Society

Hybrid work is supposed to be the future of the office. Except a lot of people just don’t like it.

From The Fearmakers (dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1958). Alan Eaton (Dana Andrews), POW and victim of brainwashing, returns from Korea to Washing...

Working four days a week isn't always as great as it sounds, and it's still not common. But it offers advantages for tech employees and as a recruiting tool. #4DayWeek #ITjobs #DevOpsjobs #GreatResignation #techrecruiting

25-year-old Jagger Freeman did accompany Christopher Ransom when Ransom robbed a T-Mobile store in Queens, New York. This is true. Freeman was standing across the street when Ransom entered the sto…

As employers battle inflation and struggle to find and keep tech workers, truly flexible work presents as a way for companies to survive — and, perhaps, for their employees to thrive. #flexwork #techjobs #DevOpsjobs #GreatResignation

Non-rivalrous goods are public goods that are consumed by people, but whose supply is not affected by people’s consumption. In other words,

Why Nest, Tesla, and Big Ass Fans love TreeHouse, a Texas alternative to big-box stores.

Read the report: https://copia.is/library/just-a-click-away/ Yesterday, we released a new report from the Copia Institute, written by Karl Bode, about the state of broadband competition and the great

If private companies are going to benefit from taxpayer subsidies, the financial gains made by these companies must be shared with the American people

I offer this as a tentative foray into a discussion about abortion, obviously spurred by the recent SCOTUS decision, Dobbs v. Jackson.  I note that I have long been convinced that as brilliant…

From space, no political borders or boundaries are visible. The Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and land masses are subject to common geophysical forces, and human-induced effects are confronting the whole globe. Looking beyond our home planet, the Moon, the planets of our solar system, and the cosmos beyond beckon us and hold the dreams of all […]

It must be more than a coincidence that there are almost enough jobs for everyone–a billion more jobs on Earth than there were a generation ago. Unemployment is debilitating and a real proble…

As more workers choose to work remotely, organizations face a dilemma: do they pay remote workers the same as those living in high-cost metropolitan regions? For some companies, that conundrum is already a reality.

A first-of-its-kind study from the Violence Prevention Research Program at UC Davis shows an algorithm can forecast the likelihood of firearm suicide using handgun purchasing data. The study was published in JAMA Network Open.

Incentives are drawing high-paid tech workers, and challenging how we think about local economic development

Gun purchases rose to record levels in 2020 and 2021, according to a Washington Post analysis. Gun deaths reached a 25-year peak in 2021.

What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul?

Why class, a common topic in British comedy, too rarely gets discussed in American culture.

She talks about seeing Emmett just before his death

The shift back towards landlordism didn’t happen by accident. It has been engineered by the State and partly paid for by the taxpayer

Putin's next (and final) battle. (This thread went viral in Russian so I decided to publish an English version as well)A long thread about what, in my opinion, is Putin's strategy right now, and the last gamble he is making to break Ukraine's resistance.⁰⁰1/26— Leonid Volkov (@leonidvolkov) July 17, 2022

The activism spotlight has left the Coal River Valley. But when the battlefield is your home, you don’t give up the fight.