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The Jan. 6 committee's 845-page report offered few details of social media's role in the Capitol riot. Transcripts and an unreleased memo shows the committee knew more.

Sometimes it seems like Japan is almost invisible in global e-commerce.Despite a dynamic domestic e-commerce market and a long tradition of global exports, Japan just  doesn't seem that interested in selling to the outside world.But things are changing, and Kazuyoshi Nakazato of Zig Zag is working to make sure they change even faster.We talk about why Japan is unrepresented in global e-commerce, why that's changing, some things you should never try to sell online.It's a great conversation, and I think you'll enjoy it.

I am furious. Though I try not to humour conspiracy theories, or suggest that there is any grand overture to what is usually an uncaring and cold world, but I cannot ignore what is a transparently-synchronized movement against the tech industry’s workforce.

An ongoing project.

New web services are being built to a self-defeatingly low UX and performance standard, and existing experiences are now pervasively re-developed on unspeakably slow, JS-taxed stacks. At a business level, this is a disaster, raising the question: why are new teams buying into stacks that have failed so often before?

Meet James K. Robinson. He’s 39 years old and works as an airport tower controller in Philadelphia. He’s not real, but it took just 2 minutes to create his persona using Fake Name Gener…

I thought I could fix the air quality in my apartment. I was wrong.

The problem of democracy and American law enforcement goes beyond questions of accountability.

Maybe not the film you expect

Bitcoin miner in La Doré, Quebec via L'Étoile du Lac In what form do bitcoin holders bear bitcoin's huge energy costs? For the Bitcoin netwo...

1877 $50 Thirty-year Registered 4% Consol [ link ]. (A consol is a perpetual bond.) If I had to choose one of the tricks for getting around ...

Photo by Ussama Azam on Unsplash It shouldn’t surprise anyone that “tech layoffs” have been on my mind, and I wrote a column for The Spectator to explain “the why of th…

The belief that higher interest rates will kill inflation remains near sacrosanct across the political divide and, like any religious system, is barely subject to serious empirical scrutiny.

According to economic orthodoxy, higher interest rates reduce inflation. In this post, I hold your monetary faith to the fire. Can it survive?

Where are the country’s quite large numbers of deaths actually coming from?

Cory Doctorow is a prolific writer and a brilliant science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. His most recent book is Chokepoint Capitalism (co-authored with Rebecca Giblin), a powerful expose of how tech monopolies have stifled creative labour markets and how movements might fight back. Nick Buxton, editor of TNI’s State of Power report and Shaun Matsheza, host of the State of Power podcast, chatted to Cory in the wake of floods in his hometown of Burbank, California. This is an edited excerpt of the interview.

All of these statements sound suspiciously similar.

One of the key questions today is can we use words like fascism with fidelity to the meaning of that word in world history?

Brandalism is a revolt against the corporate control of culture and space.

Rather than obsess over labor shortages and pension support, we need to look at the brighter spots for our world.

This chart shows the contributors to the EU economy through a percentage-wise distribution of country-level GDP.

For decades, Dickson Mounds Museum in Illinois displayed the open graves of more than 200 Indigenous people. Thirty years after a federal law required museums to begin returning remains, the statewide museum system still holds thousands.

It’s tempting to embrace the meme that the best way for humans to solve the big problems in front of us is to increase the population, perhaps dramatically. The thinking goes that people are …