The “free market” is a bit of a myth. Other than some board games, it doesn’t exist in real life. We eagerly regulate things like dangerous goods, fraud, insider trading, the warr…
Meet Sir Matthew Hale, the 17th century misogynist that Justice Alito mentioned 9 times in his leaked SCOTUS opinion | Boing Boing
On The Reid Out, Joy Reid introduces us to a lovely English chap from the 17th century named Sir Matthew Hale. A barrister, judge, and jurist, Hale was responsible for such arguments as the fact th…
My long-time friend, RU Sirius, one of the pioneers of cyberculture and gonzo publishing (Mondo 2000 magazine), “sat down” with Spike magazine for an interview about “(what’s left…
How will tech companies cope with an office-free future? – TechCrunch
Depending on your business, your job and your living situation, the pandemic showed that many workers didn't need to be sitting in a cubby farm inside a big building to get their jobs done.
It's official. Remote work has zero negative impact on your productivity
A research team from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health has conducted a new study and found that employee and company resiliency may be enhanced through remote work. The results of the study were published by the institution on Friday.
Invisible AI Tech Now Motion-Tracking Manufacturing Workers' Bodies - Core77
For some years I taught classes at a martial arts center. With students of all shapes and sizes, you get really good at sizing up other people's bodies through their motions, and I prided myself on being able to deduce who had had knee surgery, who had tight hips, who
Why historians believe Cinco de Mayo prevented the Confederacy's win in the Civil War
French Emperor Napoleon III had planned to trade weapons for cotton with Confederate states during France's invasion of Mexico. However, the Mexican army's resolve surprised him.
How pop culture turned into a placid sea of franchises, sequels, reboots and other reliable earners | Boing Boing
Adam Mastroianni runs the numbers on how consolidated and self-referential pop culture has become. More than 80 percent of the top 20 movies are now sequels or spinoffs, and they account for some 6…