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Low-key vigilantism is the new Crime Stoppers. I’m pretty ambivalent about this new law enforcement effort (with the emphasis on “lack of effort”), but this is how things are goin…

I was a child in the 1960s, and those days weren’t better—but in one way, they were sweeter.

In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.

The political parties are more divided by their views on gender than they are divided by gender itself.

But that doesn’t mean it poses an empty threat to musicians.

Tech executives are acting like they own the world.

Tech companies are spending as if AI’s transformative uses are a foregone conclusion. They’re not.

I found myself disagreeing with some of the points made in co-blogger Josh Blackman's post this morning entitled "I could…

Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of

A weird phenomenon happens on Twitter and LinkedIn once folks lose their jobs. It’s completely unnecessary.

The same government that has failed to regulate gig work has simply opted to agree that it is bad and to use those working conditions to recruit for the military.

Richard Lynn's work has been repeatedly condemned for using flawed methodology and deceptively collated data to support racism. It's past time to retract the studies.

The rise of the trillionaire beggars.

AI isn’t coming for your current job. It’s coming for your inext/i one — and has already wrecked it

Riot Platform's Rockdale, Texas facility, North America’s largest Bitcoin mining farm by developed capacity [ source ] Can a network that ha...

“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation.

Musings of a Crowdstrike Variety

Posted on Tuesday 23 Jul 2024. 739 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Today Justin Glawe reports from Springfield, Illinois after the release of bodycam footage showing police murdering a woman named Sonya Massey in cold blood in her own home. It is one of the worst such killings we have seen in a long time. So bad in fact that the cop

Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play

In venture capital, you are what you fund.

It would seem fair to say that the second half of last century up till the present day has been firmly shaped by our relation with technology and that of computers in particular. From the bulking b…