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'Candela Obscura' Stars on Magic and Play in an Oppressive World
'Candela Obscura' Stars on Magic and Play in an Oppressive World
Critical Role’s first Illuminated Worlds creation, Candela Obscura, is charting an optimistic path for future live-play games. We sat down with its star-studded cast.
·wired.com·
'Candela Obscura' Stars on Magic and Play in an Oppressive World
Preparing My X-it
Preparing My X-it
Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…
·whatever.scalzi.com·
Preparing My X-it
The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw
The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw
Writers and artists want compensation from AI firms that they claim have trained their models on copyrighted works. But their legal fights miss the bigger issues.
·wired.com·
The Generative AI Battle Has a Fundamental Flaw
Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget.
Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget.
Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget has one of the more sobering prefaces to be found in recent books. "It's early in the twenty-first century, and...
·slate.com·
Jaron Lanier's You Are Not a Gadget.
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
"What I'm proposing is actually a freelance economy, but it's a freelance economy where freelancing earns you not just income but also wealth. That's an important distinction to make."
·niemanlab.org·
Jaron Lanier wants to build a new middle class on micropayments
Income in the United States: 2021
Income in the United States: 2021
This report presents data on income, earnings, & income inequality in the United States based on information collected in the 2022 and earlier CPS ASEC.
·census.gov·
Income in the United States: 2021
The Distribution of Household Income, 2019
The Distribution of Household Income, 2019
CBO regularly analyzes the distribution of income in the United States and how it has changed over time. This report presents the distributions of household income, means-tested transfers, and federal taxes between 1979 and 2019.
·cbo.gov·
The Distribution of Household Income, 2019
One hundred years of price change: the Consumer Price Index and the American inflation experience : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
One hundred years of price change: the Consumer Price Index and the American inflation experience : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
This article examines the American inflation experience over the past hundred years, as captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index, and the reaction of the public and policymakers to that experience.
·bls.gov·
One hundred years of price change: the Consumer Price Index and the American inflation experience : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Average Salary by State In (2023)
Average Salary by State In (2023)
Ever wondered how your earnings compare with others on a national scale? Using data from a number of sources, we’ve mapped out the landscape of average salaries across the United States. From the highest to the lowest, these figures will give you the full picture of salaries from state to state,
·forbes.com·
Average Salary by State In (2023)
World Service: Limbo
World Service: Limbo
In New York City, Mexican-born Edward finds himself in a personal purgatory, leading a life of opportunity without legal status
·nowness.com·
World Service: Limbo
Spartans Were Losers
Spartans Were Losers
The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.
·foreignpolicy.com·
Spartans Were Losers