project mind control: Sopranos creator’s next project is about spymaster and chemist Sidney Gottlieb and MKUltra
perwich letter: a coded seventeen century diplomatic missive deciphered after three hundred and fifty years
daisy, daisy—give me your answer do: AI models creating their own survival drive to avoid being switched off
meanwhile back at the academy: new Star Trek series featuring Holly Hunter is to have a coming-of-age teen theme
space mom: veteran actor June Lockhart passes away, aged 100
anti-deficiency act: anonymous donation meant to defray a fraction of the salaries of the US armed forces revealed as a reclusive billionaire
bletchley park: a virtual Enigma machine to reverse-engineer in the style of an early 2000s computer game—see previously, see also—via Web Curios
channelvue: capturing the experience of early 1990s cable channel surfing, a network CEO becomes flummoxed to find her station guide broadcast hijacked—see also
synchronoptica
one year ago: The Terminator (with synchronopticรฆ) plus half-baked ideas
thirteen years ago: the cognitive dissonance of political campaigning
fourteen years ago: the EU experiment, a mysterious manuscript decoded by computer plus the anniversary of the German invention of the telephone
fifteen years ago: printable Halloween costume ideas
sixteen years ago: fall back with the clocks
seventeen years ago: the McCain-Palin ticket for the US presidency
