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The electric sci-fi dreams of my youth became the reality of my adulthood.

What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands

Posted on Wednesday 30 Nov 2022. 744 words, 4 links. By Matt Webb.

The good news: there’s more than $50 billion in broadband subsidies coming down the road courtesy of COVID relief and infrastructure legislation. The bad news: monopoly ISPs are working overt…

Can performance reviews really do the trick?

Starting in February 2022, Four Day Week Global (4DWG) initiated trials with dozens of companies and hundreds of employees across the US, Ireland and a few other...

Culture shifts. But it’s held in place by norms, and those are driven by status and affiliation. No one actually needs a car that can accelerate one second faster than most other cars. But ha…

Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.

When you do not give me money, that is censorship.

To get America back to work and boost profits, the Koch network and other right-wing money groups have long pushed to return to pre-pandemic schooling.

Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe

If you were a teenager (or slightly older) in the eighties, there is a good chance you tried out Calvin Klein cologne. It was quite the thing — it was everywhere, so much so that you couldn’t…

Musk: Apple threatened to pull Twitter from iOS and "mostly stopped advertising."

One interesting thing about stablecoins, the world's newest payments technology, is that they are almost all U.S.-dollar based. More than 99...

A decade of ultra-cheap credit and weak consumer spending created some of the biggest money-losing companies in history.

Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is part of a broader political effort by tech billionaires. Jacob Silverman describes how David Sacks and Peter Thiel are funding a new right-wing movement to reshape the American political system.

Should you read Health Communism before you die, or should you die first?