Society

How do you define the economic, political, and cultural system named capitalism that organizes the world? A system contested and imposed through media, policies, laws, and forgeries of memory.and m…

Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Amazon and Airbnb

Unit led by Tal Hanan that boasts vast army of bots exposed by undercover reporters and leaked emails

Two unlikely currencies were among the world's strongest currencies in 2022: the Yemeni rial and the Afghan afghani . Yemen is currently in...

In the world of Star Trek, humans have evolved beyond the need for religion.

'Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World' by author and journalist Malcolm Harris reveals the mysteries of Stanford and Silicon Valley.

The United States Constitution makes no mention of God, Jesus, or the Bible. Article 6 of the Constitution states that “no religious Test shall ever be Required as a Qualification To any Offi…

The most recognizable feature of LA’s Chinatown is its Central Plaza. It’s an outdoor pedestrian mall that is almost overwhelmingly colorful.  Brightly painted buildings are topped with sweeping pagoda style roofs, and then accented with fluorescent neon lacing. For decades Central Plaza was a thriving tourist area, but by the late 1970s, Chinatown had fallen

This emergency is not about to end.

Solarpunk provides hope in an age of darkness. It’s a bright vision of the future — an anarcho-communist vision we’ll have to fight for.

Honest question: Do you feel free? Truly free?

We tend to turn a blind eye to the social ills of driving.

Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) could free us from the capitalist shackles of useless toil.

Black Wall Street was an affluent thriving community in Oklahoma. However, one small incident turned this flourishing area to ash.

These underground galleries bring the living to the world of the dead.

When I saw a link to Lisa Whiteman's photo essay on "muleskinning", I was like oh dear god what am I getting myself in

Attacks on aggressive antitrust enforcement from ‘fellow Democrats’ who work for monopolists should be seen for what they are.

When you release something to the world with the intent for it to be reused, shared, and maybe even remixed, apply an open license to it as a way of reassuring your collaborators-to-be that you support common culture, creativity, and open source.

How to text, tip, ghost, host, and generally exist with others in society today.

I just wanted to put up a short post to consolidate some recent thoughts I’ve shared under the combined heading of the “vibe shift.” I do think something changed in the environment in 2022. A lot of this is under the heading of what I called

One in 10 Americans thinks the country should be an explicitly Christian nation. Most of them are staunchly right-wing.

On Aug. 1, 1942, the nation’s recording studios went silent. Musicians were fed up with the new technologies threatening their livelihoods, so they refused to record until they got their fair share. Evan Chung explores one of the most consequential labor actions of the 20th century, and how it coincided with an underground revolution in