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Beloved women’s website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead to churn out AI clickbait. Its fate is a warning to all digital publications.

The next generation of underground rappers, electronic misfits, and jazz weirdos have flooded the internet with an approach that is both artful and inane.

Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world

Read to the end for a longer essay critiquing Ted Gioia's idea of Macro vs. Micro cultures that explains why we get confused about niches and countercultures Personal News I’m spending 2024 writing a new book — a cultural history of the first 25 years of the 21st century. Here

The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the end, nothing much will change.

Social media has devolved into an ego-boosting playground. We’ve traded meaningful connections for retweets, likes, and the illusive prom...

The Biden administration aims to deploy offshore wind turbines capable of generating 30 gigawatts of power by 2030. With less than a decade to go, the country remains woefully behind target.

01/31/2024 Introduction:  Social movement organizations are groups where people can come together to meet the needs of participants and others through reconstructing new practices, ways of rel…

Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.

For most of human history, it was very hard to determine whether what someone told us was true. Should we believe them? The answer came down to several factors: does the claim make sense with what we already believed to … Continue reading →

The claim that a large increase in the number of migrants gaining entry at the southern border is an “invasion” is constitutional nonsense.

Errors with spreadsheets are not only frustrating but can have serious consequences.

Incarcerated Alabamans “are trapped in this labor trafficking scheme,” a new federal class action lawsuit says.

A new report lays out two very different paths forward.

Spotting sketchy people quickly

The inevitable return of child labor in the West.

The shark's fin in the water

They sound warm and welcoming, but they're secretly used to subjugate workers.

Our World in Data’s Sustainable Development Goals Tracker

East India Company founded — 1600 Shakespeare – Hamlet published 1603 England starting to settle America – 1607 in Virginia, assorted, you could add Harvard here as well King James Bible – 1611 The beginnings of steady economic growth – 1620 (Greg Clark, JPE) Rule of law ideas, common law ideas, Sir Edward Coke – […]

Eight ways to hide an asset

Mass layoffs at Microsoft mean workers have to pick up the pieces