Society

We emphasize that orgs are sociotechnical systems. What follows is an account of a real-world “near-miss” that Honeycomb experienced.

Before Elvis, before the Beatles, way before Michael Jordan, there was Willie Mays. Willie was new. He was cool. The face on his baseball card was coltish and

In its exaggerated critique of Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources, the Media Research Center attempts a striking feat of false equivalence

The impeachment trial didn’t change any minds. Here’s why.

The collapse of our democratic institutions isn’t unstoppable. Saving them requires understanding what we’re fighting for—and how human freedom actually works in our technological age. Truth isn’t …

When I first moved to Bowen Island back in 2001, there was a very active discussion board of Bowen Island issues called the Bowen Island Phorum. This was a typical late 1990s bulletin board type we…

That’s not how separation of powers works under the U.S. Constitution.

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

A list of White House DOGE staffers shows about 30 young tech, finance, and legal professionals remaking the federal government.

Soundtrack: Bad Religion — The Resist Stance A great deal of what I write feels like narrating the end of the world — watching as the growth-at-all-costs, hyper-financialized Rot Economy seemingly tarnishes every corner of our digital lives. My core frustration isn't just how shitty things have gotten, but how said shittiness

Use this article … 95 years after I’m dead.

The road to riches isn't paved with stamps.

Or, the Story of Digital Equipment Corporation

Morpheus is ready for some discourse theory, in The Matrix (1999). How do you analyze something that is imaginary, symbolic, and exerts its power only in our...

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For those of you new here, this is a staple of the show: every so often we (I) gear up and write a series on some of the bigger things going on, because I can't fit them into a 1,200-word letter. This week and probably for a few after

Yesterday, the president said that no judge “should be allowed” to rule against the changes his administration is making.

The U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.