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Tom Whyman

Latest Editorials by Tom Whyman

Double Check: Is Google's AI Sentient?

Last week, as you may have noticed, the news started to feel a bit like the start of that movie Her where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a chatbot voiced by Scarlett Johansson  – when Blake Lemoine, an engineer associated with Google's LaMDA...

The Protest No One Noticed

You might not have noticed or realized, but on Monday between the hours of 7-10 AM, a monumental protest was held in London. Members of the group Push Those Buttons (previously called “Push Them Buttons”), sick of “tyrrany, genocide, vaccine...

Where The Wild Things Aren't

Are you worried about the scourge of wokeness coming for your kids? In the present age of trans rights activism, high levels of vaccine uptake, and critical race theory, no parent can afford to be too careful: there’s every chance your kids could be...

Sajid Javid's Freedom Day Fantasy

Throughout the first year of the pandemic, responsibility for the U.K.’s health service lay with Matt Hancock, who first rose to public prominence when, as a more junior MP, he launched a social media app called simply “Matt Hancock.” This app...

Just Don't Look

In “Attack of the 50ft Eyesores,” one of the Treehouse of Horror shorts from The Simpsons, Springfield falls prey to a fearsome mob of giant advert mascots led by the Lard Lad – the colossal mascot of a donut shop whose big donut has been stolen by...

How to Rehydrate the Media

At the start of a Simpsons episode from 1993, Bart pulls a prank on his teachers and Mrs. Krapabbel decides to punish him by calling on him first for every question she asks the class. Ostensibly, this punishment will last for the rest of the school...