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#1May 13, 2024
Getting High With AI
Blog: Reason.com
I asked artificial intelligence to tell me how to take psychedelic mushrooms.
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#2May 3, 2024
Review: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Underscores How Technology Supports Freedom
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According to Grok, Robert Heinlein's novel reminds us that even a supercomputer can have a heart—or at least a well-programmed sense of humor.
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#3March 30, 2024
Photo: The Kid Who Beat Tetris
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Willis Gibson, 13, became the first Tetris player to trigger a "kill screen."
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#4March 23, 2024
Photo: A Private Moon Landing
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Odysseus became the first private spacecraft to have a successful soft moon landing—kind of.
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#5February 23, 2024
Review: HBO's Comedic Take on Pirate Life
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The pirates in Our Flag Means Death end up more interested in skirting imperial powers than in plundering.
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#6February 18, 2024
The Sindex: Cigarette Prices Outpacing Inflation
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The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more.
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#7January 2, 2024
Photo: Is SpaceX Ready for Liftoff?
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With another "rapid unscheduled disassembly," the second Starship test in November was a mixed success.
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#8November 7, 2023
Photo: Ready for RoboCop?
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams recently showed off the autonomous security robot the city is piloting.
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#9October 27, 2023
Review: A Vampire Mockumentary Takes on Local Politics
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"It's really no surprise, the amount of energy vampires in politics," says a fictional candidate for Staten Island comptroller.
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#10October 7, 2023
The Sindex: Price of Booze Away From Home Up 6.6 Percent Since 2022
Blog: Reason.com
The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more.
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#11October 2, 2023
Photo: Argentina's Libertarian Moment?
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Self-described anarcho-capitalist Javier Milei shocked the world in August by getting the most votes in Argentina's presidential primary.
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#12September 15, 2023
Review: In The Bear, a Restaurateur Battles Government Bureaucracy
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A Chicago sandwich shop's survival depends on cutting through red tape.
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#13August 12, 2023
Baltimore Orioles Owners Demand Even More Unnecessary Taxpayer Money
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Apparently $600 million to improve a very nice stadium isn't enough.
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#14July 13, 2023
Get Your Politics Out of My Pickleball
Blog: Reason.com
Fault lines emerge as government gets involved in America's weirdest, fastest-growing sport.
Open Access#152019
The Culture of Narcissism: Cultural Dilemmas, Language Confusion and The Formation of Social Identity
The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety. He seeks not to inflict his own certainties on others but to find a meaning in life. Liberated from the superstitions of the past, he doubts even the reality of his own existence. Superficially relaxed and tolerant, he finds little use for dogmas of racial and ethnic purity but at the same time forfeits the security of group loyalties and regards everyone as a rival for the favors conferred by a paternalistic state. His sexual attitudes are permissive rather than puritanical, even though his emancipation from ancient taboos brings him no sexual peace. Fiercely competitive in his demand for approval and acclaim, he distrusts competition because he associates it unconsciously with an unbridled urge to destroy. Hence he repudiates the competitive ideologies that flourished at an earlier stage of capitalist development and distrusts even their limited expression in sports and games. He extols cooperation and teamwork while harboring deeply antisocial impulses. He praises respect for rules and regulations in the secret belief that they do not apply to himself. Acquisitive in the sense that his cravings have no limits, he does not accumulate goods and provisions against the future, in the manner of the acquisitive individualist of nineteenth-century political economy, but demands immediate gratification and lives in a state of restless, perpetually unsatisfied desire.
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