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I miss the forums. I miss the forums so much it hurts. I miss when research was about discovery and learning and sharing. I miss when humanity felt like it had...

This is the second part of a three part (I, IIa, IIb , III) discussion of the idea of a ‘universal warrior’ – the assumption that there is a transcendent sameness about either the…

Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for …

Posted on Friday 12 Apr 2024. 927 words, no links. By Matt Webb.

For more than 50 years, artists have come together for joyous lifelong learning in the beautiful Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

This post was authored by Gapingvoid CEO, Jason Korman, and originally featured in Barron's The latest reports about Boeing make this clear: Investors

Yesterday, former president Trump released a video celebrating state control over abortion; today, a judicial decision in Arizona illuminated just what such state control means. With the federal recognition of the constitutional right to abortion gone since the Supreme Court overturned

News for the next generation about markets, business, technology, and the culture of money.

In the age of AI, every maker becomes a manager

An investigation into the marketers and scammers responsible for X’s most visible — and most memeable — spambot problem.

When quaint becomes cult

When it’s capitalism that’s the problem, and not markets, the only alternative is post-capitalism. But the central...

Six years into being DF, here's a list of some of just some of the ideas I've been working on.

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 5

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Community members say they value Brown's openness to feedback, but are still waiting to see how she executes on drug usage, homelessness and budgeting.

Any acquisitions companies such as Apple, Amazon or Microsoft attempt will bring scrutiny and delays.

In Yanis Varoufakis’ latest book, the former Greek finance minister argues that companies like Apple and Meta have treated their users like modern-day serfs.

From the dawn of agriculture to the coming age of artificial intelligence.

Regardless of its nature, your job is likely to overlap with AI in the near future. That doesn’t mean your job will be replaced.

Fergie Chambers is Heir to One of America’s Richest Families — and a 'Professional Revolutionary' Determined to Overthrow the United States

When Parisians got tired of cemeteries during the French Revolution, they conscripted priests to relocate bones of more than six million deceased forebears to empty limestone quarries below the cit…

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Deming's First Theorem: Nobody gives a hoot about profit People spend a great deal of time worrying about profits and claiming credit or diverting blame for profit results. So why did Dr. Deming say "Nobody gives a…

Christine Rosen on surveilling alone

And how we can save it.

Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.