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What return to office mandates mean for the future of hybrid and remote work.

Top-line indicators pointed to cooling inflation and a strong economy. What did Democrats miss?

What’s really behind these return to office mandates?

In the wake of the 2024 election, Black people are using memes to share their sadness, frustration and anger online

Many fear Trump's second term in office will bring a rollback of women’s rights and freedoms.

Voters this week approved a first-of-its-kind measure to pay property owners if cities don’t address camps.

What happened and what comes next.

John Gruber: The Brutal Clarity of This Result I realized this year — or perhaps over the last four years — that for me, belief in the merits of democracy is quasi-religious. It’s more than a philosophy. It’s a fundamental belief. I have faith in democracy, and part of that

It falls apart we all got work to do

As stories about flashy new technologies eclipse more measured coverage, it becomes easy for foreign audiences, particularly those in America, to lose track of the actual harms inflicted by China’s surveillance state.

Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming: 1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.

The 4B movement, from South Korea, calls for women to not date, marry, sleep with, or have children with men. Women are calling for the movement to take off in the US after Donald Trump won the election.

How could this have happened? What now?

Cypherpunks wanted to change the world. We ended up with memecoins. Our story begins with some very smart and idealistic developers, known a...

Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density *multiplier*.

“What’s the story?” No question is asked more often by editors in newsrooms than that one. And for good reason: that’s what news is about: The Story. Or, in the parlance of …

A presidential get-out-the-vote campaign learns the hard way that rural areas have pretty terrible internet access.

There’s nothing there already

There’s an image that’s stuck with many of us from the early pandemic: dozens of cargo ships anchored off the coasts of US ports, stacked high with hundreds of thousands of containers filled with goods, just sitting there in a traffic jam. At the same time, grocery store shelves sat empty of essentials like flour,

Making a list of pros and cons of getting in a time machine and going back to 1992 to run a nightclub. Cons: Everyone smokes inside, all the time, everywhere. So disgusting. Pros: Literally everything about: The entertainment industry; The music industry; The economy; The feasibility of running a small business; Housing costs; Artistic culture. Live Nation doesn't exist. AEG doesn't exist. ...

Tressie McMillan Cottom delivered an excellent "mini lecture" on TikTok this week about AI, politics, and inequality. In it, she draws on Daniel Greene's book The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope: his idea of the "access doctrine" that posits that in a time of

On today's episode of "TV Yelling with Dr. Kingfish", The Hillbilly Cinematic Universe:

[Disclosure: Kent has worked in insurance since 1996.

In most states across the country, more people donated to Vice President Kamala Harris than to former president Donald Trump. See the donor breakdown near you.

Enthusiasm can be a productive force for good, but our culture has rapidly become a fan-based landscape that the rest of us are merely living in

How Google is Killing Bloggers and Small Publishers - And Why - The one in which we break down how Google is killing our site. And why. Fun!

Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay, according to research released Friday.

Ideology disguised as math.