Damian Reilly

4 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Derek VanBuskirk |Freddy Gray |Damian Reilly |Ross Anderson

The first Senate hearing on the mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in January, which resulted in the loss of 67 lives, was held today. The conclusion: it was a miracle it didn’t happen sooner. Senator Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas and chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, reported that between October 21 and December 24, there were more than 1,500 “close-proximity” events between helicopters and commercial airplanes.

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Damian Reilly |Ben Domenech |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller

The right-wing media rumor mill threatened to spin off its axis earlier this week with the shock announcement that “god king” Jeremy Boreing was stepping down as co-CEO of the Daily Wire. Boreing, a keen film enthusiast who starred, wrote and directed in the Wire’s comedy movie Lady Ballers, is withdrawing to “focus on creative projects for the company,” per Axios’s Sara Fischer. The DW’s many detractors had a field day with the news – speculating that there was more to the story.

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Damian Reilly |Ben Domenech |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller

Rumors abound about god king’s exitThe right-wing media rumor mill threatened to spin off its axis earlier this week with the shock announcement that “god king” Jeremy Boreing was stepping down as co-CEO of the Daily Wire. Boreing, a keen film enthusiast who starred, wrote and directed in the Wire’s comedy movie Lady Ballers, is withdrawing to “focus on creative projects for the company,” per Axios’s Sara Fischer.

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Damian Reilly |Nigel Jones |Freddy Gray |cocaineBy James Delingpole

How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds us? Or will it instead discover that a certain property of our livers or spleens is the most cost-effective form of lubrication for one of its less important robotic joints, and harvest us for that property, as we now harvest chickens, in battery farms? It’s a fun thought experiment, no?

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Damian Reilly

How will AI destroy humanity? Will it simply go house to house in robot form, slaughtering us where it finds us? Or will it instead discover that a certain property of our livers or spleens is the most cost-effective form of lubrication for one of its less important robotic joints, and harvest us for that property, as we now harvest chickens, in battery farms? It’s a fun thought experiment, no?