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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandates are being disregarded. The next phase: The Department of Government Efficiency reportedly wants to use AI to cut costs. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s group has started to run sensitive data from government systems through AI programs to analyze spending and determine what could be pruned. This may lead to the elimination of human jobs in favor of automation. As one government official who has been tracking Musk’s DOGE team told the...

There's no 'common ground' with the people killing us

Apartheid was, first and foremost, a business plan—one that the South African–born Musk seems to be reworking for the modern age.

Jessica Valenti on why there’s no room for compromise or middle ground on abortion rights. Anyone still holding out hope for a ‘compromise’ on abortion rights needs to give it up. Right now. Over the past few days, a Louisiana mother w

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.

Any statement regarding the potential benefits and/or hazards of AI tends to be automatically very divisive and controversial as the world tries to figure out what the technology means to them, and…

AI coding assistants are React evangelists.

How Governments Quietly Tax Their Own People Under the Guise of Trade War Governments love a good story. One of their favourites is the tale of the tariff as a weapon of economic defence, a noble measure to protect domestic industries, save jobs, and fortify national strength. It’s a

The president’s plan for reciprocal tariffs sounds good in theory. But there was a reason the United States abandoned the approach a century ago. The gains would be few and the costs enormous.

Discussion of ways in which I am changing course in my publishing ventures.

At this point it is safe to say that software engineers are not in any immediate danger of being replaced by AI. So why do people keep trying to do just that?

“Ratfucking” is the art of carrying out dirty tricks and crafty maneuvers, usually in the name of winning an election. Originating from slang used in …

Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

We emphasize that orgs are sociotechnical systems. What follows is an account of a real-world “near-miss” that Honeycomb experienced.

Before Elvis, before the Beatles, way before Michael Jordan, there was Willie Mays. Willie was new. He was cool. The face on his baseball card was coltish and

In its exaggerated critique of Wikipedia's standards for reliable sources, the Media Research Center attempts a striking feat of false equivalence

The impeachment trial didn’t change any minds. Here’s why.

The collapse of our democratic institutions isn’t unstoppable. Saving them requires understanding what we’re fighting for—and how human freedom actually works in our technological age. Truth isn’t …

When I first moved to Bowen Island back in 2001, there was a very active discussion board of Bowen Island issues called the Bowen Island Phorum. This was a typical late 1990s bulletin board type we…