We got a donor to toss us a bone so we could raise what we pay those we publish. Effective today, we will be raising what we pay from $30 a short story to $75. Are you going to use that money to retire from your life of crime? Nope, but it’s better than a stick in the eye and its our way of say, “As we get more money, we will pay more money.”

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American philosopher and novelist who is best known for her advocacy of individual rights and laissez-faire capitalism. She developed a philosophical system known as objectivism, which she described as "a philosophy for living on earth."

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing field that has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of our lives. One question that has long been debated by philosophers and scientists is whether AI can be sentient, or aware of its own existence and consciousness.