Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous
Fragmented and focused social platforms might be good for helping you find a knitting community. But extremist groups are also using them to normalize darker content.
You have probably forgotten about the guy who worked at National Public Radio and got so upset because of how woke it was that he wrote a furious post about it for Bari Weiss’s newsletter, which I believe is called That’s Such A Good Point, Sir. This is entirely for the best. That story wasn’t […]
DARPA unleashes 20-foot autonomous robo-tank with glowing green eyes
For those not in the know, DARPA has been working on self-driving military vehicles for two decades now as part of its RACER (Robotic Autonomy in Complex...
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Some of you may be familiar with a figure called Mr. Yuk, depending on your age and where you grew up, but for rest of you: Mr. Yuk is a neon green circular sticker with a cartoon face on it. His face is scrunched up with his eyes squeezed tight and his tongue is sticking
How to Protest a War Machine: Thoughts on Campus Protests
University leaders have increasingly used police interventions against students and faculty protesting their institutions’ financial links with Israel. These actions, often violent, aim to su…
A Syllabus of Actions for Building the Society We Want
This post is about a Syllabus of Actions, the result of last fall’s Building the Society We Want workshop, co-hosted by Princeton’s Center for Information
Daniel Ellsberg was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
Every Accusation of Economic Illiteracy Is a Confession of Historical Illiteracy
The Freeman is back to its “best available option” defense of sweatshops and child labor (“What Many Critics of Child Labor Overlook”). It treats public outrage over the presence of child labor in the supply chains of Western corporations as a demonstration of “how economic illiteracy has seeped into the minds of Western media and...
A National Security Insider Does the Math on the Dangers of AI
Jason Matheny, CEO of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and other tools of destruction.
Response to Scott Alexander on Medical Effectiveness
Scott Alexander on Wednesday: I’ve spent fifteen years not responding to [Hanson’s medicine] argument, because I worry it would be harsh and annoying to use my platform to beat up on one contrarian who nobody else listens to. But I recently learned Bryan Caplan also takes this seriously. Beating up on two contrarians who nobody else listens to is a great use of a platform!
1994 was the last year before our culture began migrating to the internet. If you were alive then, you may remember how you heard about Kurt Cobain's death, or where you watched "Pulp Fiction." What were your cultural touchstones that year? Tell us in the comments below.
How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me)
This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.
Pluralistic: “Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed (23 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The end of non-compete agreements is a tech job earthquake
The FTC ruled this week that companies can no longer use non-compete agreements to stop workers from moving from one job to another — and businesses are having fits.
The cowboy is one of the great archetypes of American manliness. He embodies many of the virtues Americans prize, such as grit, freedom, and independence. The cowboy followed a code of honor that, rather than being set by an aristocracy, came from the ground up and worked itself out within a posse. While many of […]