describes as “Conan the Barbarian in a trenchcoat”), Miller has created stories that resemble a strikingly original blend of film noir and dark Wagnerian opera. But the Miller who emerges from this memoir—part autobiography, part primer for aspiring graphic novelists—is…
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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged the founder of non-fungible token (NFT) startup Few and Far with securities fraud and wire fraud.The prosecutors alleged that…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law creating a regulated framework for cryptocurrency markets in Russia.Putin signed bill No. 1194918-8, titled “On Digital…
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Bitcoin hovered near $64,830 on Thursday, up 0.8% over 24 hours and 1.3% on the week, while trading inside a narrow band, CoinDesk data…