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We can’t not talk about power these days. We’ve been talking about it ever since the Stargate project, with half a trillion dollars in datacenter investment,

The expanded definition has justified assaults on journalists who have documented detentions of immigrants.

Today on TAP: The Democratic rank and file is much more aligned with Bernie, AOC, and Zohran than it is with Chuck and Hakeem.

Last week, I had coffee with someone who works at a big consulting firm.

The equal rulers returned England to Protestant rule and began a new era of royal leadership defined by parliamentary oversight

AI “threatens the common man’s liberty,” says GOP Sen. Josh Hawley.

Would you want to drink with a Nazi?

How Conservative Justices Legalized the Tyranny Our Founders Died to Prevent

One thing I got a bit of crap for in the hallways of the Abundance conference is my not infrequent mockery of trains on Twitter. I’m sorry, trains are not an abundance technology. I think many people in the abundance scene like trains because: 1. America’s inability to build HSR is the leading example of […]

From Genuine Grievance to Political Ammunition

No.369 — African time concepts and futures thinking ⊗ ChatGPT’s memory dossier ⊗ Resilient food systems ⊗ Artificial light has essentially lengthened birds’ day

How community-first thinking can help newsrooms survive AI

How Many in the Foreign Policy Establishment Fooled Themselves About Trump

Alberta populism has deep origins in a group of people who have long harboured a libertarian utopia for Alberta. Danielle Smith is the most recent manifestation of this wave of thought. The Jacobin…

Today Dave Snowden has published a significant post outlining his team’s work and thinking about safety: “we must stop trying to write better rules and start building better processes for rapid dec…

Want rule of law? That’s premium.

They hoped to make tomorrow’s medicines. Then came Trump.

Wherever there is autonomy, trust must follow. If we raise children to go off on their own, they need to be autonomous and we need to trust them. (Parenting is a school for learning how to trust.) If we make … Continue reading →

From Patriots to Authoritarians in One Generation

Somebody is throwing things out of a window at the White House. That’s what the post said. Sure enough there was also a video of the very thing described. That is the opening line to a Frank O’Hara poem I’m certain of it someone else said and

How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge? Georgina Kenyon finds there is a term which defines this phenomenon.