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The case for GDP plus GDD

El Salvador's Nayib Bukele, a darling of the American right, markets himself very differently from American populists.

While America made the network that would become the internet, programmers in Chile were building a vision of their own.

By the time Chile’s workers rose up to rally around Salvador Allende, Latin America had become a key arena in US planners’ “mortal struggle to determine the shape of the future world.” Henry Kissinger was obsessed with toppling the socialist president.

“Beyond the cursing, Elon Musk’s interview is erratic enough to end his career.”

Who eats the sin-eater's sins?

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In a rambling interview at the ‘New York Times’ DealBook Summit, Elon Musk suggested advertisers fleeing X were blackmailing him and could kill the platform.

X Corp owner Elon Musk taunts Bob Iger, says Twitter 'will be gone' if advertisers keep boycotting.

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Bailed-out major airlines have outsourced ground work to subcontractors. Injuries and fatalities on the tarmac are taking off.

Tesla’s anti-union stance is colliding with the EU’s strong labor laws.

Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation

Today on TAP: The uses of small magazines in the battle of ideas

Refusing to be pushed into traditional child-rearing roles, young women in China are quietly posing a challenge for its male-dominated government.

A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.

The saga of a species that knows not its place.

In The New York Times , three members of the Strother School of Radical Attention make a case for a new way of thinking about education (gi...

At Contrapuntalism , a great statement from Nadia Boulanger : “Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or try...

Attention education is the most powerful thing we can do for ourselves, for one another, for democracy.

EIA Winter Fuels Report: heating with electricity will cost 77% more than heating with natural gas; NuScale SMR project gets cancelled

Fear as a motivator is misguided and counter productive. In order to create a culture of trust, loyalty, and stability, forgo fear-driven leadership.

Software is eating the world. … All of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale. … Software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries—without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. … With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired. (