Sense Check
Sense Checks slow a claim down before it becomes accepted wisdom. The focus is on numbers, definitions, incentives and the difference between what was promised and what actually happened. These articles are less interested in winning a shouting match than in finding the part that survives contact with evidence. Read the newest check first, or choose a topic when one kind of nonsense has arrived in bulk.
When AI Teaches the Library, the Soul Has to Speak First
A dry Sense Check on AI, schools and borrowed knowledge, asking whether future learning should extract the soul instead of polishing copied ideas forever.
Billionaire Tax And The New Crown With Its Private Guards
A fact-led roast on billionaire taxation, old crowns, private guards, political donations and the tiny tax that terrifies the new nobility of capital.
The Protest That Shouts At Freedom And Whispers At Fear
Western protest can defend the oppressed, but it fails when it attacks democracies loudly and whispers about tyrants, terror and authoritarian rule too.
Unsafe Workplaces and the AI Paradise Nobody Can Afford
Companies save money on heat, cold, pay and tools, then sell AI paradise. A worker-safety roast with receipts, numbers and blunt questions for bosses.
Smart People, Blind Logic and the Myth They Cannot Read
A dry roast of clever minds that worship logic, miss myth, and expect imagination to queue politely behind equations, datasets and tidy proof forever.
The AGI Gurus Selling Less Study and More Obedience Now
AI business gurus keep trying to bury school, but the receipts say study, mentors and human judgement matter more, not less, in the noisy…
Maktub, AI, and the Strange New End of Human Error Control
Automation and AI promise fewer errors, less waste and better quality control, while humans still trip over destiny, attention and bad systems today.
Political Creators Keep Preaching to the Converted Feed
Political creators keep talking to people who already agree, then act shocked when untouched voters do exactly what their feed hid from them all…
Rights, Reality and the Third-Space Toilet War in Britain
EHRC guidance shows democracy doing dull but necessary work: sex-based spaces, trans rights and common sense forced into one locked cubicle of law and…
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