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A strange essay reveals how Silicon Valley elites are creating an apocalyptic techno-religion to rule the future of civilization

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A lost 1855 treaty map caused the state and settlers to encroach on reservation land. The nation wants it back — but legal hurdles slow the process.

Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

In the United States, a two-party system means that candidates, who are supposed to represent their constituents, are forced to run as Republican or Democrat. For NYT Opinion, Jesse Wegman and Lee …

A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to your reading backlog today, but I did want to comment on it after letting it simmer in my head for a bit. Let me just start by repeating the same thing

In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created" on both Instagram and Facebook, the

Posted on Friday 17 Jan 2025. 1,231 words, 16 links. By Matt Webb.

I regret to inform you that Paul Graham, investor and founder of the startup training program Y Combinator, has published a new essay: "The Origins of Wokeness." You can tell the political bent of his screed by the invocation of "woke," no doubt. But at this stage, I'm not sure

The Yarvin interview in the NYTimes magazine illustrates the change in vibes, but frankly, I was bored. It’s amusing when Yarvin tweaks liberals by pointing out that FDR was an authoritarian, but Liberal Fascism did it better. More generally, much of Yarvin’s thinking is superficial. He thinks, for example, that capitalism works because firms are […]

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Social media often seems minor and harmless, just an app or two on the side for entertainment and learning. Originally, it was supposed to be a wonderful thing that brought the world together. World ... [continued]

Some of Trump's first day initiatives will run into a buzz saw of legal opposition, but others on the economic warfare front seem to pack a punch.

The executive orders expose the strategy: claim to be defending democracy as you dismantle it.

Abstract. How does inventors’ migration affect international talent allocation, knowledge diffusion, and productivity growth? To answer this question, I bu

I’ve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as “Kafka’s Castle,” a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutable and chillingly absurd as the labyrinth the character K navigates in Kafka’s last allegorical novel.

Between 2005 and 2010, a set of books called “Project Russia” was distributed to high-ranking officials in the Russian government and other influential thought leaders. The books offered a detailed program of spiritual warfare against Western democracies culminating in “controlled global collapse” and the establishment of a “supranational” state headed by a Prince-Monk who “best understands the world.” The plan described is ultimately a program for subjugating the world, which would also be united together in a single religion. This all may sound fantastical, or even absurd. But the Project Russia plan comports very closely with what’s unfolding now, and

True Names is a 1981 science fiction novella by American writer Vernor Vinge, a seminal work of the cyberpunk genre. It is one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to cyberpunk. The story also contains elements of transhumanism.

This piece appears in my book A Creature Wanting Form. I awoke early enough for the first time in recent memory to see the last of the sunrise spilling out over the roof of the house next door in its twee little pink mist and I thought to myself sure

Twenty-third in the News Commons series Disaster coverage tends to go through four stages: Live reporting. TV stations stop all advertising and go into round-the-clock coverage. Radio stations drop…

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