Society

A hut outside of capitalism can't be haunted because it exists outside of truly retrievable time.

Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler likens today’s tech giants to 19th-century robber barons and argues only government intervention can prevent them harming the public interest.

Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 18 people in Lewiston, Maine yesterday, which comes on the h

The divide between the state and its citizens has never been greater. Soon we will reach a breaking point.

To celebrate the 10th International Open Access Week, Cambridge University has placed a digitised version of Stephen Hawking's 1966 PhD thesis, "Properties of expanding universes" online for anyone to read and download. Hawking is quoted as saying: "Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, un

The great Megan Amram retweeted this today (it’s from back in 2015), and it really struck a nerve…

Last week in our Error 402 series on the history of web monetization, we talked about the earliest secure monetary transactions on the web, soon after the National Science Foundation opened up the …

As Microsoft Word turns 40, we look at the role the software has played in four decades of language and communication evolution.

Today, the Debt Collective, the nation’s first debtor’s union, canceled close to $10 million in student debt for Morehouse College students, a private men’s HBCU in Atlanta.

How America’s capitalists sugarcoat reactionary policies with cheap support for diversity, equity, and inclusion

A survey on … capitalism in 34 countries. In only 6 of these countries – led by Poland & the United States – do pro-capitalist attitudes dominate. (More) That survey gave these four statements as most often endorsed re capitalism:

Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have recently stated that most of the company's top-spending advertisers from last year have returned.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

We now face our responsibility with AI. Will we act responsibly or let it become something that we profoundly regret for how it affects our humanity?

Marc Andreessen, a man worth nearly two billion dollars, a man who lives in a $177 million compound in Malibu, a man who has been on the board of Facebook and Hewlett-Packard and who likely hasn’t experienced a struggle in decades, wants you to believe he’s a victim.

Poet Lemn Sissay: “Superman was a foster child. Harry Potter was a foster child. Jane Eyre was adopted. Luke Skywalker was f

For the New Yorker, Daniel Immerwahr reviews a new book, Steven Conn’s The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What

It is common lore in YIMBY circles that Tokyo is such an inexpensive city because Tokyo/Japan has allowed so much freedom to build.  Sometimes it is mentioned that Japanese building and regulatory decisions are made at higher levels than the strictly local, which lowers the power of the NIMBYs to restrict building. I don’t doubt […]

A new investigation into the global surveillance crisis by the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International’s Security Lab, today begins to reveal the shocking truth about how far the industry’s tentacles have spread and how ineffective EU regulation has been in controlling it.  The ‘Predator Files’ focuses on the […]