Society

In economics, a common-pool resource (CPR) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human-made resource system (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds), whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use. Unlike pure public goods, common pool resources face problems of congestion or overuse, because they are subtractable. A common-pool resource typically consists of a core resource (e.g. water or fish), which defines the stock variable, while providing a limited quantity of extractable fringe units, which defines the flow variable. While the core resource is to be protected or nurtured in order to allow for its continuous exploitation, the fringe units can be harvested or consumed.[1]

The Santa Barbara News-Press was born in 1868 and died in 2023 at age 155. Its glory years ran from 1932 until 2000, when the New York Times sold it to Wendy McCaw, who rode it to hell. That ride b…

The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's only recently that civilization has been able to use titanium as a metal (titanium dioxide has been in use somewhat longer as a paint pigment). Because titanium so readily bonds with oxygen and other elements, it doesn’t occur at all in metallic form in nature.

She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

Timnit Gebru is a leader among those examining the societal impacts of the technology. She had also criticized the company's diversity efforts.

Google for Startups Black Founders Fund welcomes 50 new entrepreneurs and Alphabet fulfills its $100 million commitment to Black\u002Dled VCs.

A Reddit thread reveals the careers deemed most unethical and shameful, from lawyers enabling injustice to the paparazzi ecosystem

"They say in thirty years, a burger and fries could cost $16, a vacation $12,400, and a basic car $65,000," leads a 1996 ad for financial services company TIAA (then…

Old people are always complaining about how things were harder when they were young. Walking to school in the snow, uphill both ways, that whole thing. So forgive me as I embark on what initially m…

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out

Behind students' increasing pull toward extracurriculars

No. Social justice requires restructuring the systems perpetuating inequities.

In 1942, aboard ship and heading for war, a young sailor—my uncle—wrote a letter home, describing and defining the principles he was fighting for.

Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to our fear of suffering total “mind-control”, such as depicted in the films

Dear valued faculty, In light of the recent budget cuts, the university administration thought it would be helpful to clarify a few things about ou...

Today we’re releasing our 2023 U.S. Economic Impact Report with a focus on how small and medium\u002Dsized businesses are using generative AI.

A new SEC filing details all the ways that Trump Media thinks Donald Trump himself could be a major risk to the company.

These kids aren’t lazy. We’re failing them.

An appliance used to be a machine. Now it’s a bureaucracy.

There’s no “go back to 2019 button.”

The Storm raised the bar for women’s sports with its $151 million valuation. They’re doing it again with a new $64 million practice facility.

Abstract In this post, I talk a bit about the world I want to see created by regen web3, using two frameworks which I discovered during research into GREENPILLED - how crypto can regenerative the world. DONUT Economy by Kate Raworth 8 forms of capital by Gregory Landua of Regen Netework This post has absolutely nothing to do with tangible day to day Gitcoin governance, and everthing to do with theory. If Gitcoin is a generator function of innovation, this post is a taxonomy of what I thin...

Anarcho Anarchist Economics Thursday, November 29 2012 This is a write-up of my talk at the 2012 London Anarchist bookfair on Anarchist Economics. I was...