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George RR Martin on his blog: Dark Days It used to be fun talking about our favorite books and films, and having spirited debates with fans who saw things different… but somehow in this age of social media, it is no longer enough to say “I did not like book

The plight of the working class, and a violent revolution to throw off our shackles.

Silicon Valley's new ideological faction, called Effective Accelerationism or e/acc, is focused on the pursuit of AI development with no guardrails to slow its growth.

The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.

O robala ko maotong a hae na? Do you sleep at their feet? No. I do not.

Beloved women’s website The Hairpin shut down in 2018. This month it returned from the dead to churn out AI clickbait. Its fate is a warning to all digital publications.

The next generation of underground rappers, electronic misfits, and jazz weirdos have flooded the internet with an approach that is both artful and inane.

Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world

Read to the end for a longer essay critiquing Ted Gioia's idea of Macro vs. Micro cultures that explains why we get confused about niches and countercultures Personal News I’m spending 2024 writing a new book — a cultural history of the first 25 years of the 21st century. Here

The EU has finally made Apple redesign the App Store, 15 years after we started arguing about it, and no-one is happy with the result. In the next few years there’ll be a lot of shouting and some giant fines, but in the end, nothing much will change.

Social media has devolved into an ego-boosting playground. We’ve traded meaningful connections for retweets, likes, and the illusive prom...

The Biden administration aims to deploy offshore wind turbines capable of generating 30 gigawatts of power by 2030. With less than a decade to go, the country remains woefully behind target.

01/31/2024 Introduction:  Social movement organizations are groups where people can come together to meet the needs of participants and others through reconstructing new practices, ways of rel…

Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.

For most of human history, it was very hard to determine whether what someone told us was true. Should we believe them? The answer came down to several factors: does the claim make sense with what we already believed to … Continue reading →

The claim that a large increase in the number of migrants gaining entry at the southern border is an “invasion” is constitutional nonsense.

Errors with spreadsheets are not only frustrating but can have serious consequences.

Incarcerated Alabamans “are trapped in this labor trafficking scheme,” a new federal class action lawsuit says.

A new report lays out two very different paths forward.

Spotting sketchy people quickly

The inevitable return of child labor in the West.

The shark's fin in the water

They sound warm and welcoming, but they're secretly used to subjugate workers.