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The fate of hundreds of Louisiana nursing home residents warehoused during Hurricane Ida reveals a system vulnerable to disaster.

Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?

After they fled Iran decades ago, Nasrin Bahrampour and her husband settled in a bright public housing apartment overlooking the university city of Aarhus, Denmark. They filled it with potted plants, family photographs and Persian carpets, and raised two children there. Now they are being forced to leave their home under a government program that […]

I recently stumbled across a screenshot of this classic old tweet from Arthur Chu: Whenever such an observation appears on social media, it inevitably provokes a storm of responses along the lines of “workers wouldn’t be able to make anything if they had to make their own parts and tools.” For example, as part of...

Nostalgia for the hope we lost along the way, and the dreams that never were. The 1990s will not return. We are the lost generation.

Eating less beef, cheese, and ice cream would slash emissions. But given the nation's taste for them, science strives to make climate-friendlier cows.

Attorney General Merrick Garland continues to let big companies skate.

iPhones, insurance, and streaming are where the search money is.

Did the Good Boy of crypto break bad?

Crypto is an ideology, an anti-government, individualistic belief system, one that Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t really...

Do not expect total war to end tomorrow.

A new book explains what, specifically, the organizers of Unite the Right sought to invert.

We struggle to explain large scale long term cultural changes. Such as the rise and fall of empires, or the demographic transition. Yes, we do seem to find patterns that are somewhat predictable, but our abilities here are also clearly limited.

Ukraine’s early adoption of ‘first-person view’ drones tips the scales against an enemy fighting a conventional war.

We’ve all heard about inflation a lot in the last year. Prices have increased 9% on average over the past 12 months, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Inflation is an economic term for the rising prices of goods and services, which usually happens gradually. But th

Better technology that helps America fight climate change? No thanks, say conservatives.

The tragedy that is the poverty of mass-produced content.

The following argument is based on the words of the late Götz Werner, who was a long-time supporter of the concept of unconditional basic income in Germany, who gained a unique understanding of UBI as a successful businessman and billionaire co-founder of the drugstore chain “dm,” and who passed away

Will the streaming price hikes ever end?

Political scientist's 1996 book foresaw conflicts like those currently underway in the Mideast and Ukraine

If It Wasn’t a Ghost, Then What Was It?

A hut outside of capitalism can't be haunted because it exists outside of truly retrievable time.

Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler likens today’s tech giants to 19th-century robber barons and argues only government intervention can prevent them harming the public interest.

Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 18 people in Lewiston, Maine yesterday, which comes on the h