Society

The strategy comes at a cost for the planet.

Inside violent US far-right groups, the role played by military veterans and the threat they pose to democracy.

Populism is on the rise around the world but the forms it takes can vary widely. Populists can align with the traditional left or right an...

I have six new shorts and poems up at Flaming Hydra this week. Unforeseen DifficultiesFiction by Luke O’Neil The guilt He was in the garage jigsaw-puzzling the architecture of the bones. After some doing he looked upon his works and thought well that’s spooky. Nothing crazy but still.

No.325 — To understand Mississippi with a 480-year-old map ⊗ Once Upon A Future ⊗ Computational reproducibility

Renewable technologies are gathering speed, putting the world within reach of falling greenhouse gas emissions. Climate experts say they "struggle to wrap their heads around" the sheer size, scale and speed of the current transition.

How did the CIA become what it is?

Did the US armed services refuse to execute an order by Biden, which would amount to a coup, or is the story more complex?

US dairy farms are disappearing, down 95 percent in terms of numbers since the 1970s—milk price rules are one reason why.

As a freelance software engineer with 25 years in the trenches of the tech industry, I’ve witnessed firsthand the slow, insidious death of…

The groundbreaking Lalonde Report – which promoted the idea that socioeconomic determinants of health are most important – is more relevant than ever

"A guy you used to hang out with and liked but weren't close to and haven't talked to in years and then is dead out of nowhere on Facebook" is one of those things I haven't gotten used to despite it happening with increasing regularity. A type of grieving that

Massachusetts passed historic police certification reform. But even with the POST Commission, the public can’t see which cops have been part of the “officer shuffle.”

David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, spoke at the Fast Company Innovation Festival on inspiring young people to run for office.

Everyone agrees that money laundering laws apply to DeFi. The question is: how to apply them? DeFi, or decentralized finance , is an emergin...

We struggle to secure payslips or a schedule – and in an 11-hour shift I barely have time for a bathroom break, says Czech journalist Saša Uhlová

The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

Curtis Guy Yarvin, also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American blogger. He is known, along with philosopher Nick Land, for founding the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).

The Dark Enlightenment, also called the neo-reactionary movement (sometimes abbreviated to NRx), is an anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian,[1] reactionary philosophical and political movement. The term "Dark Enlightenment" is a reaction to the Age of Enlightenment and apologia for the public view of the "Dark Ages".

Nick Land (born 17 January 1962) is an English philosopher, who has been described as "the Godfather of accelerationism".[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism.[3][4] He was a leader of the 1990s "theory-fiction" collective Cybernetic Culture Research Unit after its original founder cyberfeminist theorist Sadie Plant departed from it.[5][6] His work departs from the formal conventions of academic writing and embraces a wide range of influences, as well as exploring unorthodox and "dark" philosophical interests.[7]

China has long expressed concern that the United States could use Space X’s Starlink satellite network in the event of a potential contingency in the region. However, with their latest experiment, the scientists have allegedly demonstrated that China could exploit Starlink to its own advantage instead. In a recent experiment, a Chinese scientist and his […]

Down below we have a lovely career-spanning essay on the music of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and a review of their latest album Woodland. You'll need to be a paid subscriber to read it. You can also go directly to it here. Thank you for supporting this newsletter if

None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a generative AI boom

Another group of smirking techbros have decided that rich people shouldn't have to follow the same rules as the poors. There's an app for that. LineLeap, backed by Y Combinator, lets people pay to skip lines at bars. LineLeap makes money by charging Ticketmaster-style convenience fees for certain passes. The company also imposes fees for "newfound revenue" on venues -- that is, revenue that ...