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The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

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The Strange Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance - from the 'Lectric Law Library's stacks

In the short term, our focus should be on the things C4SS comrade William Gillis discussed eight years ago in the aftermath of Trump’s election to his first term:  minimizing our exposure to harm, and building an infrastructure for support, protection and mutual aid. Kelly Hayes sums up this general approach as well as anyone...

The vehicle was parked directly outside the hotel doors.

As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.

The maximum rate of global ecophagy by biovorous self-replicating nanorobots is fundamentally restricted by the replicative strategy employed; by the maximum dispersal velocity of mobile replicators; by operational energy and chemical element requirements; by the homeostatic resistance of biological ecologies to ecophagy; by ecophagic thermal pollution limits (ETPL); and most importantly by our determination and readiness to stop them.

Polyworking is popular and growing. This shift is likely to be driven by AI-driven efficiencies and a workforce in search of deeper meaning and joy in their careers.

Online sports betting is bad for sports — and for gamblers.

Star Wars came out when I was 17, and made a big impression on me; I loved it.

Once, eating whole foods and avoiding toxins was associated with a lefty worldview. Now, being a “crunchy mom” is more often about “health freedom.”

Adversary cases from the FTX collapse further expose how crypto companies do business: with secret acquisitions of “grey area” businesses, buying influence, and creative accounting.

The underrated way energy efficiency has made life better, and climate progress possible.

“The intention economy” arrived in the world in a Linux Journal column by that title, written by me in March 2006. A few months later, when I became a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman …

Folks wrung their hands a lot this year about reading. "No one buys books," Elle Griffin argued this spring, although apparently Bible sales are surging, as – according to The Washington Times at least, "Gen Z is sick and tired of predecessors' self-centered godlike hubris." Joke's on The Times, of course,

Squid Game, AI, A Long December, treadmills, and future historians

billions of images have been...without permission on Facebook, Instagram...That's okay, but when a little old lady interior design blogger

Tesla builds cars in what used to be the NUMMI factory, a joint venture between Toyota and GM (which meant it was run as a Toyota plant with [...]

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There's a chart that has been circulating for a while now on social media that shows payments traffic on SWIFT, a key global financial messa...

Why are Reviews of Squid Game Season two Overlooking Capitalism?

A slave mortgage was a financial instrument used by financiers wherein money was lent on the basis of the value of enslaved people. There are records of slave mortgages in the United States and in South Africa. According to scholar Bonnie Martin, "the time lag between the recording of mortgages and foreclosures, when added to the dispersed nature of the mortgage recording process, made this financial engine relatively invisible, allowing potentially large economic and human consequences to remain unrecognized." As historian Calvin Schermerhorn put it, slave mortgages "drew equity out of [slave] bodies to reinvest in [sugar] refinement technology and more enslaved workers". Settlers fleeing a slave mortgage crisis was one of the precipitating factors of the American colonization of the Republic of Texas in the 1830s.

Evolve Bank at its peak managed around $10 billion for financial technology firms, but it is in turmoil following the collapse of middleman Synapse.

WSJ got rare access to a criminal enclave in the Philippines from which gangs targeted people around the world, including Americans.