Society

We are parts of many social units.

Homebrewed video conferencing may not be a moonshot, but you gotta start somewhere.

archived 28 Jan 2026 14:34:51 UTC

The trial of the Sycamore Gap killers

Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins here

Imagine a situation where you take your car to a mechanic for a serious repair. After he finishes the job, spending his time, knowledge…

Space debris falling back through the atmosphere could be tracked – by spotting the sonic booms as the junk rips through the sky.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez thinks too many members of her party miss what’s really driving the alienation and anger in our society.

It’s been seven weeks since the Department of Justice stepped up its investigation of fraud at Minnesota social service organizations run by citizens of Somali descent. The Department of Homeland Security simultaneously stepped up the Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) presence in the Twin ...

The Manosphere is so busy performing masculinity and putting on hateful shows that it seems they've lost the plot.

Pete wonders about the ways in which we envision the future through pop culture, noting that most of these ways tend to be one or another variant of either Mad Max or Blade Runner—either “post-apocalyptic desert” or “rain-soaked, neon-lit cyberpunk megacity”. The thing about works...

A Hell World reader in Minneapolis sent me the drawing above. "Here's a drawing by an unknown artist at my kid's school. Among many other sweet gestures going in all directions, kids at the school have been making thank-you cards to the parents who have been carpooling other kids to

You’ve likely at least heard of Marion Stokes, the woman who constantly recorded television for over 30 years. She comes up on reddit and other places every so often as a hero archivist who f…

The Mercator projection, which is widely used for world maps, disproportionately exaggerates the size of landmasses that are more distant from the Equator. So Greenland, which is roughly the size of Saudi Arabia, looks like it is larger than the entire continent of Africa.

Remember your values.

On information bubbles, the coming collapse, and why I will never trust the crypto-libertarians who chose greed over country

A psalm for the republic in extremis

Re-up: Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it. So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat. Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, "Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli ...

By John Hagel

Remarking on the 1927 murder of Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Day noted that anarchism “is the word, or label, which confuses many of our readers (especially the bishops?)” Day saw anarchism, as a philosophy of mutual respect and voluntary cooperation, as a natural extension of Christian spiritual practice and fellowship. She argued that there is no human law applicable to those who love and follow Jesus, and that “anarchism means ‘Love God, and do as you will.’” From the moment it became aware of the Catholic Worker movement, the U.S. government has treated it with suspicion, targeting and spying on Day and the movement as supposedly subversive elements. Day’s activism drew the attention of the FBI, and she is said to have enjoyed reading her FBI files.

Without God, what exactly is there?

Honoring the courage and ingenuity of the miracle workers I have known

A Q&A with Lexy Close of the Appalachian Producers Cooperative, who says the new facility could revive the area’s local meat economy.

From Duolingo to GDP, how an obsession with keeping score can subtly undermine human flourishing

On a series of college road trips with his son, Jeff Reimer reflects on fatherhood, freedom, and the vanishing soul of the liberal arts. Through two universities’ contrasting visions, he probes what higher education—and genuine formation—are truly for.