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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.

The importance of repetition

In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”

How to deal with their tyranny

Attempts to classify people into intelligence categories has been going on for many hundreds of years, but none have perhaps proven as prevalent as the intelligence quotient (IQ). The origins of IQ can be traced back to a 1905 test designed by French psychologists Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon to

Marguerite, who survived diphtheria and torture by the Gestapo, is the focus of Musée d’Art Moderne showcase

The General strike -the people united shall never be stopped. If we strike together we can make true real change. Sign the strike card today.

Joe Burns takes a critical look back at the many “general strikes” called in recent years.

Understand the implications of Bitcoin's downfall in El Salvador. Learn about the failed economic bet and its impact on the country's financial stability.

More than 2 million donuts have been recalled due to Listeria risk—but many were sold under private-label brands like Dunkin'. Here’s what consumers need to know.

Ephemeralization, a term coined by R. Buckminster Fuller in 1938, is the ability of technological advancement to do "more and more with less and less until eventually you can do everything with nothing," that is, an accelerating increase in the efficiency of achieving the same or more output (products, services, information, etc.) while requiring less input (effort, time, materials, resources, etc.).[1] The application of materials and technology in modern cell phones, compared to older computers and phones, exemplify the concepts of ephemeralization whereby technological advancement can drive efficiency in the form of fewer materials being used to provide greater utility (more functionality with less resource use). Fuller's vision was that ephemeralization, through technological progress,[2] could result in ever-increasing standards of living for an ever-growing population. The concept has been embraced by those who argue against Malthusian philosophy.[1]

Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher, and Félix Guattari, a French psychoanalyst and political activist, wrote a number of works together (besides both having distinguished independent careers).

Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz was a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology. He held the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and was a visiting professor at universities in North America and Europe.

Like many other nations at the time, Germany suffered the economic effects of the Great Depression, with unemployment soaring after the Wall Street crash of 1929. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy. The changes included privatization of state-owned industries, import tariffs, and an attempt to achieve autarky. Weekly earnings increased by 19% in real terms from 1933 to 1939, but this was largely due to employees working longer hours, while the hourly wage rates remained close to the lowest levels reached during the Great Depression. In addition, reduced foreign trade meant rationing of consumer goods like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.

AI is an excuse that allows those with power to operate at a distance from those whom their power touches.