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When I lost my job, I didn’t just lose income. I lost a part of my identity. As a Latino man, I grew up with the belief that my value came from being a provider. A steady paycheck, respected job title, and the ability to care for my family weren’t just goals—they were the definition of manhood. That mindset ran deep. It shaped how I saw myself and how I thought others viewed me.

A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it

The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.

"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

Spreading the first-person drone videos seemed like part of the mission.

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/curtis-yarvin-profile [Ava Kofman in The New Yorker]Curtis Yarvin is a pathetic little man: "As his ideas have been surrealized in DOGE and Trump has taken to

On being proven right about something you desperately hoped to be wrong about

Richard Reisman and Richard Whitt write that interoperability will enable agential relationships that serve individuals and communities faithfully.

I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success. Secretary, I hope you brought your mouth guard.

“Shifting baselines syndrome” means we could quickly get used to climate chaos.

Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about shifting baselines. Humans often don’t remember what we’ve lost or demand that it be restored. Rather, we adjus

(I'm interested in questions of agency, and how automation and artificial intelligence serve to undermine this – agents versus agency, I've previously argued. It's particularly striking that "agents" are being marketed as an easy way to optimize one's personal and professional life – totally stripped of the term's history (philosophy, psychology, even

Yesterday, researchers at Princeton’s AI Lab and CITP submitted comments to the National Science Foundation on the 2025 National AI Research & Development (R&D) Strategic Plan. Recent advances in AI, particularly with foundation models, are poised to have transformative effects on society. The question is not whether AI will reshape our economy and institutions—

Our brains, evolved for tribal politics and campfire stories, are ill-equipped for the moral ambiguity of a system with no soul to save or damn.

No.359 — The who cares era ⊗ Possible Futures Issue 1 ⊗ Global electricity review ⊗ Fuel-cell aircraft ⊗ Gen Alpha slang

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It’s ya boy coming in HOT with some MAJOR truth bombs about how REAL Americans can take back control from the big government elites who are LITERALLY destroying our freedoms daily! COMMUNITY …

Bessemer at the height of Jim Crow must have been wild. From Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell, Ep 263 with Killer Mike on Dec 13, 2023: “So in Bessemer, in the late 50s, there was a sort of panic…

On changes in the US governing regime, depicted as revisions to the Constitution.

If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help