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The cameras are coming. They're getting smaller and nothing will stop them. The only question is: who watches whom?

It is perhaps not sporting to be poking fun at moldering techno-optimism from 1996, from WiReD no less, but I'm going to do it anyway, because I suspect that Brin's article curdled as many brains as Barlow's asinine "declaration" did. The Internet was a mistake. The Transparent Society: The inhabitants of City Number Two know better. They realize that - out of doors at least - privacy has ...

Once again, this season's writers are a bit on the nose. She said they stopped and sat on Madison Street, north of Ogden Avenue, with the eagle for about a half hour after putting out the call for help. The raptor twice found enough energy to briefly fly, the second time into a wooded area where it was later found and captured by handlers from Midwest Bird Collision Monitors. "It definitely ...

I opened my annual predictions last week by noting that the technology industry had leapfrogged finance as the most powerful political force in the business world. But the news today that Meta is a…

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Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.

Universal programs are much easier to administer than means-tested ones.

Extensive networks of pneumatic tubes allowed stories to whoosh around newsrooms, saving time, improving communication, and reducing stress, all while making really cool sounds.

The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy. Each of these personality types is called dark because each is considered to contain malevolent qualities.

Tesla is now just a mid-size automaker amid EV competition that is eating its lunch. What might realistic valuations mean for Musk's clout?

Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

Happy New Year! Let's all take a deep breath, because 2025 going to be a weird one. "Do not obey in advance," historian Timothy Snyder cautions. "Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want,

The questionable statistic at the heart of the “men don’t read fiction” discourse.

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

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The Strange Origin of the Pledge of Allegiance - from the 'Lectric Law Library's stacks

In the short term, our focus should be on the things C4SS comrade William Gillis discussed eight years ago in the aftermath of Trump’s election to his first term:  minimizing our exposure to harm, and building an infrastructure for support, protection and mutual aid. Kelly Hayes sums up this general approach as well as anyone...