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A work of supernatural science fiction for an age of magic and paranoia.

There’s a resurgent labor movement in the tech industry. Tech workers—designers, engineers, writers, and many others—have learned that when they stand together, they’re poised to build a better version of the tech industry. They haven’t stopped there: at companies from Kickstarter to Google, workers have formed unions. And you should, too. But what are unions? And why do they matter?

Perhaps to no one’s surprise, generative artificial intelligence models contain bias rooted in the data that drive them and by the people who design the systems. For Bloomberg, Leonardo Nicol…

Megan Asaka on how her book 'Seattle from the Margins' can inform public engagement with contemporary local issues.

Michigan State law professor Justin Simard says 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case. His team has spent years documenting them, hoping to force a legal reckoning.

We have discussed Covid at length with our doctor, and she is in 100% agreement that we are doing the right thing by trying to avoid covid infection. She is very happy our children attend outdoor playgroups and has recommended these to her other patients. Her words to us were "People just don't

A detectorist in Suffolk, England recently found a beautiful halfpenny minted some time between 1625-1649, during the reign of King Charles ...

The New York Times tracked oil tankers faking their location as they ignore sanctions but keep insurance that is contingent on following the sanctions: “It’s significant when you look at dollar ter…

Researchers are tracking where fishing boats turn off their signal in the ocean. This could stop illegal fishing.

The New York Times tracked several oil tankers faking their locations while transporting Russian oil currently under Western sanctions, in an apparent effort to deceive their American insurer.

A handy guide to the history and significance of the most common LGBTQ+ Pride flags...

Also UBS bought Credit Suisse, are stablecoins securities, crypto funds North Korea’s missile program and Jeff Bezos bought a share of stock.

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This year, the average American paid $1,087 in taxes just for Pentagon contractors alone. Imagine the kind of society we could construct with just a fraction of the resources we devote to war.

Elon Musk suggested the Unabomber may have been right about the rise of tech creating too many problems for humanity.

An Associated Press analysis found that fraudsters potentially stole more than $280 billion in COVID-19 relief funding; another $123 billion was wasted or misspent. Combined, the loss represents 10% of the $4.2 trillion the U.S. government has disbursed in COVID relief aid.

Where Katie Couric had to put perky in the past, Diane Sawyer, coolly regal, is a born anchor, albeit in an ever evaporating sea.

Fortune 500 companies generated record revenues of $18.1 trillion last year, but profits tanked roughly 15%. Here's why that happened and what it means for the economy.

Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.

I’m sick of the AI hype and scaremongering. The idea that AI could take over the world is laughable.

By design, it’s a screen for just one person: you.

We can't trust the private sector to serve the public interest.