Last week, in the midst of the slow, painful collapse of the generative AI hype cycle, something incredible happened.
On Monday, a Federal Judge delivered a crushing ruling in the multi-year-long antitrust case filed against Google by the Department of Justice. In 300-pages of dense legal text, Judge Amit Mehta
The FRED Blog has discussed how the increased popularity of video streaming over the internet gradually decreased employment in video tape and disc rental establishments. Today we explore a related topic: how consuming news over the internet has reduced employment in the print media industry.
Americans certainly remember Sputnik. At a time when the world was larger and scarier, the Soviets had a metal basketball flying over the United States and the rest of the world. It made people ner…
“Five thousand quatloos that the newcomers will have to be destroyed.” Quatloos. Credits. Euros. Dollars. Dogecoin. Wait, Dogecoin? At some point in your life, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What…
In April of this year, I published a fairly long piece in The New York Times, arguing that Democrats should be thinking hard about how to roll out President Biden’s multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better agenda without exacerbating inflationary pressures.
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Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored — compelled him to…
Aaron Huey’s effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people — appalling, and largely ignored —…
Wikipedia Culture, Journalistic Culture, and Academic Culture – Book and Sword
The Wikipedia {{primary sources}} cleanup template, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Cleanup#Verifiability_and_sources Cleanup templates are for articles which should be improved. A good feature of Wikipedia is that...
Know Your Military -
Here's my final thought on the non-issue of Walz' and Vance's service records.
Most of the U.S. citizenry knows next to nothing about their military. I was enlisted for 14 years and left service 7 years ago and my family still doesn't quite understand what I did. My wife thought everyone was just assigned jobs, that there was no choice for me. But aside from anecdotes, lets look at some numbers:
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There's a dangerous game of verbal gymnastics being played out in the public sphere, and it's high time we called it what it is: a steaming pile of i...
I am sincerely shocked they didn't pick the shitty technocrat lawyer and IDF volunteer with a bunch of scandals under his belt and instead went with the likable normal guy who seems to take pride in helping people. What is going on? Either way it's another L for the Beltway
John Battelle's Search Blog Technology, Humanity, and the Existential Test
I’m still digging through some of the pieces I posted at the now defunct NewCo Shift, and found this piece, adapted from a talk I gave at the Thrival Humans X Tech conference in Pittsburgh ba…
John Battelle's Search Blog From the Archive: Tech Must Get Over Its Superman Complex, Or We’re All Screwed
Five years ago I was posting a lot to a publication called NewCo Shift, which is now offline. I got ahold of the archives, and found this review, which hasn’t lost any of its relevance –…
American Heretics: Donald Trump and White Christian Nationalists Spread the False White Gospel • The Asset
Episode · The Asset · Donald Trump and White Christian Nationalists have formed an unholy alliance to pervert the main tenets of Christianity to manifest their unbridled desire for power. Rev. Jim Wallis calls on all Americans to reject and help dismantle a false gospel that propagates white supremacy and autocracy with insights and analysis based upon his new book, The False White Gospel .See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The Saudi Crown Prince accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone met with more than a dozen tech execs and celebs during the same US trip. From Tim Cook to Oprah, here's everyone Mohammed bin Salman met with. | Business Insider India
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Subverting Elites and Manipulating the Masses: how Russian Interference Corrupts American Politics • desk russie
Russian political culture has already permeated some American political circles. Fortunately, American opinion remains overwhelmingly pro-Kyiv, as does the Republican establishment.
Infamous British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher espoused a fusionist ideology which sought to weld pseudo-individualism to the traditionalist collectivism of the nuclear family and the nation state in a manner not unlike her American counterpart Ronald Reagan. Unsurprisingly, this ideological chimera led to an incoherent world view that rhetorically championed the freedom of the individual,...
Soundtrack: Masters of Reality - High Noon Amsterdam
I have said almost everything in this piece in every one of these articles for months. I am not upset, but just stating an obvious truth. The current state of affairs effectively pushes against the boundaries of good sense, logic and reason,