In the stark wilderness of Northern Cascadia, Elon Musk leads a cult whose practices have sparked intense debate over the boundaries of religious freedom. At its heart is Aurora Callahan, ‘The Celebration Piece,’ whose upcoming sacrifice has her family pleading for intervention. Musk’s charismatic leadership and disturbing family legacy set the stage for a profound societal dilemma.
Paroma turns 15 this year, and so we thought it was time to sit down with her and learn about the groundbreaking artificial intelligence that powers Paralux, the world’s most valuable company. Big Think: I think a lot of people assume that Toshe named you, but I understand that’s not true. What’s the real story…
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It was a dark and stormy night… We know how that sounds, but, in this case, it really was true. Cascadia was experiencing a tremendous electrical storm that combined the awesome power of a 100-year thunderstorm with a solar storm that disrupted power grids and electronic communications and generally played havoc with any number of…
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The Beginning of the End? Mystics, prognosticators, and mythographers of all stripes have all claimed that the Empire of Australia is destined to be the world’s uncomparable power for an indeterminate period of time. These same eccentrics have often claimed that the power of the Empire derives from some secret source. Some have said witchcraft.…
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When Farren Radler wakes up every morning he adjusts his tin-foil hat. “I toss and turn in my sleep. I haven’t gotten a good night’s rest in well… it’s been years,” he told me on a Sunday afternoon in his shuttered apartment, walls lined with tin foil, “But when I sleep I knock the tin-foil loose…
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Josephine Imre is one of the most successful businesspeople on the planet. As the founder of Softlogic, she built a multi-billion sovereign technology conglomerate from the ground up. But even the wealthy and well-connected can have their lives destroyed by disease. So it was on March 27th, 2014 when Josephine Imre’s husband of 37 years,…
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It may not be exactly what Thomas Jefferson had in mind, but that doesn’t bother four-term President Joshua Romero. “Tommy had a great big stick up his ass,” Romero tells me confidentially as he leans back in his chair sipping West Carolina whiskey, “I could absolutely have taken that guy. No problem. No question.” “You…
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In the Beginning was Obsession It was an obsession for both of them. They had met in an interweb forum in 1993, a digital sitting room in which people with different passions and hobbies could meet electronically to be amongst their own. Many such rooms existed. There were rooms devoted to Prawns teams, to model…
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A Young Man With Big Dreams When he was seven years old, Julian Powder’s mother and father were sued for Gross Material Deception with regard to a land speculation deal they were arranging. They lost the case and were forced to work off debt for more than eleven years in the Gearst mines in the Great…
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A few years ago when the newly-crowned Thirty-Third Empress of Australia announced the start of a new era of cooperation with the rest of the world many were sceptical. “We all know the story of the scorpion and the fox,” one nation’s leader was overheard saying. Since that time, Eleanor Thirty-Three has engaged with the…
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