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Open source microblogging site has seen surge of interest since Musk took over Twitter.

A few Democratic members of Congress understand what needs to be done. More should join them.

Warner Bros. tried to spend its way through the notorious 2011 superhero movie, and it shows.

My preferred AI tax would be a small tax on language model API calls, somewhat like a Tobin tax on currency transactions. This would discourage running language models in a loop or allowing them to “think” while idle. For now, we mostly use large language models under human supervision, such as with AI chat. This is […]

Large platforms face several legal challenges in the United States accusing them of knowingly harming the mental health of young people

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The average American my age is roughly six times more likely to die in the coming year than his counterpart in Switzerland.

Many popular online marketplaces—and some you've never heard of—illustrate how an economy based on social connections can work.

Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive.

Rebel flags once flew over Fifth Avenue — and it wasn't just about the 'Gone With the Wind' premiere.

Our new collab with Timex brings back the "90's triathlete" vibes. Read more.

I’ll see if, in a few minutes, I can get at least the outlines of a rant out. I’ve got to get to an appointment in half an hour, but I just saw today’s Dealbook newsletter, which …

Here's what I see happening on Twitter. It makes everyone feel clever, but it's a total waste of time, drives traffic on Twitter, and not the way to combat disinformation. Jim Jordan posted incorrect statistics about crime in New York. Large account retweet and provide correct information, often taking a swipe at Jim Jordan. My information on how to combat disinformation comes from this Rand Corp. study: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html 1/

Russia's propaganda model is high-volume and multichannel, and it disseminates messages without regard for the truth. It is rapid, continuous, and repetitive, and it does not commit to consistency.

Questionable theoretical assumptions drive economic models to rubber-stamp disastrous policy changes.

What was once outright denial has morphed into a subtler dismissal.

They bring enormous promise and peril. In the first of three special articles we explain how they work

Generative AI is coming for white-collar roles. If your sense of worth comes from work—what’s left to hold on to?

A survey by the Pew Research Center found that most employees expect hiring, firing, and workplace assessment to be transformed by algorithms.

A.I. could be disastrous for democracy. But it doesn’t have to be.

Posted on Thursday 20 Apr 2023. 755 words, no links. By Matt Webb.

National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies seeks to prioritize peace, shared prosperity, and economic security for all in our nation's decision making. We are the people's guide to the federal budget. In 2014, NPP was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of our pioneering work to track federal spending on the military and promote a U.S. federal budget that represents Americans' priorities, including funding for people's issues such as inequality, unemployment, education, health and the need to build a green economy. In 2017, we joined the non-profit Institute for Policy Studies as an independent project.

Learn how the open organization principles of collaboration and community align with the new rules of businesses based on social connection.

Dreaming of getting lost down some pastorally perfect country roads? Much more than a route from A to B, these mysterious ancient pathways hold secrets of their own. To find out what they are, all you have to do is walk towards the light at the end of the lane. Our usual advice to rovers…

Leaving Japan's suffocating metropolises behind is as simple as a passion, a modest profit and plot of land.

At a moment when people who don’t share our identity feel alien, Oliver Sacks’s classic book about reaching catatonic patients has much to teach us.

Society is producing an endless variety of unnecessary and meaningless bullshit jobs. Work, consume, repeat. It might be time to end this system.

After trying several services for home phones, I found a solution that costs me about $0.85 per month. ️️☎️