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There’s no “go back to 2019 button.”

The Storm raised the bar for women’s sports with its $151 million valuation. They’re doing it again with a new $64 million practice facility.

Abstract In this post, I talk a bit about the world I want to see created by regen web3, using two frameworks which I discovered during research into GREENPILLED - how crypto can regenerative the world. DONUT Economy by Kate Raworth 8 forms of capital by Gregory Landua of Regen Netework This post has absolutely nothing to do with tangible day to day Gitcoin governance, and everthing to do with theory. If Gitcoin is a generator function of innovation, this post is a taxonomy of what I thin...

Anarcho Anarchist Economics Thursday, November 29 2012 This is a write-up of my talk at the 2012 London Anarchist bookfair on Anarchist Economics. I was...

Using artificial intelligence, middle and high school students have fabricated explicit images of female classmates and shared the doctored pictures.

Channel 4 News finds 255 British people including its presenter Cathy Newman to have been doctored into explicit images

I have never engaged with the world so deeply as an artist.

For twenty years, PostSecret has broadcast suburban America’s hidden truths—and revealed the limits of limitless disclosure.

Deep in the product reviews for a pair of $15 gray sweatpants, one commenter writes, bafflingly: “I love these grey sweatpants ever since i received them out of the shein package. They go with almost everything and nice and baggy on my body. The color is easy to wash and can go with coloreds and whites which is very helpful in laundry.” Below, three photos are attached. They show three different women in three different pairs of pants, none of which match the product listing.

Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.

OJ Simpson passed away this week of cancer. He was a man who had everything fame and fortune had to offer, and pretty much lost it all (for reasons we

An argument that society and families—and you—will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly

I'm not a fan of mandatory investor education classes. The issue was brought up recently by former chair of FDIC, Sheila Bair, who sees e...

We used to be sculptors. We're all about to be gardeners.

I miss the forums. I miss the forums so much it hurts. I miss when research was about discovery and learning and sharing. I miss when humanity felt like it had...

This is the second part of a three part (I, IIa, IIb , III) discussion of the idea of a ‘universal warrior’ – the assumption that there is a transcendent sameness about either the…

Fireside this week! Apologies for having so many of these so close together, but the recent car troubles I’ve had have eaten into my time quite a lot. At the same time I am getting ready for …

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For more than 50 years, artists have come together for joyous lifelong learning in the beautiful Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

This post was authored by Gapingvoid CEO, Jason Korman, and originally featured in Barron's The latest reports about Boeing make this clear: Investors

Yesterday, former president Trump released a video celebrating state control over abortion; today, a judicial decision in Arizona illuminated just what such state control means. With the federal recognition of the constitutional right to abortion gone since the Supreme Court overturned

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