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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.

For many years, the conventional wisdom was that only highly biased, less educated media consumers would put partisanship over truth—in other words, they would believe news that confirmed their worldview, regardless of whether it was true.

Kevin Carson The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand Corporate Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege 2001 Originally published as a pamphlet...

Among more than 100 metro areas, Seattle has the highest percentage of married people under 50 who have a dog or cat but no children, writes FYI Guy,

We all know they’re insufferable, but they’re also making the world worse.

From 1957, this is a drawing of the synergistic strategy of Walt Disney Productions, or what Todd Zenger of Harvard Business Revie

Constitutional Sheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to God. They’ve spent the last six months preparing to stop a “stolen” election—by any means necessary.

He just untangled a $243 million bitcoin theft, what may be the biggest-ever crypto heist to target a single victim. And he has never shown his face.

A law-enforcement movement that claims to answer only to the Constitution.

The origins of constitutional sheriff ideology lie in the two concepts of the county supremacy movement: The county – not the state or federal governments – should control all land within its borders, and the county sheriff should be the ultimate law enforcement authority in the U.S. These ideas were pioneered by Christian Identity minister William Potter Gale in the 1970s and described as “Posse Comitatus.”

NPR's Cheryl Thompson speaks with Maurice Chammah of the Marshall Project to talk about the growing "constitutional sheriff" movement and what its aims are.

The Constitutional Sheriff and Peace Officers Association has spread its ideology across the U.S., seeking to become more mainstream in part by securing state approval for taxpayer-funded law enforcement training.