Society

The accounting fallacy that makes enshittification look like …

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation

A code of principles proposed at the 1889 National Hobo Convention: Decide your own life; don’t let another person run or rule you. When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times. Don’t take advantage of someone who is in a vulnerable situation, locals or other hobos. Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again. When no employment is available, make your own...

Have you seen Alex Karp’s rant on CNBC? I fielded this question about a dozen times over the past week. If you’ve not yet watched, it’s well worth your time. In a conspiratorial d…

A cofounder of a secretive startup fought to keep an interview about its quest to build brain-free "organ sacks" out of public view.

Civic renewal in the isolation of American democracy.

Business Insider’s Peter Kafka on the Comcast split, and what happens next in the media and broadband industries.

Making Americans poorer won't make our society better.

Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.

A 2026 study found that when women and men use AI tools to create identical resumes, evaluators view the women as less competent, while crediting the men with initiative.

20 more years at 24%? Portrait of Luca Pacioli attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari, circa 1500 which may have been (at least partially) painted by Pacioli’s collaborator Leonardo da Vinci.…

Attorney and constitutional law professor Larry Woods writes that dissenting justices in Trump v. Barbara deserved impeachment.

Amid contention, criticism, and compromise, a divided nation had to present a unified front. It came at a cost.

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

The technology that was supposed to make human labour obsolete is, at this moment, more expensive than the humans it was meant to replace.

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No.406 — Sensing the third horizon ⊗ The public should own half of the big AI companies ⊗ Cities that lost the economic development plot ⊗ The illuminated windows of NYC

No.407 — The frame vs. the framer ⊗ The formula won ⊗ Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own ⊗ World Without End ⊗ It hunts using its shadow