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This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we look ahead into a future where driverless cars are mainstream.

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Some thinkers are arguing that capitalism as Marx defined it is over, and we’re entering something like digital neo-feudalism instead. Not true, argues Evgeny Morozov. To understand how capitalism operates today, Marxists have to drop the factory bias.

Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

“No Lives Matter” has emerged in recent months as a particularly violent splinter group within the extremist crime network known as Com and 764, and experts are at a loss for how to stop its spread.

between certainty and silence, a third path "forward"

A Step-by-Step Guide to How the Ultra-Wealthy Minimize Their Tax Burden While Their Fortunes Multiply

As Self-Government Turns on Itself

Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident. That didn’t stop ICE.

There's an argument I make in Teaching Machines that I'd like to repeat here – a setup to this first of many essays in which I work through some ideas about AI, agents, and agency: In 1971 the psychologist B. F. Skinner published his most controversial book, provocatively titled Beyond Freedom

Here’s why you should never, ever drink the rain.

Donald Trump is a vehicle for Musk and Thiel to implement their radical ideas of replacing accountable governance with an unaccountable techno-monarchy

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

No.347 — The handoff to bots ⊗ AI for Future Cities ⊗ FLORA ⊗ Why ancient roman concrete was so durable

Dave Kamper, a past union organizer and writer on labor issues, commented on Inauguration Day that compared to the beginning of Trump’s first term, it feels like most of the institutions we count on to protect democracy are weaker now. The courts. The media. The Democratic Party. One institution, however, is without doubt in a...

This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience.

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Four Reasons English Should Not be the Official Language: Statement Against White House Executive Order Designating English as the Official Language of The Un

The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.

Next week US president Joe Biden finishes his term of office, to be replaced by the Donald. Biden would have been extremely popular with the American public and probably would have run and got a se…

A Visit to the Chicago Area's Pullman, Model Town of the Golden Age of Rail

Trump will not restore the "strong gods" of community, family, and faith.