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The Google antitrust lawsuit may have been anticipated, but it’s still surprising.

We want to build the world we want to see. How building free stores and open libraries of books, tools, resources, and things can bring us closer to a post-capitalist future.

The Midwest is the birthplace of a lot more innovative technology than you realize, with the infrastructure and talent to accelerate those visions.

Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast place the game under Creative Commons

Rumors around COVID-19 vaccines and death, like the Died Suddenly video we highlighted earlier this week, aren’t random. Disinformation campaigns are deliberate, often orchestrated, and highly effective in confusing people enough to change behaviors, like not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. And it’s a very lucrative business. Malicious rumors continue to be a massive challenge in public health, but we aren’t hopeless. There are things that can be done.

What's what with open-source news.

Prison Agriculture and Racial Capitalism in the United States

A collaborative focused on agricultural practices in the criminal punishment system

Before there were prisons, there were plantations that held people captive andw enslaved. Before enslaved people freed themselves and then were emanicipated, the prison population was almost entire…

There is growing support for the idea that the world is experiencing not ‘deglobalisation’ but rather ‘re-globalisation’, owing to accelerating changes in energy and technology. Nonetheless, the differences between the next wave of globalisation and the last one will far outweigh the similarities

Rural voters blame the wrong people, but their troubles are real.

From bearing the burdens of the Roman Empire to enabling trade over long distances, the humble donkey has been surprisingly influential.

When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. Here and there, you sign NDAs — as

A rogue artificial intelligence system could kill everyone and the technology must be regulated in a similar way to nuclear weapons, MPs have been told.Researc

The Joe Rogan podcast has rather unexpectedly emerged in the last few years as a place where many of the most interesting new ideas coming down the pike

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis made a misleading graph portraying China as spending more on its military than the US. The Pentagon budget is three times larger

How Companies Use Drip Pricing to Overcharge Consumers

Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?

In repeated votes, Gallego has sided against amendments from his Progressive Caucus colleagues that would have reduced the Department of Defense budget by 10 percent.

Risk to humans is low, but epidemiologists fear a future pandemic by such a flu.

If you care about climate change, you should care about transmission.

We recently wrote about Cory Doctorow’s great article on how the “enshittification” of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) was helping to lower the “switching costs&#…

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