Society

We are now off the edge of the map. Elon Musk has laid off 50% of Twitter’s staff in a move that some call ‘backbreaking.’ Twitter has suffered a “massive drop in revenue” as major advertisers, including GM and Audi, paused their spending on the platform based on Musk’s chaotic leadership

A proposal from Washington's Public Works Board would limit the power of private companies' objections to stall public broadband projects.

“I grew up in Dallas, TX, drinking sodium fluoridated water, and all the scientific studies show my IQ has been reduced by at least 20 points. The shadow of who I would have been calls out from the…

A young mother rents a house near Milwaukee. The previous tenant tells her, “Baby, they shouldn’t have let you move in.”

Both in and outside fiction, we are pushed to the past tense. The reality is, many Indigenous cultures in North America survived an apocalypse. The key word is survived. Any future with us in it, t…

If it’s getting difficult to imagine a future, and a lot of culture seems to take refuge in apocalyptic fantasies, it may be time to turn to other sources for considering how we might thrive …

Ryan Zemke revisits lives lived through the imagination, and the people and places that define both our memories and sense of self

“As a result, an inordinate share of our public information, in journalism and government, effectively recycles and launders the insights of not just a handful of think tankers but a bunch of - sorry friends - randos who spend a lot of time in certain corners of the interwebs. /13”

Forthcoming in the January, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.

Hunter S. Thompson's scathing obituary of Nixon

Understanding Musk's Speed-Run to Main Villain Status

12,241 votes and 609 comments so far on Reddit

Why Democrats win the cities and lose the states, and what to do about it.

Democrats have only begun to do better in rural America—but the road map is there.

Generations robbed of meaning and purpose struggle to find their place.

Working to transform our culture into one that repairs more readily than it purchases, that repairs because that's just what you do.

Few branches of medicine have created as much comfort, solace and relief. When we realize that traditional Western medicine is not going to be able to cure a life-threatening illness, the palliativ…

The claim that our brain size limits us to 150 meaningful friendships has been challenged by a recent paper.

Dunbar's number is a popular estimate for the maximum size of social groups. But new research suggests that it's a fictitious number based on flimsy data and bad theory.

Journal of discoveries #29 - 29th of October, 2022

Incentives matter, but impunity matters more.

The Last Place in America Where You Are a Person, Not a Customer