Society

The human brain breaks doing Big Math.

The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.”

Anthropic has unveiled a legal plugin that helps customise its large language model Claude for legal tasks such as document review.

"When armed agents operate beyond the reach of law, they are no longer public servants. They are something else entirely."

The rise and fall of the Great Convergence

I’m sorry, but this is not just a political scandal. Time to refocus on the horrific mistreatment of women and girls, and the role of these ghouls, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

His meeting with the founder of 4chan and his quest to profit off the end of democracy

Epstein’s messages give us a glimpse, one we were never …

The easiest way to steal from government programs is the same everywhere, and it has nothing to do with immigration

We are parts of many social units.

Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.

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The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers

Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here

Imagine a situation where you take your car to a mechanic for a serious repair. After he finishes the job, spending his time, knowledge…

Space debris falling back through the atmosphere could be tracked – by spotting the sonic booms as the junk rips through the sky.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez thinks too many members of her party miss what’s really driving the alienation and anger in our society.

It’s been seven weeks since the Department of Justice stepped up its investigation of fraud at Minnesota social service organizations run by citizens of Somali descent. The Department of Homeland Security simultaneously stepped up the Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) presence in the Twin ...

The Manosphere is so busy performing masculinity and putting on hateful shows that it seems they've lost the plot.

Pete wonders about the ways in which we envision the future through pop culture, noting that most of these ways tend to be one or another variant of either Mad Max or Blade Runner—either “post-apocalyptic desert” or “rain-soaked, neon-lit cyberpunk megacity”. The thing about works...

A Hell World reader in Minneapolis sent me the drawing above. "Here's a drawing by an unknown artist at my kid's school. Among many other sweet gestures going in all directions, kids at the school have been making thank-you cards to the parents who have been carpooling other kids to

You’ve likely at least heard of Marion Stokes, the woman who constantly recorded television for over 30 years. She comes up on reddit and other places every so often as a hero archivist who f…

The Mercator projection, which is widely used for world maps, disproportionately exaggerates the size of landmasses that are more distant from the Equator. So Greenland, which is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia, looks like it is larger than the entire continent of Africa.