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The Republican Party now holds a 15-point advantage among White registered voters and a 6-point edge for voters without a college degree.

OpenAI may be changing how the world interacts with language. But inside headquarters, there is a homage to the written word: a library.

The Māori Party has launched a petition to revert to the country's original name. Māori authors Stacey and Scotty Morrison say travelers don't need to wait to start using it.

The creator economy is a shiny veneer hiding an ugly truth: it has nothing to do with empowering creators. It's exploiting them for maximum profit. Tech has sold us a fairy tale that dedicating yourself to your creative passion can be a viable career path in the modern world. But they conveniently

Wiley will announce that it will shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud.

Data is still not recognized as a formal asset but your business must understand its value.

States have expanded free preschool and early education and helped more families pay for childcare, making it low-cost or even free for many.

As bad as you think things are, they can, and will, always somehow be worse

The accuracy of some critical GPS navigation systems used in modern farming have been "extremely compromised," a John Deere dealership told customers Saturday.

In the months following return-to-office mandates, an increased number of senior employees departed Apple, Microsoft and SpaceX, often to work for competitors.

Justin Ling writing for Bug-eyed and Shameless: Leave Those Kids Alone I’ve had a rule for a long time. It’s a simple rule and it goes like this: What students do on-campus is none of my business. Campus politics is a weird and insular business, and it should

The word Waltersobchakeit looks and sounds German, but it's entirely made up. Read more here about where it came from, and why it sounds so German!

Hastily doodled artwork by me

CopyCop churned out 19,000 deceptive posts in a month

I posted this video on YouTube this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yMMTDYFlLc In case the video is not embedded properly (and that happens sometimes) it is available here. The transcript is as follows: The way that banks create money is so hideously simple that everyone needs to understand it. People presume that somehow or other, creating money is...

It's easy to get caught up in the short-term game. Quarterly earnings, annual bonuses, and the relentless pressure to show progress can lead even the most visionary companies astray. Welcome to the Human Tenure Trap. Here's how it works: When managers join a company, they're often thinking about

Automated Gender Recognition (AGR), sometimes referred to as ‘gender detection software’, takes a bio-essentialist construction of gender and codifies it.

A paradigm shift for our economy begins when we name and see the anti-democratic bias that lies at the heart of our capital-centric system.

Key quotes from Caplan’s Build Baby Build: Why is US housing to expensive? “Two words: government regulation … Housing prices stay high in desirable areas because most governments strictly regulate new construction. … ‘Take it from Paul Krugman, the most eminent progressive economist alive. “High housing prices in slow-growing states also owe a lot to policies that sharply limit construction. Limits on building heights in the cities, zoning that blocks denser development in the suburbs, and other policies constrict housing on both coasts.” …

Russian online interference is increasingly targeting smaller languages, including Finnish, to drive wedges into society.

Opinion | It is widely assumed that Russia possesses unparalleled powers of manipulation, and that its ubiquitous propaganda is wreaking havoc on public opinion around the world.  In reality, however, Russian propaganda is far from the sophisticated machine it is made out to be.

Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.