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Trump pardoned the notorious Dark Web crypto-criminal Ross Ulbricht. Why?

Invisible, isolated from one another, and with little income security – such is the lot of data workers. And yet without them, there'd be no ChatGPT, Midjourney or Gemini.

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As menacingly foretold, an addled, vengeful dolt has unleashed a deluge of mindless venom, rancor, racism, cruelty - and domestic terrorists - on a populace he just vowed "to serve and protect," banishing any vestige of fairness or mercy in the name of a re-whitened "blood-and-soil America (wher...

User growth is ‘stagnant’ on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.

The dismissals could clear the way for the president to install loyalists in the crucial role of identifying fraud, waste and abuse in the government.

The richest man in the world intends his far-right project to go global

Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.

Fifty years ago, Republicans strengthened their opponents. Will Democrats do the same?

Last updated: 19 Jun 2018 Download: The Self Under Siege (1993) Lecture 8: Fatal Strategies.avi Transcript: In the, ah, final lecture on, ah, The Self Under Siege, we will discuss the work of Jean Baudrillard, a French social theorist. Actually that now is a misnomer since one of Baudrillard's theses is the disappearance of the

Microstrategy and the dark arts of 'volatility arbitrage'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion/marc-andreessen-trump-silicon-valley.html [Ross Douthat and Marc Andreessen in The New York Times]This podcast conversation with Marc Andreessen is very revealing. It's particularly fascinating to me that

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As age verification bills pass across the world under the guise of “keeping children safe online,” governments are increasingly giving themselves the authority to decide what topics are deemed “safe”

This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.

Research shows that humans are hardwired to work together, share resources, and build systems based on trust and mutual benefit.

He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

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Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

DeepSeek-R1, a new reasoning model made by Chinese researchers, completes tasks with a comparable proficiency to OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost.

Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Carmel, Indiana, which promotes the libertarian views of its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich through publishing, conferences, and educational resources. The operating mandate of the Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals".

A study of 323 uprisings against repressive regimes yields stunning insights.

Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.