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Substack Can Solve Its "Nazi Problem" by Not Being the Publisher of Nazis

Empiricism, algorithms and smartphones are out – astrology, art and a life lived fiercely offline are in

The jury got a taste of code review as they examined a falsified "insurance fund" and the infamous FTX → Alameda Research "backdoor".

Facial ID is being used to detain and ban sex workers from entering the country—and it’s a harbinger of a rapidly encroaching surveillance state fueled by artificial intelligence.

I’m not claiming all of these will work, but they’re worth a shot: Gap Year Internship There’s plenty of really bright high school students who you could hire pretty easily. They’d be really cheap to hire, scrappy, and if they’re looking for internships as a high schooler, they’re probably going to be better than a lot of college students. In fact, if you can keep them coming back every summer during college, by the time they graduate, they’ll be pretty damn impressive.

In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the "biological foundations that lie at the very center of the study of both communication and signification in the human animal". The term is usually translated as "self-centered world". Uexküll theorised that organisms can have different umwelten, even though they share the same environment. The term umwelt, together with companion terms Umgebung and Innenwelt , have special relevance for cognitive philosophers, roboticists and cyberneticians because they offer a potential solution to the conundrum of the infinite regress of the Cartesian Theater.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

The British Library’s head of digital publications on the urgency of preserving digital stories, from smartphone apps to interactive web narratives

In her new book, Jen Pahlka shows why we must stop trying to move the government we have today onto new technology and instead recode government from the ground up.

What generative AI tells us about human consciousness.

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Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it got a wi...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s mini-stories season! Gather the kids around the fire because We have a year-end mix of short stories about a rogue architect, spooky kitchens, a hundred year old music streaming service, and the crazy way the French tried to make telling time less crazy. Let’s go!!! The

No one likes archaic social obligations and unpaid emotional labor. But are enough of us saying no to them?

A tech guru is waging a war on major media outlets across three continents, hiring a “media assassin” law firm to kill stories connecting him to “hacks-for-hire” controversy.

A new paper explores what "supercentenarians" have in common. Turns out it’s bad record-keeping.

This is a quote I like that’s attributed to Alvin Toffler from his 1970 book, Future Shock: The illiterate of the twenty-fi

A new study featuring more than 7,000 participants from six countries found that choice deprivation—a feeling of not having enough to choose from—not choice overload is the most common consumer experience.

A monopoly is a market structure characterized by a single seller or producer that excludes viable competition from providing the same product.

At last, this was the year he lost some patience.

I just ran across an article about a high school girl whose classmates deepfaked naked images of her. I don’t want to link to it because…

When Disney picked up Marvel Studios, it was a big deal, but without the help of the late Apple boss Steve Jobs, it might not have ever happened.

A few last-minute gift ideas you aren’t really thinking about. (But really, an excuse for us to look back at 2023 in Tedium.)

Here are seven reasons.